New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-08
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4 Wa>hipeton dispatch to The Ner- iok
HcraH icvives an oft-corrcctcd mistake oi
which il seems almost impossible to make an
end. The correspondent says: The Re
"puLHcans are never tirCt Of ringing the
"chaage, on the Tildcn-Pcltou cipher dis
"patchcs. and are flied with horror and dis
"sast at such an exhibition of corruption,
"hut tlcy have not word to say OF the
"Chandler cipher dispatches, which are on
record and which Mr.. Chandler has, uiH
the fuH conscd Of tie HcpHbiicois, refused
"fo erDIdin' This, we say, is mis-
take. Mr.. Chandler has never refused
to explain the dispatches. On the con-
trary. he has offered to explain them, and
the Democrats have refused or neglected
to avail themselves of his offer
The following questions and answers passed
when Mr.. William +. Chandler appeared be-
fore the Potter Committee last June:
Mr. But,cr-I wish you took at these dispatches
and s,y whether OF them the cipher kilograms
which You have seen! A.-Ies, l have seen some Of
them before.
O-You saw them before with the Committee on
Privileges and Elections Al many of these dis
matches a year ago last Winter. when they IN
possession or the senate Committee Privileges and
Elections.
O-Whpn vousvcrc before the House Committee, IN
the Winter Of 1876. Won declined. | recolect 10
answer Guts' ions about these kilograms on the groETd
that those whom you were representing siSud
to you III the relation of client ana counsel.
but that You wonld consult those whom you
rcpresentcd and decpher the tc'egrams if You
auced 10 do So Did YOU consult those whom you were
representing ANA did you monty tEc committee after
wards mat YOU would dcciphcr these kilograms A
consulted my clients immeoatcN. and obtained from
toem 1uI permission to make answer gave no formal
nouncarlon to the committee but meeting j. Dudley
F1eldln the Capitol SAID to him that bad obtained
permission ana was ready to answer further.
o-But in fact you were not called again to dccipher
them? Al was hut within forty-cght hOur. after
I ha5 declined 10 TESTIFY obtained permission from my
clients to do So and have been ever since ready to
swcr.
A number of Mr.. Chambers cipher dis
patches mot tIanslated) were embodied in the
report of the proceedings of the Knott-Ficld
Committee 1S77). Two of these Mr. Chandler
interpreted in the course Of the examination
from which we have inst quoted, and what he
had to say of the rest is this:
The Charman--Iave You looked over the dispatches
contained in Doe. 437 XIIyth Congress. Second SEES
sion being the testimony taken before the KnOltFod
Committed
The WitnessI have and so far they are in cipher
have translated them already, and ran Translate the
rest Of Hcm II req,oired.
And in another part of the examination We
read
Mr.. HmtOn-DO you know whether al the tclr grams
which You sent Florida while you there in
regard to the situation there and all the kilograms
which you received while you We're there. are hcre
The Wilucss-Ihey not. l have additional
kilograms which found after previous cxamula-
tion and which desire submit the committee with
an eS plauatiOn whenever they are read.
ThereupOn the subject seems to have been
dropped. If the Potter Committee has any
desire TO know what was IN Mr.. Chandeliers
DISPATCHES why does it not inquire?