The New York herald., 1868-05-26

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and believe when you received this telegram from
WEBSTER that Hastings was TO to Washington upon
the same subject which Webster had consulted YOU
upon In your room In the Astor HouseS A. Yes sir;
supposed it was on the same subject.
Q: Did Hastings make any report when he came
back to your A. Yes; he told me had been in Wash
mgt0nr
Q: Excuse me; do not ask what the report wass
M a: yon ask me literally If he reported to me when
.. Did he see YOU after he came backe A. Yes.
na me make any statement upon his visit to
.. How soon did he returnS A. My impression is
Y Within three dayss A. Yes.
T having returned within three DAYS, now find
telegram on the 18th, for You to cone Yourself or
vonr r Snook VINO was one OF the party who In
your room. You understood that YOU were wanted
to come on this same busnesss A. did
Y. nu. II you could not you understood that
And mt sba %aitea y o on this same busnessi A. Yes
,St ano LILLIAN sua. II was important that either he you
should comef A. 1t was expressed in the tele-
q. And you thought it at least go imnortapt that
you sent him, did you nots A. No, sir; he did 20,
Q. Did you not 60 to him and tell him IN como, I,
A. No; think he came TO see me and asked me
about IT, and told him should not 90.
contents Of the telegram A. think was a9toi to him.
Q. No, SIR; it was to Thurlow Weed, Twelfth street
come over send Sheridan Shook. important. san
COx.' A. MY impression was 1t was to Shook. /
showed him the telegram and told him | woul1 not,
or should not, come and hedoubted first whether he
would, but finally did.
O. And remained here how long' Do you knowS
A. cannot say; but my impression is not more than
a day or two. 1l
1t will thus be seen that wooley was In New York
WIN Webster and Shook proposing to Thurow Weed
tors proposition which Mr.. Weed declined, giving no
reason for 80 doing except that he did not think the
enterprise feasible one BY his testimony ne does
not show word OF discOuragement to the parties In
the business because OF It's corruption and dishonesty,
because he doubts whether 1t can be made success,
but, as ne testihes informs the party II It were
feasible tundS could be easily raised to 10 out
Wo0ey then leaves New York and comes to Washing
ton apparently to if the enterprise could be made
success and Of that success to which we will here
instructive to what facilities he had Of reaching
the friends OF the President and how FIR he enjoyed
Their confidence. He opens parlor No. at Wllard's
Hotel, at which room Mr.. s. s. Cox testhes he
met one or more Of the counsel OF the President, and
going thence to the Senate Chamber he directed
to telegraph the result OF the vote 10 WOoey and
company room No. 8, which direction he obeyed, he
that occasion. Wooley gives at Welcker's very
lavish entertainments, throwing his money right
and left, insomuch that he attempts to account for
an expenditure OF more than S. 900 from the 10th
the nth of May in this way:His room is frequented
by Major Perry Fuller, contractor Of th, Indian Bg
Il. Craig attorney ut law, New York: samuel Ward,
gold specuatOr In Washington, who testfes before
your committee that he infers from conversations
with the Secretary when he intends TO sell gold and
thereupon telegraphs to his associates in New York
as f0lOwS:- " M
To CnARLEs Fl. WARD, 81 Wall street, New York So
Measure low own enough Se all this week.
Which being interpreted, as he testified, should
read:- @ 'WlF
cIHEsEs WI WAnD % 81, Wal & street New pa s,aooo
Gold Is low enough. SAM WARD.
Colonel Edmund Cooper, the Presidents late pri-
vate secretary and now First Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury al interim: Mr.. Sheridan Shook, New
York Collector Of Internal Revenue; Washington
Cox, Minister nominated to Austria; II. 4. smythe.
Collector Of Customs, New York. f. d. Webster the
aforementioned friend Of Thurlow Weed and OF Sec
retary Seward; H. L. Hastings, editor Of the Ktick
erbocke1, of Albany, and now engaged in the
Conanserctal Advertiser. with Thurow Weed; J. c.
Tweed, broker OF Wall street, New York; General
Hancock, OF the United States armv: J. c. Bart,
leading specuator now or lately OF Cincinnati, Ohio;
and to these must be added W. s. GroesIcck and
W. M. Evarts, OF the counsel for the President. To
Wooey and the parties above 6amed the committee
have only to refer to the elegrams that have passed
between several Of % them and nd Wooey and the test
together at wecker's on the Friday evening before
Question 14o Give the names of the other gentle
men at that dinnerY A. General W. Preston, 8. $.
Cox, W: NJ. Evarts, W. D. Groesbeck. Colonel McDon-
secretary OF the President there was myself Samuel
Ward and Craig. t
command the appointment OF an assessor for the Dis
trict OF Cincinnati from the President. With these
relations , t and associations coming to washington
Weeds rooms at the Astor House Of procur-
ing Ing the Presidents a%cgnttal % and for the pur;
whiskey seizures, and also to aid the nomina-
tion Of Mr. Pendleton, as he (wooley) swears, both
promoted II he could compass the first by purchase,
bribery or otherwise. We find the first evidence OF
dan Shook, signed Hooker, as folIows:-"My busi.
ness is adjusted; place ten to credit to-day with
Glis hn marney Co., "a Broad street. Answer That
fact that Sheridan Shook denies any knowledge Of
hat fItAn.x 1a xt.s.tta
s"' Se received Il o% wooey snoos ina. a
ther denies that he placed any money
telegram directed. Yet the committee nnd from the
testimony OF Wooey himself, that $4,000 were
% WSh he reW e
In the bills Of $1,000 each from the First National
Bank In this city In day or two after the telegram.
according to the telegram, we find that L.
ID. Webster, his associate, despatched a telegram
ing can right your answer has been re-
ceved" Contemporary with the procurement
heretofore yeceG osy OF he IN of May ro%
Wooley TO Weed, asking "when will the Albany
party be on hand for busnessr are the same words,
chase" and Is the same word, business" WOoey
uses when he telegraphed to shook, "My business II
impatient haste, Hooper Iwooiey Hastings not com.
ing sends telegram to Sheridan shook ON the sth-
to my despatch or yesterday" ON the same day lthe
sth) E. d. Webster teIegraphs to shook:-"See Weed
livered: n not have 1t done at once" Weed does
not tell what was I'm the letter. He testifles in
this conclusion that he teegraphed Albany t0fIugh
Hastings and sent him to washington on the same
business that was conversed about by Wooley Shook
and Webster at the Astor in purchasing the votes OF
Senator'S. The course OF the cars brought Hastings
Q Washington on the 10Th OF May. The effect Of
Iiastings' appearance on that dav ls shown by the
telegram OF Wooley to his friend, J. 8. q. Burt:--
"President stock above par" ~
And again. f.1 N
TO D. ". IVES, New York -"Impeachment gone higher
!, But on the 18th Hooker (wooey) telesraphs to