Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09
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4 testified that be never went with Ha
ney to Kerr's room. His testimoI
IL shows that Harvey had lived disrepl
tably in Washington in 1866.
The House is calling the ayes an
Is nays on the motion to refer a esolt
= ton that present legIslat on on til
n tariff is inexpedlent to. the ways an
means committee.
WASHINGTON, June 5-Night-H oUs
u The tariff resolution Was referred b
t a vote of Ia to SO, which is equivc
2 lent to killing it.
o Neal offered bill repeating the re
, sumption act and called for the pre-
Z vious question.
3 Kasson raised the point that no no
: tlce had been given of the bill, there
, fore it was not in order.
The Speaker, Mr.. Cox, sustained
the point, and Holman appealed.
Morrison moved to table the appeal
which was carried by vote of ID:
to IS.
Blaine rose to a personal exp,ana-
ton. He read the resolution offered
by Tarbox, author of the resolu
ton, who at the time declaim q any
particular allusion to Blaine. Elaine
said it soon become entirely obvious
aimed at him. The Union Pacific mat
ter or any ether incident to investiga-
tlon was secondary, insignificant and
unlmportant. He did not care for
that but was ready to meet it. He
had expected an enlly report but, it
had been prolonged prolonged !
prolonged It (the committee had
no sooner got through with the last
charge than, without the slightest no
tee, another committee had entered
on All investigation specially aimed at
| HIM. SO there were three inVestiga-
! lions going on at the same time and
none OF them completed. He under
stood Mr.. Huntou proposed still anoth-
or i'll Iulty about the Kansas Pacific, II
transaction which was fifteen years
old, even if it existed, and Was also
| aimed ut him. Now he would say and
say it boldly, that under these general
! powers to Investigate specific railroad
! companies the whole engineering of
the committees was aimed personally
at him. Why did they not orga lize
committee to investigate James q.
Blaine. He wanted to meet the
thing squarely. He didn't wish to
stir up any blood on this ques-
ton, but he would say that
ever since certain debate took place
| in the House in January last it had
been known that there were gentle
men here whose feelings had been ex-
asperated against him and it was to
be remarked while there were seven
democratic members of the Judiciary
committee the chairman of that COM
mittee, Mr.. Knott, selected on the sub
committee to which these matters had
hnan rafarro1 tun oon,horo fr0n, fI,o
South who had been in the rebel
army.
Mr.. Knott-The matter of that rail
road investigation was referred O the
sub committee before I ever heard
your name mentiored in connection
with it; [ had no act or part in melting
any investigation duplicating you at
all.
Blaine proceeded to narrate the
progress of the investigation, and
said: "and while finally the witness
Mulligan came here loaded with i'll
formation in regard to the Fort |
Smith railroad then Senator Hinton |
drew out what he knew had no refer |
ence whatever to the question under |
investigation, and then and there in
sisted on all my private memoranda
being allowed to be exhibited by this
man Mulligan, which had no more
connection or relation with this inves,
tigation than with the North Pole.
He tried his best also until, l be-
heve. that idea has been abandoned,
to capture and use and control my
private correspondence. This man
had selected ont of a correspondence
running over a great many years letters
which he thought would be peculiarly
Hn tn He harQ tna6aH |
with them. He came here for SEN
sation. He came here primed. He
came here on that particular errand.
He was advised of it, and obtained
those letters under certain circum
stances which have been notoriously
scattered throughout the United
States and are known everywhere.
| have them (hOlding up PACKAGE.
| claim that [ have the entire right to
these letters, not only by natural right
but on all the precedents and princi-
pies of law The man who held them
in his possession held them wrong
fully and the committee which at
tempted to take the letters from this
man for use against me proceeded
wrongfully. It proceeded in the bold
est and most defiant violation of the
ordinary personal and private rights
that belong to every American citizen.
l am willing to meet the Judiciary
committee on that point. 1 wanted
that committee to introduce it. L
wanted the gentleman from Kentucky
(Knott) and the gentleman from Vir-
ginia (Hunton) to introduce that
question ON the floor and they did not
do it.
Knott Tin his seat) Oh, no. You
want to be made martyr of.
Blaine-Yes. and you did not want
it. There is the difference. [ will 60
a little further and say that you did
not dare to do it.
Knott-We will not talk about "dar-
ing"
Hamilton of New Jersey-I rise to
Il Iquestiun of order. Is the gentle
mans language parliamentary
Blaine-Yes, entirely SO.
The Speaker pro tenn, Cox of New
York in the char-It is for the chair
to decide.
Blaine-I understand the judiciary
committee to have abandoned thaO
issue against me, but there has gone
forth the idea or impression that be-
cause l would not permit that man,
or any man whenI could prevent, from
holding as menace over my head my
private correspondence there must be
something in it most deadly ard dis
tructive to my reputation. I would
like any gentleman on this floor, and
all them are supposed 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 to have his private correspond
ence for the last ten or twelve years
handed over and made public. Mr..
Blaine said he proposed to read these
letters to the House to silence SANDER
and check surmise. There was de- |
cided sensation and applause. He
then held up package of letters, read
ing them rapidly occasionally stopping
to make some explanation. and as he
concluded handed them over to his |
private secretary, who stood near
him. Blaine charged the chair
man of the committee, Knott, |
with suppressino q telegram from |