New-York tribune., 1868-05-26
NEW-YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1865.


suited with you about purchasing votes, that
Winess-l am sorry TO interrupt yon cen Butter Dnt
yon don't state the question fairly dd not say that
Smythe SPOKE TO me about purchasing yotesi t9iu you
me what Thought OF the matter. -.
BY Mr., BUrLER-Q. want TO treat you with perfect
personal respect and want TO get exactly all that tnede
Is IN your nhd; and as you have already tOld US Iat
you had forgotten some Of the kilograms and as you
have already said that you did know the purport OK
certain matters IN those elegrams have endeaVOred
and propose It'll to endeavor 10 bring the circumstances
TO your mind so as 20 see IL upon the whole your own
does no go back the conclusion what those
elegrams man therefore, putting these questions
Witness Excuse me for saying to you here, am glad
receive explanation; think there he need
OF Misunderstanding where rankness is desired; have
desire TO mncea anything, nor do desire TO be EN-
barrassed byany OF the technlcaties which may be al
ways resorted to by long cr0sseXaminaton wheh my
health does not permits nevertheless you shall nave
| frank answerto every question.
q. Now, them the question propose TO put 20 you Is
this Some tlree weeks ago you had some conversation
with 9S9 % the name ot Adams the M snsSt sS6 Os
also had pCnn to you on the subject and repeated Wae
one hour on the same day.
WOOey, whom you did not know called at your room,
and had further conversation on the same sun, SUB
Jeet Up to TINS time MI: Mr: Hugh Hastlnsss mao nad
| which WOULD be about two weeks ago Mr.. Web
ster tele@aphed to you: HE Will do It,; tele-
graph Hugh Hastings TO come here right away" You
further sad that you did telegraph Hastings to come TO
Washington and he did come aud that you Understood
what want to call your attention to and ask you to
ply, is ddyou not understand and believe when You re-
90 TO Washington upon the same subject which Webster
had consulted upon in your IN the Astor HouSei
q. Did Hastings make any report when he came back
to youi A Yes he told me he had been in Washington
q. EXcuG me, do not ask what the report wasf A.
II you ask me literally If he reported to lie when he
O. DId hesee YOU after he came backi A. Yes.
q Did he make any statement upon his visit to Wash
g. How aon did he returni A. My impression is in
about two days. am not quite sure
q. Within three daysi A. Yes.
- Htviuk I'm ItNifl n
egam the l3th FOR you to come yourself or to send
shook whowas one OF the party who were IN your room. ON
You understood that you were wanted TO come on THIS
same business A. did
O. But II you could not come, you understood that
Shook was wanted ON this same busintssl A. Yes
so And that IL was important that either ne OF you
should comet IT was so expressed ~ tse teitgram van
sent him, did you noi A. No. Sir; he did go' but did
O. Did You not 20 TO him and tell him to comet A No;
think he 10 see me, and asked me about IT, ana
By Mr. Wson-Did you inform him about the contents
OF the teegrsmi A. | think II was 70 him. 49,,
q. No. Sir; IL 10 Thurlow Weed, Twelithst. ana
Fifthaye NewYork City; If you can { come over send
Sheridan Shook Important. 5 > Cox A. My lmpresi,
sion wasit % Shook showed him the telegram ana
told him would should not come and he doubted
first whether he would but finally ala
q. And remained here how longi DO you know A.
cannot say but my impression is, not more tah day
or two.
1t will thus be that woolley was in NewYork with
Webster and Shook proposing with Thurlow Weed cor
rupt scheme 10 buy the certain Senator'S propo-
stion which Mr. Weed declined, giving no reason for
10 doing except that he did think the enterprise
feasible one BY his testimony ne does not show word
OF his dscoumgement TO the parties in the business be-
cause OF its corruption and dishonesty bat only declines
to take part IN IT, far appears, because he DOUBTS
whether II can be made a but as he testhes'
informs the party II 1t feasible funds could be
easily raised 20 carry Wooey then leaves New
York aud comes to Washington apparently to see II the
enterprise could DE made aud Of that success
10 which We q hereafter advert RSfore doing 80, how
ever IL Will he instructive 20 what facilities he had OF
reaching the friends of the President aud how far he en-
loved their confidence He opens Parlor No. AZ Wal
lnrds Hotel, at which room Mr.. s. 4. Cox
testiaes he met one or more OF the counsel OF
the President, and going from thence 20 the Senate
Chamber he directed To telegraph the result OF the
vote 10 WoOlley aud Company, No. which drec
ton he obcyed he himself riding - capitol with
Mr. Eyarts on that occasion Wooey gives at Weekers
very lavish entertainments, throwing his money
rieht and left he testifes msomuch that he
attempts account for expenditure OF more than
g. OOO from the 10th 10 the 18th % May, this way His
room s requented by Major Perry Fuller, contractor OF
the Indian Bureau Ralph W Newton, a NewYork gold
broker J. r. CraZ, Attorney y-at-Iaw, NewYork Samuel
ward gold speculator In Washington who tesiies be-
fore your Committee that he iners from conversations
with the Secretary when he intends sell gold aud
thereupon telegraphs to his associates in NcwYOrk as
follows:
ToCr,E,r, H. WARD No. - WalLs Ns,c. Yo,k Potten
qus, all m week Advocate cause Measure 10" enIagl
Which being interpreted as he testified should read
CH,Rrr, H. WARD No 81 Waua Nsc. York MeCuIoeh
y" sis WARD.
Col Edmund Cooper the Presidents late private sec
reary and now First Assistant Secretary OF the Treas
ury ad interim; Mr.. Sheridan Shook, NewYork Col
lector OF Internal Revenue; Washington Mclean, editor
Of The Cincinnati Enquirer s. z. Cox Minister nominated
10 Austria H. A. smythe, Collector OF Customs, New
York h. d. Webster the aforementioned friend Of
Thurow Weed and Of Secretary Seward; H. L. Hastings,
editor OF The Kneerboeer Of Albany and now engaged
in The Commercial Advertiser with Thurow Weed j. c.
Tweed broker Of wallst, NewYork; Gen Hancock, Of
the United States Army; J. c. Burt. a leading
speculator, now or lately OF Cincinnati,
ONO; Judge Dunlevy attorney to the
whisky Ring and to these must be added W. 5 Groes-
beck and ~ Evarts esq., OF the counsel for the Presl
dent To show the degree OF intimacy existing between
Wooey and the parties above named the Committee
have only to refer to kilograms that have passed be-
tween several OF them and Wooey and the testimony
OF Wooley himself OF the parties who dined together at
welcker's on the Friday evening before the vote:
Question No. 40 Give the names OF the other gen
tlenen at that dinncri A. Gen W Preston, y ;. Cox,
W NJ Evarts W. s. Groesbeck, Col Mcdonald Of Maine,
think, Col Cooper the private Secretary OF the fres
dent; there was myself, Samuel Ward, ana craig
Wooey further testes that he had been able TO com
mand the appointment OF Assessor for the District OF
Cincinnati from the President With these relations and
associations coming Washington with the corrupt pur
poses which he avowed at Mr.. Weeds rooms at the
Astor House OF procuring the Presidents acqual and
for the purpose also Of controlling the settlement OF
whisky seizures and also 20 AID the nomination OF Mr.
Pendleton as he wooley) swears, both which astncn-
toned purposes would be largely promoted II he could
compass the first by purchase bribery otherwise, We
Apd the first evidence OF his In telegram OF the
9Th OF May to Sheridan Shook signed Hooker follows
Nv business adjusted Place 10 my credit to-day With ellis lar
ney Co, No. "a Brosdst Answer
That this telegram was not about an honest business
IA sure from the cypher and from the fact