, 1870-06-09

Justice Of the Peace At the city Of Wishing.
ton. At this time ex4S suator Wade v1s nat
days arrived.
In the meantime Mr. P-saw Senator Nor
ton. and soon after sent his friend Luthar 3.
Wilson to talk With Mr. Morton about the n 81
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Mr.. Taylor and Mr. P-vere in close con-
sultatlon every day, and Mr.. p reported at
nrst that Messrs. Wade and Morton would see
me PRESIDENT and endeavor to influence him 10
extend the Cubans beI1igerent rights.
About the oud OF November. in, p-re-
ported that Senator Morton had drawn up q
proclamation recognizing tho -Cubans u bel
ngefentt, which he had taken to the President
TO Sign. The President had, however, declined
70 tlSn It, as It was antagonistic to the policy
II was about this time that the Cubans
caused 10 be published positive announce
meut that the President would recognize them
as belligereuts, which vas based no doubt
upon the supposition that he would follow the
advice of Senator Morton and Mr.. Wade.
Previous to these movements, however. Mr..
aid Of certain correspondents in creating pub
lie opinion, and 80 in October had had talk
with Mr. Latham, who was mixed up in the
Alaska investigation with the correspondent of
the New YORK Sun and Philadclphia Enquirer
ard who is also law partner of Co!one
Dey. Mr. Taylor told A1r. Latham T t
Promise Cuban bonds, inside Of 350,O90 in all
to various newspaper correspondents in Wash
inston. if they would write up the Cubaa
eacse, and advocate the early recognition O
The Republic Of Cuba.
hr- Latham told Mr.. Taylor afterwasd that
lie had promised certain OF these bonds, but
that it would be much better to pay actnai
money to the correspondents, or, if this could
not be done, to obtain from Ruiz the re1ease
OF some bonds, and give them directly and un-
conditionally to the correspondence A. soon
az Congress assembled in December, Mr. Ku1z
so far modified his contract With ~, Taylor as
to agree to furnish him with $40, 900 or 9f0,-
600 in money, to be used Immediately with the
members OF Congress.
Mr.. TAYLOR thea vent to work to induce
members Of Congress to vote for recognition,
If that question should be brought before the
House, and to work IN general way for the
Cuban republic in al matters which might
come up. He saw many members for this pur-
pose, and among others, Golladay, Of Ken
tucky, Butler, OF Tennessee, Deweese, OF
North Carolina, Fitch, Of Nevada, and McCor-
mick Of Missouri but, it is not known posi-
lively Who accepted bribcs and who did not
It is conclusive, however, that bribes were
rendered.
Toward tho close of December, Mr.. Taylor
became dissatisfied with his contract, and went
TO see Mr. Ruiz. with whom he insisted that
oou4s anu mouey s1oaAo pe given " nHu "
rectly to use with Congressman, and not be
Kept in the hands Of third party until the
recognition Of Cuba Was accomplished. This
Mr.. Ruiz promised to do, but not imme-
3iately.
About the end OF January Mr. Taylor wrote
to MI. Ruiz, declining to have anything fur
ther to do with the matter, assigning as q rea-
son that no money OF bonds, as promised, had
been furnished him.
Before this period, however, Mr.. Lemus the
envoy from the Cuban Republic, had made
another contract with Dr. D. W. Bliss, Of this
OF dollars Of Cuban bonds should be deposited
with some bank or depository BY AR. Lemus,
which should be paid over to DR.. Bliss il Con-
gress should pass the resolution recognizing
the beIligcrent rights Of Cuba, or any other
resolution Which should modify the neutrality
Iaws of the United States 30 a. to practically
give to Cnba belligerent rights
The consideration Of this agreement on the
part of Dr.. Bliss waa, that be should use all the
means in his power to accomplish the
desired result. Tho two million dol
Lars wss deposited With the Safe 1} ne-
Fcssar, the Treasurer Of the Cuban Janta ip
New York, DR.. Bliss signing with him on the
register book, IN order to prevent the with
drawal Of the bonds by one party without the
consent Of the other.
DR.. Bliss then made arrangements with sew
ting Congress TO pass the desired resolution,
ard among those employed Were Luther 3.
Wilson, Wells ]. Babcock, George q. Penn-
field. and Isaac L. Gibbs, whom johnson,
when President, appointed Governor Of Idaho
Territory. These persons went to work indus
triously among the members to secure tho
Success Of tho measure in which they we're
greatly interested.
Senator Morton introduced IN the Senate
l,1l modifying the neutrality Laws, and urged
its consideration with great force; but when
it was reported back to the Senate for action
from the Committee on Foreign Itelations, to
which it had been referred, it was modified to
srch degree as to Le scarcely recognizable.
In the House several resolutions to all the
Cuban cause wero introduced, hut votes upon
them were never obtained, and the lobby found
the opposition much stronger than anticipated.
St,l1 they did not despair or abandon their
work. A large quantity of pamphlets we're
distributed over the country favoring the
speedy recognition Of the Cubans, in which
we're enclosed blank petitions to be signed and
sent to Congress-, asking that body BY appro-
p1sate legislation to render tho Cubans this
important service. ......-.
This the parties who had had this contingent
interest in the Cuban bonds, by the MD OF
few purchased correspondents here, created
fictitious feeling throughout the United States:
The exact amount Of the bonds distributed
among these correspondents is net known, but
it il estimated at a1OO, 600. The correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press alone received more
than 500 900, and the correspondents OF two
other PMlaCelphia papers and OF one Boston
paper received large sums.
4 Card from JoxG JIora1cs L.tnus.