Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-09

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J. should treat my private correspoI
Is dence in that way. I then said to hin
will You ring the bell for servan
g. and tell him to send Mr.. Fisher u
'e from the lower room p He did an
Us very soon Mr.. Fisher came up and W
had little conversation in which re
II peated before Mr.. Fisher what Mr.
Is Mulligan had said, his declaration O
rather his menace, and I said: 'Thi
IS is very grossly unfair, Mr.. Fisher.
& l then said that would be glad if Mr.
!, Fisher would take charge of the let
K ters, that they were rightfully in hi
e possession or rightfully in mine, bu
e not in any third persons. Mulliga1
9 repeated again in Mr.. Fishers pres
Il ence his declaration that he woulC
S feel himself at liberty to publish those
letters at any time he saw fit if any.
S body should provoke him into wrath
: by any criticisms of his testimony and
owing to the somewhat enlarged faciii-
tics in the American press for making
l criticisms upon everybody / found
that my private correspondence hung
5 by the thread of hig taking offence ut
any Of the thousand and ono para
graphs that might be set afoat in the
papers and / said to him Under these
circumstances / will not give these let
ters up and i'll order that he might not
be mistaken as to the ground of my
action [ called Mr. Atkins from the
lower room, for [ wanted to tell him
the ground on which | stood. I said,
Il will not return these letters because
you threaten to make a use of them
which Is illegitimate, which is unfair
which is entirely unjust, and 1 have
no idea tnat any man shall take my
/ private correspondence and hold it as
n menace over my head to be used at
his beck or option for his own pur-
poses or under somebody direction
We went down stairs aud he repeated
and reatfirmed his statement with very
great emphasis, and [ said Very
good, l will retain the letters -
The Chairman-I ask at your hands
the production of those letters for the
pernsal of the committee and not for
public ltion that the committee may
see for themselves whether they bear
upon the question.
Mr. BlaineAIn private?
The Ohalrman-No, sir, with no |
privacy, but [ certainly will not make |
| them public unIess they boar upon the |
question.
Mr. Blaine-I will take occasion to |
consult my counsel i'll regard to it.
Z The Chairman-YOud decline. then.
to produce them
Mr.. Blaine-For the present [ de-
cline.
Cameron qualified as Secretary of
War and Taft IA Attorney General.
WAsHINGToN, June -Night-HoUsE
The Indian appropriation bill was
resumed and Mills and Throckmorton
spoke regarding the Fort Sill reserva~
ton. The clerk having proceeded to
read tho bill by sections Mills of Texas
offered an amendment providing for
the removal of the Apache Indians
from the Fort Sill reservation to the
Baxter Springs reservation i'll the
northeastern part Of Indian Territory.
Bland of Missouri raised the point
of order that the amendment proposed
to change the existing law and did not
retrench the expenditures, and was
not in order.
The chair ruled that the point of
order was we'll taken and that the
amendment was not before the House.
The section transferring the bureau to
the War Department was not reached
when the committee rose and the |
House took Il recess.
There will be a night session for
speeches.
SENATE The bill allowing the chan
mel of the Ohio on the south side OF
Nashville Island closed was passed.
The Senate bill to exempt all vessels
engaged in the navigation of the Mis-
slssippi river and IT'S tributaries above
the port of New Orleans from entries /
and clearances was passed.
The bill fixing the time for holding
circuit courts i'll the 18th judicial dis
trict was passed. The district in ,
clndes North and South Carolina, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.
Robertson prevented petition of ;
the colored laborers of South Caro- ,
lima. demonstrating against the ratiti-
cation of the Hawallan treaty so as to :
admit rice free of duty. I
The legislative, executive and judi :
cial appropriation bill was taken up.
The bill as amended increased the G
amount as it was passed the House by ,
about two and q quarter millions. The
first amendment restoring the salaries
of Senators and Representatives to five
thousand dollars was passed. Consider 6
able progress was mado on the bill. Ali ,
the amendments reached were adopted. !,
Boutwell's Mississippi committee
leave Monday to take testimony in that 6
State. !
The court of claims has decided to :
appoint a receiver OF the Hot Springs I
(Arkansas) reservation to collect the {
rents for the government.
Mr.. Blaine, before the committee, :
stated that he had consulted Matt +
Carpenter, and Joe Black and they ,
advised him not to produce the letters :
on the ground that 70 compel their ,
publication would be unjust and ty- Fl
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tinued, after reading the Is letters =
submitted to them that they have no. 4
relevancy to the matter in hand and |
the committee would decide the same +
way if the letters were shown to them. c
In the course of his cross-exainina- t
tion Harney testified that he worked |
for Green from friendship and never |
expected to make anything out of it. Y
He had never told d member of COnA s
gress that he could make money for {
himself by securing an appointment or 5
that his salary was inadequte to his
support.
Myer Strouse of Pennsylvania testi-
fed that he was member of Congress !
from the Schuylkill district in 1866. He
knew Lawrence Harney, who was as
sistant doorkeeper at that time. Har-
nav a number Of times asked witness
to use his influence to procure hls
friend Green ali appointment I'D the ,
army. Harney spoke of Green s char
acter as a soldier, and witness wrote a 5
letter to President Johnson III favor
of such appointments. Harhey SAID To
witness. You have influence with the
President and have always been the
soldiers friend and can help Green by {
writing letter" Harvey said to wit
ness that he (Harney) could make
little money, probably four or five hun
dred dollars, out of the business. Wit
ness told Harney that he (witne $50 had ,
nothing to do with The financial part of
the business. Witness was very intimate
with Mr.. Kerr but never saw him have
;nt with Harpay Harnav |