Show vindicates THE DEAD senator hoar takes up for his late brother GENERAL ERROR CORRECTED testimony of living members of president Pies ident grants cabinet adduced to prove that the supreme court was not packed in 1870 for cir the purpose of getting a decision favorable to the constitutionality of the leg lipil gal tender act judges views not mentioned worcester mass dec 5 senator george F hoar lids has it a long letta defending ills his brother uw tile late laic 13 it hoar boar I 1 attorney in ili the grant cabinet Calil I 1 net atom attacks made during tile hie intent campaign mr air lician says la in explanation of 0 the letter about a fortnight before tile election when han on oil iny auy to a dinner of the norfolk club I 1 read in a nw riling paper eliat sir fonn foin cily icily see of 0 tilt aliu treasury repeated in III WS beaute the club the ta ott art contradicted that the supreme court ot of tit tin united states arld been ijohn racked packed to reverie the deci decision in ilef baill buill veldts Gils wOld in which tile coult chui coui t held the agal tend lender er act un at the dinner a few cw hours later I 1 this alii t as botne bet aig it a lle ile a slander as ever was uttered upon tile lie slump I 1 do not lint suppose that mr fairchild child was aware of oe the falsehood or of tile the chaice that lie ile he only made the too loo common gilb jakc of oc adopting 1 inthout investigation an error well lil cli lad had become current lit in regard to it a fact lit in political after entering into details concern ing the matter and quoting liberally front from tile the te lepoids lec senator aloar makes public two letter just juat received from two tivo members meinu of 0 the cabinet ot of pre president t grant senator hoar aloar says guys in ta thlu connection 1 I lec elved this letter leller from rom gov cov cox lie ile was then secretary si cretaro of the interior lit in grants graevs cabinet lie ile dwelt in tin tile same house houe with attorney gon gen erat cral hoar aai ing tho the bummer until the meeting of 0 congress on the INE of december 1861 ond and was the judges intimate ti mate pei bonal friend Ile ic would have known of this matter it 1 it t had been known as a member of the cabinet and froni from ills familiarity with judge hoar tills this Is in the letter LETTI FROM GOV COX cincinnati 0 0 nov 6 ISM sly dear S senator hoar in reply to yours tit of the 3rd ad inet I 1 would say that I 1 hac always legar regarded ded the he barge that tile the supreme court was packed to the irgal b gal tender deel lo cllon llon in the burn versus griswold case as an one of the most curious instances of declaring an all unwarranted conclusion from a mero inere coincidence when I 1 it heairt ca II 11 the ass eillon made I 1 carefully reflected reflected to see gee whether I 1 could recall any fact that sustained it I 1 could not every incident pertaining to tile the appointment of judges to mi 1111 the vacancies was so far as my recollection could reach exactly v m hat high minded men would wish lh exactly what till all who know judge hoar would expect from an attorney gendral having ills his high regard for public duty I 1 can recall some discussion of the character and qualities of judges strong and bradley among members of 0 the cabinet but not a 1 single ingle word of 0 rc reference ference to their opinions 1 ons on oil the legal tender question or to any ease case pending or likely to be pending in the supreme court nothing could be plainer than th it the at torney general was earnestly determined to le commend only such auch men as combined the qualities of able I 1 law aw acis with those of perfectly pure single bingle minded and upright citizens when the nominations were made we felt fell that just such men had been ee be lecter 1 I nm ant the more sure that I 1 would have b bren ben en quick to notice anything I 1 inconsistent n with the good purposes I 1 have described because as a matter in ater of fact my illy personal convictions ahcin were and still mill are that the opinion of chief justice chase chae in Ile riburn versus wold as well as in the subsequent legal tender casp so bo called w was the better one lit in law and a sounder one D lne in statesmanship mansh lp as well as a golider solider barrier against all forms forma of fictitious or hat flat money one of your brothers strongest claims to public reverence as aa a departed worthy in my illy judgment judg dent to ta the unchanging ad herene to tho th highest possible rule of action in ili sitting lifting and selecting judicial nominations as at torney general and this was most noticeable as is it should be TA hen the positions to be tilled filled were the highest faithfully yours J D COX nov gov lox cox neet his place in the cabnet cabinet not long after this transaction transact lon ng in a public letter his roasting reason for res resigning I 1 agn ing that lie he had not been duly supported by the prisident in his to protect it the a reghl of tile the united states against fraud aud cutely incredible and I 1 do not believe I that any man in alii country will sug rue gohl that gov cox would have forgotten such a or that hat he would woul 1 liann lave screened it from public condern nal loll ion 1 I also have a litter from gov bout welt formerly Spere tary of tile 11 treasury I 1 believe lie and G gov ov cox A are r e the only illy survia 11 ig members ri of that cabinet GOV LETTER grafton Ora flon nov 5 1806 1896 my near sir ay my iy ans aisner ner to your letter of the ard ard 3rd a ot this month must be by negative statements lale minta rather than by affirmative the charge to which you coll call my mr attention la Is thit this that in thi the 1 car the supreme court was packed by president grant for the purpose at 0 reversing the lobal legal tender decision dec laloo in III the taw cose of hepburn clr aburn Gils wold tind that when the names ot of t strong and bradley were sent to tile th senate 7 1970 the nature ot of tile alio de decision in the above named case 1 i although it lad not been announced from tile bench ans anon to the lh lent ond and cabinet 1 I was waa a member of cf gen coil grants cabinet tit at the time lime mentioned and I 1 was wa present pre tient fit at one m r m more a re cabinet rn ratings tings m etien alwn theil ali lu b J oc t was consid aled and when opinions were ex I 1 tall g e d as to in the of Aleff strong and bradley for tho vacant plate on the ilitch ot of thi the still court the logal tender controversy wa not spoken of nor in any manner referred refi to by ill the president Ples ident or by any member of the Calif cabinet net indeed lh 1 conversation was sudi I 1 bradley were then without e controversy drovers at the hind in ad of at the in gi alln e states of pennsylvania new irwy maryland Wa ryland and delaware delaway e at that time I 1 there here was waa a justice on the bench from new N vv england one from new york one from from the pacific coast and four from tile the central states slates of nf the west cst at that hat t it time me the south was not considered sanc since tilt the controversy was waa opened the statement s tat ement has been made e that judge judg e strong had ii t tha h co con of the legal tender law lit in ills his place as judge of the 0 court of pennsylvania I 1 cannot sa say y whether that fact was waa known to th tha president or any member of the cabinet but there was no reference to the opinion 0 of either cither strong or Dr bradley adley very truly 0 borg E jr IL BOUTWELL to the lion foil george P hoar worcester wass mass 11 |