New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-07

from or to particular points, further desgna
tion of the date, sender, receiver. or contents
Committee In due time returned ~ the telegraph
company. Those received by tho Morton Committee,
both the specified lot Of 241 oregon dispatches and the
remaining lot Of 29.275 undesignated dispatches, re-
NAMED in custody Of that committee not open to
general or careless inspection, but, on the con
trary. kept close and under guard until the
18th day Of March. 1877. when the telegraph
cover the same. applied through Mr. whitney TO the
officers OF the committee and received back the trunk
mttee locked together with key Of toe same, ac-
comp ued the statement that these were all the dis
patches which had been delivered by the company TO
That committed This trunk with the dispatches thus
believed to he Enclosed. was forwarded tn New-fOrk'
and due tme under the regulations OF the company,
was opened, and he dispatches therein contained oe-
strOyed by burning ,
that there had been returned u them all the dis
patches whic1 they had delivered 10 the Morton Com
dis patches had been abstracrd while they in the
custody OF thar committee. o. these about 700 were as
ward Bullock OF Indiana wlo had been the messenger
TO that committee and protege Of Its chairman. Mr.
Morton.
Some Of the originals thus assorted by Bullock out OF
the whole lot Of 90 75 kilograms, Mr. Brady forwarded
anon ymOusy to TUE TRIBUNE at time wnen III was
claimed that Journal mad no original tseeialnS me
rest OF the originals Brady gave Mr. Chandler. VINO let
this committee, his absence, without acquainilng
him from whom they and in whose possession tho
THE TRIBUNE procured the copies OF dispatches
which had thus obtained to be translated by MI Has
work they exhibited very great capacity, ana nave
shown how almost any cipher could be translated II
enough OF Il could he obtained 20 work upon.
We nave caused the dispatches, so far AS they we're IN
cipher to be puOtohographed and the Others relating
IN any way the election TO be printed and report the
herewith. .
We have also caused the dispatches to betransated by
Professor :. Holden or the Naval OD.trNaUor',
and bis report herewith. although or course ne
largely aided from the prior trdnsatons MADE oy
The TRIBUNE staff, which, however from mistakes IN
the copies other oduses, contained some errors.
The report then goes on TO speak Of the necessity
for cipher dispatches. the Republican kilograms,
etc. of which part of the report the following para
graphs have not yet been printed:
From the nature OF the transmission OF cOmmunica.
by telegraph 1t Is unavoidable that whaI is sent
must be known by various persons intermediate the
sender The resort 10 cipher IN such ds
patches has Therefore become necessity for business
aud STATE purposes all the world This would form
protect on those concerned II dispatches renamed
nVOdte Ii is lot for to suggest whether any lrgs-
being putlOned oeing exposed through tue eess
ness Partially aithlessness OF telegraph employees
while M the same ilme maintaining me pubic interest
and providing for the production OF dispatches In proper
eases
While the dispatches remained in the Senate Commit
tee, the oregon dispatches were translated under me
direction Senator Mitchell The Committee OF Priv
eges aud Elections the House were permitted ac-
cess to these dispatches the Sd OF March, and found
certain dispatches I'm connection with the FLORIDA ana
South Carolina election plbllshed in an appendix TO
a substitution OF oranges for Florida ana " COT
ton for South Oiina and " warm Tor favorable
and cold" FOR hostile, or the Ike, when required ~
tie effort comprehend. and which Nc. Chandler STYLES
such a feebe and worthless cipher almost anybody
can tell what it means" (P 527) The committee con-
ductng the examination do not seem To have observed
might be either because they had been already abb
stracted. or from inadverence.