The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-06

Mr.. Hunton, chairman OF the sub.com'
mittec, stated that he would make n short
statement Of the matter to which the
gentleman (Blaine) had alluded, and he
trusted that he would do il calmly, dis
passionately andfairly. Tho House had
witnessed this morning remarkable not
10 say pnexampled scene during this
session. Two resolutions had beer
adopted by the House, each Of which
ordered an investigation, each Of which
had been referred 10 the Judiciary Com
mittee by the House, and each oI
which had been by that committee
referred to subcommittee, consisting Of
Ashe, Lawrence and himself. Before that
committee had reached any conclusion,
or had finished taking testimony, an ef-
fort was made by the gentleman who was
supposed to be most deeply interested in
these Investigations TO take the consider.
alton OF these questions from an organ Of
the House and to Rport upon them in
person. He need not remind the House
what sort OF report would come from
that committee II the gentleman from
Maine we're allowed to make il. After the
House had ordered an investigation il
was not only unexampled but entirely
against legislative practice for gentle
man to rise and undertake 10 anticipate
the conclusions Of the committee, or IA
state what the action OF the committe had
been. When the sub committee was or.
.ganized tho gentleman from Maine had
expressed himself not only satisfied but
pleased with its personel, and now that
gentleman complained that two membeTs
OF the subcommittee were ex-confeder.
ates. At the instance. OF the gentleman
from Maine a day had been appointed on
which the subcommittee was 10 enter up
on its duties, and now the gentleman told
the House that he had learned first from
the subcommittee that he was the party
to be investigated. and not the U. Il. K
Co. So far from that being 10, the first
that lie (Hunton) had heard from any
member Of the House or Of the committee
on the subject Was from Mr.. Blaine to
the effect that the resolution offered by
Mr.. Tarbox attached to him and that he
wanted the investigation commenced on a
given day and proceeded with as much
dispatch as possible. On the very day
fixed the investigation had begun, and
from that day to this,eyery hour that the
committee could devote to it had been de.
voted 10 il, except when the gentlemen
himself prevented it. More than two
weeks had been lost to the committee be-
cause Of the conduct Of the gentleman
from Maine, and now that gentleman
tried to make the impression that il
was the purpose Of the committee to pro-
long the investigation for some sinister
purpose. He might just as we'll have said
that it was the purpose Of the committee
to postpone it until after the l4th Of
June. Every member OF the committee
would bear him witness that the commit:
tee had worked In season and out oi sea-
son, sitting on one occasion nearly
the entire day. in sorder 10 &c,
through the investigation prior to
the l4th,oi June. Every delay that had
occurred had been either because the
gentleman from Maine was absent or
RED edhesled Adjournment In regard to
the Northern Pacific and Kansas Pacific
RAILROAD investigations, he had told
Blaine that The committee would take up
the first matters which touched him il lie
desired. Blaine had desired the commit
tee 10 DO so, and yet he seemed very much
surprised now to find that an investiga-
ton was TO be undertaken by the coul-
nlittce that involved an examination
into these Pacific railroads, and il was
prolonged, and prolonged, and prolonged,
while the committee had agreed for his
sake and for his purpose to stop all other
inquiry under Mr., Luttrell's resolution