The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-03-03

Withholding special information relating
thereto until tic trials were OYER
This answer was evasion Ivy
n motion Of Mr.. Lord who
had presented the first resolution,
the matter was referred 10 tlc judiciary
Committee. So much for the congress
onal aspect of the subject. ON last sun
,lav. tie st. Louis Tines charged in n let.
ter from It's Washington correspondent,
that Attorney General Picrrcpont, with
the advice and assistance OF the Pr, sident,
had taken extraordinary means TO secure
the acquttal OF Babcock. The statement
oftic Times correspondent was, in effect,
as follows:
"Picrrcpont, having got rid of llcndci-
son. succeeded in convincing Dyer that he
was in earnest In pro scouting the whisky
ring. The Times said Dyer WIS firmly
convinced that Mr.. picrrcpont not only
sincerely co-oprratcd with him. hut was
ready To lead him in his legal crusade
against the ring. The result was that
yerbatum copies of all documentary evil
dcncc. were made and forwarded to
Pierrepont. together with lengthy let
tiers explaining the force of the
evidence. Several weeks prior TO
the beginning of the Mckee trial,
DYER went to Washington, at the invita-
ton of Mr.. Picrrepont, and during his
stay there every point he expected TO
prove was communicated to the attorney
general. While there Dyer learned of
Evcrcst's arrival. and fastened To meet
Abijah in Philadelphia. There he held a
conference with Everest. and for the first
time he heard the story of the two letters
repeated by Everest during the trial.
| fastening back TO Washington, Dyer
again visited Picrrcpont, and detailed to
him Evcrest's story. Upon leaving
Washington, Dyer. at the soil itatlon OF
PicrrCpont. engaged to advise him OF ev
cry new fact which might come to his
knowledge. Now for the scqucl--as
rapidly as Dyer unioldcd his plans and
his evidence TO Pcrrcpont they were
repeated to the President. The Prcsi-
attorney general. Dyer had scarcely
| reached st. Louis. on his return from
Washington. when both Storr- and Por-
| ter arrived in Washington, having been
| summoned by telegraph. The attorney
| general had gained possession of every
atom of testimony the prosecution had
against Babcock. aud was as familiar
with the plan of that prosecution rs Dyer
himself. Storrs, Porter, Picrrcpont, Bah
cock and Grant held n conference. The
| field was surveyed, and the work OF Blb-
| cock s salvation begun. Night after night.
| from the day Porter and Storrs arrived.
| until few days previous to their de-
parturc from ST. Louis, those two dis
tinguishcd attorneys met picrrcpont and
Blbcock in Il private room Of the attor-
| ncy generals Office. and applied them
selves to the study of the testimony and
| plan to be used against Babcoch. Every
point of the prosecution was taken NJ
| singly and collectively, and plans ma
turcd to defeat them.
The Times correspondent prepared
his statement by the assertion that he
had obtained the facts from zone of the
chief officers of the treasury department. .
| The editor of the Times In answer to in
| quirics, replied that lie would give IL
names at present but that the authorit.
is complete and will satisfy the who'll
country il called for by n congrcssona
committee.