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matter. Other members OF Congress, Dc
sides Mr.. Pomeroy, were also engaged In
negotiations of this kind; but Of them here

sides Mr.. Pomeroy, were also engaged in
negotiations of this kind; but Of them here
after.
We cav Mr.. Pomeroy proposed to cad
vance, this sum, and could well afford to do
so as q financial speculation, because 1t was
then well understood that, in the "slate'
that we had the inexpressible satisfaction OF
| asnashfno" at that time, be and certain
member of the House were to have the en-
tire control, under Mr.. Wade's Presidency,
| of the appointments in the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau. This was Pomeroys share of
| the Impeachment plumber, and he could
well afford to advance $4,000 or 100000
i for Mr.. Johnson's removal, and Mr.. Wade's
\ installment in his place, which would have
gwen him a certainty of getting it back
many fold in few months.
So intense was bis anxiety for the success
of the impeachment, that he went so far be-
yond the bounds Of propriety and decency
as to stop us at the door of the Senate
Chamber, on the morning of the day on
which the first vote was taken, and demand
to know how we were going 10 vote. On
being informed by US that we would know
at the proper time, (when the vote would
be taken in the Senate and net until then,
be began to threaten US with political death
at home, and with an investigation and ex-
pulsion on charges Of bribery, if we did not
vote for conviction; foreshadowing what we
already knew as to the first, and what we
aaerward learned as to the latter, for, no
sooner had the Senate adjourned on that
day, than the House appointed a committee
to inquire into our conduct in keeping our
own counsel and voting as we pleased, with
the expectation. in the fierce passion and
hate of the hour, Of securing our expulsion
from the Senate, and the appointment Of a
successor who would vote for, and thus Sc
cure, a conviction on some of the other ar
ticles of impeachment.
Active in this base conspiracy was our
own colleague, the Hon.(?) Samuel G. Pom
eroy; and so keen was his disappointment
at the sudden check of bis mastery advance
upon the Treasury-so fierce his indigna-
ton toward us as the cause of all his woe
that he fastened before that Committee and
detailed tissue of falsehoods, acting under
his oath as a Senator; relating, with great
particularly various conversations assumed
to have taken place between Us, land repeated
assurances given by us that we would vote
for conviction, in all of which there was
not one word of truth. Its entire falsity
was stated in the Senate few days after |
ward at the close Of the trial, and stands |
recorded in the Globe. That statement of |
fact Mr.. Pomeroy has never yet attempted, |
to our knowledge, to disprove or to deny. |
He can not, for he knows it is true in every |
particular.
The ear of the public was open only to |
him at that time. We were decried and |
frOwned down by a crazed, indignant party, |
which struck and would not hear, while |
every word that fell from his lips on that |
subject was drunk in with eagerness. That |
was his opportunity to crush outa colleague
that was too mueh in the habit Of thinking
for himself, whom he had failed to control
for the accomplishment of his own purpose,
and he improved it.
Just how Mr.. Pomeroy came to give pre-
cisely the testimony he did before the But
Ter Investigating Committee, constitutes
another interesting chapter in this affair.
1t will be remembered that, in order to
lose no chance Of eliminating somebody,
MIR. Butler, who is a keen, soulless criminal
lawyer, devised drag-net in he shape Of
summary and unexpected seizure Of copies
Of all the kilograms which had been sent or
received at the various telegraph offices in
The city of Washington. Among the MESA
yes thus captured were quite number Of
kilograms that passed between Mr.. POmeTOy,
In Washington, and Mr.. Gaylord, in New
OTk City, concerning their negotiations
with Mr.. Cooper. Buffers eyes opened
vide when he came to these, but he pTu-
iently said nothing. When everything else
upon which he had expected to frame an in
iictment against us seemed likely to fail, he
,ent for POmerOy, and quietly showed him
hese dispatches.
This time Pomer0y's eyes opened wider,
{ possible, than Buffers had on the Occa-
hon Of his first discovery of these interest
ng papers, and his knees smOte together
worse than did Bel5haZZaI's on that cele
Drated occasion when he discovered a piece
IF hand writing that he recognized.
This was Buffers opportunity. If he
hadn't found any evidence against us, he had
'Ound something that would answer his
purpose quite as well. The upshot of it
vas that Butler took his pencil and Outlin-
ID the kind Of statement that he wanted,
Is to where we had been, what we had said,
whom we had said it to, etc, and then re-
Iuired Mr.. Pomeroy TO ill it out and sign
lis name to il.
That is the way that POmerOy's evidence,
designed to convict for bribery, was manu-
actured and sent out to the country. 1t
vas on the strength of that that the Repub-
lean party of the United States went well
nigh beside itself with fury; we were held
I'D to reprObatiOn and malediCtiOns without
tint. That evidence of Mr.. POmerOy's
vas simply the creation ofMr. Buffers fer
lie and deyilish ingenuity, without one
5rain of truth in the whole Of it. Pome-
'oy was a mere puppet in Buffers hands.
Butler turned the screws and POmerOy
lanced.
People of Kansas, how do you like the
spectacle?