The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-03-09

-no fial Sucn an anxiety, she press
ing and pressing me about il, aud ]
having slept little since the receipt of
the suepe IA and sympathiZinZ with
, Their condition. ] did not give them
|. positive answer that night. went
10 bel at IL O'Clock aud do hot sup
pose | slept g wink. They said they
would breakfast about o'clock.
came down 1T S and met the'Sscretsry
slone- Il told him / Thought | had
bitter leave sBd GET out of the couu-
try, for would not perjare myself
he said he did net wish me TO do
that; we could fix it up some other
way. l said, AZ think / had better
leave the country.n The Secretary
ssid would ruin him IL 1 left. /
: said, "If | go before the committee,
WA ruin You, for l will tell the
truth"
he was grestly excited when came
down stairs to leave. He followed
ana asked me into the parlOr, and
said, l want TO make q last appesl to
yoH 10 stay longer. He said II / went
be would be ruined. / SAID / would
ruin him if l went before the COM
mittee, and left and tOsk the limit
ed express for New York.
On reaching home L consulted nv
attorney, asking him If the COMMITTEES
could reach me by subpoena if ! left
the country. I stated the case to
bin (Mr. Blrtlett.l He asked If /
was subpe 1aed. l told him I had a
talsgraphic dispatch calling me to
Washington. He said IL a subpoena
had been duly served they could give
4 = ~ .1nroE, Ia frlsnhNa mt hof
q telegrsphic message they could not
[ asked him how Tong | would have
to stay. He s4ii If the cJmmittae
had leave to sit during recess could
not come back uatil the present Con-
gress expired. l then went hone
and there found dispatch from Dr..
| William Tomlins0n, br0ther-in-lAw
of the Secretary. It's Rurport was not
to leave that he had good news /;
thst he was coming over. I de-
termined not to be governed By il,
bat was going. L thought he only
wanted to fix up some new story, but
that would not be party to it. Ny
trunk WAS being packed to leave at
about midnight, Thurs lay, February
"a. DR.. Tomlinson arrived at my
house and said, Il have seen Joe
Blackburn he is a cousin of mine
who thinks IL you (Marsh) would
write letter something like the one
which he (Fomiinson) would suggest,
that there would be no further inves-
tigatiou; aud IL there was they
would ask no questions thst would be
difficuls for me to answer; and that
Mr.. Blackburn said he thought that il
the committed still wanted t. ex-
anime, they would appoint a sub
committee and come over to New
| York to do so. He came to my bed
room and | told him to go into the
sitting room and draw a sketch OF the
proposed letter, and that when dressed
[ would join him and / would write
such letteras he wanted, If l could.
wrote letter fran the sketch of
TOmlinson. The endeavor was to ex-
culpate the Secretary. There was
nothing in II untrue, tj the best OF
my recollection but it did not state
the whole truth. 1t was a very short
letter. He took it, with the contract
enclosed; be said he would take the
letter aud contract to Blackburn, who
would show it to the committee, and
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my house at 2 O'Clock Friday morning.
AT midnight Friday night was rous.
ed up and had the subpoena of the
com mittee served on me. Saturday
morning about o'clock Dr.. Tomlin-
son again appeared. He said he had
been to Washington. He wanted TO
know, the first thing, IL had been
subpensed. told him had. He
began talking the whole thing over
again, still wanting me to say besors
the committee what was suggested at
the Secretary's at the interview on
Thursday night. He wanted ma to
telegraph to the com mittee before
whom had been subposnsei by tele-
graph to appear next Friday morning
that my wife was sick and that i
could not attend, consented and did
so telegraph. Recurring to the inter-
view again on Saturday morning,
could not make the statement he de-
tsired. He said he hal seen Mr..
Blackburn in the interval and had
shown him the letter of Thursday
night. He then returned it Sni the
contract to me, l said: "D:. Tom
linson, have thought Of this thing
so much that it has nearly made me
crazy. I am not going to talk about
it any more. We will go down to my
lawyers and consult him about it,"
my object being to have q lawyer tell
him how ridiculous the story he want
ed me to tell would appear before
the committee. We went down and
called on Bartlett, and 1 told him the
| whole truth in the presence of DR..
Tomlinson. Bartlett said | could not
manufacture any story il L wanted to,
and must not II could. d.. Tom
llinson still insisted that IL 1 could
swear that Gen. Bslknap knew moth
ing of the arrangement with his sister
or Mrs. BelkDap (dsceased), and If l
could swear that at the time l was
at her funeral l made an arrange
ment with Mrs. Bower the present
! Mrs. b. by which l was to send her
all this money through the. Secretary,
that the whole thing would still be
settled. l replied, ST cannot state it
for it Is not true" my impression
then being thSt at that funeral / had
said something about the. matter to
General Balknap. Tomlinsom said,
nif you cannot swear to that you hal
better leave the country"
Mr.. Bartlett said, s'this is a bad
business. 1t is net legal question
YOU have submitted to me, and in the
/ position of affairs the Secretary Of
4 War should decide, whether you
should go to Washington or leave the
country" --..-
DIR. Tomlinson said he would return
to Washington. He prepared two
formulas of kilograms which would
understand. One was, 81 hope your
wife is WELL" which was to be inter-
preted, to leave the country. The
other was, "I hope your wife is bet
ter,D which meant come to Washing.
ton. We then parted. On going
home in the street ears, thinking the
whole thing over about the CONVEX
sation at the time OF the funeral, /
made up my mind that although /
stated 10 Mr.. Bartlett that I thought /
had had some conversation at the
time OF the funeral with the Secretary
of War about sending this money,
vet was so undecided about it that
was certainly willing to give the
Secretary the benefit of a doubt. /
thought I would see TomlinsOn and
tell him. He was to leave for Wash
ington at 8 O'Clock; 1 went TO the
depot aud met him, and told him that
on thinking over the matter l was 80
undecided about the conversation
with the Secretary at the time Of the
funeral services that would give him
the benefit Of the doubt. He said, 81
am very glad to hear this, because my
sister, Mrs. Belknap, said this was a
fact. That Saturday evening 1 got a
telegraphic dispatch from Mrs. Bslk-
nap which said, "Come to Washing
ton Tonight; it is necessary" l re-
ceived it in the evening. Next morn
; ing (lsst Sunday received a dis
patch from DR.. Tomlinson, 81 hope
your wife is BETTER" which according
to our agreement meant, come to
Washington.
In the morning got a second dis
patch from DIR. TOmlinson, as follows :
i'Come without fail. Answer" an
Lswered: 'T shall come tonight, with
out fail" L was very glad not 70
have to leave the country, the cOnvie-
; ton having grown on my mind that
it would do no good. Preached Wash