The Grant-badeau Controversy

New York, April 2.- Gen. Badeau sent another statement to the press Saturday night with regard to the eontroversy betweeu himself and Col. Grant over the "Memoirs" of the late Gen. Grant. The statement is addressed "To the American P eo p Ie. " He charges Col Grant with originating the public dispute over the book, ! and characterizes hisl last statement to the press as vulgar, personal, and irrelevant, and declares it was made to distract attention from the points at issue. He submits that there are only two questions üi volved, to-wit: "Is (Jen. Grant bound by bis written agreement, and is be [Badeau] warranted in resorting to tbe courts to enforce it?" He declares that Gen. Grant made a written agreement to pay hun $10,000, and that because he [Badeau] subsequently asked to have the bargain modified, the Grant family assert they are not bound to fulflll the original contract. The Grant family have made him several offers, the highest being $8,000, and that was coupled with conditions that he could not agree to. His relations with Gen. Grant were of tbe happiest up to within two montüs of the general's death, and nnothing he [Badeau] has ever said relating to Gen. Grant will he ever unsay. Gen. Badeau declares that Gen. Grant could not have written the letter of May 5, 1885, concerning Badeau's compensation for bis work on tbe momoirs, or if he did he waa not in his right mind. Col. Grant's whole position depends on the argument that his father shuffled, equivocated and denied hl own act, backed out of a bargain ; while hi [Badeau's] position is that the general was incapable of falsehood, fraud and hypocricy. He charges Col. Grant with trying to screen himself by dragging his father in the mire. Referring to the pending suit, Gen. Badeau says when the case comes up the work he did on the book will be f ully proven; that the manuscripts will be found covered with his corrections, alteration and revisión : that the letter of May 5, 18S5, with the original agreement, will l produced and their intolerable inconsistency shown.