Year: 1876

gross breach OF confidence 90 make public And yet
the fact Is known here that first furnished for
publication by one OF General Babcock's counsel


when il appeared it seemed II there doubt
but General Brisow would at leave the Cabinet
Il was SO apparent that the purpose to cripple hin
In the further prosecution OF the whskey that
his first impulse resign for the that the
Dyer letter OF Perrepont showed unmistakable dis
position take away nom him that control OF these
whiskey cases which the law plainly imposed upon
him This however, was promptly disclaimed, and
the President gave indication that a resignation
from him was desired.


AMER the discussions began to which this letter re-
gardng nformers gave rise the relations Of the Pres
and his Secretary became those OF an armed neu
trality. The Secretary felt the GOODNESS and the
noyances 10 which he subjected keenly; but he did
not feel, in view OF the great responsibility resting
upon him to push his war against thieves vigor
ously and in the interests OF the people and OF honest
government that he could justify himself in abandoning
hework unless the President should give him to un-
derstand in language admitting OF mistake that he
desired resignation unless by direct act OF
the President IL made perfectly clear that the in
entiou Of the act is to cripple him in the pending
prosecutions


Such an act would have been the removal OF Solicitor
Wilson. This move urged upon the President by





pretty well founded belief it s-that General Brstow
would in such an event promptly tender his resigna-
ton All this has changed. The country has
spoken, and the politicians brushed aside. The
President seems at the last moment TO have the
pitfall toward which he was being led by who
cared neither for him for the republican party but
who hoped only to save themselves at his expense.


On the whole it is here lelt to be well that General
Babcock was not convicted Few people doubt that
his relations with the political leaders OF the whiskey
Ring OF character too intimate and too long
tnued for his fair fame and the real sentiment about
him appears the general conclusion that he will not
demand a military court OF inquiry before which all
documents and evidence throwing doubt upon him
would have to be brought and where he would have to
explain many things which the civil court excluded.
He win, is understood, leave the White House, and
IL he to the far West he may outve the present
misfortune


The Attorney General WILL II is said, send in to tho
House on Monday his answer to the resolution asking
him by what authority he wrote the Dyer letter. But
the House will rest there IL will ask him other
questions-for instance, by what authority he de-
manded OF Mr.. Dyer tho proofs against Babcock be-
foro thoy should be submitted to the Grand Jury In
St Louis by what authority he required the evidence
against Babcock be transferred from the civil
St. Louis to the military court at Chicago and,
further the House will II is believed inquire into the
effect which the Dyer letter had upon the prosecutions
in the West Indeed, IL is intended to demand all the
papers of every kind from the Treasury, the War
Department and the Attorney Generals office, relating
the whiskey Investigations and prosecutions for
felt here that mystery has lasted long and that
light must be thrown upon all these matters.