The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-20
OUR WONDERFUL PRESIDENT.
He II Perfectly Satisfied with Bab.'s
Explanations. but DOn't Remember
What 10 Was.

Special to the New York Herald
Your correspondent has been allowed
the privilege OF CHANGING over the presi-
dents deposition, which arrived this
| evening. Its main points, not previously
communicated 10 any newspaper. are as
| follows: When asked in regard to the
suspension of the Douglass order,
whether Babcock had ever influenced
him, he replied that Babcock had never
taken enough Interest in the matter to
make him remember, aud although he
| could not recOllect that Babcock spoke 10
him on the subject OF the suspension OF
that order, the president SAID on cross
| examination that he did not know
| whether Babcock had spoken to Doug
lass or not. Douglass testified that Bah
cock did. The president ha. never seen
anything 10 shake his confidence In Bah
cock. Babcock had satisfactorily ex-
planned the kilograms to.the pre-, dent, al
Ter his indictment, but he could not re-
member the explanation of any particu-
lar telegram, nor could he undertake to
say what the generals explanation was.
He had forgotten il. On cross.examina.
ton 1t appeared that the president
had never seen any OF the crooked tele-
grams until after Babcock's indictment,
though he thought ne had said enough to
Babeock to warrant his telegraphing to
Joyce that he should get FOrd's bonds.
men to recommend him. Every one OF
the kilograms were read to the president,
and he said he had never seen or heard
OF them before Babcock's Indictment, so
that he could never haye read the re-
ports Of the Avery trial. The presidents
testimony on this point was particularly
significant as regards the Dispatch
meaning the dispatch recommending
Mcguire:
I've mean il. Num-"
For this telegram he never saw. The
president, II appeared on cross-examina-
ton, had never received the two protests
signed by Carl Schurz, ID. +. Dyer. Con-
gresham Finklcnburg and others, and
G. W. Ford, Chester II. Krum, the pres
cnt counsel Of the whisky ring, the
then United States marshal. and &. A.
Ncwcomb. against the appointment Of
Mcdonald nor the protest signed by
Robert Campbell. a wealthy merchant
T.. eatman aud other prominent and
highly respectable citizens OF st. Louis,
against the appointment OF Mcguire,
which the prosecution will claim shows
that Babcock. who opened all the cores
pondcncc, had them kept from the
President and simply sent them
10 the department, where they were put
on file. The president did not know that
Babc0ck had been in secret correspond
ence with Mcdonald under cover to Ma
jor Grimes alter McDonald's indictment,
nor did he know that Luckey and Bah
cock had been in Geographic communica-
ion by cipher during the Avery trial. At
the conclusion Of the examination the
counsel for the government put this
question Now, general, the sum and
substance OF all YOU know Is this, that II
General Babccch has been guilty OF any
misconduct you havn't discovered it,"
And the president replied with u nod;
'Ihat's So"
The prosecution argue that the prcsi-
dents deposition. instead Of benciiting
the defendant, will severely damage his
case, and they viii urge that the fact OF
General Grants never having seen any
OF the crooked kilograms until after Bah
cocks indictment cstabliSlies the signif-
cant circumstance that Babcock carried
on this telegraphlc correspondence in
secret and stndiously concealed 1t from
he president. The prosecution will
also dwell strongly on the alleged sup