The Russellville Democrat., 1876-06-15
The Blaine ImbrogliO.


 James Mulligan, formerly book
 keeper forMr. Blainc's friend Fis
 her, has been. examined and his
 testimony showed that Mr. Blaine
 had been, while acting as Speaker of the House, deeply interested with Fisher in railroad stock spec
 ulations. Fisher had sold thro' a third party, $130,000 of the Lit tie Rock & Ft. Smith railroad bonds, giving the third party $62- 800 of bonds as his commission. The inference is that the third party was Blaine, as Mulligan testified that that he had deliver ed the $130,000 to Blaine, who sold them to other parties. It was Mulligan's understanding that seventy five of these Bonds went to Tom Scott, who "got them of'' on the Union Pacific Company. But tho $64,000 which Mr. Blaine obtained from the Union Pacific, did not stay in his pocket two hours, as he said in one of his letters to Fisher, but he went to reimburse the par ties to whom he had sold Little Rock bonds, who were pressing him to refund the amounts they had paid on fraudulent reprcsen- tations. This appears to be the true inwardness" of the matter, as well as it can be gathered from the testimony of Mulligan and other sources of information. Muligan's integrity and veracity are highly vouched for in Boston, and by Mess IS. Fisher and At kins, Blaine's friends and witness es.
 Another exciting element was introduced by Mulligan's mention during his first days examina- tion, of certain letters of Blaine s which were in his possession. Blaine immediately caused an adjournment of the committee. The next day Mulligan stated that after the adjournment Blaine had come to him, and, after be seeching him for the letters, had obtained them under Q promise to return them, and had since re- fused to give them up. Blaine admitted that he had got the let ters substantially as Mulligan had represented, but claimed that he had q right to retain them, be- cause they were private letters, not referring to the matter under consideration, and because Multi gan had threatened to make them public if his personal character should be impugned. The committee insisted that he should give up the letters, and on Monday Mr. Blaine brought up the matter in the House by a per sonal explanation.
 In this explanation Mir. Blaine charged that ex Conlederates had been put on the subcommittee to investigate him, that the commit tee had gone into matters which they were not authorized to touch ana that the investigation had been purposcly delayed and pro He was fully answered on these points by Chairman Hunton, who stated that Mir. Blaine had heretofore been satis- fled with the committee. that he had indicated the time at which the investigation should begin and the subject that should be in' quired into, and that he had per sonally been the cause of every instance of delay. Mir. Blaine read the letters which he had ob tained from Mulligan, claiming that there was nothing in them to subject him to suspicion. Most of them urge a settlement of cer- tam railroad matters which coul , only be fully understood by the parties interested; but there are three, written in 1868 and 1869, which seem to supply the missing link to connect his legesiatlvs acts with his railroad property. In two of these he shows how he had interested himself, as speak CT. ia the Little Rock railread bill, and so ruled so SIS to secure it's passage, and desires Fisher to tell Caldwell that he had done him a great favor without know. ing it." Afterwards he speaks of the interest that he is to receive from Caldwell Tn his railroad en- terprise, and says that he will be no dead head, but render valuable assistance.
 MT, Blaine charged the commit tee with suppressing dispatch received from Caldwell, the mis- sing witness. Mir. Knott admit ted the receipt of the dispatch, but denied having suppressed it. Caldwell telegraphed that Tom Scott's statement was ''substan- tially true" and that he had not let Mr. Blaine have any bonds. As it is supposed that the case stands the other way-that Cald- well received from Blaine the bonds which Scott "got od'' on the Union Pacihc-this state ment seems to be irrelevant.
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