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Show POTTER'S I OM 51 ITT EE. AnoDinr KnllerlKin Kmie-IhiDE Kmie-IhiDE Aboat Tllden aud ! Washington, 23. Upon the assembling as-sembling ot tbe Potter committee today, to-day, Gen. Butler said if be made a statement yesterday to the eflect that the cipher diepatcbes were in his possesion all la.-t euramer, and a! one time he missed them from his desk, be must have brrn drunk oi insane. (Laughter) What be did eay yesterday was to show tbe impossibility im-possibility tbat lbs dispatches printed in tbe I'ribunt came from htm. Hiscock Yes, L had iiood reason to believe tee telegrams weic copied (or ihe Tribune before they came into your hands. Zebina Mose, a cierk in the oflicc of the secretary ol the Sfuiste, and formerly private secretary to Vice-President Vice-President Ferry, remembered the burlesque certificate from Louisiana cailtd the rimitb certificate. It was suppressed without objection. Did not know what became of it; last saw it in official letters; did net remember that there ha t sauce been any application appli-cation for it. The committee then held a secret session. New York, 23. Inquiries and suggestions sug-gestions made by friends of Tildcn tempt is likely to be made Io prove tbe innocence of the cipher telegrams which Potter's committee is invctti-gating. invctti-gating. Pel ton is to be assumed to have kept tbe whole matter absolutely secret from his uncle. The attempted frauds which are practically confessed are (o be charged, either directly or by implication, upon the actors who exchanged the ciphers. It is proposed to relieve Tilden from the suspicion of guilty knowledge, ariaing'from the presumption that the frauds could only have been perpetrated in bis personal interest by creating lbs impression im-pression that tbe co-partners in said frauds acted under the inspiration of perEons wbo expected cabinet and foreign missious, and other profitable results ot Tilden's inauguration. Pel-ton Pel-ton is to be made the principal scapegoat. scape-goat. The mo3t seriousdifficulty with this theory is confessed to rest in the faith that Tilden did not promptly denounce tbe frauds, and only exiled Pelton from his home long after tbe exposures bad satisfied the public at large of their genuine character. Pelton went first to Canada, then 1 returned here, and went to the Gilsey 1 bouse. Recently he took rooms at the Everett, the democratic headquarters head-quarters duiing the presidential campaign, cam-paign, aod in close proximity to Grammcrcy park. |