Ben Butler's Bricks

[Washington Cor. CbicoKo Tini.'H.] Ono oí the most remarkable chaptera of insidc political history conuected with the Presidential cottut iurestigation has beon rclated to the Timen eotj respondent by a gentleman visiting in tilia city. It is a full cxplunution of how were obtained the dinpatehes wnicn the New York Tribune has been gmtUsuing iu small installments froin day to day, showing Tildon's alleged attempt to manipúlate the voto of Oregon. Tho gentleman referred to above has accurate and completo Information concerning the publicíition of these ecret dispateb.es, fínd he iso saya thíít thc publieation of this lot is tfnír t small part oí. the story to come. ín dísniwing the dispatches and publishüd by the Tribune, the gentleman, whois a Ucttioerftt, say that nothing will be shown by thc Democratie dispatehes published beyolul the fct that money was legitimately nsed bj' the Tilden people. Evey olie oí the Tribune djspatehea published littü tfcttn trOnslated, nnd this informant claims that they Will prove only that $0,200 was expended by the Democratie National Committoe in Oregon, $3,000 being paid to a firm of Oregon lawyefS Who controlled the Portland j Oregonitín, $3,000 to Cronin for his expenses in coming on to Washington, j and $20tf tó iby thc expenses of the Democratie electoTS ín Oregon to and from their place of meeting. He says thftt there was no other expendittito of any' "Itwnctpr whntever. Therü was no atfWjfc to jmrehase any electors. The mdfl Pxbriek, who : was sent oiit as an agflnt of the Tildón people, proved to be au irreclfiimftble idiot. His dispatch that an elector mntít be bought was enough to show tíe fféftt mÍHtake that was made in seïiding this jftbberin, impudent m;'Ln npVm so delicate a tnuwion where commoii pen#6 itad derent rcerve werp at ïeast csse1itÍMl It is elaimed tiniC nio' f fhe dispiïtcijes eaptured wili bííOW tht any j ment was given to titi röpösition of I Patrick's. Another étiaènGë ú the idiocy of this man Patrick is cíttñi ifl the mt bt ho nsed a cipher he liad fonnetly emplöj-'öd Mi firm of ness men of Detroit, wíio ffCTfi ble most at once to translate Patrick's CrfiZy mesSftgín. The dispatehes that have ' been pubïislifld came froiii Ben Butler, ' and he exchrtiignd them to his political i ixlTtatSge with the paper that published them, wnilo kd, t the sume time, got a further ])rice frófll John Bhefüiau for allowing these dispatehes tö be }mblished in a partisan organ. How Ben Bntler obtaiuod them, and the small arsenal of dispatehes yet unpublished j in Butler's possession, to be produced later, is thtis giuphically related by the I pentlemftn intervicwed. Said he : " ïöü ieWeinber tvlifti Morrison's I mittee was Or'gSniüwt in 1876, nnd sent to New Orleans to investígate) how the ! vote of tho State of Louisianft was j len, that the Senate hastened to power Mtff,on's Conimittee on j ileges and Elecéiöft io also make an j vestigation to counteract áiiythüig daniaging in the disclosvires that might be j obtained by Col. Morrison. : f'Sön tmived iu Now Orleans he served a subpoeníí xipon the local officers of the Western Union Telegrnph Company to produce all dispatehes received and sent bearing apon the election. The local managers refused without the consent j of those higlier in authority. The j iéï was referred to Mr. Orton, then ! ír'ftrtdtnt 'í the Western Union graph Comjjaüyi nl he, to make delny, i said that he could nöt givn up the dispatehes without referring the subject to the Executive Committee. This gave the Senate committee time to serve its Mllrjifonn, ftlso calling for the same class j of dispat?h. MöriOri hiraself bod ent a great many' diepatdhes when he was in San Francisco ÍOtíkiog ftíter matters pon the Pacific coast, lilld Iwi tas very anxLous that they should not fftll into the bands of the Democrats. It Vía for this reason that he stopped issuing sub[)O3nas. Orton came over to ; ton and, it is nnderstood, had a ; iotion with the Eepublican leaders. At my rflto, when the Executive Committee j deeidtíd w give up the dispatches, untó protest, they were shipped in a fcrunk to the Senate committee instead of to the Detriócratic conimittee, who were entitled to theltt first by right of prior subpccna. I do pot ente to charge that Orton had an understandíng with the Republiean leaders to send them these diRpatches first. At any rate, the dispatches were as I have said. The Republiean members of .the Senate eommíttee sorted over the dispatches and took out all that had been sent and rocoived by their party leaders. They also sorted out earefulfy the Democratie dispatohes. Of course, in the great maan of dispatches, filling alargetrunk, wero many unimportant ones from nobodiesandcontainingnothingneïv. ÏLe Democratie members of Morrison's coinmittee nominally had access to these dispatehes, hut they never saw any of Í the Republiean dispatches so carefully taken out by Morton. Now, to gallop ! ahead with the storj-, when the dispatchèa canie to go back to the Western TJnion Tclegraph Company it is a faet tliat only the unimportant ones were ! turned. All of the disjiatehes from and to the Democratie and Kepublicau leaders were retained, makiug a compact bundie nearly two feet square. Whether the telegraph eompany ever noticed tliis or not I eannot say - at least I have no knowledge of their making any j plaint or attempting to recover them Now there comes tho most important and highly interesting part of the story. Two hours after the trunk was reshipped to New York the bundie containing all ihe important dispatches mysterionsly disapnenréd frcim the Senate committee room, and it has been since found that it was conveyed to Butler's private office and placod upon his desk. Tliis mysterious transfer, it is claimed, was witliout any knowledge of Butler, and is surmised to have been the work of some mischief-loving person who doeired to urnish Butler with a hatful of bncks. Sutler, like most men, was not disposed ;o look a gift horse in the mouth, and vas quite content to have these imijorivnt doeuments withont being too ]i:irK'ular from whence they came. They oro marks of authenticity upon their ace. Later in the session it camo to the tnowledge of John Sherman that Butler ïad these dispatches. This occasioned ?reat demoralization in the Kepublican anks, as itwasnotknownjustwhatshoot Jutler would tako. After some talk with 3utler, he allayed somo of the distrust ii him by promising to give out the )emocratic dispatches as they were for , jublication, but he drove a sharp barain. He was then an aspirant for the jrovernorship of Massachusetts and the ■residency. He regarded John nan as tho most vital and powerful lement in the administration. He j hereiore made Sherman agree uot to íight. liim wbiolicver coiijse he (Butler) might take politioolly. This Sherman has strictly observed. In a quiet way Butler's hóld upon the treasury management in MassaehuKetts has heen verystrong. Butlor's compact with tho New York Tribune, the hiird-nwucx organ of the administraron, was that if he gave the dispútelas to it it should not abuse him in it editorials during the politioal campaign. This, (.. been strietly pböerved by Mr. Whiteluw Reitl, as eau be testified to by ányone who has taken the trouble to roaa the Tribune. Now, as to the dispatclics in Butler's himd, he does not care to drive any bargain with them, but will put them in as a closing ehapter of Potters investigation. It will make u ohaptei thftt will prove startling to even the most hardened. Tlieso disjjatches, in the first place, will convict some of the visiting ststesmeu of downright jierjurv, for it will bo rpmembnved that all of the visiting statesmen have nworn that they did not know óae thing about the wort of the Eetimiing Boarrl in Lotilsiana until the remilt was declared. Xow, these dispatchea shoTr tliat every act and step of the Retuniing Board in its perjtrrd' track of crimi was known at the instant of its aceomplishment, and telegraphed to Gov.. Noyes iu Florida every day by these vigiting statosmen. Dispatches in their own handwriting show thé preatest intimacy and exact knowledge of et-ery detail' of the most gigantic crime oí the centtif J, More than this, all of the dfittriift of the coaspiièèf in Boath Carolina, Florida, and Lonisian will be shown by these dispatches. Talk about the revelations in the Democratie dispatches ! Sift them to the tittei most, and you will only iind money sent to pay exi)enses actually ineurred in legitímate work. When Butler's second iust.'illini'iit of dispatches comes in, the revelations will be so astounding that there will no ' longer be vny tallv about the ones the Tribune is publishing. Of course, Butler wants to (jet uil Éhfl good he can out of bis Trihunfí bargain : so it is possible this seeond batch will not le published until the camjiüign ik iu ar an end."