The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-16
The Reechcr InycstIga,lon.

NEW YORK, July l5.-The Brooklyn
Eagle says the members Of the BeecheT
Investigation Committee to-day stated
positively and without reservation OF
qualification, that Mr.. Beechcr's demand
Tor an investigation was made in the full.
est good faith; that he expected and de-
sired the most thorough examination
possible into the scandal, and they fur.
thermore stated that even If Mr.. Beecher
was not acting In good faith, and was de.
sirous Of such compromise with Tilton
as would close Tilton's mouth, 1t would
be impossible for him to effect 1t. The
investigation has gone beyond Beccher's
power 10 control 1t, and whatever there
may be at the bottom Of the scandal, and
no matter whom or how much 1t injures,
the facts 90 lar as lies in tho power Of the
committee shall be brought 10 light.
Another member oil the committee
stated that Mr.. Beecher did not authorize
MIR. Moulton to say that he
concurted in the statement read
BY the latter before the com.
mittee, and that the following words in
the statement as published, were not In
the original read before tho committee,
but interpolated by Moulton before the
publication which ! have read 10 NLr.
Tilton and to Mr.. Beecher, which both
deem honorable, and in the fairness and
propriety Of which, so far as am con.
cerned, they both concur.
Dir. Averington's residence has been
visited by numberless newspaper mcn,
but the lady has quietly declined to talk
with any representative Of the press
MIR. Averington reported that Mrs. Tilton
informed Mr. Tilton on Saturday last
that IN consequence Of tho course he had
taken, "Hencetorth their paths were
apart"
Tho Union has the following:
"Mr. Tilton, in IN interview to-day,
said: The first intimstion had Of the
existence Of the Beecher investigating
committe was the announcement made
TO me last Thursday night by Mrs. Tilton,
who informed me on her coming in alter
having been, as l supposed, spending a
social evening with some OF her
friends, that by Mr.. Beecher's advice,
communicated 10 her through his lawyer,
she had just been before such commit
tee and had answered the same questions
put to her in advance by that lawyer for
the purpose OF clearing Mr.. Beecher OF
the charges and imputaIions made against
him by the epublic press in connection with
her name. She had been informed, she
told me, that her testimony il given as re.
quired would put an end 10 the trouble,
and she was willing TO say anything for
the cause Ot peace and religion. In
ansWer TO the question whether the case
was to be compromised, Mr.. Tilton said:
II know nothing OF future events; l only
know my present duty, which Is to make
q sworn statement, which l have promised
the committee, Of the exact facts in the
case. l have tried for four
years, using my best wit, which
has proved small, In endeavoring
to cloak and conceal facts which arc now
to be divulged. The responsibility Of di-
Vulgipg them belongs not TO me, for l
would rather keep them buried. The re-.
sponsibility belongs to MIR. Beecher, who
has commissioned six men Of his own
church to examine into the facts, which,
when they are known, will put an end to
Beecher's ministry, showing him to have
been guilty OF degree Of criminality
which the world little suspects, and 10
have attempted TO shield himself by put
ting forth another breast as armor which
was to receive the blow. AS TO compro.
mlses, l know noIhing-I shall accept
none. Il Is day Of battle and death.
Dir. Tflton's friends say it Is idle to
talk TO him OF q compromise. Nothing
can stop the case except to surrender il
TO the committee. Mr. Tilton has already
taken eminent legal advice as 10 the beet
method OF carrying on his case and in his
Judgment 1t belongs in the Courts. Mr.
Tilton regards the committee and Its re.
port as mere incident in the lu-
ture development oil the case; and
that the interests involved arc so
great that they can properly only be set
tied in conformity with the rules that
govern the Courts where the testimony
is taken under oath. Tilton will meet
the committee next Monday. The argus
says that AIR. Tilton is In q tight place,
and that he realizes it. Dir. Beechcr
would not permit any one TO broach the
subject oil compromise at this stage
OF !the affair, and the committee
have secuted tho idea. They have
already heard enough to convince
them that Tilton has a weak case, and
that he Is at present trying TO avoid an
issue. Mrs: Tilton remains quiet at the
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