The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-29
Jews OF THE CHINESE MINISTER.
The Moral Of the Stolen kilograms
Investigation.
EFFECT OF. GENERAL ARTHUR'S LETTER.
lnconyetibty Of Silver With Gold
end Grsenbacks.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1879.
THE CIPHER DISPATCHES -wHAT THE INuEsTI-
CATION HAS DEVELOPED.
The cipher despatch mystery substantially
cleared up to-day by the confession Of Brady Second
Assistant Postmaster General, that he received the
parcel Of dispatches which Bullock. Consul at
Cologne, but then messenger of Senator Mortons
Committee, stole from the committee room. and that
he gave most Of them to Mr.. William E. Chandler,
who left some on General Buffers table,
and forwarded copies of others for pub
LEGATION. Brady added that before Bullock stole
these, he, Brady. had gone to the committee room
and picked out and taken away dispatches which
passed between himself and Postmaster General
Tyner in relation to Florida matters Brady having
been one of the republican visiting statesmen in
Florida. 1t appears from Bradys and Mr.. Chambers
testimony that the whole body Of des-
patches surrendered by the telegraph company
lay in the committee room for several
weeks. accessible to any one who was on
friendly terms with Burbank. the clerk Of the COM
mittee, Senator Morton's brother-in-law, and with
Bullock the messenger. also an Indianian. who has
been rewarded for his theft from the committee
room with the Cologne Consulshp
1t is altogether very disgraceful story, and it
shows clearly that the republicans had every oppor
tunity to pick out and take away any dispatches
which any of them remembered as compromising
them or the party When it is remembered that
Bullock. mere messenger to a committee
obscure person. received the gift Of an important
consulate for no reason that can be imagined has
been stated, except that he passed the damaging
cipher dispatches from the committee into the
hands Of persons able when they got them to make
public use OF them, but who could not afford to be
charged with taking them themselves, the natural
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before Bullock as well behind him, and that he.
who served merely as obscure go be-
tween, was put out of the way in Germany. to
secure his silence With all tho dispatches compro
missing republicans out Of the way. and all the per-
concerned in dsreputablc election transactions
in the three Southern States rewarded with public
Offices it is easy to see that the republican managers
might well think their proceedings safe against dis
closure.
Brady who. Assistant Postmaster General,
ought to have had strong sense of
the sacredness of private correspondence, seems
to have thought nothing of opening. looking over
and taking away Geographic dispatches. His confess
sion will certainly check the schemes to the tee
graphs by government employees
Mr.. Chandler related that he, Mr.. Hale Brady and
others held consultation to the disposal of the
stolen dispatches, and finally concluded to put them
in General Buffers possession and that is for the
present the end Of the mystery. 4 80. 80
THE NEW YORK OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF SEC
RETARY sHERMAN's AND GENERAL ARTHUR's
LETTERS.
The Sherman and Arthur letters were eagerly read
to-day when the New York papers arrived, and the
general impression seems to be that General Arthur
has completely ovcrthrown the Secretary. 1t
monty said that not only had Mr. Arthur met all the
charges made against him. but that his letter showed
him to DO an uncommonly able man and
master OF his business Collector Of the Port. 1t is
said tonight that the Senate will vote tomorrow
the New York nominations. but this is not certain.
There is still talk of discussion of the nomi
nations in open session, but many Senators OPP
posed to this setting precedent disagreeable TO
them and. as some believe. injurious to the public
service.
1NrEncoNvERr1BrLrrY OF SILVER WITH GOLD
AND GREENBaCKs.
The opposition of the silver TO the bill making
silver gold and grcenbacks interchangeable at will
at the Treasury will probably prevent its passage,
unless they should be ma1o to sec that without
such measure they may be the of
producing by and by sudden and dsas
trous contraction of the currency Exchangeable
at the will OF the holder for gold greenbacks the
silver dollar would take its natural place in the
rency, DO to great extent useful and cause slight
imitation. But If this is refused it is to be
inevitable that the silver will accumulate in the
Treasury. When the amount there becomes so great
as to excite public apprehension of demand
that it shall be forced upon the people
this will undoubtedly create a panic and
rush on the Treasury with greenbacks for gold. and
snch rush for gold would produce double con-
traction, for 1t would lock up the greenbacks and
would, at the Same time general boarding
expectation Of the gold drawn out. Business men
and others who opposed to contraction would
therefore do well to urge their representatives here
to pass the bill making silver intcrconvertible with
gold or grcenbacks.