The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-14
THE BLAINE SCANDALS.
Mr.. ]. B. Stewart in Response to
the Witness Green.
THE LAT7ER'S TESTIMONY ENTIRELY FALSE
The Ex-Speaker Cultless Of Any Connection
With the Kansas Pacific Railroad Bonds.
MAsulxGrox. Juno Is. 1879.

WAsuISGroS juno Is, 1874
As the telegraph has advised you the Judiciary
Committee by whom the alleged Blaine scandal isundeF-
going investigation adjourned the further hearing oil Wit
for weeks that interval being granted M.
Blaine allow him air opportunity OF recovery. In
view OF tho favorable opinion given of his maIady By
Mr. Baines physicians Suspicion Is entertained that
this long postponement was meant 70 make
tho Cincinnati Convention believe him sickes
than be is. On the other hand tho action
Of tho committee was taken at time
when Mr. Blaine generally regarded dangerously
Ill. and the weeks postponement does not there
fore, at all unreasonable In this connection II u
asserted by leading democratic membcrs-and tho word
leading Is used with full knowledge Of the meaning, u
the special sense OF the term referring to gentemen
who acknowledged chief in directing
the action Of tho democratic majorty-thAt
there matters behind which will be
brought Mr.. Blaine II he should DO nominated,
that would prove initial him. One OF these gentemeD
said the republican party could not elect Mr. Blaine.
He spoke candidy, and enjoys reputation Tor alwayl
acting honoraby, sometimes at the expense OF
political advantage II will be remembered that hs
branch OF investigation broken or by Mr.. Blanes
sickness was his alleged corrupt receipt Of
fifteen bonds OF the Kansas Pacific Railroad
The witness Green, who was to show
that the Blaine referred TO in the menoran DUN OF ]
II when he got before tho committee. MI. Stewart
turns up and his testimony cannot be taken ioi
two weeks He volunteers at tins juncture IN justice "a
Mr. Blaine, statement which Is quito ut variance with
what Green has said rho uIl statement Will DO given
10 tbe public the morning through tho columns OF
the National Republicans. Meantime, the following Is
the more important portion Of it,
MR.. STEWARDS STATEMENT
state a fact and shall testify when have an
opportunity that every word testified to by Mr. Green
from the time he sworn until he departed from the
witness stand and except such matters as no read
unAt an iran tni ri nh No(V
false and even those matters which hc quoted no made
false by placing them in false connection and burden
the first place Mr.. Thompson A. Green
acted counsel for in any
and certainly not in my suit against the Kansas Pacific
halfway Company. In the second place, Mr. Green ha
stated what positively false when he says upon oath
or otherwise that at any time or place or under any
circumstances or Tor any purpose used or mentioned
the namo Hon James 9. Blame" or "Congress-
man Blame" speaker Blaine" any
othor coguomcn or sooriquet which meant
could the Hon. james q. Blaine.
representative Congress from Maine reference to
any bonds any subject OF litigation pending betwoon
myself and the said Kansas Pacific Railway Company
the Circuit Court OF the United States for the District
OF Kansas elsewhere, and any and all statements
made charge TO be gratuitous and false
In the third place, Mr.. Green states what IL abso-
usy false T S hs says sso t1a' at amy %s
any other amount Of bonds whatever wore paid TO or
delivered to me to procure tho passage Of any act
OF Congress or to promote any Legislation whatever
for the benefit of said railway company.
In tho fourth place, the statements OF Mr. Green,
Mobilicr proceeding In connection with the arrange
ments under and by which the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company constructed their line OF road Is absolutely
| false.
The truth is that Mr.. Green when tcstifyng before
the committee as READ his testimony, seems TO have
sworn, iirs that he had no knowledge whatever
cerning any OF the matters about which he testified,
such he derived from certain records OF
pending In the Circuit and supreme courts Of tho
United States, which seems to should have pre-
vented his testying beyond the simple production Of
SAID records; that IS, the suits entitled Joseph B.
Stewart the Kansas Pacific Railway Company and
Ellen Hailett ct al Tho Kansas Paclic Railway
Company, both Of which still undetermined. But
this witness, after thus limiting his knowledge TO the
OF these records proceeds 10 read various and
copious extracts the same and Then hrs
conclusions founded such eadn Is, and every
as well the rulings anu decisions OF the courts
founded thereon, and In this way manufactures hia
assault upon Mr.. Blaine and upon the
integrity and transactions Of the Kansas Pa
citc Railway Company, about which he ID
ignorant in fact, as he is willing to bear false test-
mony. The only thing stated beyond the contents
OF these records to which no testified his own
differences from them or his own conclusions,
and Inly imagine rom my knowledge Of the
and the erLity OF his inventive genus that he
cooked up his story for the purpose OF obtaining ride
10 the Centennial Exposition ut the government OK
pcnse Certain II Is that all his statements involving
Hon James G.. Blaine and tho business TRANSACTIONS
OF the Kansas Pacific Railway Company arc entirely
uratu