The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-07

relevant procured by the Bureau Of
Military Justice to establish the guilt OF
Davis, was examined by the Committee
of the Judiciary. The method OF bis
examination was this: The testimony
he had piven at the mock trial on the
Goth day of May. 1865, was read to MN,
and he said it was all true. IN snHy
testimony he was asked Delng uu''
sworn:
O State your full name and present
place of residence. uo,,-sol fan.
A. Sanford ConoSei'
au On ,ba 9Th of June I find he swore
.T1non the Holy Evangelists" that his
anne was not Sanford Conovey, but James
Watson Wallace, and in the same posi-.
tive manner he denies under oath In
Canada all he swore to in Washington,
and ends by making the following prop
osition: e, 80.
give hundred dollars reward VIII De
.,vao for the arrest, so that l can bring
70 punishment in Canada the infamous
and nerinred scoundrel who recently
nersonsfed me nnder the name OF San.
ford Conover, and deposed TO tissue OF
f.lsehoods before the Military Commas
sion al Washington.
JAMES, W. WALLACE"
The testimony of CoNovER alias WAL
LACE ia tLsn examined and the most
slaring contradictions, completely In
validating the whole testimony are
pointed out. Mr.. ROGERS next directs
his attention to the testimony offered by
MERRITT, another of the Witnesses, and
finds it also complete tissue of false
hoods. After copying some portions OF
the testimony, he says;
To all this Merit swore. | cross.
examined him under oath, and in that
examination he contradicted all the
foregoing, spd admitted that he had re-
ceived in actual pay an aggregate OF six
Thousand dollars for his information
from the Government of the United
States, through the War Department.
For his testimony and services the sum
Of $4,000 in the aggregate. And thai
cross examin alton, fully Disappearing
his testimony in chief, the committee
would rot allo,o The reporter to translate
from his notes.
The testimony of Conover being wholly
invalidated by his contradictions would
amount to nothing unsupported, with its
evident prejudices unexplained. When
Mr. Holt forwarded it with the rest he
accompanied the whole with an explain
atOry argument, whose every sentence Is
Iedolent with the logic of prosecution,
and, to me, it almost seemed as If it re-
vealed something of personal motive in
the Conviction. There is certaiRly moth
ing il il e the dmicus curi9 spirit, moth.
! ing of - : searcher after truth, nothing
but the avi6ity for blood of the military
prosecutor. The sending of any argu.
ment to convince the committee was in
itself q step of doubtful propriety, as the
committee were supposed by the repre-
sentatives of the nation to be able to
draw their own conclusions from the
testimony, and hence We're appointed TO
do so, and the House by appointing them
had given the strongest evidence that
they did not desire to adopt those of Mr..
Holt, already rendered. The sending of
an argument might be explained as the
naturil cSSvvS &c <L>t- habit of directing
verdicts acquired in the Bureau o. MIii-
tary Justice, but the sending of such an
argdmen5 feel compelled to attribute to
q desire TO place his views so before the
committee as to render investigation a
mere matter of FORM and l believe this
was done to hide the disgraceful fact
that the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln
was seized upon as q preteXt to hatch
charges against number of historical
persOnages, to blacken their private
characters, and afford excuse for their
trial through the useless forms ola mill
tary commission, through that ductile IN
atrument of reRgeancein the hands Of p0,Cer,
murder them. do not say that Judge
Holt did himself originate the charges
or organize the plot of the puTjurers, be.
cause do not know that he did, merely
say that a plot, based on the aSsassina-
ton, was formed against Davis, Clay
and others, and that the plotters did and
even yet operate through the Burea of
Military Justice; and that the argument
forwarded by Mr. Holt 10 the Committee
ON the Judiciary looked TO me like d
shield eXteuded over the plotteis; tx
tended, it may be, from no personal ami
mostly to MeSsrs. Davis, Clay and the
others; extended, it may be, with dc.
| sire TO save certain officers of the Gov
4 llOll luC Shdi 20 vi hdNlbSS pCCu
! betrayed into the mistakes of a vague
| apprehension. the blupders of all excite
neut which It was their province 10 al
lay or CONTROL, not 10 decrease or share,
but sril extended over acknowledged
self convicted, most wicked perjury; and
che facI That Mr.. Holt did himself pay
moneys 10 more than one of than, to
those who acknowledged they sw.'re for
nouey. may awaken suspicion th4t there
WAS bribery as eli % perjury; perhaps
not conscious bribery, bat the payment
for falsr testimony WAS committed;
though IL my have been conc Innocent.
/ ly, produced the usual Elect at subor.
"a Ion # perjury.
! E.Itho sake OF humanity aud Justice,
/ Nuu d III his report press u, on the
/ House a request that the cross oAamina-
| Jion Of Merritt Do translated aid pub
! lished. | AN aware that the Executive,
acting under the advice Of Senator Viii.
sun OF Massachusetts, aud other gentle.
men OF loyalty no less known, has re.
leased Mr.. Clay Oh parole, aud that the
release is in Itself an acknowledgements
| hat the President disbelieves, not only
| Morritts testimony, but also that of every
one of the members of the plot. But
! this is rot sufficient lts due t. all the
accused that the nation at last see and
recognize the fimsiness aud malice of
| these INDUSTRIOUS perjuyies