National Republican., 1884-04-08
KICKING BACK.
Representative White Tavors the Springer
Committee with a Communication.
MIR. Gibson Also Plungcs His Fnngs into
the Flesh OF Gov. Murray.

Representative John d. White has written
the following letter to Mr.. Springer relative
to the recent testimony of Gov. Murray:
Having learned that Mr.. Justice Harlan
and Mr.. Speaker Carlisle have testified be-
sore your committee In behalf of Gov. Muir
ray, and that with their testimony, in con-
nOction with Gov Murrays own statement,
your committee proposed to close the investi-
CATION concerning the expenditures in Ken.
lucky during Gov Murray's marshalship for
that state; and Furthermore, having learned
from yourself that the testimony of Gov.
Murray In his own behalf controverted
statements made by mo when sum-
honed before your committee; therefore
l respectfully suggest, If there remains any
doubt in tho minds of the mcmbcrs of the
committee on expenditures in the department
OF justice as TO the fact that there was col
lusion between G.. G. Wharton and Eli II.
Murray, late United States district attorney
and marshal for tho state of Kentucky,
through q corrupt and oppressive system Of
their own choosing, by which numerous
prosecutions were instituted for tho most
trivial violations Of law, the arrested parties
being taken unnecessarily long distances and
subjected to great Inconvenience and expense
in order to make costs against tho United
States and increase the fees Of the officers,
thaty summon the following-named persons
to testify before your committee: Samuel
Q. Craig, clerk Of the United States court
Louisville, KY; Col. w. A. Bullitt, Col. John
III. Ward, Samuel Mckee, Walter Evans, A.
j. Anxier, United States marshal for Ken
tucky, Louisville, KY; G. b. Jarvis, United
states commissioner, London, KY; A. II.
Wood, United States commissioner, Mt. Ster-
ling KY; IL. +. Finley, judge of the fifteenth
judicial district Kentucky, Williamsburg,
KY, and Hon. Alphonso Taft ex-attorney
general, through whom Wharton was removed
and Murray permitted to resign on account of
the investigation Of their official conduct by
&. X. Chase"
The letter will be laid before tho full COM
mittee at its meeting to-day.
A. NJ. Gibson has also written letter to
Chairman Springer relative to Gov. Muir
rays testimony. The epistle is boiling over
with venom and hate. Referring to Gov.
Murray's testimony on Friday, he says:
Your committee swallowed tho intolerable
deal of sack ladled out by this modern Fall
staff, and graciously accepted the modicum of
explanation he vouchsafed about tho charges
against him as complete vindication. 1t was
voted that you take no more testimony. The
mutilation of the records of the department
of justice the attempted suppression Of the
proofs of official misconduct, the abstraction
of an important pioce of documentary owl
dence after it had come into the possession of
your committee the political thimbe- rigging
by which all these things were accom- plished,
are matters about which you will not waste
your valuable time. Nero Gddled while Rome
burned"
Mr. Gibson, referring again to Gov. MUIR
ray says: His organ in Salt Lake City, Mr..
Chairman, termed you a Jack Mormon
whatever that may mean, and his mouth
pieces here proclaim that you were bought
by Mormon gold, and during recent visit
TO Utah ente red into a conspiracy with the
Mormon leaders to blacken aud defame his
lily.white character. am accused of being
paid by the Mormons to send abroad defama-
tory dispatches concerning the past official
record Of this champion GENTLE of morals in
Salt Lake City. With lofty Garagantuan
rhetoric. he describes mo as bird of ill
omen, with an Eolian attachment ;
If your committee will exercise the legal
attachment provided by the house of repre-
sentatives, and permit me to examine wit
nesses will undertake to prove to your en-
tire satisfaction that while marshal of Ken
tucky, Ell III. Murray systematically de-
frauded the government by charging illegal
fees; that his emolumont returns were In
variably crooked and that he escaped
merited disgrace and punishment nearly
eight years ago by political thimblerigging.
l will undertake also to prove that he
has prostituted his position as governor OF
Utah to further the schemes of n ring OF
public plunderers; that he and the men
whose subservient tool he is oxorted all their
influence, official and otherwise to bring the
Edmunds law into disrepute and to embarrass
the commissioners appointed to carry into
effect its provisions l will further under.
take to prove that his and their purpose was
to make that law q failure in order that they
might procure the passage of an act by con
gress disfranchising the people of Utah and
vesting in their hands tho entire machinery
of the territory. so that they might oppross
and plumber at their sweet will. will prove
beyond peradventure that he has lent tho use
Df hil nq tn hnlatar nj ct
every description of swindling corporations
organized for the purpose of fleeing the pub
lie and putting money IN tho pockets of the
projectors"