Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

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thought of this t5ing so much it has |
nearly made me crazy. I am not
going to talk ab1Ht il any more. We
will go down to my lawyer and o,usu!t
him about It." lay object being to have
a lawyer to TIL b IN how ridiculous
the story iIa w1nte ne to tell would
appear before the c0mmi tie. ""
went d avn and c ii 4 On Mr.. Bar lett.
and | told h'm the whole truth, in til"
presenee of Dr.. Tnm!iuson. 3 irtiett
SAID ! c,ulj nos Manufacture any
story if ! wanted, and must not if |
could DR.. TDmiiusou still insisted
that If could swear that General Betk
nap knew nothing of tbe arrangement
With his sister, Ms B Tx APP, d.
ceased, and if | could swear that a
the time [ was 81 her fuEeral | made
an arrangema with Mrs. Bower, the
present Mrs. 3 lknap, by whicl [ was
to send her all this money through the
Secretary that the whole thing could |
still be settled. I replied, 81 cannot |
state it, for it is not true, my impress
sion then being that at that funeral l |
had said something ahOut the matter !
to Gen. Belkn8p, TomlInsOn SAID Il |
you carn0t swear to that NOu had bet !
ter leave the country. Mr.. Bartlett |
said, "This is d bad business;lt II NOS |
a legal question you have submitted |
to me, aud in tine position OF atf,rs |
the Secretary of War should decide If
you should go to Washington or leave
the Country" DIR. Tom!Inson said he
would return to Washington. H pre-
pared two formulas of teiegra:ns which
[ would understand, one was, 81
hope your wife is well, and was to b.
interpreted to leave the country;
the other was. Il hope your wife Is
better, which meant to come to Wa h
ington. We then parted. On going
| home in the street cars. thinking the
| whole thing over abO1t the CONVERSE
ton at the time of the funeral, L made
up my mind that although had sta
ted to Bartlett that [ thought l had
| had some conversation at the time Of
| the funeral with the Secretary of War
| about sending this money, yet l wa
| so undecided about it that [ was Ger
| tainly willing TO give the Secretary th"
! benefit of the doubt. l thought L
would see HomiinsOn and tell him. We
parted at l o'clock He was to leave
| for Washington PIT 3 o clock, L went and
met him, and told HIM that on think
ing over the matter L was so uadeci~
ded about the converse ion with the
|
that would give him the benefit Of
the doubt. He said, Il am very CAD
to hear this, because my sister. Mrs.
Belknap, said this was the fact" That
| Saturday eve [ got teiegraunic DIS
patch from Mrs. Belknap wnich said.
"CJme t. Washington tonight; II Is
necessary" [ received It IN th5 even
ing. Next morning Uast SaudaE) I
racaiveda d dispatch from Dr.. ToG}llGsnn:
Il hope your wife IS better" .wh'ch
according 10 our agreement meant
ZONE to Washington II the after
noon I got a secn4d dispatch from u,
| Tomiinson as follows: "Colne without
fail; answer" [ answered, Il shall
come tonight without fail, [ VAS
very glad not to have TO leave the
country, the conviction havi s gr WI
on my mind that Il would DO no good.
[ reached Washington yestcrd. Y morn
ing at $50, and stopped at the A-.ing-
ton, my wife being with me. Was
shown to a temporary room. About
O'Clock / laid down bei-g decidedly
fatigued. and at about O'Clock DR..
Tomli"son called ne to the door Of
the room. He said he had seen BIac'z-
burn, aud taat lie still Thought this
matter could be fix=l up without any
trouble. He said, "B ackburu says
you had better write another Of the
same purport ana send i up 20 the
mmlttee, with note expi 2ining why
it did not come sooner" [ d;d 80.
The note aud letter were marked 81
Co Shortly before 2 p m. yester-
terday, [ came 10 the Capitol to meet
the committee, and DIR. TomIinson
found me in the corridor near the COM
mittee room door. He said: "You are
going before the committee, and I
want you to remember that there were
40 arrangements v-tI yosI and the
Secretary at the time of the funeral,
aud that the money you have always
paid to General Beikuap was for Mrs
BAlknap AID by her direc.ions. /
told him [ was going before the com
mjLtee to tell the whole story as far us
| couli recollect II. [ s"Id, Il had
thought of leaving the country, but
was overruIed, nud that now [ shalt
tell the truth and the whole truth and
uoshing but the truth" H said. Il
don't want you TO tell any lis, | only
want you to tell t te truth, and that Is
the truth" [ said 1.-The truth [ shall
certainly tel, and il it does not hurt
General Bsiknap no Que will be more
rejoiced than myself" entered the
com mittee room about o'clock yes
terday, and without being sworn, I
made Il statement 10 certain members
of the committee of the facts il the
case more briefly, but substantially as l
have now answered i'll ~eply to your
chief heterogeneous. When [ re
turned to the hotel yesterday after
! noon DR.. Tomiinson was waiting at my
room at the Arlington to see M. He
asked how | got along before the com
mittee? L told him I had told he
story from beginning to end, ard that
at the request of the gentlemen pres
ent was going to reduce Il to writing
aDd appear before the committee to-
day at 1890 with it. He -sautei! 10
know how | had stated the fact that ali
4 these payments to the Secretary Lad
been made III consequence OF the orig
intl agreement made with Mr.. Bel
KNAPP. | said [ had stated the facts d.
they We're according to my best rrcDi-
lection and belief [ told him IwJulI
! furni Sh HIM a copy of the statemeJL |
would make before the committee. /
prepared the statement last night auj
gave him a copy about s O'clock III
morning, being substantially copy %
that submitted as an answer to youI
chief interrogatory, save that I ii Ell
Up the blanks. DR. Tomlinson came,
back TO my room at about 1910 last
| evening, and / asked him Whetil:t
he had seen Mr.. Blackburn siucs,
| had made my statement IL ih-
,fternoon, and what impression it haG
made upon the gent9em. IA who head
it. lie SAID he did not like TO say he
had seen Mr.. Blackburn, bat he sand
he had seen one of the commit, ee. WHO
expressed the opinion that M STATE
meut would involve the Secretary. H
hen made a stronger appeal to m
than ever before. say ng that [ was
the lend Of the 5 cref arv; that L tins
thing came out it would RUN him; that
his wife was IN steat distress about il,
and he, himself, as her brother aid a
friend of the family, was Ill great
trouble. and that if L could state L
said. s.Stop DIR. Tomlinson; I have