The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-27
The Charges Against Secretary Bris-
low.

LOUISVILLE, December 26.-The CHI
cago Inter- Oceans charges and insinua-
tions relative to Secretary Bristow,
which were published at length Satur-
day last, were reproduced in the Courier
Journal to-day, and read very gen.
orally in Louisville, as it was
well known here that Brls-
tow is not, nor never has been,
connected with or counsel for the Louis
Vile whisky firms. Statements to the
contrary only receive ridicule i'll Ken
lucky. IL is alleged in the Inter- OceoH 5
report that when Bristow visits Lonis
vile he invariably makes his stay at
the house of jacob Weller, his
brother-in-Iaw, who Is a brother of
w. l.. Weller, whisky dealer
and rcctifer Is 9th of the Wellers deny
this and say that while Bristol and his
brother-in-law have always been friendly,
they are not at all intimate /; and further,
that Bristow always puts up at the Gait
House and votes in the ward in which all
residents OF the hotel mentioned
are required to do their voting.
Ar far rs Mr.. w. l.. Weller is
concerned he says Mr.. Bristow has
never acted aS counsel for him, but at
one time assisted, as in dnty bound, in
the prosecution of his firm Tor an alleged
technical violation OF the revenue Jaw.
In reference to the whisky OF j. A.
! Cunningham, seized at Peronia referred
to by the Inter- ocean, the facts are:
Inc whisky was sold by Monks X Cobb,
of this city, TO j. A. Cunningham
After the seizure, Bristow, while here
/ and before hc became Secretary of the
Treasury, as a friendly act for Monks "
Cobb, wrote the District Attorney at
Chicago, requesting that he defer action
until all the facts were ascertained.
Subsequently that whisky and partiof
another lot seized at Chicago was tor
feited because there was no defense.
The parties interested in the defense
having been taken by surprise. a new
trial was granted, and the case is still
pending. j. A. Cunningham has re-
fused the compromise offered because
they insist that the whisky was all
right. After Bristow became Secretary
ho was applied to by Cobb to order the
release of the whisky, but declined to give
any order upon the subject, for the reason
that he had been consulted by Cobb pre-
vous to becoming Secretary, unless the
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue and
Solicitor of the Treasury should recon-
mend release. These are the facts as
gathered from Cobb, gentleman of the
highest standing here. He also says
the agent of the Government had
investigated the whole case and report
ed nothing wrong about whisky.
He says that he really complained, that
Bristow's senitiveness rs to official prop
erty has prevented him from doing
what facts would have been justified in
doing. MIR. Cunningham says there was
no excuse for the seizure OF his whisky
and that Commissioner Douglas was
apprsed of facts concerning it
and intmated that money would secure
its restoration. Mr.. Cunningham
says he has paid nothing and does not
intend to use money 10 secure what
properly belongs to him. All the other
whisky men named in the Inter. Ocean
article as having employed Bristow, in
cluding Newcomb, Buchanan & Co,
deny such statements. The Democrats
here are indignant at the Inter- Oceans
attempt to ally them with the scheme to
aid the whisky ring and Babcock.
1t is asccrtained from reliable sources
that Secretary Bristow does not know
Hobart, of Cincinnati, with whom, the
htcr-O Oceaa charges, he always stays
when in that city.