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Show U'liy Butler OocNii't Wttnt the Ciphers Iu veMtluied, Witehinglon. IS. Butler makea co secret of hia determination to oppose toe resolution woich rotter will pre sent to the house next Monday, authorizing au-thorizing the committee over which he presides to investigate the cipher conspiracy, and to appropriate money for the expenses of euch inquiry. Butler Bays that it ia alleged in regard to tbo cipher dispatches that tbey disclose dis-close an attempt on the part of Til-deu'a Til-deu'a agents to secure the presidency for their principal by means of bribery. bri-bery. He says the bribery was not successful, and the persons implicated hold no positions under government, therefore it is a matter with which, in hia opinion, cougreaa hna nothio;; to do, aod in the invesiigation of which it has no right to spend the public money. |