Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

witness was then under Indictment for complicit,
| in thefrauds. 1t was simply an Introduction
there was no conversation.
| Rudolph w. Ulrich dstiller, and John F. Sic
dentopf, his foreman. were sworn. and testified al
| to the manner of manufacturing and disposing o
/ crooked whisky, the amount of money paid Il
| revenue officers, and the way money was raised Il
buy off revenue agents, where Irregularities were
1t was stated by the defense that they had in
| tended to have the personal attendance of Presi
| dent Grant as a witness, but this was not now
| thought to be necessary, and a proposition wat
| made and agreed to that the counsel on bott
sides should arrange for the taking of the deposit
ton of the President. Such an arrangement was
| made, the deposition to be taken on the 18th be
| fore ChiefJustice Waite, the proceedings to BIZ
conducted like an examination in open court
| both sides to be represented by counsel
| THIRD DAY.
VIM. j. Bassett, gauger in the ring, and Abijat
M. Everest, collector for the same parties. testi
| fed as to the whisky frauds to which they were
parties. The latter testified that in 1875, either
late in February or early in March, Joyce had
sent him to the sub-Treasury with 81 900 in small
| bills, to get two $500 bills; when he returned
Joyce putthe 500 bills in two envelopes-one
directed to W.. o. Avery and the other to Gen. o
| E. Babcock, Washington, d. G., each envelope
/ having personal on the left hand corner-and
told witness to put them in the letterbOx, which
| he did Joyce watching him from the win
| dow of his office: the envelopes had stamps
| on them. On the cross examination Everest said
| at the time he returned with the two $500 bills
| the envelopes were lying on JOyce's desk; WheI
| he handed the bills to Joyce witness watched
him closely; he (Joyce) first took the two envel
| Opes up and then took the paper out of one o.
| them and put bill in: did not see him put the
| other bill in the other envelope, and was not
| positive he did put it in, did he know which
| envelope 1t was he saw the bill put in. On redi
| rect examination the witness explained that Joyce
was standing up at his desk when he put the
money in the envelope, and after placing one
| bank note in one of the envelopes he turned
partially around, so that the witness saw only
part OF The envelope, and did not see the Other
I bill put into it.
| testified as to giving two S. bills to man
whom he did not know, about year ago, but
! could not identify Everest as the man; rather
| thought he was not the man.
Frazer, distller, recounted the history of the
| whisky conspiracy, but knew nothing in any way
| relating to Gen. Babcock.
| FOURTH DAY.
| Maj. E. B. Grimes, a Depot Quartermaster in
| the United States army, stationed at st. Louis.
testified that last fall, while in that city, Gen
Babcock had said to him that he would probably
want to send some letters or packages through
| him (witness) to other parties, and that short
| time after he received letter signed 0. E. Bah
| cock, inclosing one marked Mcdonald, with a re-
quest to deliver the same, which witness did. A
| few days later he received two other letters, at
| he delivered On the crOss-eXaminatiOn witness
stated that in conversation between himself
| and Mcdonald, when he delivered the letters, the
latter had stated, In reply to question, that he
| did not believe Gen. Babcock knew anything
| about the whisky ring. On the redirect examina-
| ton witness said Mcdonald had also stated that
he (McDOnald) knew nothing about such ring.
b. 81. Engelke, rectifer, testified as to the
money raised by distillers and rectifers for
| enue agents, and said he had SEEM in whole or in
part, kilograms, or what purported to be tele-
grams, in the hands of Joyce informing him of
the contemplated visits of revenue agents.
Fl. c., Rogers, Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Douglass testified to the
| suspending of the orders made last winter
for the transfer of Internal Revenue Super
visors. After the transfer had BEEN determined
on Mr. Douglass had conversation with defend
ant. the latter calling witness attention to the
subject, and saying the transfer was an unwise
measure and would result in bringing such a
strong pressure on the President that the order
would have to be recalled. The Presidents rev.
oeation Of the order was then read, and witness
| him from Joyce and Mcdonald, and others sent
| by him to those parties.
FIFTH DAY.
The cross-examination of ex-Com. Douglass
was completed in few uHimportant questions.
On the redirect examination he testified that an
Endorsement on an affidavit made in 1873, purport-
ing to be charges made by Lindsay Murdoch, a
Collector of Internal Revenue in Southeast Mis-
souri,. against Joyce and Mcdonald, showed that
such charges had been received and filed. The
envelope containing the affidavit was Endorsed by
| c. G. Sniffin, the Presidents Private Secretary,
| and the prosecute proposed to read the docu-
| ment, showing that in 1871 the charges had been
| sent to the Executive Mansion and had gone
through the departments, but witness was allowed
| to testify only as above.
Nearly the entire morning session was taken
| up in trying to trace, through the telegraph
| clerks Of ST Louis and Washington and also by
! the doorkeepers and messengers of the Executive
| Mansion, certain kilograms not yet admitted, to
| prove that they were received and sent back and
| forth Between Messrs. Joyce and Mcdonald at
| ST. Louis and Gen. Babcock in Washington.
| Finally the defense waived this proof as to one
| dispatch and allowed the following, admitted to
| be in Gen. Babcock's handwriting to be read:
| g WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. -, 1874.
Gen. John Mcdonald st. Louis:
81 succeeded. They will not go. will write
yGB Before this was fosd the defense
that they proposed to make a lengthy legal argu-
ment against the admission of the other kilograms,
and perhaps they might wish to include the
| "Sylph' dispatch in those objected to. The de-
| Tense wished to reserve that point.
Deputy Commissioner Rogers was recalled, and
! testified that he had conversation with Gen.
| BabcOck with regard to the transfer of revenue
agents. and that the latter had expressed his re-
greet at the issue of the order for such transfer
| it would bring political pressure on Douglass,
| and he would be forced to revoke the order, and
| that would work disastrously to him. On the
| cross-eXamination witness said Gen. BabcoCk e1-
| pressed great friendship for Mr.. Douglass.
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admission of the. dispatches alleged to have
passed between Mcssrs. Joyce, Mcdonald and
Babcock, and insisted that they should require
not only proof of the authorship. and tran-mls-
sion by telegraph, but that the dispatches were
| actually placed in the hands of the persons to
! whom they were addressed; they also objected
to the relevancy of the dispatches. 1t was then
| agreed that the dispatches should be grouped to-
| gether and the question of their delivery, ETC.,
and their relevancy, should be argued at the same
| time.
| THE PRESIDENTS DEPOSITION
| An Associated Press dis patch from Washing
| ton on the 18th says President Grants deposition
was ken on that day, at the Executive Mar sion.
There were present Chief Justice Waite, Secre-
tary Bristow, Atty. Gen. Pierrepont, Col. VIM. A
| Cook Zone of Gen. Babcock's counseD and Mr..
| Eaton, who represented the prosecution. The
oath was administered by the Chief-JUstice, and
| the examination developed the testimony that
| Gen. Babcock had not influenced or attempted to
influence the Executive IN the selection of any of
| fetal involved in the so-called Whisky Ring; that
he had not interfered in any manner to cause the
suspension of the celebrated order for the trans
fer of supervisors, but that it's revocation di-
rected by the President himself in order that,
/ suspicion being removed from the minds of those
engaged in the frauds, they might readily
| be detected in their efforts to cheat the Cover
ment out of the revenue on distilled spirits
that the President still had implicit confidence
| in the integrity of Gen. Babcock, and was
| satisfied with his explanation of the dis
patches which have formed so important an ele-
ment of his prosecution. The cross examination
fact that if there had been anything wrong on the
part of Gen. Babcock, which the President en-
phatically stated that he did not believe. it was
entirely without the knowledge of the Executive.
| The President stated thats1uring the twelve years
that Gen. Babcock had been intimately associated
| with him he ha1 not learned anything calculated
| to impair confidence in his integrity.
| CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.-On the It'll, petition was