New-York tribune., 1879-01-29
, STRAIGHTFORWARD STORY.

A STRAIGIlIEOkNAh AMI 'IOhi'
NEITHER OF THE WITNESSES HAS ANYTHING TO
CONCEAL THE DEMOCRATS NERVOUS LIST
rurpr APE DISPATCHES IN RESERVE Of WHICH
THEY KNOW NOTHING.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNsI
w,su1vGTOY JAN 2s.-Tho Potter Committee
found ont to-day how The TRIBUNE obtained some
n the cipher tclegrams. Much to the apparent sur
rrisc of some of the members of that tribunal the
Gentlemen who assisted in getting copies
and orie1nas of those interesting documents INTO
,be hands of the Editor of THE TRIBUNE ana
through him to the experts of the staff OF that news
paper, instead of seeking to conceal that Iact
seemed TO think that they had done a mertorous
act and performed an important public duty ol
which they had n right to be proud. Inc story
told very briefly, from the testimony OF the TWO
witnesses examined to-day General Brady, lhId
Assistant Postmaster-GeneTal, and Mr. William l..
Chandler. is as follows:
After General Brady received the bundle of
cjphers from Congressman Evans he looked them
over. and said that they cipher kilograms re-
lating TO the last Presidential election. Soon
nftervard Mr.. Eugene Hale learned in some
vov that General Brady had these docu-
nents. Mr.. William f. Chandler had made
freGuent complaints because all these tcIe-
grams had as he supposed, been returned to the
Western Union Telegraph Company and destroyed,
and the interesting story, which he was sure they
must tell lost to the world. Mr.. Hale told Mr.
Chandler of the preservation Of some OF these DIS
patches, and the latter called on General Brady at
his Office and went with HIM to his house and ex-
nmined the dispatches. At his suggestion, copies
were made Of those kilograms IN the bundle which
seemed to be most important.
About the time that the Potter Committee was
organized, Mr. Chandler took what he supposed
fIa riona a1s md pf flpm table
General Buffers Office in this city. General But
Ter was not in his Office at the time and Mr. Chand-
le,,s object in leaving them there was to get them
investigated He never told General Butler that
he had left them there; but he suspected that
General Butler had an idea where they came from.
OF the copies that were made. General Brady gave
those relating to Florida to Mr.. Chandler; and he
made other copies and gave them to Mr.. bscock'
before he went to Florida with the subcommittee
last Spring The remaining copies General Brady
kent until last August when, at the request OF MI
chandler he sent them to Mr.. HiscOck, at Syracuse
When Manton Marbles ark and shechinah
letter appeared Mr. Chandler sent to the Editor of
THE TRIBUNE about dozen dispatches, some in
plain English and some in cipher with the sugges-
fion that II might be agreeable TO Mr.. Marble to
read them in print. The publication of these dis
matches was begun by The TRIBUNE in editorial
articles. Subsequently Mr.. Chandler sent TO The
TRIBUNE his Florida copies. After the translations
had been made and the conspiracy OF the coparceners
had been disclosed, General Brady sent anOny-
mously to the Editor of THE TRIBUNE few origin
ais which he had not given to Mr.. Chandler. Since
the meeting of Congress he gave to Mr.. Chandler
what remained in his possession some forty or fifty
originals. which Mr.. Chandler also sent to THE
TRIBUNE.
This is as far rs the story was told, to-day and
II was encumbered with long digressiOns made by
Democratic members Of the committee for the
apparent purpose Of showing, first, that there
was something dishOnOTable III the prcserva-
tion of the dispatches that have been
published and that there were Republican dis
patches that were destroyed with the knowledge OF
the witnesses. They utterly failed to prove either
thing General Brady did testify that lie took out
of the Florida bundle while 1t i'll the Morton
Committee room, q few, dispatches that passed
between Mr. Tyner and himself while he was
in Florida at the request of PRESIDENT Grant
to see fair count; hut he thought that lie
had preserved them and could produce them
He took them simply as relics, and swOre
that there was nothing in them that would make
their publication annoying.
Thus far, it will be seen, the INQUIRY has not
touched the contents of of the cipher tcegrams
II IS not probable that it Will do so tins week Inc
Democrats act as though they were AFRAID That thG
9S PeF that s' there has sv pGt S e e some
shells hidden away somewhere in its mysterious
depths.B If there are any such they want to find
them and remove the fuses beioIe they Degh TO
stir the matter mp too much. 4
Mr.. Tyner will be examined tomorrow, and the
telegraph officials who testified yesterday III regard
TO Hls dispatches have been recalled, me Edltol lt
dispatches which he has TO the committee nj Its
meeting tomorrow.
THE TESTIMONY.
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