Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-23
The Condition Of the Great Republican
Leader-He Must have Rest
from Investigations and
Work.
The Status Of his Case Before the Con.
gressiOnal Committee Cald-
well Dispatch a Forgery.
The Disgrace of the Ex.Speaker IneYl-
table-PrOctOr Knott and Abram
Hewitt Procure the Evil
denee.

| evening laSG. up 10 bnaJ Ulme ne nae
! steadily improved from his original at
tack, but on Monday evening he made
q speech to crowd that came TO sere
made him from ratification meeting
short as the effort was, it very greatly
exhausted him, and he has grown
weaker every day since. For two day;
past he has suffered very much from ex'
| bsustiou, and has been confined to his
bed.
Surgeon General Barnes thoroughly
examined his case this evening, and
finds him suffering from extreme nerv-
Gus exhaustion and from severe mslarial
poisoning. These features of his case
are complicated somewhat with threat
ened organic troubles, and General
Barnes prescribes absolute rest for seve-
raj weeks as an Indispensable condition
of sverting very serious consequences;
and he orders that the rest be taken in
some invigOratiDg air, on the seashOre
or mountains.
Chicago Tlmes.l
WASHINGTON, June 19.-On Mon
day, the fifth day of June, James G,
Blaine made very dramatic sceUe in
the house by charging Proctor Knott
with suppressing dispatch from Josiah
Caldwell, in London, exoneratiDg him
(BIaine) from all charges of having re-
ceived any money from Caldwell when
be was president of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith road, Proctor Knott was
tsksn unawares by the suddenness Of
the charge, and was not quick or sdrOit
enough to extrica'e himself from the po-
sltiOn where Blaine placed him, name
ly, that of a malignant partisan, Sc k
ing to destroy Blaine, and to this end
doing the inexcusabe ard objectionable
thing by suppressiUg evidence. Knott
merely lid to the mouse that the dis
patch heTecaived was
NOT EVIDENCE,
and that he had merely taken time to
properly examine 1t before giving 1t to
the public. Blaine then stated that the
dispatch has been received at eight
o'clock in the morning, on Thursday,
June 1st, and that Knott's keeping it in
mis- possession for upward of three days
without publishing it TO the world was
proof positive that he intended to sup
press it entirely. Knott was caught in
an apparent act OF unfair play, and was
made as awkward about it as If it had
been a reality. Blaine made the most
with him, actually succeeded in making
8 large number of Democrats think that
Knott had
REALLY DONE AN UNFAIR THING.
Blaine,s friends mads the most of the
situation. Knott was abused from one
corner OF the land to the other, so that
for q time he was placed in q more
compromising situation than Blaine.
Stu0g by the injustice, Knott has gone
to work to unravel the mysteries Of this
Caldwell dispatch. Alone he never
would have succeeded. Hewitt, men,
Der from New York, who was for sew.
eral years president Of the ocean cable,
consented to lock up the case, and by
his intimate knowledge Of cabling, has
developed enough to show that Knott
was really justified in his treatment OF
the dispatch, and that when 1t comes
hi turn to make c0uuter-ststement,
that Blaine will for once be
PLACED UPON THE DEFENSIVE,
What first aroused Knott's suspicious
about this dispatch was that it had been
prepaid, some fifty dollars in gold. He
then wondered how Caldwell should go
out Of his way to do this, not knowing
that subsequent investigation has de-
Veloped that this dispatch was paid for
by Scott in Philadelphia and then sent
to Proctor Knott; also that this dispatch
came to him without any request, in
itself a suspicious circumstance. To-
days revelations bring cut substantial
proof of what was printed in last Fri
days Times, that this dispatch was the
RESULT OF A CONSPIRACY
upon this side in the interest OF Blaine.
chief clerk Of the cable company
in New York, was before the judiciary
c6mnittee 70 day with all of the OIigi-
nal dispatches employed in this con-
spiracy. They had been sent over diff
fsrent cables, the dispatches and their
replies, so IS to avoid any dragnet Of
Investigation. Without the technical
kuOWltd dge of Hewitt all OF them would
not have been unearthed, as the most
important of them is the one addressed
to q fictitious name. "Favo," employed
by Caldwell in his cable business. These
dispatches are
SEVEN IN NUMBER,
and 70 one familiar with the history of
the charges made against Blaine they
tell clear enough story. To one who
hes not followed the evidence in the
case brief explanation Of them is
necessary. The first dispatch iG from A
P. Robinson TO Josiah Caldwell. Robin
son was chief engineer Of the Fort
Smith and Little Rock railroad. Several
Arkansas witnesses had Testified before
HuntOn's comm ittee that he Robin
sony bad stated at several times that he
had paid to Blaine for Caldwell lot of
BONDS valued at twenty thousand dol
lars This was supposed to have been
delivered in package intrusted to Rob-
inson by Caldwell. Robinson, when
summoned before the committee, testi-
fed that he had never knowingly paid
any money to Blaine, and that he sup
posed that the package which he delivs
cred was made up of plats OF lands,
maps, etc., as Blaine upon receiving it
TOSSED 1T INTO WASTE BASKET,
and did not treat it of any special value.
After his testimony Robinson was very
intimate with Blaine, and appeared very
anxious that the ex-spesker should be
investigated. In the testimony of the
dispatches shown to-day, Robinson was
the one who sent the first dispatch to
Caldwell. 1t is as follows:
WASHINGTON, May rs, 6:20 D. M, I'm
perial, 1910 Josiah Caldwell, ll9
Cannon street, London, E c. England:
See Scotps testimony, papers 10Th.
Telegraph Scott, Philadelphia, ss you
truthfully can, the strongest indoIss-
melt of his statement.
80, paid, 2574. A. P. ROBINSON.
Telegraph No. 2. Imperial 43, and
22I8. F. E repeated in pencil, June l,
1876 To Josiah Caldwell, Tuabrldge
Wells, England: Don't permit news
paper men or others to interview you.
r. "a paid SO 90
Imperial, 1895 Pencil marks on back,
$40 90, l0,540, 2l95.
Telegraph No. 3, in pencil, O K, 844.
Imperial, 8852, F E. Repeatedly Wash
ington, June Z, 1S76.-T0 Josiah Cald-
well Tunbridge Wells, London: II false,
authorizs me to deny that you paid
B aine. sICKLEs.
Sickles, st. James hotel, care Mr..
Dsnekls, 10. Paid 50 10, cy F.
Telegraph No. 4, cable, IN pencil,
y X, l79, 964, P received at Wcsie efn
Uuion building. Broad 6sY and Dsy
strt cts. May 81, 1S76.-Io Josiah CAld-
well, Cannon street, London; Thanks