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Show Sehatwi MiTortEUi, of Oregon, denies de-nies the story that he conspired with others to oust Pelano fr ui the cabinet. cab-inet. Matt Carpenter was said to be the president's first chuice for attorney attor-ney general, and Ben Butler the Becond, but Carpenter did not want the office and the cabinet strongly opposed Butler. Pierrepont was selected se-lected as a compromise. The fact U now recalled that during the lSt3S campaign of President Grant, Edwards Ed-wards gave $20,000 to help defray the expenses ot the Grant fiht in New York. |