, 1875-02-15

!spee,at D.pat<h to The t'hiea9o Tribune.
WAsa1so7ox, D. c., Feb. 13.-TAo Pacific
Mail Steamship Company ia evidently playing
game Of bluff. Rufus Hatch ras examined to-
day by tho Committee on Ways and Means. He
submitted a sworn statement, which WAS nothing
more than m argumont. The Committee woro
very unwilling 10 hear it, but Fernando Wood,
for REASONS which did not hppear. iuaistol that
it should DO heard. The whole purport OF tho
line Of defense OF the Tacific Mail Company ia to
provo tlat the officers Of tho Company htd no
knowledge that any more than 100000 Of the
Companys funds we're to 10 used by Irwin in
Waslpgton in correction with tho subsidy.
No member Of the Committee beloved wold Of
this, and no impartial person who has watched
this Investigation closely In and out Of
the Committee can fail to believe thht
! considerable number OF the then pi-
sectors had then full knowledge that
largo amounts Of money we're being used. The
keynote OF the morality Of tho Pacific Mail
Directors Was given by one Of them in New York,
docno to notify the stockholjers OF fraud In the
management Mould depend upon 1hethef he
Wa. himself long o. short Of the htock.
a spECIMEN GAME
Of tho Company's bluff 10 shown in the follow
ing letter, which ia printed here this evening:
WARRINGTON, D. c., Feb. IS. 16;s.-Cark frit Eaq.
1ttorney for ne E1rt6e Hat! Sttamship Company:
You will without delay, notify each and erery perBon
say p.rt Of tho money sSsiracted from the pseiao
stGil Steamship COMPANY W A. 3. stockwsh aud nne
nanY tbat. uuiess ths sonnt no eortsd to Ind ID
,tei to have been received by them promptly re-
funded 70 the comrany you M! U.s. 81 u ssns taox ,
managing Director md E1-Onicer.
THE NOTED DILLON,
former Cashier Of the snEEent-at. Arme. who livts
! a!most within sight Of the Capitol, has ut last
been found. He appeared this morning, md
WAS examined in seeles session. Tie members
| Of the Committee stats that his Whole Testimony
waH absurd and unnpottant Rnd thAt they hArs
| rot decided whether they shall make IL public.
Dillon himself privately gives more information
| than the COMMITTEE, IIo eays that hid connec-
| ton with the matter originated In Jest. No
boarded with Herr, then q member OF tho Wavs
and aleana Committee, when the stories OF cor
that considerable number OF Congressman
about that tiue had tsked him, 1t tho Of
| fee OF the sorgeant-at-Ayms, to change
$1,000 bills. which he did. ke.r, to Dllon's
! surpriae, summoned the litter before the Com
! mittoe, whom he made hls statement two years.
ago. That abatement was that = considerable
number OF Congsessmen. tho names OF some OF
whom he gave. changed such bills he DOES
were moro than ex. 1t IL believed to hayo
been stated by the former Committee that
Dillon had knowledge OF t~enty"ono Con-
gressuen who had 30 exchanged thousand
dollar bills. That testimony, Dillon SAW
the Committee agreed to ignore. and permitted
linn to Withdraw. Dillon stxtes that llo himself
subsequently both destroyed tho testimony aud
desk,oved all trsce Of 1t IN his memory. He sald
to-day ia secros seaaion Tint hs had no additional
testimony to give beyond ~hat he stated two
| years ago. That testimony ls not on record In
the Commt,eoroom, aud Was not trans-
mltted to this cougEess. but, The abort
| hand notoa arc believed to bo
in the possession OF tho thsn Official reporter.
| DiIlar's statement ~ to tho exchange OF the bills
IL quite co,lslstent with Orduays explain IL tona ol
The mttlcds OF business Of Tho Office. Tho lat
! ter said that 1t was the custom 10 aeud ancb
largo bills directly to the Treasury IN snyslopes.
without making = record Of than upon ths
books.
| WHITING,
coworker With Bill King. arrival hsre shis sysn.
ing. and DyhtsriouBly put up At the Ebbltt
| House. Ha Baeroed d!sposad TO conceal Tor the
time his presence in Washington, but tho Ser
| Peant.a Arms had kept close vatoil and Whit
| Ing Ind hardly reached his room before pop,,
uty-Sergeant. unaer I'll assumed names served
him with procoss. Whiting las now beeoiro
| witness under tho surveillance OF the COMMITTEE