Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-06-07
TELEGRAPHIC.
BLAINE's BADNESS,
As Shown up BY Multi
gan's Testimony
Bids Fair to End in q Glorious
Triumph


Bids Fair to End in a Glorious |
Triumph
For the Maine Man and the Re
publican Party.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Mr. Multi
gan was recalled and testified in an
swer to Mr.. Blaine, that the letters
referred to did not contain any allu-
sion to Tom Scott or the Union Pacific
bonds, or the $4,000 The only bonds
that witness knows of going into the
hands of Blaine was $4,000 worth
which Blaine received one day.
Elisha Atkins was:recalled and tcsti-
fed that he never said before Multi.
gan that Blaine owned the Little
Rock land grant bonds that went to
the U. Z. Company; never said so to
anybody.
Warren Fisher recalled.-Neyer
suggested to Blaine in letter that
Blaine obtained money through Col.
Scott by selling Little Rock bonds to
the U. I. Company. Witness thought
Blaine said after he got letters from
Mulligan that witness title to those
letters was superior to his and that
Blaine offered them to witness. In
answer to the chairman, witness said
he got a telegram from Blaine before
he left Boston. 1t read MComc to
Washington without fail" This was
before witness was subpnnaed. wit.
ness arrived at Washington on Tues
day and met Blaine Immediately
went to his house from the hotel.
Blaine subsequently sent a note ask
ing Muiligan and myself to come to
his house. Do not remember wheth-
en- he said he wanted to see us about
that Aquilla Adams publication.
Blaine sent for Mulligan possibly
three times. Witness knew that Null
ligan was bringing the letters which
Blaine now has to Washington and
approved of it. Mulligan has always
held them; had written to Blaine
about settlement, and Blaine an
swered that he had lost money Inv
these bonds, which he took back from
ms Maine friends. Witness then said
to Blaine that he had got a portion of
OF those bonds off at good price. He
drew this inference from some re-
marks of Mr.. Atkins, who spoke of
the reorganization of the Little Rock
railroad and the necessity of obtain
ing large proportion of those stand
ing bonds of that road. Witness
asked Atkins where the bonds came
from, and got the impression that
Blaine owned them. Atkins didn't
mention SCOTS name, but it was long
ago and his memory might err there-
in. In witness correspondence he
may have written Blaine as though he
had gotten of the bonds of the Union
Pacific Company at good price did
not remember of Blaine referring to
that matter; heard a letter read, in
which Blaine said substantially that
If he did get those bonds off at a good
price he didn't hold the money long
that 1t went to his friends i'm Maine
have known Mulligan sixteen o,
twenty years intimately, and his char.
acter is as good as any | ever knew
never heard his truthfulness question
ed. l have demanded these letters OF
Mulligan since came here. The first
time did it of my own accord, and
the second time at the request OF
Blaine. l intended to keep them if
got them. Blaine asked me to gel
them Tuesday night, ] think, before
Mulllgan alluded to them i'm his ties.
timony. Subsequently witness said
ne thought it was after Mulligan had
alluded to the letters that Blaine
asked him to procure the letters.
There was one letter that Blaine was
very anxious to get. 1t related to the
Y. L. Railroad; probably told him
that Mulligan had such a letter:
don't think told him the contents OF
any Of the other letters MulIigan had.
l was in Atkins room when Blaine
refused TO deliver the letters to Null
ligan; l believe Mulligan told Blaine
that he had gotten those letters I'm
stairs in his room under promise to
return them; Blaine said he had the
letters; Mulligan said he should keep
these letters, and in case his state
ments were questioned or doubted by
anybody, he would publish them.
HIS purpose was to appear right be-
fore the world and vindicate himself.
otherwise than from walking the
floor little, Blaine did not appear
excited during the interview at At
kins room, or when he saw him at
his house.
Rlaine-l desire to call attention 10
the fact that there are but SOS. eco of
land bonds sold to the State of Maine
people, according to the evidence i'm
the memorandum book produced by
Mulligan.
The Chairman-I notify Won now.
Mr.. Fisher, as witness snbpnnaei
before this committee, that if you get
those letters you must not destroy
them.
Witness-I will not destroy them,
sir.
Blaine-And will pledge myself
as witness before the committee
that the person having them will not
destroy them,
by Blaine-Did i offer you these
letters in the presence of Atkins?
Ans.-You did.
| Ques.-Did do it once, or twice :
Ans.-You offered them to me sew
eral times.
| Ques.-I offered them to YOU with
emphasis and l did not call Atkins
attention to the fact that now Of
fered to you those letters, and If you
did not choose to take their custody |
would.
Ans.-Yes, I said would not re.
ceive them.
Mr.. Blaine promised Mulligan that
nc would bring the letters hack to the
hotel between q aad 10 o'clock the
same night no got possession of them
that he did return to the hotel at
the time promised, but did not see
Mulligan.
by Mr.. Blaine-I did not sec Null
ligan, because Mulligan was not in
the room. l went to the room where
he had boon, and | was thore by agree
ment, but he wasn't.
Mr.. Mulligan-I was in the hotel
all night. / was in the room when
he came back with the letters, and l
stayed there for some time, and they
talked to me q long time about these
letters. l told them plainly that l
would talk no longer upon the SUBJ
ject. He refused to deliver me the
letters and l went out.
FOREIGN.
| LONDON, June, 2.-The Berlin cor
respondent of the Times remarks that
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