New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-08
RENEWING TIE ATTACK ON MURRAY.
REPRESENTATIVE WHITE not sN1sFIED-A SAVAGE
LETTER FROM A. NJ GIBSON.


LETTER FROM A. NJ. GIBSON
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Rcprcscntativc John
n White OF Kentucky has written 70 the Springer Com
mittce relative to the charges made by him against Gov
Murray. suggesting list OF persons who should he
called a. Witnesses il any doubt exists to the truth of
the charges Among the given are those OF Com
missioner Evans and ex-Attomey General TAFT.
A. NJ. Gibson, has also written 10 Chairman Springer
relative 10 Governor Murays testimony lie says: The
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, who made grave
charges against Murray. invited 10 appear before
your committee and give his testimony hut declined Tor
personal and political reasons and was excused
Your committee swallowed the intocIabc deal Of sack
l.lled ont by this modern Fasia1 Murray and gfaci-
ousy accepted the modcum OF explanation he vouch-
safed about the charges against him complete vindi
cation II was voted that you take no moro testimony
The mutaiou Of the records Of the Department OF JUS
tioe. the attempted suppression OF me lnools o, %oa
misconduct the abstraction OF an important piece OF
documentary evidence. after II had come into the posses
sion Of your committee; the political tllnble rigging by
which all those things were accomplished are matters
about which You Will not waste Your NaIuaoie lhe
Nero Gddled while Rome burned His tMurrays 81 organ
in Salt Lake City, Mr.. Chairman, termed you JACK
Mormon whatever that may mean, aud his mphih-pcres
during a recent visit Utah entered into conspiracy
with the Mormon leaders Ia blackcn and deame his lily
Monons 10 send abroad dcfamatOry dispatches concern
ing the past official record of tins champion gentle OF
morals In salt Lake Ciy. Win l0.ty garganluan
rhetoric he describes bird Of III omen with an
aeolan attachment II yonT committee viii exercise tne
legal attachment provided by the House Oi RepleSr
Ii, es and permit examine witnesses, viii unher-
take 10 prove to your entire satisfaction that while
marshal OF Kentucky. Eli H. Murray Systematically de
fraudcd the Government by charging Illegal fees; mat
HIS emoulnent returns invariably crooked. ana
that he ecaucd uciicd disgrace aud punishment nearly
Of dit years ago nv political tlimble-riQgiug
viii undertake also TO prove that he has prosttnted
his positiou "a Governor UTAH to further the schemes
Of rinc of public piundeer that he and the mrn whose
snhseryient tool he H. cxerted al their influence Official
and otherwise to bring the Edmunds law into disropne
and embarTass the commissioners appointed 10 carry
into effect its provisions. will further undertake 10
prove his lud their purpose was 10 make mat law
failure in order they might procure the PASSAGE OF on
act hv Congress DISTINGUISHING The people OF Itah ana
Vc.ting in their hands the entire machinery o the c
tory so that they might Cypress and pnnder a. men
sweet Will. Will prove beyond PcIadNmiule tlht nc
has lent Of his Governor To bolster al
most every description OF sWindug corporations organ
lied for the purpose OF fleeing the public. aud putting
money in the pockets OF the projectors