Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-11
SENATOR CARPENTER.
His Defense against the Charges Of
the New York Tribune.

The New York Times of the q
has an editorial reply TO the Tri
bunes article, in the course of which
IT says:
"The true facts have been know
to US tor some time. The husband
of the lady, who, for very nat rs
reasons, desires not to hiring BIZ
wiie's name before the public, anG
therefore does not wish to publish
anything under bis own signature
~ome time sIoce called 90 Us and in
krmed ns hat the charge was al
'erly false, and requested Va, in cas-,
he Islander was kept up, TO puhhst
: statement Of The iac,s.
Carpenter went. during the sum.
mer To Long Brauch, huvirg AZ sp.
u"intmeut with the President OF
ousine =. H. Was accompanied by
ae iAd5 10 question, who WAS put u
80 chG'ge by Ter husband. Arriv-
ing there abou, S r'clOck ia the after
noon, he went directly TO the West
Enc Hotel aud applied for rooms, and
Was told oy the clerk that there was
not vacant room in the house, and
Dad not beon for several days. The
clerk and Mr. Carpenter were ao-
qlaIn;ed, he clerk having been
formerly III Willsrd's Hotel WASH
iogton where Mr.. Carpenter and his
family had boarded two years The
clerk gave Mr. Carpenter q note OF
introduction TO the Ocean House, and
he went there aud obtained room
for the lady and one tor himself. At
z O'Clock be took tea at the Presi-
dents, and spent tho evening with
President Grant until about $50. He
then returned to the hotel, where
several gentlemen called on him, iu
whose company he remained until
about IL o'clock, and returned to
New York the next morning.
"Rsmsdell-a correspondent of the
Tribune, who was imprisoned about
two years ago by the Senate, on Mr..
Carpenters motion, for contempt iD
refusing to testify IN regard to the
stolen treaty, and who vowed venge
ance on Mr.. Carpenter at that time.
and seems to have watched for an
opportunity to retaliste for what he
regarded ns an injury-was stopping
al the West End Hotel. He at once
repaired to the telegraph office and
sent dispatch TO the Tribune, say
ing that Senator Carpenter had arriv-
ed at Long Branch, and had been re.
fused room at the hotel, 'for reas-
oRs best known to himself and the
proprietor of the hotel.
This telegram suggested base
falsehood, as Ramsdell we'll knew al
the time. He devised it, as he him.
self admitted afterward, for the pur-
pose of getting even with Senator
Carpenter
The Times then proceeds TO answer
the charges against Mr.. Carpenter Of
into xicstion and bad companionship,
by printing the following letters:
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WAsHINoroN, ID G. Oct. 90, 1873
DEAR JupGE - Much has been said IN the
public prints relative to your col esgue, Sem
ator Carpenter, during his visit TO Long
| Branch this last summer. One charge made
| against him ] know 10 be untrue. lie spent
ali hour or more with me during the evening
Of ms stay, and can answer as to his being
| al the time strictly sober, giving no evidence
Of having been drinking 10 mark its effect at
| thar tune. The other charges ! know moth
iug about. aud made no inquiry about, think
ing them Impossible. Yours truly,
U. 5. GRANT.
Judge T. o. Howe.
WI1LAsr's HorEL, WAsH'S, Oct. 90, '73.
Hon L. O. hOwE:
DEAR SIR I'm regard 10 the charges
against Senator Carpenter at Long Branch,
The facts IRE simply these: Mr.. Carpenter
came with several others, and there was not
vacant room 10 tn. house. told him so, and
gave him a note Of inir odnctIon 10 the Ocean
| House II the President had called at the
same time tor room, should have told him
the same thing Mr. Carpenter was neither
intoxicated nor guilty Of any improperly
Whatever. GEo II. FARRAR,
Room Clerk West End Hotel.
DisTRIcT OF CoLUmBiA,l
BoARp OF HEALTH,
WAsHiSeToN, Oct. 81, 1873.
Hon. I. o. Howe;
DEAR Sra - saw Mr. RamsdelI, who
te!egraphed 10 the New York Tribune in re-
gard to Senator Carpenters being refused
rooms at the West End Hotel, Long BraI ch,
IN June last. Soon after Mr.. Rsmsdel's re-
turn to Washington, | then informed Mr..
| Rsmsdell tina, | was personally acquainted
| with the lady in question, having attended her
professionally en- several occasions during the
| last few years that he had made a mistake,
aud done the lady great wrong. He replied.
| al don't care !; have got even with Carpen-
ter" This he repeated, in substance, several
| times during the conversation, leading me 10
understand that he was only endeayoring 10
punish Senator Carpenter for bis course as
| Chairman Of the Senate Commite in the mat
| Ter of the stolen treaty. Mr. Rsnsdell was
| formerly my Chief Clerk at Armory Square
End Hospital during the late war, and our e.
| latiCns have been and are now Intimate, and
this conversation convinced me that his state
| merit was more freely made than il would
have been to others, and that he was only ac-
tuated by design TO retaliate upon Senator
| Carpenter, and seemed 10 rejoice that be had
| uhlcted injury upon the ehaIac of Senator
Carpenter without regard 10 what the facts
might be.
make this statement as a matter Of Justice,
both 10 the lady injured and the Senator.
Very truly yonrs,
ID. w Bliss.
DEcATus, Ala, Sept. II, 1873
MY DEAN SENATOR 81 was at Long
Branch the day after you we're there last SUN.
mer, or, at all events, the day the FIRST tele-
gram appeared in the New York tribune con-
Corning your visit there went 10 the ''Wesi
End Hotel" and was told oy the clerk that
there was not vacant room in the house
and had not been for several dsvs; that they
had been compelled 10 refuse many persons.
saw the Tribune correspondent Mr..
Ramsdell) few moments sferward, and re.
ierring 10 the telegram in the Tribune, | ask.
ed him what il meant, and whether there wa,
any truth m ii. He admitted 10 me that .ner,
was no truth whatever in what would be i'm.
piled from the telegram ! aiterward ialket
with the room clerk upon the same subject
and he told me you were refused room on
because every one in the house was occupied
am very sincerely yours, G. Z. SrEscsR
The Hos MARI. H, CAtPESrER, Milwau
Wis