The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-27
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what !. the President Satd...yFI,,, sso,,
SEAnt Sald.-. what the Canned s,s.ss,
Both the New York Woy,lti ana -.
atd have detailed aecousts from +l,s,,
washington correspondents in -ag5sr,,
70 the issue which has been raIssd g; :,
the understanding between tho psas,l ~
9ent ana General Grant in regard to
the latter holding on. to or .eiyine m.
lne war otice in time for the appoint
ment of successor In case the 'ssI,st;,
dte'tertnined t't9at to reinstate Mr.. stanton
Both the correspondents give the al
legged utterances of four Cabinet min.
listers, (secretarfes Mcc culloch. Brown.
ing, Welles and Postmaster. General
Randall on the subject. The Woyltf,s.
account is as iollows:
Jnst after the formal meeting of the
Saulnet on January 18th, the article
from the National InteEtf0ehesr. of fhe.
10th was read in presence Of the Ptesis
dent and the before mentioned mar
pers OF the Cabinet. The stafements
made in that afticle-which were srb.
siantislly those telegFaphed after an
CORES pondent of the WorId.were
| sgreedto by the President and all the
score Charles Present; but the obiection
was made that they fell short OF what
actnally occurred during the meetinG
= an 3e Seplnet on Tuesday, the 14th in
me hrst secretary or member of the
cabinet present at the meeting on Ian
9ary 18th, referred to, observed chat
Stenefal Grant acknowledged that he
4 lsteneral GranD had promised either to
II Isttln the office or tender his resipna-
ton in time to enable the preside6t to
/ appoint successor. He General
Grant) said his opinion at the time! was
/ that the ms must stay in until the
4 ,outa, could get in by due course of law.
make fuu record OF what occurred
4 here on Tuesday.'
me second secretary said: nThe sec.
cretary's record, then, agrees with tl1is
newspaper statement, excepting that it
is more full2n
Whereupon the first secretary said !.
~ es; 1t t,giyes much more detailed ac.
count OF what occurred here. Speaking
| o4 MS iw1ihdrawal from the War De-
partmentB Grnns said that he bolted
one door of the secretafy's Office on the
inside, locked the other and delivered
the key to the Adjutant General. He
did not profess to know what trans-
pired afterWafds.n
Ihe second secretary added: t.It is
not at All surprising that he( (Grant) did
not recollect. he was evidently too
much confused to remember much. .
linen the third secretary remarked: (:
HE HE (Grantl said that the discussion in
the papers had caused him to look over
the the law, and he had found trouble in
the second and first sections.-He
lGrant) remarked that he did not wish
TO be subjected to imprisonment and
hne; when the President replied !:
why, j told you, General, that /
Wonid take all the imprisonment and
pay an the hnes that might be imposed
The first secretary continued: nHe
meaning Grant, admitted ali: and
MADE stammeriug excuse that had in
1t no otnielligibility. He admitted that
When the interview terminated Satur-
day he was to have seen the President
Monday upon the subject.0
The second secretary now observed /:
He (Grantl admitted that If he changed
his views the President was ts be noti-
ned In season to enable the President
to put the office in the same position
as1t was when he Grant was appoint
ed secretary Gd interim. I"
say:
The President said to General
Grant, 4 expected to see you Monday;
why did you not call2 Grant replied
that ne was too much occupied by Gem
eral Sherman and tmany little mat
The second secretary amended as fol-
lows: II think he was engaged in the
preparations necessary to an abtlfcation
of the War Omce.!' s'.
The fourth member of the Cabinet
declared: And the fact was deveIons
sqI.lis. stlh1 S4eneraI Sherman was here on
The President now pertinently said
~ gn saturday, when he (GrantJ REFER
Eso i75 70 the tenure of Office act, told
MIN that would-ta oil the imprison-
inens ana pay all the fines that might
pe IN posed upon him under its proyis-
slons. When he rose TO leave tf1e
room repeated the remark, for i
wanted to know whether or not he in
tended to hold on to the office design.
70 Eetleye MIN IL II was his purpose
The fourth member of the Cabinet
went on to say to the President 1OnI
tuesday You told him that was the OBJ |
leot OF your conversation with him on |
The second secretary spoke: He rre.
ferring to Grant did what i expected |
he would do.n
The fourth Cabinet member contin.
ued atfer the secretary: ttI did not
suPp9se stI,IS IScs O. q man Occupying his position
pondent deems It best to omit the
stronger terms employed by the spealS-
or TO denote his evident disgust at what /.
ne concetved 70 be the bad faith OF Gen.
eral Grant,
The third secretary CWelles) said.
" idea Is that he supposed the SEM
ate would act on Saturday, and he in.
tended to carry over the President un-
til Monday. The Senate not having
acted then, he did not come TO see the
= PRESIDENT Monday, not wishing to see
him until the whole thing. had been
The President finished the conversa-
tion as follows: 'lI desired to know !
what he General Grant) would do;
and did not think that he could have
80 misunderstood the agreement.n
aaettua saIts.