The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-15
CONCLUSION OF BEECHER'S
STATEMENT.
HE DENIES EVERYTHING OF A GRIMM
ALNATURE.

| ne DGNAEo EVEN lhlNu Or ChIMlN
NATURE.
And Calls on Everybody to tell all They know
| About Him.
Mr.. Beechers statement to the commit
tee was not one-half concluded in our las
issue, and it would require more space than
we can spare to publish the details of al
his explanations. He is either con
summate liar and scoundrel or an innocen
and much abused man, who is the victim
of intriguing Williams and black -mailers
His statement concludes in the following
words:
Gentlemen of the Committee; In the
note requesting your appointment | asked
that you should make full investigation
of all the sources of information. You
are witnesses that | have ia no way infu
enced or interfered with your proceedings
or duties. | have wished the investigation
to be searching that nothing could unset
tie its results. have nothing to gain by
any policy of suppression or compromise
For four years have borne and suffered
enough, and will not go step farther
| will be free. | will not walk under rod
or yoke IF any man would d. me favor
let him tell all he knows now. 1t is not
for me to lay down the law of honor
in regard to the use of other persons con
fidential communications, but insofar al
my own writings are concerned there Il
not letter or document which am afraiC
| to have exhibited, and | authorize any
and call upon any living person to produce
and print forthwith whatever writing they
have of any source whatever, 1t is time
for the sake of decency and public morals
| that this matter be brought to end. l,
is an open pool for corruption. exhalins
deadly vapors. For six weeks the natior
has risen up and sat down upon scandal
Not a great war nor q revolution coulC
more have filled the newspapers than this
Question of domestic trouble, magnifeo
thousand times, and, like sore spot in
the human body drawing to itself every
morbid humor in the blood. Whoever s
buried with it.it is time that this abomina
tio be buried below all touch or power Of
resurrection.
After the very long, detailed and min
ute statement of Mr.. Beecher was conclud
ed, the committee subjected him to Ions
and searching cross questioning. This alst
is too long for our columns, and like thu
statement is full Of uninterestpg details O
no particular importance except as ex
planning aud illustrating many OF his pecu
liar ways and singular modes of expires
sion We select the following questions
and answers as the most important;
O.-Now, as to what occurred in your
library and in TiltoD's bedchamber. l re-
fer to the occasions in which he said yot
touched his wife's ankle aud were fount
with flushed face in the bcdchamber o
HIS house. Al do emphaticaly deny
that either ofthesc scenes ever occurred
Odd you admit to Moulton or Tlton
or any other person that you ever had am
relations with Mrs f. H. Tilton, or eve
committed a wrong with her, or said any
word which would be unfit for church
man to hold, do, or say with the wife o
his friend or for father to hold, do, o.
say to his daughter, or a brother with hi
sister? Did you ever admit this in an.
form or in any words? A. Never.
BY Mr. Tracy.-Did you ever hold am
such relation, do any such act, or any sucl
word? A-Never.
By Mr.. Cleveland.-In your statement
you have alluded to one payment of So,
OOO,-have you furnished any other none.
to those parties? Al have furnished
at least $1,000 beside the $1,000.
Q'-To whom did you pay that money
A.-To Moulton.
ON various sums? An various
sums partly in cash, partly in chic
Q.-Have you any of those checks 7
have several. | don't remember how
many.
O.-Where are they? Al had some
of them here on June %, 1871, drawn oI
the Mechanics bank to the order ot Frank
Moultnn and indorsedin in his handwriting
aud one Nov. 10, 1871. payable to the or
der If Frank M,ntnn. and ind rsed III hl'
Handwriting, and one May 29, 1872, to th'
order of T. d. Mualton, also endorsed IL
his handwriting Each of these that ar'
marked for deposit across the face have
been paid.
| Q.-As nearly as you can recollcot how
much more wentinto the hands Of Moul-
ton? Al should say | have paid 81,
600.
O.-To what use did you suppose tie
money was TO be appropriated Al
supposed that it was to be appropriate u
extricate Tiltou from his difficulties in som'
way.
Odd you usually respond to the de
mands of Moulton for money during thes'
months? Al always did.
O.-Under what circumstances did yoJ
} couIe to pay the s5,O0U in one sum A
, Because it was represented to me that th'
whole difficulty could be now settled By
that amount Of money, which would pa
the affairs Of the Golden Age on a secure
footing. and that would be a settlement o
the whole thing. 1t was to save Iitoa pc
cunlarlly.
, O.-An anonymous letter to the commit
= tee irom free lover says that you have I
reservation in your philosophy which w"ul.
enable YOU to say. Il had no wrong con
duct with Mrs. TiltoD," having in you
own mind belief that what you are charr
= ed with doing was all right. What arr
your ideas on this subject? Al am ~
: versed in the philosophy and casuistry O
| free love. ! stand cn the New Euglan'
t doctrine in which | was brought up tina
it is best for man TO have wife and stay b.
: her, and that he must not meddle with n
h,rsf uives + ahhor avery manlfes