The gentleman just quoted says
The president has information, the
truth of which he believes, that the
New York newspapers, with a few ex
ceptions, have been subsidized by the
Bell Telephone company, which
operates through a firm of prominent
democratic lawyers who have intimate
relation with the Western Union
Telegraph company as well; that the
price paid for tlie use of the columns
of the newspapers is very large, as
much as fr>,ooo have been paid for the
publication of a single article. The
object of what G>-n. Butler in his
interview with th<- Herald called the
confluence andj-ffiueuce of newspaper
opinion, is to prevent the govern
ment from carrying out the pro
gramme with regarn to tb suits to
lest the validity of the Bell patent. By
keeping up the war on Mr. Garland,
the Ball company hopes to discourage
the prosecution of the suit, and inti
mations have been received by those
high in authority that the attacks
would cease when the prosecution was
abandoned. When these intimations
were conveyed to the president he
sent for Solicitor General Goode, and
directed him to make as great haste as
I was consistent with the proper appre
■ ciation of the case, and to employ
1 whatever assistance was necessary to
; do it thoroughly and rapidly. He
I said he would select the attorneys to
! assist Mr. Goode in conducting the
| case on behalf of the government and
' they will be men of eminent ability
; and character. The president will
! also, after proper inquiry, determine
i (or himself where the suit shall be
; brought. Tnese two matters he has
| taken entirely out of the bands of the
department of justice, and will not
I even consult Mr. Garland in making
a selection. Mr. Garland has not ex
j changed a word with Mr. Goode upon
| the subject of the suits. He has in
structed the chief clerk of the depart
ment to hand Mr. Goode at once every
j letter that is received on the subject,
1 and knows no more about the prepara
i lion of the case or the plans of the
government than a child does. All
| the information Mr. Garland has re
ceived has come from the president
: himself. 