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Show THE CirilEUS. ' Weed Eielore lUe Committee. I Uo i'ranNlatev I lie Jis:)ii(elien aud Eiuucruii'H 'E'llueu. New York, 5. A dispatch was 'ahfjKU to Weed, dated November "20.li, aidrestd to General J. B. Gordon of Columbia. The translation is aa follow: ''Mutters arranged by returning board agent. Inform Haskell Has-kell rt'iu tek-grupn uuv." Witness said he never sent any tjurh U-hgram. The T'-ibune did not lay positive diiiin U tbe acciirdcy uf Ibeir cipher miSiKgS- Ctinirman On tbe same date there waa iHiotl'AT telegram Bent to the aauvq ptaco aod Jrom the sua;o persons per-sons reading, bh translated: "Have court bold ou to ( leciuri-1 voles until fixed or failure. May be a little de lay." Witness sitd be knew nothing about Ibis telegram. 'Ihe translation of telegram iSo. 25 was men read by 'witness, as .fullowa : " Cjlumbia, November 2G. iieory Havemeyor, New York: Majority of hoard have bjen secured. Cost is 8U,Ui!0. to be svnt aa follows: One parcel of$ti3p000, i oau of &10.UU0 and one of o.UU0, all I to he $oU0 or $1,000 bills; notes to be deposited as parties accept and given up upou tho vute of the Laud of Hampton i.e. stale of Bomb Carolina) being given to Tildeu's friends. The three pickets should u3 BL-ht without inscription and to-night, unless yuu should receive re-ceive a telegram from me counter-mandir counter-mandir g. Shall try lo secure everything every-thing by tlie plan ol deport. Fiieuds of On amber In in nd 'Havana' are hero in force, and I ftar their money aud careful walebingnnd intimidation ol the buard. Fur Gjd's sako let it yo il you can. sale in Florida or 'Africa.' Do this at once and have csh ready to reach Baltimore Snudny uight, Telegraph decidedly whetber it will bo done signed "W." Weul said that bo could not tell what parts ot this translation woro correct auel what were not. From his recollection of tbe events aa tbey occurred, he thought tho trauslaliuu was substantially correct, cor-rect, tnuugh hid memory waa that the BUtn named was tjGO.OOO instead ol $80,000; be thought that one sentence should read "For God's aako let it go it you can be eafB iu Florida or Africa," ' without any poriod after tbo word "can." His idea was that the thing should not bo, done if it could ho avoided. He was wholly unable lo recollect lbe meaning mean-ing of any particular word in the cipher, as the meaning was purely arbitrary. j Chairman Look at telegram No, 29 U reads: "Have court hold on lo electoral voles until fised or failure fail-ure May bo little delay." Ia that you re? Witness It purports to be mine, but by no means conveys the idea I had intended. Chairman Here is another from Columbia, dated November 21st. It is addressed to the Everett house and reads: "Bope answered you last night; send for it Barnum'a; we think Balh court will close to morrow and put Maple's majority in tho house and probably acquire Cuba electors. (Signed) Spain," Q. Do you recollect having received re-ceived thia telegram. A. I never received any such communication; com-munication; besides I have no idea whatever who Pope ia. Q. Are any of your diapalcheB Bigned ''Mead?" A. Yea, air; there is one containing forty words. Witness Wit-ness then took a file of telegrams and by the direction of tbo chairman placed an envelope over eaim ono be bad Bent. Chairman Lok at No. 17, dated Columbia, Kovembar 16tb. Tbo translation rcrvJs: "Henry Have-meyer Have-meyer Am confident that Florida is' the dtato where tho greatest exortion . ' should he made. Have your man with full puwer; chances are not one in ' in twenty here, but Dm working for that one. Chamberlain, Kellogg and Stearns are in cio?o communication and iu concert. The authority I lelegraphed for Ibis morning all to bo 1 conditional on success." Witness I have to repeat what I havo alre&dy Bald. I cannot recognize recog-nize these dispatches aa being the proper translation or interpretation of ', the literal meaning. Q. Who is this man Solomon with whom you propoee to treat as to tbe ' purchase ol the canvassing board. ' A. He waB a large erocer there and has a great deal of influence there. Q. By whom were you introduced ', to bim? A. I cannot now remember. remem-ber. It waa generally known who I was, and I tuppose be muat have ad-' ad-' dreesed me without waiting for a formal introduction. I was not long 3 there until I found that Dunn and Solomon were in close coulerence. I 1 saw by Solomon tbat he was anxious 1 that the act should be consummated, as the othera were pressing bim hard. Q. What do you mean, money or ofTicet? A. My impression ia that he meant both. The manner in which he proposed lo receive tue money Batislitd mo tbat he meai.t business, klisiemarks, aa near as I can remember, were that the money should cot be paid over until tho goods were delivered. ! Springer Can you give your time ol arrival at Baltimore? A. I cannot can-not remember just now. Q. Did you think tbey meant business when they proposed to Bill out? A. I cerlaioly did. In tbe course of further examination tbe witness said tbe democrats in South Carolina were poor and needed money for piinting, procuring witnesses, wit-nesses, etc., in legal proceedings. They asked him to get tho national committee to help them, and he ma(Je an unsuccessful eflort in that direction. The dispatches sent to him from Columbia, Binned Pope, asking for $3,030, hud no reference to this matter and hud no connection connec-tion whatever with buying any member ot tne legislature or any one eleo lie thought tbe $5,000 was a mistake, as the sum waa more likely to have been $1,000. That laat dispatch relerred lo by witnosa waa translated aa follows: " Columbia, November 20. Smith Weed, care of King, Everett house: Send $5,000 immediately to Haskell. February 6. Expect to get majority of bouao aod senate. With $5,000 can make tho majority democratic. Thia will make court all right, Electoral canvass postponed. Will remain in court aud make elector vote democratic." Weed said he, "Pops" never bad anything to do with a plot, as bad been alleged by the TrtOunt, to buy four members of the South Carolina legislature for $20,000 and having thus obtained control ot the state government to put tbe Hayes electors in jail and lock them up in separate cells until the dny for casting tbe electoral voles bad passed. Tbe lollowing translation of a cipher dispatch sent by him was then submitted to the witness, the date and addreis being tbe eamn as those of the'for'mer dispatch: "Telegram "Tele-gram received too late to answer hut uieht. Don't quite understand. D.i ynu want me to go to nome of Sleirn's (Fiorida). B"ird late Uat night demanded $75,000 for giving us two or three electors. Tbe inter--frier will wa:.t somelhinc resides, think $10,000; What shall I do? Oct uo aid from Hampton party, who, to eBy the least, are indiUtrent." Weed Enid that the tenor of tbisj dispatch was in accordance with tbe . evt-uts which occurred. Tho inter-coder inter-coder mentioned was Hardy Solomon. The reference to tbo Hampton parly accorded with tbo impression of many pereuna at that lime tbat Hampton and his trier.ds cared much more abcut tbe state ticket tiiau tho voU lor the president. Too dispatch to Genera! Gordon already mentioned a-t mistranslated Raseolirely lnnlereuce to court ma' ten1. A numberof telegrams were rer.d, many of which tbe witncs bad no recollection of and the cipher wo;ds in some ho cuul I not ixplaiu. Witusis to iSidirma-M Ttui propo ritimi as to itm buying out id the returning re-turning beard wus submitted to Mr. Haveineyir. and at tiret 1 wus led to believe tbat the money nojld be sent to me. However, outside n' ono per-, sun 1 do not thiuk I mentioued the ; matter to a uingle soul. j To Mr. Keed A lew days bo fore tho election 1 camo on to New York and received a telegram, from whom cannot fctiite, requeuing me lo go to South Carolina. I called into tbo Everett bouse and there I yol my cipher Q. Who gave it to you? A I really ioigtt, but my impression is that it was Pel (cm. I il, Follon was the secretary of the j national democratic committee, wus' he not? A He was. O; Then you got it from him? j A. I suppose so, but can not eay I positively. Ah to lbe correct ue as of tho Tribune ciphers, 1 cauuot give on uuawer, for the reason that I have not read them. Mr. R.-jed Did you aupposo Mr. Pelton could raiee the $30,000 required? re-quired? A. I did. know that the executive committee ol the national democratic party would havo given the money if asked for. I subsequently subse-quently met Pulton iu Baltimore, when ho told me tbe mouey could not I b raised. Tilden brought me to j order iu very forciblo terms lor having attempted to make a trade wiib (lie; canvassing board, and repeated bia' positivo abhorrence ot any such scherufl. I Q. Pelton went to Canada, did he ' not? A. He did, but it was long before be-fore tbo publication ot the dispatches and be went tbero under medical advice, having euflered considerably Irom excUemeut and incidental j troubles attending tbo election. Pel-tnn Pel-tnn waa thfi rmlv rma with whom f had any conversation before I left for South Carolina, and I looked upon bim :ia being the head of the movement. Mr. Solomon showed me a number of telegrams from republican parties, as he Baid, trying lo buy bim out, but he would not let me see tbeaignaturs. Q Why did jou change your name? A. Because I waa afraid tho Western. Union telegraph company i would tamper with our messages. They know me to be a polilican, hence the precaution taken. Imet Colon I Pelton in Baltimore. He said tbe "old man," which I suppose was Governor Tilden, bad received re-ceived a telegram from Edward Cooper, staling tbat he could not raise money. There was also a telegram tele-gram from Governor Tilden of a similar character. This I told Solomon, Solo-mon, who camo to tbi3 city with me on Wednesday, tho 22d. I think Solomon sent a dispatch to tbo board and in ihreo or four hours afterwards tbe returning board gave the decision the other way. Tbe substance of the telegram was that the goods could not be delivered and that arrangements or bargains were off. Stinger Had you any communication communica-tion on IbiB subject with Mr. Tilden before tbo election, cither directly or indirectly, up to tbe time the South Carolina canvassing board met? or did you bavy any iccr? A. Yes. I met bim at the Everelt house. Ho took me to ta3k. I cannot give to you his exact words, but he look me to task about the proportion, and stated lhat ho never authorized any Guch proceeding and that while he lived he would never become president presi-dent under such circumstances. |