Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-09

given the President much tronbl. 49,,
whom Mcdonald had been requested ~
Babcock to get away from Washington hs
cause she had been annoying the Presiaen.
The President subsequently, denied to W.
son the story told by Porter Wilson tast;
fled that when he first heard this story frn,,
Porter he believed it to he false, and he atm
believed So Mr.. Wilson was further eya, ,'
ined on the 2Sth, and gave in a.
tail his reasons for thinking the President
whisky prosecutions after as before the eva;
dcncc tending to implicate Gen. Babcock in
the frauds. he witness read several letter.
and stated several conversations betwee,,
the officials and others, which letters and
conversations had led him to the conclusion
stated He testified that the annoyance
which ii was said the woman "SyInbn
gave the President was by her o.
forts to backmail him in St Louis
Mr.. Wilson stated.I in reply 10
question by one of the Committee that he
attributed the differences between the Presi.
dent and himself to the fact thai the former
believed Babcoek to be innocent, and, so be.
lieving, he could not sympathze with the
prosecuting officers or with the Secretary and
witness in the part they took with refer renee
to Babcock's case. He further stated thai
his own judgment was that whatever differ.
ences arose between the Secretary and him.
self on one side. and the President on the
other, were due on the Presidents part to
misconception of the motives and purposes
which actuated the Secretary and witness
to misinformation as to facts, to willful and
deliberate peryersions of facts to the Presi
dent by scoundrels whom they were endeay
oring to bring to punishment, and their
friends, for the purpose of bringing about a
disagreement between the President and the
Secretary, to create embarrassment to the
prosecution, and if possible, to defeat their
purpose.
VIM o. Gavitt, Special Agent of he In.
ternal Revenue Bureau, was before the com
mittce on the lst, and testified to the effect
that Mr.. Wilson had instructed him to 90 for
Bristow for the Presidency and had given
him to understand that tue policy to be pur-
sued was to be covered bX that idea. Mr..
w. had said tue President was backing the
movements against the VIII sky rings. Var
yam had also undertaken to instruct the wit
ness to work for Bristow, saying it was pol
icy to do So
Mr. Bangs, United States District-Attorney
for the Northern District of Illinois, was
also examined on the LIST, and gave an ac-
count of the whisky trials at Chicago No
evidence had been disclosed which in the
slightest degree implicated Gen. Logan or
Mr.. Farwell in the whisky frauds.
Mr. Wilson was further examined on the
3D. His testimony was mostly in explana-
ton OF his private papers and their suisse
iutllO bAaiiiHdlioI ny iIcasuIN OlHtldlS.
His statement is substantiated by the aff-
davits of Messrs. Winslow and Dixon, private
Secretaries of the witness, who packed the
papers. Wilson testified that he had
never had any evidence duplicating Logan
or Farwell except the statements of local
prosecuting officers that those gentlemen
were suspected He had never himself
expressed any belief or opinion that they
were implicated, and he preferred not to
do SO now. In regard to the abandonment
of the prosecution against Ward and Wads-
worth, he said that he had always firmly OPP
posed it. MIR. Wilson directly contradicted
Gavitt, the revenue agent who had testified
that the Solicitor had instructed him TO
go for Bristow for the Presidency, and read
Il letter accusing Gavitt of indiseretion and
disreputabe conduct while in Illinois, on ac-
count of which he was withdrawn from that
service. Yaryan, however, admitted having
told Gayitt that " this Blaine business must
stop because Gavitt devoted more time to
politics than to business, while it was con-
trary to orders of both Yaryan and the Com
missioner for special agents TO interfere with
politics either directly or indirectly.