New-York tribune., 1875-12-27
A WHISKY RING EM4NAiION.
MR.. BRISTOW SLANDERED.

MR. BRISTOW SLANDERED.
ENTERpRIsING EFFORTS IN CHICAGO To PREVENT
THE COMING MISUNDERSTANDING DENIAIS IN
LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 26. The Chicago Infer-Oeedns
charges and insnuatons relative to Secretary BITS
tow, which were published at length on saturday
last were reproduced in The Courier Journal to-day
and read very generally in Louisville. AS it is well
known here that Secretary Brstow is not, ana
never has been connected with. or counsel
for Louisville whisky firms these statements
receive only rdicule 1t is alleged that
when Secretary Brstow visits Louisville
he invariably makes his stay at the house of Mr.
Jacob Weller his brother-in-law, and the brother OF
w. l.. Weller, whisky dealer and rectifier Both
of the Messrs. Weller deny this, and say while Mr.
Brstow and his brOther-in-law have always been
friendly they are not at all intmate further that
Mr. Bristow always lodges at the Gait House ana
votes in the ward, in which all residents of the hotel
mentioned are required to do their voting rs lar
as Mr. w. l.. Weller il concerned, he says Mr.. Bris
tow has never acted as counsel for him. blt al one
time assisted in duty bound in the prosecution OF
his firm for alleged technical violation of the Reye
nue. law, in reference to whisky of j. A. Cunning
ham, seized at Peoria.
The facts are the whisky was sold by Monks &
Cobb of this citv to j. A. Cunningham. After the
seizure Mr.. Brstow, while here ana before lie De-
came Secretary of the Treasury, az friendly act
for Messrs Monks Il Cobb, wrote TO the District
Attorney at Chicago requesting that he defer action
until all the facts are ascerianed. Subsequently,
that whisky and part of the same lot seized al
Chicago were forfeited because there was no de-
fence the persons interested in the defence having
been taken by surprise. new trial was granted,
and the case is still pending. j. A. Cunningham
has refused the compromise offered, because
they insist the whisky was all right. After hlr
Bristow became Secretary OF the Treasury, he was
applied to by Mr.. Cobb to order the release OF the
whisky: but he declined to give any order upon the
subject for the reason that he had been consulted by
Mr. Cobb prior to becoming Secretary, unless the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Solicitor
of the Treasury should recommend its release These
are the facts as gathered from Mr.. Cobb, gentle
man of high standing here.
Mr. Cobb also says an agent of the Government in
yestirated the whole case and reported that there
was nothing wrong about the whisky. lie has
really complained that Secretary Brstows sensitive
ness as To official propfety has prevented him from
doing what the facts would have justified him III
doing Mr. Cunningham says there was no excuse
for the seizure of his whisky; that eX-Com-
missioner Douglass was apprzed of the
facts concerning IT. and intimated that money
would secure its restoration. Mr.. Cunningham says
he has paid nothing and does not intend TO money
10 secure what properly belongs to him. All other
whisky men named IA having employed Mr.. Brlstow,
includinq NewcoInb Buchanan 81 Co., deny such
statements Democrats here are indignant at the
attempt TO ally them with scheme to aid the
Whisky Ring and Babcock.