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Show Tneetl' Ktntfiiient Every- , body Deujmc, j Albany, N. Y., 17. Senator Wocdin will reply to tho Tweed confession con-fession so far as it relates to himself, in the senate to-morrow. He explicitly ex-plicitly denies tha whole story so hir as it relate.-) to him. Judge Cuarles J. Folger denies Tweed's Etory, and says that so far as it relates to b m it is false, Twffd never paid him any money. Too attorney general says in the Evening Juurnal tiiat he never knew of Tv.oe-1 ultsringt a word derogatory to Judyp Fo!gtr, although Twted coui'di-r:J ' biiu a political aud legislative opponent. oppo-nent. Tno journal saya: Tw.t;d"s counsel also say that Fust's name is r.ot mentioned in the confvssin. Albany, 17. Twetd's coufua-iun waa hauJtd to tho aUonny in-ra.'s deputy by To.vnjGnd, Twol-J's conn- jel, to-day. Tno Utemenl fids somo tiny pagt of mauuicnpl, and At-J At-J torncy General Fairciu.d a iy ho will immeJi'itcly tako up cuiisi leralion of ' tho d'cumenl, giving it iiii e.iru?at " aUnntion bufure making any of the confoasiun public. Hu wdl demand ! of Tweed evidence to provo tho charges against p'jrsotn wh un hii I conlbsion implicates. Fiircliiid hai not examined the confSaion ai yet, but a note received by him from j- Twnsctid this afternoon, says there ' is some truth in tho World's s'.alc-: s'.alc-: ment of the contents of tho p.ipur. TownBtnd, it is sniJ, d ni'-s having given any ii;!o maliou cf tho d i- cu.flures m;ioo iy amtcm. Senator Wood in made his f-p-f-ch in the senate to night dfoyinj: the iillfgalions mado concerning him in Tweed' confession. Ho concluded i by rea '.ing a resolution that "Mem-rs. (blank) bo and they are hereby appoint ap-point c J a committee to Uko testimony, testi-mony, with power to snd tor persons and p ipers, and if nerd bo, to sit in iew York city and fully investigate whether ho ever received or pronmod to receive any portion of the moneys as Tweed chargrs, and report to the eenate within ten days the testimony together with thuir conclusions." 1 ho committee was made four and tho chairman. The members aro as follows: Carpenter, Sprague, Hchoon-maker, Hchoon-maker, II ad Icy threo republicans and ono democrat, by request of Woodiu. |