, 1879-02-10


torest Of commerce.
MR. T1LDER AND HIS "CoPARCENERs."
Mr.. TupES md hin personal rctiauo have
now given Tho ruLliu the benefit Of their
mcngro rccollectinns about cipher dispatches.
Defective memory seems to 10 tho chief
mental characteristic Of T1LpEN and all who
wero attached to him. When the cipher
correspondence was first exposed, nono OF
theso people know anything about it. T11r
DEN md MARBLE camo ont with indignant
denials; SMITH WEED and WooLIEx wcro
interviewed. anu sa;d they knew scarcely any
thing about tho matter; PgLros disdatnod
to talk nbont the nfEair at all, md took trip
to Canada, which IL becoming famous o. q
winter resort for nil classes that find tho IT,
risliotion OF tho United States Government
growing too hot for them. Tho tartly and
unyilling investigation Of tho porrER Com
,istoc, including thu Intervention Of M oath,
seems to l,nvo stimulated tho memory Of
these cirhercrs to some oxtent, bnt they
still forget all except those things which
hnve been traced to them 10 Enthusiastically
TINT they tlnrs not dony their accuracy. As
a taattcr 1f fact, liowsvor, tic memory Of
nil tho corarconcra is. 30 conspicuously Ind
t1lat their testimony IN not entitled to mich
credit In wlateyor they deny; tie strong
probability is shnt evory important denial /.
tho ro,ult Of their having forgotten the par.
tonlar matter In issue.
Mr.. rIInES's direct Jeniala wcro as yo1n-
minoua anil onphalio IA carefully pzoparsd
statement could make them, but those
brought ont under tho cross.gxaluination
were limo and hafting. The general assor-
tion TINT le mover know nnything about the
cipher dispatches from anybody lal to To
modified by the admission that Mr.. Coorrn,
member Of tho National Democratic Com.
mittoo, had casually mentioned tue matter,
but that hc ('r1IpEs) did not take tho trou-
bic to iutniro into tho letaila IIo was also
constrained to admit TINT no took occasion
IN rubnko bin nephew pxtToS when tho lat
Ter returned from his trip to Baltimore.
whero hc ha1 goua to moot WEED, md tint
ilsis reprosai grow out of rELroS's connec-
ton with tho cipher business about which
,!r. 11LDrN hasl previously declared that ho
knew nothing whatever, His memory being
further rricksl up by Alr. Congressman
NEEp'H rolutetl auestioue, Mr.. TtLnKx fur
thcr recolecscd that to Ind rcen dispatcl,
from AIAHnLE urging tint somebody bo sent
| 10 Florida who could be trusted for at least
n week, k,--s''c'l dispatch buing ono Of the
| cipher saTics, Thexe inatrrial notifications
| Of the swoepiug donials will, which Air. Tst.-
rxs first started nut naturally suggest rar.
| al'1.rnso Of the prevailing morality on "I(sr
Majsssy's Ship rinsfore," which nnuy be
stated rs follows:
Gommltftt--" lid yon aver hnsn any information
shout these cipher dl'pascnca'"
| .HF. TifIfH--* NJ"
| t;nuuittrt =" Scvcr!'
| Hr. HtftH-.: Seycr"
7 t'on,ntfftt-''Wta ncvers"
.Hr. 1,i,irR-'' Wult, hardly evcr."'
Whilo Mr.. TlLpEs WAS littlo shaky al,ouI
ttIa cipher dispatches, lie lid mt hesitate tc
tako solemn oNtl, TINT ll,B yotes Of I.o,liaf
ana a,ssl F!prltla Ind leen bought by tho lle
pnl,lieans. In hwpre to thiH very iu,prca
stycly. uuA will, an mir of conviction whicl
inslirnte.l lnrsonnl knowledge. Hut, ,li,fur
tunatcly fur atr. ItLpEs. this emphatic assc.
tion brought unt moro cross-exnInlnatiol,
md ha wns again compelled 10 modify an4
| sxrlain. 'I!.e onty wassna. l,s lad for sAs
la'si.,yo statement under oat1 was s,.lac
sl'!put newspaper gossip. IIe c1.&leayorctl Il
rest it upon Judgs AIcLIx's evidence bcfor
tle Po1rER COMMITTEES, but this support wa
knocked from under hiu. hy the fact {wl.rl
tho Democratic members OF tho Committe
dill uut traycrse) that MvL1s's Testimony 4l.'
not Mlln,t. but On tile cuntfnry (1el,irt]. tha