The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-08

SWer.
Mr.. Knott--I have received a dispatch
purporting to be from Caldwell. How
did you know received one?
Mr.. Blaine advancing down the aisle)
When did you get the dispatch ?
Mr.. Knott--l want you to answer my
question first.
Mr., balne-l never heard of it unit!
yesterday.
Mr.. Knott-How did Won hear it?
Mr.. Blaine-I heard you got a dispatch
last Thursday morning from Josiah Cald-
well exoneratirg me completely and ab.
solutely from this charge and with great
NeheHence ot mannerl you have sup
pressed it. Loud applause and cheer
ing on the Republican side of the House
md in the GALLERIES, which caused the
Speaker pro trm. to lecture the galleries,
ind to direct the doorkteper to clear the
aoor Of all unauthorized persons.
Aller some time spent in having order
restored, Mr.. Blaine again returned to
lhe charge, and demanded of Mr.. Koott
N answer to his question.
n Mr., Knott (cunlemptuously)-I will
9lswer when get ready. Go on with
your speech.
\ Mr.. BIaine-I offer the followi G reso-
lUtion:
RcsOlred, That the Judiciary Commit
fee be instructed to report forthwith to
The House whether, in acting under the
resolution Of the House. of May I'd, rela-
i've TO the purchase Of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company of seventy.five land
grant bonds of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad Company, said commit
zee has sent any telegram to one Josiah
in Europe, and received re.
ply thereto; and if 80, that the committee
,eport said telegram and reply, with the
date when said reply was received and
The reason why the same has been sup
pressed, or whether tine committee has
heard from Josiah Caldwell in any other
way and what.
The gentleman (Knott) intended to
ronvey the idea that had some illegiti.
mate knOwleg" of how that dispatch was
obtained. have had no communication
from Caldwell, and no means of know
ibg from the telegraph Office when it was
received bul tell the gentleman from
Kentucky that murder will ont, and that
secrets will leak. l am prepared to state
tothis House that at O'clock, or there
allnnt last Thursday morning, the gen
lleman from Kentucky received al d re-
ce3pted for a message addressed to him
fI{Im j. Caldwell, in London, entirely cor
rdboratil g the testimony of Thomas A.
Scott, which Caldwell had Just read in a
New York newspaper, and entirely ex'
culpating me from the charges which
am bound to believe from the suppression
Ofthe dispatch the gentlemen are anx-
lous to fasten upon me. | move the pre-
vitus question OIL the resolution.
Mr., Holman suggested that the resou'
lion could only be voted for under sus'
peflsion Of the rules.
Mr.. Blaine-Not at all. The resolu'
tioH embraces the highest of privileges.
andinvolves the good faith and standing
Of The Judiciary com mittee.
#Mr. Hunton, the chairman of the sub
committee, stated that he would make Il
short statement of the matter to which
the gentleman (Blaine) had alluded, and
he trusted he would do it calmly, dispas.
and fairly. The House had
witnessed this morning a remarkable,
not to say an unexampled scene. Dur
ing this session two resolutions had been
adopted by the House, each of which or.
dprsh an investigation; each of which
hadlbern referred to the Judiciary COM
mittse by the House, and each of which
had been referred to a sub committee
Of Ashe, Lawrence and him
elf Before that committee had reach.
ed any conclusion, or had finished taking
testimony, an effort was made by the
party who was supposed to be most Deep
ly concerned in those investigations, to
take eConsiderati' of those questions and
10 report on them in person, He need
not remind the House what sort of re-
port would C me from that committee, if
The gentleman from Maine was allowed
to mnkeit. After the House had order
ed an investigation, it was not only un-
but entirely against legisla
tive practice for gentleman to rise and
undertake to anticipate the conclusions
Of committee, or 10 state what the ac-
ion of the committee had bten. when
The sub committee was organized the
gentleman from Maine had expressed
himself not only satisfied but pleased
with It's personnel, and now the gentle
man told the House he had learned, first
from the committee, that he was the
Darty to be investigated, and not the Un-
ion Pacific railroad company. So far
from that being 81, the first that he
Hunton) had heard from any member
IF the House, or OF the committee on the
subject was from Mr.. Blaine himself, to-
he effect that the resolution offered by
Mr.. MrbOx attached to him, and that he
wanted the investigation commenced on
A given cay, and proceeded with as much
dispatch as possible. On the very day
fixed the investigation had begun, and
from that day to this, every hour that
he committee could devote to it, had
been devoted. except when the gentle
man himself prevented it. -
SOuluS uOWA W Jio mulIlBhu uldlJeTJ
Mr.. Hunton spoke of Mulligan as a BOs.
on gentleman, whose character was un-
mpeaChed and unimpeachable. He said
Fisher had been asked the question on
he stand what kind of man Mulligan
VAS, and that the reply was substantially
f not literally, that MulIigan was as good
rs he ever knew, if not the best man hel
ever knew, and Mr.. Atkins, another wit
ness, had made substantially the same
answer. Mulligan had mentioned, when
lnder examination, that he had certain
etters, and mention of those letters
seemed to have immediate effect upon
Mr.. Blaine, who Immediately whispered
% Mr.. Lawrence TO move an adjourn
nent; and Mr. Lawrence had got up with
'olemnity on his countenance, and said:
'Mr. Chairman, am very sick" Laugh
er. '. .....
Mr.. Lawrence rose 10 explain.
Mr. Hunton-I hope the gentleman is
better to day. Laughter.
Mr.. Lawrence-I ask my colleague
when | went into the commit
ee room that morning, 1 did not say |
lad been exceedingly sick. l was so,
lick it was very difficult to be there at|
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