The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-13
SHERMAN'S SHOTS
AT TAEAUrHoR OF ARGENT STORY
Pabllshsd By the associated Press, COSssrnIpS
the Testimony Of Custodian Pltn,y Before the
Treasury luv,stIgatIng COmmlttsS-HO
PrOnOunsSs It False and IlaislssL

EEUhVuhtth ~ NAlle anu AAAttNAss
WASHINGTON, February II. Senate
Sherman has made the following state
ment concerning q dispatch recently sen
by an Associated Press agent, concerning
the contingent fund investigation, which
will plainly show the spirit with which
some persons are attempting to preiudict
the public against Mr. Sherman IN thi1
matter:
~ have seen q telegram in the leading
papers Of Ohio OF Friday morning, pur
porting to give the testimony Of Pitney be-
fore the Treasury investigating committee
/ have read the testimony given by him
and there Is not one word OF truth Ia The
telegram; no such testimony was given; NO
such scene occurred, and no letters Of Sena.
tor or Mrs, Sherman were produced as
alluded to. am authorized BY Senator
Hale, who Is mentioned, and to whom ]
showed this dispatch, to make the same
denial. The telegram Is q wholesale lie,
as is the testimony. JonY SHERMAN"
twill be seen from the above how ut
terly false the statements published on
Friday morning last were. Mr.. Sherman
has been busy to-day tracing the authority
Of the article, but has met with no great
success. He proposes, however, 10 push
the matter to the end, and see exactly
where the statement originated. The Press
agent states that during his absence from
duty this week, q reporter was substituted,
and that he furnished the item. Mr.. Sher.
man did not press the Associated Press
agent for the name Of the party, but he
wrote note to Mr.. Pitney telling him that
this matter had now gone far enough; he
(Pitney) must now make denial OF this
statement. II this is not done, the evi.
dence which Mr.. Sherman now has in his
possession aud the statements made by
the Associated Press will be printed side
by side, showing how unfouaded the for
mer were. Certain foes of Mr. Sherman
have been engaged ever since this investi.
CATION began in disseminating exaggerated
reports about the testimony, and init.
mating that the results would be very seri-
ous to Mr.. Sherman, but until now, Mr.
Sherman has been unable to track the
statements to their proper source and ap.
ply the remedy.
The article complained Of contained,
among other lies, the following: "Some OF
the leading Stalwarts have quietly taken Il
great deal Of interest in this investigation,
and great pressure WINS brought 10 bear on
Senator Logan to persuade him to bring
out all the testimony calculated to embar.
russ and injure Senator Sherman. Mr..
Logan, however, resisted this pressure on
the ground that his personal relations with
Sherman had not been very pleasant and
that it was known they were not
friendly and be did not want 10 do any
thing that would give color to the charge
that he was actuaied by personal motives i"
General Logan has been confined to his
room with rheumatism for week past, and
has been unable to see visitors. Your cor
respondent found him tonight stretched
out on sofa in his apartments on Twelfth
street; and when this article was read to
him General Logan said;
81 have been unable to attend the meet
ings Of the Committee for the past week
on account OF my lameness; and as to what
Pitney stated there, l, OF course, do not
know. 1cau say this, however, II the re-
mainder OF the dispatch alluded to is as
false MS this paragraph, there is not word
Of truth In it, As 10 any Stalwart, or any
body else, having brought any pressure to,
bear on me to bring out the evidence, that
is simply lie. There has been no one on
that errand, or any other concerning this
matter, except some local reporters, who
have asked me to make public the evidence
with the hope possibly Of creating sensa.
ton, and have positively refused to do
So"
"tfow about the other statement, sena.
tor, concerning, your personal relations
''That is equally false; Mr.. Sherman and
! have always been strong personal friends
We may have had some political differ
ences, but l am sure that they never infln-
enced or prejudiced my opinion OF Mr..
Sherman's personal qualities, and I am
sure that | never madeany such statement
us referred to. The whole thing is false as
far as am concerned"
elias there been much interest taken in
the investigation, Senator 2"
Less thln in any was ever connected
with. There haye been inquiries about it,
but no one seems to care anything about
it, and, altogether, 1t has been tame in the
extreme"
The greatest outrage in this matter is the
fact that Mrs. sherman's name was dragged
into it In many OF the papers this fact
was eoas9scaoasly he&&};ned. The testi.
mony shows that Mrs. Sherman knew
nothing about the matter, and the fact that
her name was mentioned, only proves how
personally spiteiul the author was.