New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-18
MR. MOULTON,s SHORT STATEMENT.

Mr. Beecher makes q statement sustaining
this theory Mr. MOultOn makes statement sustaining
this theory and Mr. TltOn draws report for the Com
mittec to which shall ask your attention for moment
And Sec gentlemen what this statement was on the l3th
OF July. 1874:
at your invitation. to make statement which have
read TO Mr. TiltOn and Mr. Beecher. when DOn 9eeIn
honorable and in the fairness and propriey OF which, go
far as am concerned. they both concur Inc parties W
this ease arc m 81 me OF ump and
the last four with CONSCIENTIOUS regard ior
I regret for your sakes tho responsibility imposed on
Of appearing here tonight say bs cros
lily Of world at large. even OF this committee
ought graiihed through any recitation by me Of the
facts which are in possession, necessarily III cOnli
dence through my relations to the parties The personal
have once been settled honorahy between the parties
and would have been revived except on account Of
attacks both in and ont 81 t"n to wc
he thought reply necessary II the present Issue Is 10
eses either together or SEPARATELY before your Com
mittee each taking the responsibility OF MS own utter
dences shall as between these parties. II necessary,
deem 1t my duty TO state the truth IN order To maj set
pr,aouncing its judgment with reference to either !.
therefore suggest you that the parties frat be heard
heare t Yo viii do so to speak the truth the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth. ! hold
Bee6er should r. nkiy state that he had committed
ofease against Mr.. Triton for which it WAS necessary to
s letter. fd 10, at Of Witch has been aord that
he should have stated frankly that he deemed it
necessary Mr. TOn to have made the defense against
DR. Leonard Bacon which he did made and that he INF
Bcocher should refuse to pe party to the rs1penns Si
would have stated than the truth. and 1t would
have saved him AMI You the responsibility OF further
nuury 1t is better now that the COMMITTEES should not
report and in place Of report Mr.. Beechcr himself
should make statement which suggested or that II
the Committee does report, the report should Dc recon-
ncndation to Mr. Bcecher 10 make such statement.
Was there any treachery to Mr. Beecher In thatl Was
there any want OF fdcltyi Ia it true, as Mr. Beccher
gives as an excuse that after the Bacon letter Mouton
had no devices no plans, made efortsi What became
Of the conferences and what the cause OF them be
| tween Mouton and Tracy and Buerf Long after the
| BACON letter. after the Investigating Committee was
| called what was the OF these reportsf Who
brought about the condition Of things which led to them
| the long and the short reporti
| A conversation is related by Mr. Moulton with Mr.
Beecher resulting in the short report is called
said to Mr. Beecher that after Mrs. Tilton had made
her statement to the Committee, Mr. TltOn was very
much incensed and that MI Tracy, in subsequent III
fons report to the Committee, or statement TO the
Committee had opresented to hi the influence which
| her statement had had upon the Committee that IL
melted the all ont OF Theodore Tilton and he was
perfectly willing to mako statement to the Committee
which should not contain the fact OF adultery between
| Mr. Beechcr and Mrs. Ton: that he perfectly will
ing il Mr. Beccher would take great blame upon himself
and exOnerac Theodore TiltOn from dishOnolabe con
duct toward him-from any injustice toward himtha he
Theodore TiltOn, perfectly willing to tie the mat
ter without makugany accusation before that Committee
and that he had prepared such report for the, Commit
Tee make. and that he had shown it to Gen Tracy
and Gen Tracy had said TO him. the night OF the
versation to which refer. that the Committee seemed
to he OF opinion that there was an ofense ana that
he thought IL would not be hard get from that Com
nittee report (uniav0rabc ii IL true to Mr. Beccher
on the ground OF the ofensc, but which would really
| settle the whole business, aud all the parties con
cerned from dishOnOr in consequence OF crime that Is
all.
| And that was the report.