Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-13
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
The Committees LabOrs Almost
Ended 0u7t0n interviewed.

| Ended M0uEIpn
New YoRK, August lS-In the absence
Of anything official from the Plymouth
committee, and in view Of the contra
dieting statements by individual mem
beers thereof, the public are left to their
own thoughts about the gross scandal.
One paper states upon the authority of
one of the committeeman that the COM
mittee, without taking Mr.. Beecher s
testimony, shall report in his favor, end
that Mr.. Beecher shall thereupon tender
his resignation, which shall not be ac-
cepted. Another paper, upon equally
as trustworthy authority, says the com
mittee will meet this morning at eight
o'clock. aud Beecher will then submit
statement. He will then be examined and
the committee hope to close their labors
in the evening. Beecher last evening
was asked few preliminary questions,
but the nature of the questions or an
swers are not known The most strange
element of the controversy yesterday
was the republication from Western
journals of the report of conversations
with Tilton and Moulton, and many peo-
pie say that the further delay on the
part of the committee in receiving Mr..
Beecher's statement, which it was Off
cially announced yesterday would be
made in Intervening, became necessity
that the lawyers might be able to read
the statementin the light OF those con
versations and include them in its deni-
ais. 1t is stated that the statement aud
testimony are very elaborate, covering
charges of Tilton and explaining each
and all of the lettsrs which have
been quoted will I'll about twenty
columns of an average newspaper, and
will be accompanied by the statement
which Moulton presented to the commit
tee. A gentleman, said to be in close al
lance with Beecher during the progress
of the present inquiry, reports that he
has conversed with him upon some of
the points in the conversations above
alluded to, and that be (Beecher) en-
tirely denied that there was any decep.
ton of Tilton or Moulton or any treach-
cry toward them, as Moulton charged, in
his going to Mrs. Tilton, after he has
been charged by Tilton, in Moulion's
presence, with adultery with his wife. He
says they had him to go to her to confirm
Tiltons claim that Mrs. Ti.ton had made
a voluntary confession Of guilt. Beecher
said that when Tlton, in Moulton's
house, accused him of adultery with Mrs
Tilton he was SO astonished as to be
overcome, but when they told him she
had made a voluntary confession Of
adultery with him and told him to 90 to
her and confirm the fact, he was mex
pressibly shocked. but was made TO be-
lieve she had made voluntary accusa-
ton against him. Sherman states that
nothing could please him more than that
Moulton had made public every fact and
letter of which he had any knowledge,
for now that the substance had been
given to the press it was OF little
consequence what he (Moulton) failed
to give to the committee. While Sherman
was attending in this way to Moulton,
the latter was in conversation with an
other reporter, and in answer to the
question, Have you anything to do
with the delay in the publication of your
statement" said, No; anything that ]
have given to the committee over my
signature they are at liberty to publish.
have nothing 70 secrete and nothing to
conceal have acted openly IN the mat
ter from tie start. Ny first utterances
before them was Immediately placed be-
fore the public. fisherman has said, as
he is represented to have said, that
requested secresy or as being desirous
that the committee should delay the pub
LEGATION Of the statement, be lies Ihave
much better reason for believing him a
liar than for believing that he is mis-
taken, as viii appear il ever choose 10
produce reason for this statement"
Early this afternoon the only fact
made public in the great scandal is that
Beecher did not make o statement this
forenoon. It's sta ted thai Beecher 10