New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-06


WAsHmGrON, June 5.-During tho morn
ing hour tho 6enate DISCUSSED tho EesoIur
tion Of Mr.. Sherman proposing oo0oon
pnit OF money and accounts between tne
United States and Great Britain, but took
NO action thereon.
The Senate resumed consideration Of the
legislative appropriation bill. Tho appro-
priation for tho Indian commisaioner was
restored.
Tho Senate then adjourned.
House.
The tariff resolution was refetred By >
vote Of ia to 80, which y equivalent to
killing it.
resumption act and called the previous
Mr. Kssson raised the point that nothing
had been given Of the bill, therefore II Was
speaker Kerr sustained tho point. .
Mr.. Holman appealed from the Speakers
Mr. Morrison moved to table tho appeal,
which was carried-l4 to IS.
Mr.. Blaine rose to personal explanation.
He read tho resolution offered by Ar. Tar
boz, The author of the resolution at the
time disclaimed any particular allusiOn to
Blaine. It soon became entirely obvious
thst the resolution was solely and only
aimed ct him. Tho Union Pacific or any
other. incident to investigation va second
ary, insignificant and unimportant: he
did not care for that; he was ready g
report. rss " but il had been prolonged,
PROLONGED. prolonged. It had no
sooner get through with tho Last charge,
than without the sightest notice another
committee had entered on IN tnvestagett0n
specially aimed at him, 20 there were three
investig cations going on st tho same time,
and none completed. He understood Hr.
Hunton proposed still another inquiry
about the Kansas Pacific, . transaction
which was fifteen years old, even Il It ex-
he would say, and say it boldly,
that under these general powers to
investigate specific railroad companies, the
whole engineering Of the committee was
aimed personally ct him. Why did they
not organize . commi tee to investigate ].
g. Blainei He wanted to meet the thing
squarely, he did not wish to stir up any
blood on this queetion, but he would say
that ever since certain debate took place
in tho House, in January last, II had been
whose feelings had been exasperated
against him, and it was to be remarked
that while there we're seven Democratic
members of the Judiciary Com nittee, the
chairman of that committee, Mr.. Knott,
selected ON the sub committee to which
these matters had been referred, two NOM
bers from the South who had been In the
rebel army.
investigation was referred to the sub-com-
mittee before ever heard your name mem
toned in connection with it. It has no act
or part in inciting any investigation impli-
plicatinr Won 1t ali.
Mr.. Blaine proceeds to narrate the pre-
gress of the investigation, and says finally
the witness (Mulligsn) came hero loaded
with information in regard to the Fort
Smith railroad. The gentleman tHunton)
drew ont what he knew had NO reference
whatever to the question under investiga-
tion, and then and there insisted on all my
private memoranda being allowed TO bo ex-
hibited by this man Mulligan, which had
NO more connection or relation with this
investigation than with the north pole. The
gentleman tried bis best also, until believe
that idea had been abandoned, to capture
and use and control my private CORES
pondence. This man had selected ont Of .
correspondence running over great many.
be peculiarly damaging to me; he came
here loaded with them; he came here for .
sensation; he came here primed; he came
here on that particular errand. was ad
vised of it, and have obtained these letters
under circumstances which have been mo-
toriously scattered throughout the United
States, and are known everywhere. have
them holding up packagel. claim that
l have the entire right to these letters, not
only by natural right but on all the prece-
dents and principles of law. The man who
had them in his possession held them
wrongfully, and the committee which 1T
tempted to take them from this man 70
use against me proceeded wrongfally. It PROF.
ceeded in the boldest and most defiant viola
tion of the ordinary personal and private
rights that belong to every American citi-
zen. am willing to meet the Judiciafy Com.
mlttee on that point. wanted the committee
to introduce it. wanted the gentleman from
Kentucky lKnott) and the gentleman from
ton on the floor, and they did not do it.
Mr.. Knott lin his seat)-Oh no, you
want to be made martyr of.
Mr.. Blaine-Yes, and you did not wan
il. There is the difference. l will 60 lit
further and say that you did not dare te
do it.
Mr.. Knott-We will not talk about dar-
Mr.. Hamilton, Of New Jersey-1 rise to .
question Of order. Is the gentleman's
question parliamentary?
The Speaker pro tenn. Mr.. Cox, of New
York, in the chair lit is for the chairman
to decide.
Mr. Blaine-I understand the Judiciary
Committee to have abandoned that issue
against me, but there has gone forth the
idea or impression that because would
not permit that man, or any man, when
could prevent it, from holding - menace
over my head my private correspondence.
~. hn IN -
and destructive to my reputation. would
like any gentleman on this floor, and al of
them are presumed to be men of affairs,
whose business has been varied, and whose
intercourse has been large, to stand up here
and say that he is willing and ready to have
his private correspondence for the last ten
or twelve years handed over and made pub
Lie.
Mr.. Blaine said he proposed to read these
letters to the House to silence slander and
check aurmise.
There was decided sensation and applause.
He then held mp Q package Of letters,
reading them rapidly, and casually stopping
to make some explanation, and a. he CON-
cluded handed them to his private secre-
tarv, who stood near him.
Mr. Blaine charged Mr.. Knott, chairman
of the committee. with suppreseing tele-
gram from Josiah Caldwell in Europe, en-
tirely exonerating him.
Mr. Blaine explains the Spencer contract,
to which allusion was made in one of the
letters, by saying that in the summer of
1861, two years before he first came to Con-
gress, he had been asked if he could not
get an opportunity for the inventor of the
Spencer repeating rifle to bring that new
arm to the attention of the Secretary Of
War. He said he thought he could, and he
had come on to Washington snd had IN in.
terview with with Secretary Cameron. Mr.
Cameron had given orders to have It tested
by the ordnance bureau. It he'd been
thoroughly tested, and the Experiments were