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at government price to the Union Paci6
Railroad ? A. Yes.
Q. How did you understand that he go
them of to the Union Pacitic2 A. j didn'
understand any
@. From whom did you underst tan.
what you did understand A. Throngl
Mr.. Atkins. - ~
@. Then Atkins did tell you BlainehaC
gotten off some OF the Little Rock bond
to the Unicn Pacific? A. No, he didn'
tell me any such thing.
@. How then did you understand wha
was referred to from his remark? Wha
was the remark? A. l can't say pre-
cisely, but will give it as near as I can
Mr.. Atkins was speaking Of the reorgan
ization Of the Little Rock Railroad Com
pany. That organization was that thC
oriCinal bondholders should go int
this organization on certain basis.
don't remember what the basis was. HI
smoke to me OF the bond holders and asket
me i'll knew OF any bond holders thai
they did not know, he thought l might bt
familiar with some Of them and | gayt
him all the information in regard 10 1
that had at the time. said TO him
twill you get all the bonds in?
and he said Il they were three-quarter
in It would be sufficient, or something
like that. There was u general tall
about it. He said that the Union Pacific
Company had some OF the bonds, and saiS
that they would come in. / asked where
the bonds came from, and the inference
that | got
Q. State what he said. A. ! don't re.
member what he said, but the inference
got was that they were Blaipe's bonds.
@. Did he tell You how many the
Union Pacific Co. had? A. No, sir, he
did not. That is think he didn't.
@. Did he mention the name of ThomaI
Scott? A. don't know that he did, and
don't know but he did. ! forget all
about that. It has been four or five
years ago-five years very likely.
Q. Then in this correspondence between
you and Blaine, touching the settlement
about the Little Rock & Fort smitt
bonds, you treated the matter MS i
Blaine had gotten off part Of them on tht
Union Pacific Company at good price
A. don't know how treated it, l nigh
have indirectly or directly referred to il
in that way.
@. Do you recollect any references tc
this matter in reply that Blaine wrote
you? A. No. :,
O. You do not recolIect that he said
in one Of his letters that il he had got
ten them off at a good price he had moi
held the money long but that it went tC
bis friends in Maine? A. heard that
part Of letter read while was on my
way from Boston to New York or from
New York to Washington, on the pres
ent trip TO Washington.
@, You recollect substantially tha
in the letter Blaine said that il he did ge
these bonds of as you suggested ip.youl
letter he didn't hold the money long, but
that it went to his Maine friends. A
Words TO that effect.
Q. How long have you known Mulli
gan? A. l have known Mulligan 10 oil
90 years.
Q. Have you known him intimately
A. l have, sir.
@. What is his character? A. Hi
character is the best, ] would say tha
tits as good as, or perhaps better than an!
man that ever knew.
@. What is his. reputation for trutl
and veracity? A. | never heard it ques
toned.
Q. Have you ever demanded from hin
possession OF the letters? A. have
since have been in this city, and at M.
own instance.
Q. Were you not requested to max
that demand? Not the tirsttime | mad
the demand.
Q. We're you ever requested by an,
one to make that demand after the tirs
time? A. was.
o, By whom? A. Mr.. Blaine.
@. He asked you to odemand those let
tersP A. He did not ask me to demant
them.
Q. Well what did he say? A. Nj
Blaine asked me to, get Mr.. Mulligan 7
give them to me.
Q. What were you to do with them
you got them? A. l proposed to keel
them II l got them.
Q. Was this after reference had beel
made in his examination by Mnlligan +
the letter? A. No, but before that.
@. When was that? A. | think it wa
Tuesday night; l am under the impression
though / may be wrong, that nothing oc
CURED between Blaine and MulligaI
about the lettersliill Wednesday.
@. WAS there anything said betwee
Blaine and Mulligan OF these letters til
after the frst examination here? A.
think not.
Q. Then the request from Blaine I
you to get possession OF those letters fror
Mulligan was after Mulligan had spoke
OF the letters in his examination? A
Yes, / think that was so.
@. Then you had letters to correct you
first? A. No; say had made n re9ues
Of Mulligan to give them to me on Tues
day night.
quest. .
Q. Was that after you saw Blaine Z A
/ think it was.
@. When you saw Blaine was it msr
toned between you and Blaine that MI
ligan had these letters in his possession
A. It was mentioned by Blaineth that Mul
ligan had the letters.
Q. Did Blaine ask you to go and g
these letters? A. There was one lette
that Blaine was very particular to get.
Q. Did he ask you to go down and g
the letters2 A. Yes.
Q. And the request that you made c
Mulligan to return the letters to you va
in consequence Of request from Blaine
A. Yes.
@. State what this letter was tha
Blaine was especially anxious to get holl
of? A. A letter relating to the Norther
Pacific Railroad Co.
@. Was that the one he was particr
lariy anxious TO get2 A. Yes.
@. How did he know that Mulliga
had such letter? A. l think Blaine ma
lhaye asked me whether such letter wl
there, and l probably told him believe
there was.
Q. Did you tell him the contents
any OF the other letters that Mulligan hat
A. / don't think l did.
Witness said he was in Atkins rool
when Blaine refused to deliver the letter
to Mulligan.