, 1870-05-23
MONDAY. MAY %, 1870.
PUBLIC OPINION CHEAP FOR CASH

1l8 disclosures 8t n aSh1ngtOn, concern
ing the payments made by Governor Bul
lock, Of GeoEgia, to the Washington Ca+on.
ieze, are exceedingly instructive It appears
that, from the tina the Bingham EamAud
ment WIS introduced, the Governor com
menccd series Of disbursements to the
Publisher of the Chronicle, Mr.. D. G. For.
ney, which, during March md April, reach.
ed the sum of So, ,5os.25. When called be-
fore the Judiciary Committee of the Senate,
Mr. Fo1ney waa rather defiant He denied
the right Of the committee to investigate
his private business He acknowledged
that he had received various sums from
Governor Bullock, but claimed that
it IVES for proper consider
ation, being for advertising
IN the Chronicle and for copies OF the
paper, and for job printing. He first ut
tended meeting Of the committee On the
evening Of May 5, and testified that ho did
not think be had received from Governor
Bullock more than 81, 500 since the 1st of
March He knew 50 little of the details Of
the transaction that the committee con-
cluded to send for his books, and the fol-
lowing colloquy took place:
HI EDXGsns. L6uggest Nj. Chairman, TINT t1e
witness be cent for hin books
TEE WIRES viii not bring my books here
and expose my private bneinesa
MI. EDNuEDS. l move, Nj. Chairman. thRt the
witness be required to produce his books.
TIE WITNESS NY transactions with Governor
s esk ns Te been 1a l. ana n and
expose my private business to this committee
After some turther questions, the cum
mittee ordered that the books be produced,
and that night The witness retired, and
IN an hour returned, and requested that,
before producing the books, he be allowed
to have counsel. This request was denied,
on the ground TINT h1r. Forney Was not on
tial The witness refusing to produce his
books before next day, the committee made
an order that he be required to 80 for them
immediately In an hour he returned with
one book, the journal, not producing the
blotter or book of original entry, OF the
ledger. He explained that Bullock's &c
count was not in the ledger, becarse it YVES
cash business. The witness then went.
over the several items in The journal, which
were for publishing in the reading columns
of the Chronicle, speeches, and other mis-
cellaneous articles; also, for copies of the
Chronicle IN wrappers, and for printing
pamphlets.
In the book as exhibited were two items:
March 9 For printing 1000 pamnhlets 500 %
March s. For 600 copies Daily Chunaeie.-.. s3lOO
The committee called the attention of the
witness to an alteration made in these fg-
ures since the original entries were made.
The witness, after a long struggle,
said that he thought that the first
cipher in the $4,000" seemed to
hare been altered, and that the last
one in the 1000" had been added, be-
cause it was partly written over the &c in
the word t'copies," He also, after long
series Of questions, declared TINT he could
not understand why, in the extension of
the price of the copies of the paper, it
stood on the book e. "25o.n The committee
interrogated the witness long time to dis
cover whether the entry Of 1900 was not
originally 100, and that the "1n was
changed into 80" and the ss2 pref1ed.
The witness admitted that the original en-
H had been changed, but denied that it
had been done with corrupt purpose BY
him.
During his examination, Mr.. Forney
hnnded the committee a statement of all
his transactions with Bullock, which state
ment, he said, had been copied from the
books the day before by his bookkeeper,
and had by him been compared with the
book itself In the statement the two en-
~ xY3v pr,r
March 2. For printing go pamphlets 90
Aarch s For 800 copies Daily chronie<-.... 5000
Among the other charges in the bill was
one for printing supplements to the daily,
81, 113. This supplement WAS dated April
18, and contained speeches made by Sena-
tors Morton, Hamilton, Boreman aud
Pool It consisted Of two pages. For
this the charge was s1,113, and $3.50 for
s, 600 copies of the paper
Following Mr.. Forney was his book
keeper, who testified that the entries in the
book which bore the evidence Of attention
had not been made by him, but by TOM
pora1y clerk in his absence. This witness
swora that he had made the statement of
the account left with the committee by Mr..
Fomey, and that it was 8 faithful copy Of |
the entries On the book When shown this
statement, and its variations from the |
book, he IVES, for time, ereatly. .confound-
ed, and at last explained that he had first
made q copy from the book, which was
shown to Mr.. Fo-ney, who handed |
it back to him, with alterations,
marked in pencil Oh it.; that he made the /
second COPY from the frst, and in so doing
had made the apparent mistakes. He de-
MED having compared the copy with the
books, with Fo1nev, OF any one else Upon |
being closely pressed, he admitted that the |
books looked as If they had been scratched |
with 3 knife or other sharp instrument He |
was forced also to admit that it looked |
strange that his copy from the books di-
fered from the books themselves in the very
items where the books had the appearance
of being altered
Mr.. A1thouse, advertising clerk in the
Chronicle Office, testified to the fact Of hnv-
ing charged upon the books rs cents q line
for al the solid reading matter published
in the Chronicle, bearing upon the Georgia
question. The first of these was an article
beaded ss Facts c.. Fiction" copied from n
Geo1eia paper. The witness, when asked
why he charged such matter az advertising,
md how he knew he WAS to charge it on the
books, equivocated long time, and then
stated that he charged it as an advertise
uent by orders from D. G. Forney. When
shown this article, he swore that he had been
directed by Forney to charge it as an -aa-
rertisement, and had done go at %
cents line. He counted the lines in the
article, and they were 50, which amounted
to S2o.5O. He Was then shown the book,
when he found that the entry WIS 50 lines,
at 80 cents a line, $40, and that the entry
was in the handwriting Of the same tenn
porary clerk who had made the other con-
trove1ted ent1iez. The same witness swore
t1,at 5000 copies Of the CAronicle in
wrappers were packed in dry goods boz
and sent to Georgia The ordinary edition
OF the CHronicle is from 1000 to $500
copies daily. -....-
III. Polhenhorn testified that the PAM
ph1et, for printing 600 copies Of which
there WAS 4 charge Of $500, could be
printed 1000 for SIS, 1000 for S125. An
other pamphlet, foz which the Chronicle |
was paid $3.50 for 1000 copies, Mr.. Pol
henhon said could be printed for Slo5. |
This is the exhibit made by the testi-
mony. The Inference is that the Chronicle
was to manufacture public opinion for Gov
e1nor Bullock, and to be paid foz it. The
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