The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-03
ONE EQUITY MAN TO ESCAPE
FACTS THAT sHOULD HURJ GRANT
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
The Nation to be spared the Disgrace Of nm
Impcscbment-What the Chairman OF the
Committee on WhIskey Frnuds Snvs.

Impcscbment-What the Chairman Of the
Committee on whiskey Frauds snvs.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The only excuse
yet offered for the Presidents forcing Mr..
Yaryan out Of the Internal Revenue Bureau
is that Yaryan had caused the dismissal OF
W. u. Moore from the revenue service, who
II seems was q favorite Of Grant. Moore re-
peated hearsay charges against Yaryan's In
tegtity. Until Moore was summoned before
the whiskey Investigating Committee, Yaryan
complained that as Moore, was an oficer
OF the Treasury, II he knew augbt against any
Treasury ofacial, 1t was In duty bound
to mako the charges explicit and present
them to the Secretary OF the Treasury for
Investigation. This Moore did not care to do.
He continued his gossip to the injury OF the
public service and for this reason Moore was
dismissed, regardless OF the Presidents friend
ship As to tho statement made by Moore be-
fore the committee, II was at best but evidence
In the second degreo-the hearsay OF G. s. Bell,
who. IL will be remembered, was also a great
favorite OF the President when his services were
useful to defeat the prosecution OF Gen. Dab-
COCK. This statement was never admitted as
evidence, and 1t was never Intended to make II
public. On this CONGRESSMAN McCrary Of Iowa,
Republican member of the judiciary and
whiskey Committees, says that Moore's state
ment was but waste OF time, taken In secret In
presence Of Bell. aud the committee would have
gone TO the bottom of the charge but for the
following reasons. The statements Of Moore and
Bell were at once transmitted to the President,
who requested Commissioner Pratt to PROMPTLY
was sent, on the 18th Of May, to Supervisor
Meyer at st. Louis, as follows;
TRKAsuHY DEPARTMENT.
OfTIcE or INTERNAL kEvrNun,(
sra having been repressned 70 the rre:,ds5, hs'
Jesse woodward, an attorney 10 ST. lnuls stated 20
lately agent Of t.e Pc. 1nee ,seI psPsT5%n, e.
OF this bureau aud Que h P Brssher, then revenue
the ofcc Of saa weodssr ana pro- suppres.
repgT; 70. 500 sSS 'hs,
tendance and received 10000 for this service, DC;
sns sss propGuaa ss sHn me ssas aneer
meeting ever ned 10 5Sur SeS aas az seeh 10 d,s NJ
ersto suppress report eonsidsIstion Of teS 900
saa 4 sys The d,tsS s,ts. xaetSst ySd eyer had
as sc, w. Ysr,S pd
tate ,h; Mr. 1sryss % had IL y9ar presence made dis
nature as 20 inri,cate Mr. Ysryan, you vii please
draw out ali facts in relation thereto have re-
a 5oq eesp s give s ssr iTur AZ
''.''s' WV 80 D j. IniTI, eo%mis.iOssr.
On the 24th OF May, Supervisor Meyer for.
warded woodward's answers to the questions
Of which he says: The answers 10y Mr. Wood.
| emphatic denial to the CHI; rges said to have
beea made by Mr {. 5. Bell against Mr.. H. I
Yaryan, ! did not deem II necessary to cross
examine him.
Another Important fact shows how very alb
surd Bells story, as repeated by Moore IN ust have
been to Secretary Dristow Tor II was Woodward
that the ltth Of June, 1874, Just after Dristow
became Secretary Of the treasury, wrote tho
details of tho operations OF the Whiskey HI 1g
which was the nrst insight the department bad
Of McDonad and Joyce's connection with tn,
frauds. IL Woodward had known aught aRains
Yaryan, then IL would have been communicated
In his letter sent originally To Congress IN al
Erastus Wells of St. Louis. In his afhdavit Il
Commissioner Pratt he says he did not know
Yaryan at the time alleged In the statement o
| Bell; that he never heard OF any proposition l,
suppress report for u consideration, and tha
he never had any conversation with bell
alleged. .
Ihe friendship OF tho President for Moor
and his hatred Of Yaryan have deeper siRntc
canoe than CAP be fully explained at this time
subponas have been issued for Brlstow, DufOr'
Wilson, and fafyan 10 appear before the com
mittee on the whisKey trials and with their ex
animation tue Investigation will end. Whe
the true relations Of Moore to the White Hou ~
, his intimacy with IL lbcOck, his connection VIII
IN tiers Of national disgrace become known
IL will be apparent why the discharged and re
Iustated revenue officer Is protected by tn
strong arm OF the Presldept; and ali this Is &
be developed before the adjournment of Con
: cress. Tue result Of Grant 5 coup de mann VII
Ov, iu the words u tAe CHARM, " ol the com
mIttee Oh whi-kov trials, the Possession OF ev
dence Overwhelmingly requiring tue impeac1
demeanors. Though II Is not Intended 70 pres
this to a formal presentation OF articles OF In
peAchment, the report VIII be IN the form
| such an indictment. aud the eviienre given
} the people, that they may, with the fae.s oe
, | fore them, Judge OF the hypocrisy OF the ma
| xh once wrote. Let guilty. escape