New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-24
THE COMMON JAILERs" INVESTIGATION.

THE COMMON JAILERS' INVESTIGATION
THREE MORE WITNESSES EXAMINED AND THREE
MORE FAILURES - SENATORS MORTON AND
SUMNER SUSPECTED BY THE NQUISIToRs-
THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT ALSO THREAF-
ENED WITH THE BASTILE.
[DY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrDUSBl
WASHINGTON Tuesday, May %, 1871.
The Senate Inquistion were in session again
this evening and examined Assistant Secretary OF State
j. Bancroft Davis, Mr. Kirby. telegraph operator and
X. j. Hinton correspondent. Common Jaers Carpen-
ter and CUnklng. with Senator'S TrumDu ana Jarrett
Davis, were present.
MI Bancroft Davis was first called. He had no Diff
Guilty In satisfying the Committee that he knew nothing
whatever about the matter under investigation.
Mr. Kirby was subjected to about Che same course OF
procedure Superintendent Tinker had been the pre-
vlous evening. In reply TO the first questions as to the
fln,, of the Treaty the Western Union Office &C., Mr.
Kirby presented his instructions from Mr. Oron as his
reason for declining BY these instructions
Mr.. Kirby was directed to refuse firmly, but respect
fully to any question relative to the ming
Of the Treaty, dispatches concerning 1t received
during It's transmission unless the sender
first expressed willingness that the statement should
Dc made. The answer was then to he given as with
customers consent. Mr Krbys examination lasted for
some time The Inquisitors failed to get any otner
response than a refusal, though Dlr Carpenter
twice read, two three times with solemn
emphasis the law OF 1851 which makes refusal
to testify n misdemeanor. There appeared to DO
decided inclination to brOwDeat Mr. Kirby, which
that gentleman quietly resented Carpenter
acted the part Of Chief Inquistor, Conlng assisting
Mr. Trumbuil very cautious in manner. Carpenter
tried with considerable ingenuity, to find out from this
witness who in TIE TRIBUNE Bureau copying on
the night the 10th inst, Mr. Kirby had carried
dispatch there The witness at first refused to answer
and afterward, the suggestion that 1t was not
Office business. then replied that he one but
Messrs. White and Ramsdcn. COnkling asked number
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in any peculiar manner on the door
Mr. UiHtOnB examination was quite brief, consisting
chiefly Of negative replies to all the questions asked as
to IFS knowledge of how the Treaty obtained, what
price paid and whether he aided in copying 1t for
transmission. The Committee seemed disappointed IN
this witness for judging by their expectant and
questions they must have anticipated some discovery
DR. Hinton not only asked what he knew directly,
but what no had learned by hearsay. lie asked If
either Messrs White Ramsdoll had told him anything
about the manner in which the document came into
their possession &c. to all of which the reply was in the
negative Carpenter conducted the examination, and
his manner quite unrufilod and placid.
One would have supposed that after the complete
yidication Of the Senator whom Mt Conklng expected
to mpeate in the surreptitlous publication of the
Treaty., the vindicyeness OF the inquisitiOn would
abate On the contrary disappointment renders more
bitter The two leaders are now endeay0ring to oompro
mise Gov. Morton. 1t is true that his innocence
already been made clear, but most of their
Inquiries during the past two days have been pointed
toward him. and they cherish the idea that they
will yet brsg the oense home to him. This evening 1t
is understood that their suspicious directed toward
Senator Sumner Nothing could4ustrate the blind pas
zion OF the inquiry better than snch prepOserOus in
suit to one OF the pures of the whole body of Senator'S
They hardly believe that Mr. Sumner sold the treaty,
but they beginning to imagine that his copy may In
some way have been used.
Gov Morton is highly indignant at the affrontto which
cuba Mr. an
well pleased either if he knows what his colleagues are
doing
In the prosecution OF these investigations there has
been only great display of temper and much vulgar
threatening, but the decences OF life have occasionally
been outraged by mpertinent questions, touching the
private concerns and domestic and family affairs Of the
witnesses To be consistent in the farce OF keeping up the
Dignity of the Senate" investigation will have to be
made into the premature publication Of the protocols by
The HerGd few days after the Treaty appeared in THE
TRIBUNE. There Is unwingness to prolong the SEES
sion byirngng before the Senate, but the Committee
are said to have determined that the resolution, under
which they instructed 30 look into The TRIBUNEs
case is broad enough to authorize an examination OF
The Herdds also and they purpose accordingly to sum-
mon correspondent of that paper Mr. Finley Ander
son. and ask where he obtained the documents He WEI
refuse 10 answer II he Is Intercepted but Is not likely
that Mr.. Carpenter will make another attempt to i'm
prison IA correspondent " 40 years in the common JAN
The Committee have informed Mr.. Tinker, tie telegraph
superintendent that they have no further questions 20
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