Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-06

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not ssem to realize whether he wa
spes ker or only simply q member, an
TO Q stranger il would be an enigma B
know which he was. The gentlemal
had quite unnecessarily lugged hin
| (Knott) into this personal matter of hh
own. In the first place, he had insinU-
ated that, from some unworthy motivs
he (Knott), as chairman of the juiiclar.
committee, had appointed on the sub
committee which had charge of thes
| Investigations 8 gentleman from Viz
ginia Hunt0pl and q gentleman from
North Carolina Ashel; in answer t,
that he had to say, first, that either O
those gentlemen was his (Blaine's) pee
in any sense of the word, and that il
point OF honor it was nS
disparagement to the gentleman from
Maine 70 say they were his superiors
Kisses and other marks OF disapproba
lion frOm the Republican side Of the
house.
Mr. Knott-@t'That is sll right. Thele
are three kinds of animals In the word
that hiss-vipers, geese and foolsp
Laughter. In the second place this
Subcommittee was selected long before
there was any insinuation, public or pri.
vste, that the gentleman from Maine
was IN any manner implicated in any
of the alleged fraudulent transactions on
the part of any of these corporations;
and it did seem to me when the gentle
man flung his imputStiOns at me, it Is o
little strange that he could ascribe such
motives to me undsr the circumstances,
Is it not little remarkable
that you cannot touch one of
these railroads but the gentleman
from Maine will squsal? Ihave no doubt
that it struck Mr. Harrison as little
remarkable that when the sevehty-fve
thOusand-dollar bonds transaction was
mentioned in q meeting OF the directors
the treasurer of the Union Pacific com.
panY should say: "Do not say anything
about that, it will involve Blaine;" but
his committee was raised long before /
had any intimation that Blaine was in.
vOlved In it in any manner. / went to
his personal riend and colleague, Mr..
Frye, and asked him to taks the posi-.
ton on the subcommittee, but he de-
clined. The gentleman from Maine
seems to insinuRte that it Is the purpose of
thGjudiclary committee to do something
or other which might peradventure pre-
vent bim from receiving the nomina-
tion of his party at the coming conven-
at Cincinnati. beg the gentleman to
believe that so far as / am concerned,
we are perfectly willing he should re-
ceive that nomination, and If in the
pending campaign we cannot defeat the
gentlemen from Maine, then our case is
entirely hopeless. Laughter on the
Democratic side Ii he shall receive
the nomination and be elected by the
American people, in face Of all these
facts, then all we can say is, may the
Lord have mercy on the American peo.
pie. [Shouts Of laughter The judicl-
ary committee has done the gentleman
no wrong; it has not even decided what
shall be done with these
letters. The committee has not taken
any sction on the subject at all, and the
gentleman ought TO be informed that to-
morrow morning the question would be
blOught up. Yet in defiance Of all par
liamentary law an ex,speaker of the
house comes up here on pretext of per-
sonal explanation, and takes the matter
away from the Jurisdiction of the COM
mittee. That is the condition In which
this thing stands. 1t is s matter still
sub jtdice, not decided at all, and there
was no intention that solita-
ry word of enc of these letters
would bs given to the public, but the
gentleman was very positively assured
that he would not be martyred by the
judiciary committee. AS to the cable
dispatch from Josiah Caldwell, it is true
thas last Thursday morning ] did re-
ceive dispatch. The gentleman from
Maine seems to know precisely the hour
at which received it, and its contents;
he seems to be thoroughly posted on the
subject. But permit me to say, with re-
gard to the insinuation that that tele-
gram has been suppressed, that any
man, high or low, whoever he may be,
who will elsewhere make the insinua-
ton, will have to take the con.
sequences. 1 hurl the false
hood back into the teeth of
any man who makes a suggestion as to
the suppression Of this dispatch. Zap
plause on the Democratic side. have
1t; did not suppress 1t at all. In less
than thirty minutes after received it I
read it to several gentlemen. There was
no particular address in London from
which it puTported to come, and did
believe, and am no. altogether certain
yet that do believe 1t was dxed-up
Job. Murmurs of dissent from the Re-
publican side.
In answer to requests from the
Republican side to read the dis
patch from Caldwell, Mr.. Knott
said: i have not the dispatch here;
1t il st my house. The contents
of it are substantially ss stated by the
gentleman from Maine Mr.. Blajne.l /
do not know that 1 can repeat 1t in the
exact terms. The purport Of it is that
Caldwell had seen Thomas A. Scott's
testimony in the New York pa
pers, and that it was substantially cor
rect; that he had not let Mr.. Blaine
have any bonds, and that he would
send an affidavit to that effect, but that
he was engaged in railroad enterprise
over there, and could not come
to give his testimony without
serious pecunisry lose. This is substan-
TALLY what is in it, aud II the gentle
man had only waited, that dispatch
would be presented to the COMMITTEES for
whatever use the committee should see
titto make of 1t. Ihad no desire to iDju Q
the gentleman from Maine, personally,
and especially not politically, but I de-
sired that the truth might be told. AS
for myself, / had no knowledge of
any transaction by the gentleman from
Maine inconsistent with the highest
personal integrity. L don't desire that
he should be injured in the least; butS 1
do desire that, II any person be guilty Of
wrong, we shall turn the gas on, and let
the people see him. Laughter and ap-
plRuse - sze-F
Mr.. Blaine moved the previous ques-
ton on his resolution, and at
tempted to make some further re-
marks, but he was interrupted by loud
calls to order, and by the speaker pro
TEN. ruling that he was not entitled to
the floor for that purpose. The house
refused to second the previous question,
and then, on motion OF Mr.. Banning, Of
Ohio, the motion Of Mr.. Blaine was re-
ferred to the committee on the judiciary
yeas l24, nays 81. The house, after
day Of great excitement, then adjourned.
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