The New York herald., 1879-03-07

| how very naturally the ofacials Of the teie
| graph company should have failed to recognize
thcsc most improbable cipher dispatches az
having any concealed meaning. but regarded
them rather corrup; dispatches. which Mr. Ortor
permitted to be withdrawn by some of his party
u nnas tnsy Tere a abe to recales. .e ae
OF the kind Is alike to the credit of their efficiency
and OF tho general management OF the company. and
dispatches came into the hands of Congress. and
suggests that nothing IN the protection or de-
speehes by telegraph would be gained BY trans, ms,
.erring that business to the government, but the
contrary.
NECESSITY FOR oIPHERs
From the nature of the transmission OF communi-
cations by telegraph it is unavoidable that what Is
sent must be known by various persons intermediate
such dispatches has, therefore become necessity
for business and state purposes all over the
world. This would form protection to
those concerned If dispatches remained lnyio-
late. 1t is not for to suggest whether any
legislation is required to prevent private tee,
grams from being purloined. being exposed
through tho carelessness partality fathlessness
of telegraph employees, while at the same time main
tanning the public interest and providing for the the
production OF dispatches in proper cases. While the
dispatches remained in the Senate committee. the
Oregon dispatches were translated under the
of Privileges and Elections in the House
permitted aecess to these dispatches
tain in connection With the Florida and
South Carolina election. published in an appendix to
their report which in u kind of cipher consist
ing of substitution of "oranges" for Florida snd
cotton for South Carolina. and warm for favor
able and cold for hostile, or the like which ro-
auired little effort to comprehend, and which Mr..
Chandler styles such feeble and worthless cipher
almost anybody can tell what it MEANS" (P. $40,
REpUBIIcAN DISPATCHES
The committee conducting the examination do not
seem to have observed any of the dispatches pub
lished by the Tribune This might be either because
snes nan Is eersn that nror to to thai date MT
Brady, Assistant Postmaster General had been Al
lowed to withdraw his dispatches in cipher when
acting as counsel with the republican visitors in
Florida. No Of the gentlemen OF the Senate
committee their employees, except one translator,
have been or offered appear before us, and owing
secure his test imony or to ascertain what other
dispatches besides those taken by Mr.. Brady and
those Bullock delivered to Evans were abstracted
while these kilograms remained in charge Of that
committee.
From the manner in which they assorted into
lots. bound by paper or rubber bands. the expert
who destroyed them thought that probably fourth
OF the whole number could have been removed. like
leaves torn from different parts OF book without
their removal being apparent ut the time of the de-
struction Of the remainder by the telegraph company
Considering the watchful competent aud intelligent
partisan custody in which these dispatches
had been kept for fourteen months first III the CON-
mittec and then in private republican hands, 1t was
to be looked for that nothing would now come to the
light not wanted by the parties in charge. and it
would have been most unreasonable to have ex-
pected that these expert Indiana managers any
than Mr.. William Z. Chandler Mr.: Eugene Hale
would have left in the parcel that came to the com
mittee any messages rejecting seriously on the
conduct Of the republican managers or party.
The republicans in charge of the dispatches could,
of course, ascertain whether they in cipher
not. by whom and to whom they were sent. and had
the means of eonfdentially communicating with all
their party friends concerned. and OF thus learning
whether it desirable to abstract or permit them
as well from Mr.. Bradys and Bulock's action as
from the nature of things, that those who desired
would be permitted to avail themselves OF such an
opportunity.
EFPoEr sdIsLEAD.
Among the lot which came to our hands, few
dispatches sent by republicans. in various cphers,
remain. Most of these have been translated. Some
Of them sent by Dennis the manager Of the Alachua
fraud in Forfda are in substituted cipher, which.
sible to translate. 1t may be safely assumed, how
ever, that II these ever come to be finally trans
ing upon the persons connected with them
or the party action they represent. 1t will
be noticed that these rcpu ocan cipher dispatches
and scattered considerable periods
and detail no continuous action and they seem to
have been LETT rather to misiead the public into the
idea that there was nothing passing between the
publcans which required to be kept from view than
for any other The translation Of the cipher
dispatches DISCLOSED on the part Of Ger
secure the electoral vote of the States Of South
Carolina and Florida.
These persons to have apprehended that the
electoral vote of those States, which they believed
for Mr. Hayes. and to have regarded themselves ae
Justified IN endeavorng TO defeat this corrupt and
fraudulent action by submitting TO the payment OF
moneys which. they were informed some of the can.
vassers demanded by way of backmail, as consider.
alton for withholding from this wrong. and to have
thereuPon entered into to that end with
those claiming to represent those boards.
But whether this be so or not we do not In any
way justify or excuse their action. They committed
gross wrong, injurious to the candidate they
desired to serve and an unqualified outrage upon
the great party to which they belonged. so far a
wr not by the 'Dess
Nationai Committee its chairman. nor any per-
con entitled to speak for them. Neither has any
witness testified that these negotiations author
ized approved by the candidate for the Presidency
In the of South Carolina the negotiations pro-
ceeded far that this Hardy solomon, claiming to
be the agent OF the Canvassing Board to Balti
to receive the large of SC0.O00 $4,000
to be deposited, payable when any part Of the vote
plication being then made to Mr. T!lden to advance
the same, he at once declined and refused TO have
anything 70 do with the negotiation. whereby the
same was broken mp and defeated.
In Florida the dispatches disclose that two propo
sitions were transmitted and that one Of them was
directed TO be conditionaly accepted.
In Oregon what occurred made the subject of
examination and report by former committees
The persons connected with these negotiations,
far have secured their testimony, I'LL declare
that their connection with them was in no way
authorized by Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden. whose par.
voluntarily appeared to corroborate that statement
under oath, and witness has appeared before us
70 & hr nm a OK 20 ina. h's name nna
through the mistaken zeal of his followers aud
friends and without authority on his part
No charge from any source whatever has st any
time attached to the name of Mr.. Hendricks.
All OF which Is respectfully submitted.
CLARKSON n. POTTER.
WILLIAM Il. MORRISON.
EPPA HUNTON.
WILLIAM S STENGER.
JOHN A. MCMAHON.
JOSEPH Q. +. BLACKBURN.
WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER.
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