Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-28
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serious Charges Against Re stow
A Presidential Candidate lsone.

serious Charges Against Re stow
A Presidential Candidate Some.
special Dispatch to the Baltimore
Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April Is $ j. SUIT,
once the head of a whisky ring and
the associate of W. S. Huntington.
and feel ow named Tuikin. has. been
working up q case against BIlsiow,
which the whisky ring thieves think
very damaging. They got Suits law
yer, 7 w. Bartlett, formerly lieuten
ant governor OF Ohio and brother in
law of Senator Sherman, to go before
the committee on expenditures in the
Department. of Justice, on Friday
Ia at, aud tell the scandal, as follows:
He was asked whether, in "A profess
sional capacity, he had ever been en-
pioyed by S. Il. Suit He said he had,
and repeated what Suit had sail to
him in 1870, when the law firm was
B trtlCy & Stanton b. III Bristow was
then United States district attorney al
Louisville. Suit had entered into
gigantic speculation to make corner
in Kentucky whisky of q certain grade,
where, Unexpectedly, on the informa
ton of Bristow seven or eight distllle
ries We're seized and his business ope-
rations crippled. No sooner had the
seizures been made and the iuforma-
ton filed. than Brlstow resigned the
office of United States district attor-
ney and became member OF law
| firm under the name of Hartliu.
| Bristox Il Newman. Bristow, how
ever, had succeeded i'll having his
assistant, Wharton, made districS
| attorney Ia this favorable cOndi-
ton Of affairs Suit was told to employ
| BristOw as his attorney If he wanted
the distilleries released, though he
would have to pay large fee. Mr..
| Barley did not remem Der the amount,
but it is said to have been forty thou.
sand dollars. The cases were al dis
missed. Suit claims that he and his
associates had been the victims OF ex-
tortion. Accordingly he laii all the
facts before Mr.. BArtley to ascertain If
legal proceedings might not be institu-
ted against Mr.. Btistow to recover the
exorbitant fee. BARLEY told his client
that however questionable Mr.. BriS-
tows proceeding might have been
there was nc ground for legal redress.
He had been employed 10 perform q
specified duty, and having fu filed his
agreement there was no ground for
action. However, TO satisfy Suit
BARLEY, at the urgent request of his
client, called upon the commissioner
of internal revenue, then Columbus
Delano, and presented to that oil
cial a hypothetical case SO as not tc
involve Bristow's name. Deian,
replied that he did not see what &C
ZION could lie against an ex-otficlal
aud SO the matter rested for severa
weeks. Suit had whisky seized il
3 fillmore which Barley & Stant0.
We're employed to secure the release
Bristow also knew of this TRANSACTION
, and coming to Washington IN huhaj
: of the government, 1t occurred t.
d elano that Bristow would mako
good solicitor general, and upon hi
representation Bristow was appointed
p to that Office in 1870. Shortly ate
t this sui! called upon Barley aud toI,
2 him not to further consider the matte
= of attempting to institute proceeding
: TO recover the fee paid to secure til
= release of the t,.>tilleries, as Bristoy
D was now solicitor general, and III
friendship would be invaluable TO hin
e in his whisky speculations. The MAJ
: ter was dropped and. nothing though
S were annoyed in every part of IT,
+ country, except Kentucky, and the
f it was runored that Bristow's connel
ton with Questionable business b
n Louisville disttilers explained th
e "hanas off, policy pursued in tbs
o State. Mr.. Bart! Y had no charges
{ make against BriStow: He meret
e recited what Suit had told him, au
consequently knew nothing OF til
e facts or the truth of Suits story.
Al S. L. Suit was yesterday examine
II by the committee, and pronounced tt
is statement of BARLEY entirely devoi
e of truth i'll every particular, excel
y that he was Interested in kentuck
= distileries- The committee question:
d and cross questioned this Asa TrencI
ard. but he denied absolutely an
is unequivocally that he ever said an
ts thing to Nc. BARLEY upon the subjec
J. The committee Their, fore had no oUht
e alternative but to ascertain which Of ii
Re witnesses bad per ured himself and
e this end the statement of Judge Bal
1t ley is TO be investigated. He was III
Is a stranger to Suit. having been en-
J. plOyed to transact important bushes
from time to time, and it is absurd
is suppose that he invented the stoi
e. in 1870 which it was for his intere
it to deny III 1876. Either Bartlt
3 or Suit have sworn falsely, al
e it is the resolution of the cor
at mttee that the gui ty party shall |
y presented for pei jury. To do this Il
If evidence of Bactley, and the inform
ton which will be obtained to 9,
roborate Suits statement in 1870
hartley will have to be produced b
- fore the House. The transaction
=, however much Bristow may protes
~ has queer look, and the fact thu
= Suit feared Bri slows displeasure
- solicitor general invites the inquir
!. whether the charge made last summt
E is not correct; That the Kentucky di
70 ti!lers' have no reason to fear Brtstov
not because they. are not honest, bl
:, because of the hoId they have upo
=. him in his career as district attorne,
~ and subsequently, as the successfl
attorney in securing the release
=, their property, which, if properl
y seized, should have been held. AL
- which, if Improperly seized, did u,
! require the payment of an extravagal
- fee to effect The removal of the grip
~ the revenue officials. There is ais
= evidence of other transactions of Br;s
:, tow as solicitor general of a charact,
- that it will be harder for him to e.
>. plain that the seizure of Suits whisk
e dlstllleries.