New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-29
ARGUMENT OF MR.. EvARTS.

MI EvartS-NOw, II your Honor please, the
subject matter OF this interview, propose give It,
is connected with interviews which follow. and which
have been in the main, subjects Of evidence. The stage
Of the transaction which had reached at the date
concerning which am pressing inquiry, the
stage after the publication Of the Bacon letter and when
there q series Of conferences and consultations,
which have been gone into by the plaintiffs counsel in
their evidence between Mr. Mouton, and Mt Tlton and
Mr. Beecher, between Mr.. Mouton, as representing
Mr.. Tlton, and Mr. Beechor. to what to be said
could be said done in regard to the healing Of the
difficulty OF what is known the Bacon letter. and Mr..
Moulton gives evidence Of this kind.
Mr.. Beach-Wheroi
Mr.. Evarts-On page ia. The witness says:
had a subsequent conversation with Mr.. Beccher
showing the dateprobaby subsequent TO the 9Th OF
July Subsequent we will say to the 9TH of July he had
r and that bad ssknd Gem Tracy r he had snbmted
the paper to him. and said to Mr.. Beecher that Mr..
Tracys reply was that he had seen paper in which he
Thought he detected my handwor and that Gen Tracy
had said 10 me that the words, 81 have committed
crime" really said nothing, etc.
Your Honor may remember there considerable tes-
mOny that subject. Now, this interview that pro-
pose show between Mr.. MoutOn and Mr.. Tracy
curing in the end of Junesfter the oath Of Juneafter
the situation produced part OF the consider
alton concerning how the Bacon letter 10 DO dealt
WITH ont of which few days later there came pro-
posed card called the Carpenter card Decause ii ia Mr.
Frank Carpenters handwriting few days after this.
which formed the subject of this conversation to which
Mr.. Moulton referred I'm his conversation with
Mr.. Beecher Well of it is not TO be denied
that have right to into tho alleged conversation
between MI Tracy and Mr. Mouton, which formed the
subject Of communication through Mr. Beecher But this
interview that speak Of is the precedent and pre-
lminary introduction by Mr. MoultOn 10 Mr.. TracyS al
entOn of this Bacon letter. and Of the subject of answer
ing dealing with It, closing with the deferrng of the
had
been given the subject And then these further inter
views that thus prepared for and preceded by the
interview thatI seek to introduce in evidence have
been made the subject Of evidence Now, submit to
your Honor that MI M0uton does stand in the position
cOnfessedly upon the evidence of representing Mr..
Tilton in the conduct or consideration OF this matter
and that the whole series of his interviews with Mr.
Tracy or any other person that finally to
an interview as tho result of the preceding
conferences and the then present conference, which
evidence and in regard TO which Mr. Beecher Is To
he affected by communications made to him, that Mr.
Tracy permitted TO present his view of the facts As oc
curing at those interviews that you cannot dsocate
and cut in two the tenOr of postponed conferences
which ALL really. conference, and the result of
which forms the subject of the testimony which has
brought Mr. Beechcr and the statements of Moulton
concerning Tracys action into the case 1t is one CON
ference speak, beginning if you please on the 10Th
July repeated tho 25h of june repeated and ending
the Otl or IJn OF July, lTouuctu snap"
of Carpenters card, and conferences which have been
introduced as pertinent and substantial affairs in the
case Now this is the interview that propose to show
between Mr. MOulon and MI Tracy. sought by Moulton
which brings MI Tracy back into this in 1874 for
this interview concerning which have Mr.. Tracy's
evidence was the very end of 1872. and there was no
connection at any time intervening conferences be-
tween Mr.. Tracy and any of these people
Now, Mr. Moulton brings him In action, and
he has been used - Mr. Tracy's presence has
been used as of stating conferences
that wero affect MI Beecher without any evidence that
know of in the matter, except that two years before
something had been said about it which charged to
Mr. Beechcrs account. and for which Mr.. Beecher has
been made responsibility has been applied in that way
Now that is my proposition that in the end Of june Mr.
Mouton Mr. Tracy for judcons counsel in the
interests the parties for the dealing with the then new
stage of matters-O wit: the publication OF the Bacon
letter. and sequel is certain results arrived at which
have been given in evidence by the plaintiffs, and which
we shall Of be at liberty to follow with evidence
OH those points well as on this.