The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-04

MOTION, MT HAHRISON gave the covert
n vigorous prod aud sont him bound
Ing out. Mr. IIARRssor went be-
foro tho judiciary Committed, and
having sworn to the facts ne he
got them from Rollins, Mr.. BLAINE
seemed to be fairly on the road to meet
SCHUYLER CoiFAx.
But Mr.. BLAINE had great many
powerful friends who were not going
to see him ruined for tribe OF s0i.O 600.
He had helped thcm to millions of
the public money and emplro. cut from
the public domain Being Speaker and in
point OF fact autocrat of the Republican
House Of Representa- vos, he had run IL
for years IN the interest OF the railway and
subsidy jObbor-. and was 20 proud of has
position, rs the servant Of these swindlmg
corporations, that he wrote letters over his
own signature calling attention TO his
"iuportant rulings for their benefit, and
insisting thar he GA yht not to be forgotten
when the pluuder was TO be distributed.
They had not forgotten him then, but glvo
him shares la Little Rock aud Fort Smith,
shares III Northern Pacific. Sioux City, and
pretty much everything else.
Nor could they forget him now. There
were great possibilities OF usefulness in
him still. and they regarded him az
the most valuable man TO them that
had ever been in public life. He was
worth thousand CoLFAXEs. There was
no man on the Credit Mobilier list who
was to be compared to him IN ability as "a
parliameutarlau, in influence as u party
leader, or in adroitness rs u jobber. He
had succeeded in extricating himself from
the CAKES AMEs exposure, and but for the
extreme folly of some of his associates, he
would have performed the same service
for the whole batch of detected Credit
Mobilier congressman.
Col. Ton SCorT was under especial obli-
CATION to him. Mr. BLAINE had always
been, from the day OF his appearance
in Congress, Col. SCoTT's most obliging
friend and servant. Mr. ScoTT, there
fore, and the entaiprising gentlemen
throughout the country who build rail-
ways on the capital OF tho United
States, and theu gut them by means Of
contract companies, had selected the ex-
Speaker as their candidate for Centennial
President, and it was plaln that II they de-
sired 10 preserve him for the greater ser
vices which they had every reason TO ex
pect AT his hands, they must find way to
rescue him from the terrible HARRISON
charge. They knew rs well as BLAINE or
HARRISON did that he got the money, but
the fact only strengthened their hold upon
him, and made him all the dearer to them
II he had been innocent, If he had been
laaa sI.aa hpft
they could have spared him more easily,
and would probably have organized no
effort To save him. But ia IL was. they
calmly and deliberately determined to
furnish sufficient evidence to make u case
for him. and having had large experience
in that line, they entered upon the bust
ness with Astounding confidence.
When Mr.. ROLLINS at the time troa-
surer Of the Union Pacific, was sworn as "a
witness, the poor mans memory failed
him entirely He had only very vague
recollection OF the conversation with HAIR
RIsoN. and could not recall definitely a
word that passed. In justice to Mr.. Roll
LINs II ought 10 be said that he hcsitated
aud bogelcd over the Job assigned to him
but he got through with ii in his weak
and pitiable style, and IN due time was
elected Senator from New Hampshire for
his pains. He was succeeded by Mr.. WILL
SON, by ROBINSON, and the rest, who said
their pieces under oath very creditably,
considering all the circumstances.
But the most remarkable Of Mr.. BLAINE's
witnesses were Col. TON SCOTT and Mr..
SIDNEY DILLON, the latter President and
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cifc. Both of them would have preferred
to testify without the sanction of an oath.
Col. SCOTT therefore, wrote letter
to Mr. DILLON, aud Mr.. DILLON wrote
n letter 10 somebody else. They both
" INDICATED" SIR. BLAINE IN sweeping
style. Neither the President nor the ex-
| President had ever heard of Mr.. BLAINI
having any pecunary transaction with the
! Union Pacific. But Col. SCorT was dread
fully scandalizcd, and his sensitive nature
was deeply wounded at the bare mention
OF such thing. He spoke feellngy anC
touchingly OF the sacredness of indlvldua
character and OF the increasing tendency
to cast unjust imputatlons upon the repu-
tations Of Christian statesmen. For him
self, he said, he was man Of ret iring anc
modest disposition, and would not for the
world be involved in any public coutro
versy. He might have said, timid soul
that every page of his eventful life sho weC
how difficult it was to drag him into a
lobby, or extract his testimony before IA
committee There is the Judiciary Com
mittee, at Washington engaged this very
moment in grave inquiry oonoerni ne
sundry frauds and corruptions supposed tc
have been praotised in behalf of Col
SCorTs Texas Pacific, and that shame.
faced gentleman has never gone near u
press the matter forward. When Col WM
HOPKINS, chairman of "A committee Of thu
Pennsylvania LEGISLATURE, showered sub
pmnas in every direction in search of him
hoping TO get from him Mt least surmisC
rs TO how the tonnage tax on the Penusyl-
wanna Railroad was repealed, the modes
gentleman led thedeputies of the Sergeant
alarms wild chase from one end OF tn
country to the other rather than appear II
public. II was no doubt, solely beoaus
OF his extreme shyness that Col. SCOT
contented himself with mere genera
vindcation" OF Mr.. BLAINE, ana care
fully avoided mentioning the particular
In relation to the S0i, 600, which mysteri
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