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Show THE OlttGOV DISPATCHES. The New York republican paperB have found a rich feast for their ca-riou ca-riou appetites in the Oregon dispatches, dis-patches, and charge perjury, bribery and fraud with perfect looseness upon Tildeu, PeltoH, Grover and Kelly. The latter Bays he has no public explanation ex-planation to muke. Ho says he is not acquainted with the cipher dispatches, dis-patches, and never signed ttiose that are attributed to him. The World's Washington Bpecial say a that not & dollar was spent to purchase a republican repub-lican elector. Every dollar sent to Oregon has been honorably accounted for. The republican electors lrom Oregon havo been before the committee commit-tee on elections, and not one testified that he has been even approached. Senator Kernao, one of the elec tions committee, says : Ihe cipher dispatches from which translations are made are what purported to be copies of original dispatches, which have never been in the hands of the committee. No writing is identified, because no original dispatches were ' exhibited. There is no evideuce that the messages were ever written or seen by the party to whom they are attributed. A Washington dispatch nays : When 1 he senate committee concludes its evidence iu tho Oreuou case thov will probably report a resolution either for tnu censure of Kelly or fur his expulsion. Mauy senators favor such action. The developments will make Grover's admission to the sen- ate extremely improbable. senator kelly's story. Washington, 1G. Senator Kelly states in reenrd to his endorsement of the cipher dispatch sent by J. II. N. Patrick on the 30th of November to Wm. T. Pelton, that he was totally unaware of its containing a proposition proposi-tion for the purchase of a republican elector. He says Patrick came to him and stated that he had prepared a cipher telegram to the secretary of the national democratic committee, asking the hitter to place $10,000 to his credit for the purposo of paying lawyer's fees and other necessary expenses ex-penses connected with the anticipated litigation concerning the issuance of the governor's certificates. Patrick ' requested him to endorse hia tele- gram, because he (Kelly) was known ' to the national democratic committee, commit-tee, and it w;is deeirable to secure prompt action. Senator Kelly says 1 he could not of course read the cipher, , and accepting Patrick's statement of its meaning, endorsed it without hesitation hes-itation upon the foregoing assurance na to its contents. The senator states also that after Patrick left Oregon he (Kelly) earnestly endeavored to get the money sent from New York to pay the fee of the lawyers who had been retained, and as it did not come iu time he himself raised $3,200 on his own note, $3,000 of which he paid to Hill, Thompson aud Durham, the lawyers above rclerred to, and the remaiuing $3)0 were devoted to pay- ing the expenses of bringing Los well, cue ol tho democratic electors, to Salem, as it waa then thought that he had obtained a higher vote than CroniM. The Benator says that bo far as ha knows no person ever approached ap-proached tho republican electors with any corrupt proposition. |