The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-04
WASHINGTON NOTES
Ne Strongly Hints that Blainc's IllCss Was
A Disguise to 0bstruCt investigation
Hale Frye, HOar and McCreary
Reply with Intense Severity.

WASHINGTON, August 8. The presi
dent has nominated Henry L. French
OF Massachusetts,, Secretary Of tin
Treasury, vice Burnam, resigned.
/ House; The report eXouerating Mr.
Knott from culpabiIity In the matter
OF the Caldwell dispatch, was presen
teh and made the text Of II speech 10y
Mr.. Knott, In which no declared him
self perfectly satisfied with the unnnn.
NOUS eXone,ation he had received
from the committee. lie read para,
graph from u Philadelphia newspaper
which reiterated the charge that ht
had UNANIMOUSLY suppressed the Cald
well dispatch. He regretted the alb
sence OF the gentleman from Maine,
and alluded to his sublime acting
which accompanied the resolution
that gave rise to this investigation. II
was said that Blaine was III, That the
hand Of God was upon him, but Mr.,
Knott strongly limited that his illness
WAS n disguise, and only a further
cover to the past, and an obstruction
to the invegtigati0n. He then refer
red to the attacks OF the partisan press,
inspired by Mr., Blaine, upon him and
went extensively into the history o;
the Blaine investigation, summarized
the testimony of Harrison, Scott and
Rollins. H. regard to the testimony
of the latter Mr.. Knott said his evil
dencc, taken ms whole, had corrob.
grated the leading statements Of Har.
rsun before the committee, aud had,
besides LEFT the impression 1t was nee
cssary TO get Caldwells testimony.
When the committee proposed how
ever, to telegraph Caldwell, Blaine OBJ
jected, but perhaps Blaine had good
reasons for raising these objections
lie went on to rehearse the story of the
Caldwell telegram, and said that rs
soon W he received il he thought it ex
tremely fresh, and 1t then occurred tn
him ii was n scheme cOucOctcd Oh this
side of the Atlantic to make the Judi
Ciary committee, and the House itself,
the instrument Of perpetrating fraud
on the people. lie was convinced
o: II, he said, on hearing Mulligan re.
late the circumstances of his famous
interview with Blaine, where in grovel-
ling, and AFFECT terms, he implored
Mulligan not to destroy him, and where,
in plnce Of returning the letters, Blaine
cody put them in his pocket. He sub
mitted, that after that, he had ample
grounds for believing that Blaine
would not scruple to he Il party to the
connecting of the Caldwell Telegram, or
anything else that would tend to pro-
mote his private or political ends. lie
sent II dispatch TO Caldwell
which he had cOncOcted TO suit his
ends and Caldwell had adopted it, but
he would Just as readily have adopted
II dispatch requesting him to say that
Blaine stood 10y and gave directions
when God Almighty wheeled the dirt
OF which the world was mnde. Mr.
Knott, who was i'll, labored under
great difficulty while speaking so that
much of his speech was uninteligable,
Mr. Frye replied to Knots speech.
He said he did not know when he was
more panied than he was to-day, or
when his feelings had been 80 woun-
ded as they had been to-day. An at
tempt by him to review the testimony
under Mr.. Tarbox's resolution was en-
tirely unnecessary, and an attempt to
review and pronounce judgement on 1t
10y the gentleman from Kentucky
when that case had been postponed
until next December, was without the
slightest Justification In honor or par
liamentary law. That testimony,
when it was reported to the House,
would convince beyond doubt every
honest, sincere seeker after truth that
Blaine had aught to do with the sew
enty thousand dollars of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith bonds that were
purchased by Scott of Caldwell, and
sold to the Union Pacific Railroad
company. None but mind filed
with jealousy, filled with malice, filled
with wicked purpose, would dare pro.
nounce judgment on peer Of his own
on the floor of the House.
Mr.. lIunton, member of the Judlci-
airy committee, referred to remark
mode by Mr.. Frye, to the effect that
no member of the sub committe had
even lingering suspicion that Blaine
had anything to do with the Little
Rock and Fort smith bonds,
Mr.. Frye Linterrupting, Did | not
say any gentleman with IN honest I'M
prejudiced mind on the Republican
side?
Mr.. Hunton--Does the gentleman
mean to say that | am noton that list?
Mr. Frye--You heard the remark
which | made, If you deem II necessa-
ry, you may draw your own infer
ence.
Mr.. Hunton Did you intend that
inference to be drawn?
Mr.. Hoar-I rise to u question OF or.
der. 1t il not in order for one gentle.
man to address another directly.
Mr.. Douglass, who was standing he
side Hunton, suggested TO him to In
sist on a categorical answer.