The New York herald., 1875-12-17
THE WHISKEY WRONGS.
Babcock Still Delays His Appear
ance in st. Louis.
GENERAL GRANTS STATUS.
How He Was Reelected
in 1872.
White House Spies in the
Jury Room.
McDOnald'S Version of Ills InterCesSiOn
with the President
A SUPERVISOR TO THE RESCUE.


Court Of Inquiry adjourned definitely yesterday. All
along the fact that this court was in session was
thought to be the for his appearance St.
Louis but that it has adjourned, he still tarries
with his father in-law However little indulgence to
the Presidents Private Secretary but natural
more especially as Judge Krum has assured District At
torney Dyer that he call Babcock by telegraph any
day when Dyer should want him The day of Bab-
cocks appearance here to plead is be agreed upon
tomorrow in a conference between Dyer and Krum
THE PRESIDENTS STATUS.
Although Murdock's statement, the substance OF
which telcgraphed back from New York to the St.
Louis papers and published this morning, has created
profound sensation it is not yet probable that the
Grand Jury called for January will indct the President
nevertheless the feeling against him very strong,
somehow or other the President has been mixed up
so.many ways with these whiskey thieves.
WHAT GRANT IN 1872
SO, for instance, was told to-day by Mr. Pretorius,
the editor of the Westtiche Post Carl Schurzs paper
that he was convinced General Grant was elected in
1872 with the money raised from the whiskey Ring.
Mr.. ,Pretorius is not at all the sort of whose
party feeling away with his veracty. He weighs
every word he says and what he says always springs
from his conviction Now, Mr. Pretorus is not the
only who has told me this, but there a great
many other influential persons who declare that Grant
was elected in 1872 with the Rings money and that
1t was only natural gratitude which induced him to
shut his eyes when glancng in the direction of ST.
Louis In spite OF all this and in spite of Murdock's
and other evidence however, there is still lkeli-
hood Of an indictment being found against the Presi
dent for the machinery of the law is strictly con.
trolled from Washington.
WHITE HOUSE SPIES UPON JURY.
state the very best authority that Mr. Dyer
who is fearless and independent and would
shrink from nothing in the discharge OF his duty-and
his colleagues closely watched by spies OF the
minstration. Everything that goes in the jury
is known the day in the White House,
and II any evidence against the President
to be presented Mr. Dyers head would roll of in
instant There many other why such
a contingency is improbable although 1t cannot be de-
MED that it has been the subject of conversation in
many quarters. Mr.. Dyer's confirmation has produced
very favorable impression here and has for the pres
ent quieted the persistent rumors of his dismissal
His removal would certainly have been calamity for
he has the perfect confidence OF tho witnesses for the
prosecution, who trust to his promise of enency and
is thoroughly familiar with all the facts In view OF
his confirmation, it is as amusing as it is very
characteristic incident of political life,
that scarcely should Henderson have been
dismissed when Chandler and Woodward, two
rather notorious St. Louis politicians or to Wash
ington to make of getting Dyers place. Dyer
himself laughs good deal at 1t and thinks it good
joke.
MR.. DYER DENIES STORY
He will visit Washington to confer with tho
Attorney General and the Secretary OF the Treasury in
regard TO these cases. am requested by Mr. Dyer to
state that the newspapers which quoted him as having
attributed the failure OF the President send his name
~ the Senate for confirmation until yesterday to the
hostile influence of Senator Morton were wholly mis-
oh and hat ha has tha
gentleman
BABcocK AND THE MURDOCH STATEMENT.
II was officially teegraphed here from Washington
and published this morning, that the Murdock state
ment had been found duly 1led in the Treasury De-
partment having been placed there by that faithful
public servant General Babcock Immediately upon its
reception While this is regarded as partial exonera
ton OF General Babcock from the charge that he sup
pressed the paper 1t is considered aggravatng the
charge implied against the Presidents for IL argued
If the paper was not suppressed by Babcock, why in
the name of honesty and duty did the President not
act upon the information therein contained aud sup
press the Ring and thereby the country sew
eral millions of dollars9 This to be the drift of
popular argument to-day In regard TO this statement of
ex-CoIector Murdoch
MDoSALD soUIRMs
Mcdonald, in interview published this morning.
denies that he tried to induce the President to dis
miss Bristow, and that the accounts OF interviews
which he is supposed have had with the President
and Bristow are not true in any particular He then
goes on to make a long statement Of the interviews
which he did have with Brstow, and In which
he proposed to him to save the country
ST. 900 900 year by simply assessing the dstillers
for the amounts for which they in arrears instead
oi prosecuting them, and of his calling the Presidents
attention to the frauds who simply said he would look
which Mcdonald handed him without doing anything
at all about it.
PRETTY BAD FOR PRESIDENT.
The whole statement is regarded with great incredu
lty herc If the latter portion of be true 1t only
corroborates what has been said oten-namey that
the President McDonad's true friend to the last
which is pretty bad for the President
CONFIRMATION MURDOCH STORY
Your correspondent had interview to-day with
Murdock at his residence at Marble Hil which gave as
complete confirmation Of the report already pub
shed in regard to his statement could possibly have
been expected-a confirmation all the more emphatic
from its being given most unwillingy. The following
reproduction Of the conversation exactly as took
place. and comments unnecessary as IL speaks
for ITSELF
The correspondent after stating his business said =
''You for time United States Revenue Colec- |
for this district, were you not, Coonel9"
Colonel MuRDocK-Yes; the Second district OF Mis-. |
souri, was appointed in April, 1862 an5 remained
In Office until May, 1878.
CoRREsPoSDEST-You while Office discovered |
frauds and reported them but notice was taken Of
the rcportsS
Colonel MURDocK-I am at a loss to understand how
you obtained any such information, but will tell moth
ing
CORRESPONDENT General Henderson and sr. Dyer, |
believe, are in receipt of the information,
Colonel MuRDocK-I wrote to General Henderson
last night, but absolutely decline giving this norma-
tion. do not admit that sent such a statement or
affidavit to General Henderson or Mr. Dyer, but what
did send him intended TO assist him.
INTERVIEW in ST. LOUIS