The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-14

holding secret sessions, inaccessible to the
public having no power to compel witnesses;
giving no opportunity for the opposite side to
cross-examine such as voluntarily appear;
publishing or suppressing their testimony a.
ysu see fit, and SO far as my own experience
goes, asking me no questions save such as
were irrelevant to the case, and emitting to
publish in your imperfect and unjust report
of my testimony, all that was most pertinent
to my own side Of the controversy "-he had
determined to bid them q respectful farewell.
His counsel had been instructed to take the
case to a court of law, and had In turn in
structed him to hold no further communica-
withdrawal.
Frank Monitor has at last arrived in Brook
lyn. He said in an interview that he hsd not
received q letter from Mr.. Beecher asking him
to go before the committee and testify.
Moulton said, with great sincerity, that he
still adhered to the opinion expressed to the
Committee, that tho matter should have been
compromised. He regretted that the ~investi-
CATION had been commenced. He said the
Committee was an ex-parte affair, and neve
should have acted except with a view to efec
a compromise. but" continued Mr.. Moul
ton, ii happens that I am here in time to
testify in case M evidence shall be requested
in writing by both Beecher and Tilton." He
expressed regret at the present situation, but
said the affair has now reached such a pass
that all the facts must come out"
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-The suit brought by
William J.. Gaynor, against Theodore Tilton,
for libel against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
was disposed Of to-day by Judge Riley.
Neither Mr.. Tilton nor his counsel was pres
ent, and only a few persons besides the regu-
lar attendants were in the courtroom. When
the case was called Gaynor made a short sd-
dress. in which he said Il have heard that
this case was to be taken to a higher court.
Truth, justice and the well-deined law of the
Commonwealth were my only motives in
bringing this case to trial, and, az they would
have full satisfaction before ahigher tribunal,
l therefore withdraw the complaint"
Justice Riley-'The complaint being with
drawn. the case is dismissed"
Messrs. Beecher and Tilton have written
letters to Moulton, requesting him to tell all
he knows about their difficulty, before the
committee, and Moulton has accordingly
notified the committee that he will make a
"clesn breast" on Saturday evening, August
* He WAS examined this evening for about
one hcw.
Dir. Moulton, in his letter to the Invesi-
eating Committee accepting the invitation to
appear and testify, says: II have endesrored
to avert the calamity which has now fallen
upon all. With the consent or request Of
Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. Tilton l have felt myself
ready, s%orrowfully, to give all the facts that I
know about the object Of inquiry OF the
committee. produce whatever papers 1 have
to the committee. and leave copies Of the
same with them il they desire it, with per-
haps the one stipulation that il l was to give
my evidence orally, or to be cross-examined,
l might bring with me a phono-
graphic reporter in order that 1 should
have an exact copy for my own protection.
Since I am now fully released from my conf
Dental relations to parties involvedi in this sad
affair, and, since my only proper statement
must consist OF truth. the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, l gee no especial reason
WIZ it may not be made at one time as well as
at another. But as my statement must neces-
ssrily include a great multiplicity of facts and
papers, l must ask a little delay to arrange
and copy them. Accordingly 1 suggest
Saturday evening, August s, as an evening
convenient for me to lay my statement before
the committee"