New-York tribune., 1874-03-14

Judge Davis, this ia q very strange prooeed,hs.
| all new TO me. deny the whole OF IL, anu u0' ','
| man. or any other man, to produce u"Pio"'o ~ "u'
lent invoice received, ever used OF eve,
Of by the firm OF Phelps. Dodge q CO. wen. ea
JAYNE you may deny it, but have got the,h a hoi,
and have afndavts, too, to the same erect "h'' -
more than that have evidence thatyou have tamper0
! with the officers OF the Government
THE BOOKS CHEKRFULLY sURRESDEREp
Isoid 90 Judge DAVIS "Taere is nothing In our ous'
| ness that We are unwilling 10 exhibit W you vi " Va
/ Government There IL no necessity Tor ""Ir"u' :"
take possession OF our books. III there arc any oooN
papers that arc In our possession that are heeu'"
! nv tina Government TO establish their case 'hey
| ara entirely at your service. No objection wn"F
/ ever Will be made to your having them. '"t
Davis then said he had knowledge OF the ln"'.oi
other than that from the papers submitted to ni, W
thought 1t was u case iustifying further mVos"sV
He then turned to and said. Mr. Jayne hotn"s
eos, hs mara fair than the proposition MADE by Mr.
/ Dodre Now whatever books yOu need Mr.. DOdgesps
Won can have YOU do not need TO issue that warrant
Mr. JAYNE then said he would 60 with us 10 our s'o
and 90, what books he needed We went to the store ana
passed into our Office aud into tho backr0o' SAN "
my Mariners "Tnerc is a charge made against u.s. ana
very fearful one, viz. OF systematic attempt " u"
fraud the revenue and of perjury making us haoe 10
iuprisopmept and foe. This is ali new to me- Here Is
tho limited States officer who has come 10 take posses
sion Of our books | have told him that he need no'
come with warrant, but that he can have any ooohs vi
papers that ho pleases Jayne had Two OF three Vi MS
men with him. oar 80 young men at thef ueshS
were looking on with astonishment. Mr. Jayne
| took out a hst of books he wanted hVoice
hooks. cash books, letter books. papers, &c. ana
a cart was backed up to the door; nis men TOOK tne
hooks out and carted them Mr. Jayne tneh looA
ont his paper, looked over It, anu sald' ihero ID oo
book that want which do not see here III Is reu
covered book with clasp to it." asked my partners
II they knew OF any such book. / knew that hau
ne yer seen such book in the office There were none
of the clerks confidential bookkeepers cashier or either
Of the partners who had heard OF such book
"Oh" SAID Jayne. there Is such book here anu WE
are hound TO have it." SAID l. "In the upper part Oh
our store there is where our books have peen
slowed away for the last 30 years You can take our
and lanterns and go there aud spend as much
time as you please searching for the book you want
never heard Of such book, and am sure there never
WAS spch one But in the statement Of the District
! Attorney he says that very important Dook was
kept back from that search.
| IAyyE's ASSUMED HORROR Al TIE EN0BMITf OF TIE
| CASE.
Now. gentlemen want TO let you understand the
manner m which the Government deals with the mer-
chants OF the country under the operation OF TINS law
am not here TO contradict the remarks made by TINS
special agent-that he fulfilling his duty and that
Le was engaged IN the legitimate business of guarding
and defending the Government against the frauds OF the
merchants the country &c. The laws have no DOUBT
have been all arranged and made so as TO enable
this whole work TO be carried out. nave
no doubt that he has gone as he said
Yesterday and that he has beenivery industrious Al
most any man would he who was receiving the same
emoluments as he receives for his labor You, gentle
men have specific salary, but this agent has received
about twice the salary of the President OF the United
states and about twenty times the salary OF any OF you
in given time OF service. He ought to swork harder
and to be talented as he said to you yester-
day Now this great bugbear of false and duplicate in
voices has paraded he country and not only
over this country. but dispatches have been pub
lshed in London. in st. Petersburg, in France,
I'm Spain. aud India in all OF which cities
and countries have been IN the haDt
Of doing business for many years 1t was not SO much
my fear of the jail which induced me to make TINS com
prornise 1t was not much dread of the accusation
NJ nerury: but it was that tl750.OO( That was the
pisto that was held my IL was money or ruin
that Is Just what and what it was intended 10 De-
And our case but repetition OF other cases; the VIC
tim made understand that his IS one OF the most
horrible cases ever examined by the detectives. was
told by jayne regretted very much to say that he
had never called upon in his life to examine so oada
| case this was.
| NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPECIFIC oFFENsEs CHARGED
| Onr papers had been all taken from us, we had
this terrific indictment preferred, and We had no
spechcatIons its details We hare nerer been 0Oe up
| %
10 learn hat yere the specific tsDS IN The uaOuS Hp0ceS
Of T5o 600 chleh rent 10 make up the S7l 900 hat uc
maid We knew what had been the rulings Of the Courts
I'm NewYOrkthat least tain In an Invoice omission
OF charges &c. would subject the entirenv0ce 10 CON
a,caon and while the DistrctAorney and other Fed
eral officials have their fees on the amount hat
could he collected didn't feel like gong before the
Court We had the distinct promise that we should have
an temized statement OF the particular items OF the va
! rious invoices to which objection was made,
! but we never have from that day seen
IT, or known what those items are for
| only as we have been able TO guess
from simply having the of the vessels sent to US
The invoices by those vessels, all put together amount
10 al63OOO or between 100000 and sS0O0OO The first
time we ever obtained ANYTHING in the nature Of de-
| tailed statement when we received the names OF
these vessels Subsequently we understood That there
were two entire invoices which were forfeited to the
| Government on account OF an omission OF charges
amounting to about OOO We have never been able TO
find out what those two invoices were We do not know
n this day but we suppose from the amount OF charges
that they were invoices OF block tin, shipped from Pc
napV Tin was bought at Singapore, but IN order to
enable us to ship in an American vessel was sent
! 10 Penang at a cost or several huDdred collars
The prices OF this article are, as general thlng'
the same at Singapore they at Penang Just as the
nrces OF articles would be about the same In the City OF
pbi,adelpbia and the City OF Eew-YOrk. Under the
| rulings of the Treasury Department, goods shipped
from Belfast with the consular oath taken at belfast
and subsequently shipped from Liverpool simply pay
the duty that they would have paid II they had been
shipped from Belfast direct Under this ruling and
with that understanding. never thought of such
thing as adding to the invoice the cost Of shipping this
block TN from Singapore TO Penang. 1t was mere
matter OF convenience the amount was not added
the invoice but was added in accountcurren from
our correspondent at Penang In his annual account
he charged for kilograms and freghts between
the two places making on the whole something Ike