The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-31

In this carly stage in the investigation OF
the cipher dispatches, certain facts have
been clearly established which bear hard on
the memory Of two public men who have
gone to their long account, and OF whom we
must speak, therefore, forbcarngly, and
only in connection with these developments.
These men are the late WILLIAM ORToN.
President o, the Western Union Telegraph
Company, aud the late o. p MORTON OF In
diana.
All tho kilograms relating TO tho Prcsdcn-
tial election. except three hundred received
by the MORRISON Committee in the House,
were delivered by the direction OF Mr.. Or
TON to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections OF the Senate, OF which Mr.. Nor
TON was then Chairman, with five Of the
rankcst Republican partisans to obey his
orders as n majority.
These dispatches were handed over with
out a schedule to identify them, and those
which were returned were received back
and burnt at the Western Union Office here
without an examination to prove that all
of them had been sent back. They were
bundled into n trunk when sent to Wash
ington, and a part Of them were bundled
back into the same trunk to bc returned to
New Iork-all with entire disregard OF the
commoncst precautions due To private
rights, or to the responsibility Of the tec-
graph company to the public or the whole
number exceeding twenty-nine thousand,
nearly one-third came from indianapolis,
thus exhibiting the intense interest felt by
Senator MORTON In the election, and the
large intluence.which lac exercised as di-
rccting mind in his party.
The committee room in which these telc-
grams were placed was In the exclusive
charge Of Mr.. MORTON and his personal con-
nections and friends. Mr.. BURBANK, his
brother-in-law, was secretary Of the Com
mittce, and received them from the Wash
iugton manager OF the Western Union.
GEORGE +. BULLOCK, an Indiana friend of
the late senator, was the messenger of the
Committee, and is now Consul at Cologne as
a reward for his services.
While these kilograms were In the custody
Of Mr.. MORTON and his associates they were
thoroughly examined, classified, and util-
lied. All that might AFFECT injuriously the
Republican managers during the Presidcn-
tial campaign, and during Mr.. Morton S
own operations in California, were de-
Whatever the chiefs wanted they took Mr.
| BRADY admitted In his testimony that he
carried Of the dispatches which he had per-
sonally sent from Florida when he went
there to aid the Returning Board in making
! their count.
Finally, after the Forty-fourth Congress
| had adjourned BULLOCK stole n lot of these
kilograms, including the so-called cipher
dispatches. He delivered those which he
had stolen 10 the Hon. J. l.. EVANS, mem
Der Of the House from Indiana, and one OF
Mr.. MOTIONS devoted followers. EVANS in
turn gave them 10 Mr.. BRADY, Second As.
sistant PostmasterG General, who had been
appointed and retained at the instance
Of Mr.. MORTON Both EVANS and BRADY
We're most active in securing for BULLOCK
the Consulate at Cologne, where he now is
| rs a fit representative of this Fraudulent
| Administration, in return for the devotion
he had exhibited In the theft Of these papers