Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-21
TILTON-BEECHER SCANDAL.
Dolngs of the Committee.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| New York, 20. The subcommittee of the
| Beecher investigating committee completed
their report and will submit it to the original
committee tonight.
| The Brooklyn Union says that the report
will not occupy more than twenty pages of
foolscap. The only difficulty the sub-commit-
tee has experienced is as to the arrangement
and publication of the testimony. 1t will, it
said, be left TO the decision of the entire in
| vestigating committee, or if necessary, to the
examining committee of the church TO say
whether this be published or not as parts of
it are absolutely obscene.
New York, 20. The Graphic announces
that it will to- morrow publish fac SMILES Of
all the important letters bearing upon the
the Beecher scandal. Among them are the
following:
The famous apology of Mr.. Beecher.
The demand from Mr. Tilton to Mr.. Beech
er to quit the pulpit and leave Brooklyn.
Mrs. Tiltons recantrtion of her confession
to her husband, duplicating Mr.. Beecher, and
her retraction of that recantation.
Mr.. Beecher's letter is Moul:on, in which
he speaks of the devices by which we saved
| ourselves.
The famous letter from Mr.. Tilton to Hen
| ry c. Bowen.
The letter from Samuel Wilkeson to Mr.
Moulton, asking him to get the apology and
consgn it to the flames in the room of recon-
citation.
| The letter from II. B. Claflin to Beecher,
! relating to the interview with Mrs. Wood
hull.
| The same paper says, sit is rumored that
| the true explanation of the story that Mr..
Beecher was backmaiied to the extent OF
81 900 by Tilton and Moulton will show that
the $1,000 in question is identical with that
due by Bowen to Tilton, in accordance with
the contract made between the two in refer
ence to editorials of the Independent and
Brooklyn Union. 1t is alleged that Beecher
paid this money for Bowen, and thus produc-
ed the sudden change in the feelings of the
latter toward the former, to which Mr.. Tilton
has testified
| This explanation if true would fully ex-
plain the silence of Bowen as to the Plym-
outh scandal or scandals, and would Furnish
sufficient reason for the signing by Bowen OF
the famous tripartite agreement"
The Beeeher investigating committee held
meeting this evening, and received a report
! from the sub committee. With the exception
of few notifications no material changes
were made in the document, which will be
read at the meeting of the Plymouth church
tomorrow night. Frank Mouton was clos
eted the greater part Of the day with 1iton,
reviewing his statement preparatory to hand
ing it over to the public.
Geo. Alfred Townsend in despatch to-day
to the Chicago Tribune, says that the letter
of Tilton to Bacon was published June 90.
After that letter Beecher continued to hold
interviews with Moulton at his house, and as
late as July 9TH in the presence of third
party. He put his arms around Moulton's
| .at IL 1sl.
God ever raised up to help a man." He con-
tinued to confer with Moulton as frequently
as he did his counsel, until Tilton put in his
statement before the committee, Then the
issue changed, and he found it convenient to
call Mr.. Moulton a blackmailer as the only
way to evade his own writings. He saw
Moulton at his own house as well.