Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-12
BOWEN RENEWS HIS CHARGES
AGAINST BEECHER AND OFFERS
TO PROVE THEM.

Evidently Mr.. Bowen means to fsh!
Beecher and Plymouth Church with all
the carnal weapons he can command.
He is for blood. The war-path is his
chosen trail and he is scalp-hnnter. A
New York dispatch OF February 10 says
that Bowen appeared before the Exam
lining Committee of Plymouth Church
| on that evening in answer to a sum-
mons to appe..r and testify concerning
the matters and things charged in his
letter. He complained OF unfair treat
ment, and then made the following
statement:
| propose that three men within the
Congregational body be selected. men
distinguished for their wisdom and i'm
partiality-such for example, as Presi-
dent Worlsey. President Asa D. Smith.
President Fairchild. Judge Lafayette 5.
Foster. the Hon. Mdheus Hardy or the
Hon. julius H. Seelye-men in whose
decision the world will feel confidence,
who shall be pledged to keep all such
evidence secret, and before whom only
Mr.. Beecher and myself shall appear.
with our witnesses. and before whom l
will consent without any reserve what
ever, as soon as they can meet, TO give
in full this evidence which has led me
to say that have no doubt Mr.. BeecEer
is guilty of adultery, hypocrisy and per-
jury. / ask nothing more than that
they shall fully consider the questions
which you seem to have before you.
whether | deserve ecclesiastical censure
for my previous silence in reference to
Mr.. Beecher. and whether | am now
justified by the facts in my possession
IN making what you call my Infamous
allegations and insinuations about him
made In response to your own de- .
mand for reply TO Mr.. Whites griev-
ances. 1 am willing to abide by the
ceusure or approval of such body Of
men II M. Beecher and Plymouth !
viii also submit 20 their decision. | re- !
affirm everything have stated about H. !
W. Beecher In nv previous coinmunica- /
ton TO you and | am ready to substan-
tiate it betory such a tribunal. Very re- I
specially, HENRY c. BOWEN.
The report further states that the !
Committee declined to acquiesce IN |
Bowen proposition on the ground that |
this is not matter between Bowen and
Beecher, but between Bowen and Ply
mouth Church. They also refuse to ac-
cede to his request for further adjourn |
ment. He read paper in which he
stated reasons for declining to answer
questions on the then present occasion.
He Withdrew and the Committee ad-
jour ned until the next (last) night.
An independent Republican Of some
little sense is Representative Chittenden
of New York. During a discussion in
the House of the consular and diplo- |
motto appropriation bill he got up and
made some remarks which are reported
as follows:
Chittenden moved to strike out the
paragraph making appropriations for
salaries of the Ministers to France, Eng !
land, Russia and Germany. He claimed |
TO be as good an economist as any man |
on the Democratic side of the House, but |
he believed it would be more honorable !
for the nation to abolish those high offices !
than to degrade them. The salaries of |
those Ministers had been fixed under a |
Democratic administration at SIT 800, |
and certainly none would say the cost of
living had decreased since that time.
He warned the gentlemen on the other
side that if they expected to conciliate
the American people by that kind of
economy they were mistaken. Congress
had bsen in session for over two months
and what had it done? 1t had stopped
building hospital at Yves. Point. taken
an additional ration from 800 cadets and
reduced the compensation of half dozen
professors. 1t had also introduced a
tariff so radical as to be more complicat-
ed, vexatious and vicious than any of the
tariffs of the last thirty years.
The motion was rejected.
liz. BABCoCK TRIAL, SO far AS report
ed. fails to produce anything inculpatory