Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-02
thousand dollars worth Of the bond


bonds? ADs.--Yes.
Mr.. iBlaiue-What were the bonds
that went to the Maine parties; what
denomination OF bonds; were they land
grants or first-mortgage bond? Ans
Referring 20 the memorandum / can tel
you, and / presume you won't dispute it,
because il is IN your own Handwriting
lproduciDg a memorandum book label
led w. Fisher, IT,, private, which he
handed to the chairmanl; there are all
the names OF the parties IL you want
them; you can have the whole history
now.
ChaiTman-In whose handwriting If
this boOk2 Aus.-John g. Blaine's.
Chairman-NoW proceed TO answer
the question?
WItness-The one hundred and thirty
Thousand dollar bonds that were sold to
these different parties here, were first
mortgage bonds. ..----
Mr. Blaine-They were first mortgage
and not land-grRut bonds? Aps.-Yes,
the next sale Was on different lay from
that other.
Chairman-Was that to the hislne
parties? Ans.--Yes, and gold on q
different bssis; one man had eight
thoEsaRd dollars in .land-grSnt bonds,
and ten thousand dollars for one man /;
and another had six Thousand dollars in
Iand-grant bonds, and seventy.five hun
dred dollars in first-mortgage bonds; /;
another bad five thousand dollars ia
land-grant bonds and sixty-two hum
dTed and fifty dollars ia fitst-mortgsge
bonds; another had nine thousand dol
lars in lapd-grant and twelve hundred
a a fra "a or kfF0 hnnda
Ques.-Were all the sales which you
have referred to made by or through
Me-. Blaine? Ans.-Yes.
Qnes.-And In addition to the bonds
you have just spoken Of as coming to
these purchasers, what sort Of bonds did
Mr.. Blaine get? Ans.-He was to get
thirteen thousand dollars OF land-grant
bonds and fifty-two hundred and fifty
dollars of first-mortgage bonds.
Mr.. Blaine-You do not testify that L
actually got theseS Ans No, sir; L
say there are about thirty-six thousand
dollars due you yet.
Chsirman-That is all he got, except
thirty six bonds? Ans.-Yes.
Mr.. Frye-Do you know whether
they were sent on to him to Maine?
Ans.-I know that Maine men paid
their own subscriptions to me, and i
gave a receipt for them.
. Q1es.-But you do not know that Mr..
b aine got his? Ans.-I sent other par
ties bonds to them by express, and Mr..
Blaine got his.
Chsirman You sent by exprt )
the bonds to the Maine party, and
delivered to Blaine his in person? Ans.
No, did not deliver them to him in
person, but Fisher did so. Mr.. Blaine
has acknowledged that he got all those
] gave him myself--One lot OF forty.
Ques.-He got all those one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars in land
bonds, thirty-two thousand five hundred
OF first-mortgage bonds, except thirty
ak thousand dollars that is to say, thir-
ty.six bonds. Ans.-Yes, the following
shows the subscribers to the Fort Smith
and Little Rock railroad company OF
Arkansas, as shown by the memoran-
dunn book put in evidence by the wit
ness Mulligan. In each instance the
subscribers to the bonds received an
equal amount in bonds of their cash cub
serption and Of land grant and first.
mortgage bonds. A. aud p. COburn, OF
Ekowhe gan, Maine, to pay $50 900 and
receive SI50,0OO; Peter f. Ssnborn, OF
Augusta, to pay $I0, 600 and receive $50, :
COO; Ralph G. Johnston, s. Z. Hazel
tine, G. B. Hazeltine. N. p. Monroe, A.
w. johnson, II. II. Johnston, and
Phillip Hershey, Rll of Belfact, Maine, to
pay 5000 and receive SIS, 600, with the
exception of Johnson, who paid SIG, ,0OO
and received $50. 600; M. Merrill, Of Au-
gusta, paid 5000 and received Sl5, 600;
a. B. Farwell, Of Augusta, and @. M.
Bailey, of Winthrop, paid $4,000 each
ard received Sl5, 900. ss -ss
At the conclusion of Mulligan's eX-
animation Blaine took the stand, and
with the utmost emphasis, denied under
oath all of Mu'ligan's 9 statements that he
(Blaine) had offered him any CONSUL
ship, or that be told Mulligan that the
publication of thelstters or of Mulligan's
testimony would ruin him. All this
sort Of thing, Blaine said, was pure
fancy. He denied that he obtained the
letters under pledge to return them,
He called on Atkins, Fisher and Multi
gan at their hotel aud talked with all o.
them for come time together. He bad
known Mulligan about twenty-five
years. He had been private secretary
for two OF Blaine brothers-in-law, and
in that capacity had obtained possession
of many private mattfrs not in any way
connected with this case, but concern
ing other persons, and many dating bach
long before Blaine came to congress. III
examining the letters Mr.. Blsine found
that only one of them had anything
whatever to do with this case, and thii
he retGrned to Muiligau, but Kept th'
others for the reason that he was ex
ssperated by Muliigan's announcing
his determination to publish then
il anybody impugned his character
or testimony in any respects. Blaine
then, in presence Of Fisher and Atkins
told Mulligan that, as these letters hat
no bearing on the case, and were i'm
properly in his (Mulligan's) possessioD
he would not return them. Blaine, then
called in two of his friends, both lawyers
and read all the letters to them, and in
formed them he wanted, also, to-day, &
lay the letters before the two wisest lega
counselors in Washington, and, if they
said there was anything in the letter
bearing on the case Ia the remotest way
he would rellnquish them; he consideret
that Mulligan might just as well go t,
his house, take his other private papers
and lay them before the committee.
Chairman Hunton then asked Blain
to submit the letters and the memoIan
dunn made from them by Mulligsn +
the committee for their private exsmi
nation.
Mr.. Blaine said that he must for tn
present decline to do so, but ifin the judg
ment Of counsel, who would command
the committees entire confidence, the.
had any bearing whatever upon th
pending inquiry, he would produc
! Them, He Gid not want the commit
tees verdict On the pending charge de
layed by their going into purely privat
matters outside Of the case.
MIR. Frye-Don't some Of those letter
relate TO matters transpiring long befOr'
YOU became 9 member Of congress
Ins.-Yes, long before ] became q msm
Der of congress for the first time.
Chairman-As understood you, ans
as | especially understood from Null
gan, you had possession Of those letter
on two occasions?
Mr.. BIaine-Kes,
Chairman-0n the fcst occasion yOu
promised to return them3
Mr, Bl line-It did Det assume So for
midable shape as promise, ! though
he exhibited little hesitaney in hand
ing the leltsrs to me, and said to him
IfYou don't think would keep them
do you?n 1t wss rather an inteIjection