Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-08-08

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ton and spend months sorting over THIS prVhc
correspondence of private gentlemen. dlsgraclnx
themselves and outraging the American Congress
All because the necessities Of the party seemcd
10 require IL.
Why is IL that digniled committee like that Oh
the judiciary is parceled out into squads oil detec
tIves, and. notwithstanding their dignity, compei-
ed 10 prowl around among discharged enployess
of the Treasury Department, among disgraceo
off cias, among whisky-ring convlcts, seeking 10
prove that the great executive head OF the ULrted
States too has been dabbline in whisky frshds ?
why would that committee dare 10 drag in the
mire the great name of this great Republic before
the eyes Of the whole world. There Ia but one
answer: The necessities If the party seemed to
Why, when n member of this House was charg-
ed with selling a cadetshp for 81, oo0 did the sub
ommitiee of the judiclgr? spend months upon the
case, and then when they found that there was
not a seintila Of evidence against their colleague
and their poor on the floor of this House, ana
were compelled TO report his eNculpation, why,
say, did they in elk of the pages OF that eNcuiph
ton report seek TO cover him with the iniamy oil
gross and wicked suspicious: that report never
signed or voted for by but four members OF the
committee while the minority report which now
have in my desk, and which fully and completely
exculpales the gentleman from Alabama, Ar.
HAYS il signed by five members OF that com
mittce.
Why did a man of dignity, OF learning, OF hon.
esty, when a witness was before the Committee on
the Judiciary, ask him, "What il the name OF MI
Hays" CHARLES" "Did You every hear him
called by any other name ~ mo sir" Did you
ever hear him named by some other name NJ; 40
something else - mo, SIR seeking To call out
the fact against colleague on the floor OF this
House that partisan papers OF the1 democratic
party and the ipartisans themselves had labeled
him "Ananissn Hays, because he had sent from
the State of Alabama accounts OF Ontrages com.
mitted there Why would that gentleman descend
to that he never would dream of doing it In any
courthouse in the country. All because the
Cessities of the parry demanded II.
Why did the same colimittee demand the pri-
vate correspondence of II distinguished member
Of this House, in no manner relating TO the case
in hand; and when 10 was refused, why did the
partisan press Gil the public mind with gross and
wicked suspicion until IN sei.deiense that gen
millions of people! The necessities OF great
party demandde 10
Aud so might 20 on by the hour, but have
only fifteen minutes. ! now put the same question
10 the House and 10 the country As 10 this Com.
mittee on Naval Affairs: Why did you sit with
closed doors for months, taking TOUR thousand
printed pages of testimony Why dad you close
the mouths OF the republican members Of that
committee, so that they could not make an inquiry
10 obtain information in relation ~ this eNamina
ton And when you had got through your tax
ing of testimony, why did you make this report,
for which there is no foundation from beginning
down TO it, very end?
Why did the gentleman from Alabama Mr..
Lewis yesterday and why did the gentleman nom
Texas Mr.. Mills to-day assert what they did as
.ort 10 regard To the Csttell performance, or the
"CaitelIismi as they termed IL Why did the
gentleman from Teras assert that j. T.. Cattel
testified that he expended $1,000 for Secreiary
Robson upon palace az Long Branch. when the
gentleman from Texas knew rs well ~ ! know,
because have read the testimony, that +. g. Cat
tell was acting as the agent OF A. q. Cattell As
Ex-senator OF the United states and then absent
by virtue OF an agreement with him And he
knew further that the Secretary OF the Navy had
morIgaged or decided property IN the city OF
Washington OF three times the value Of the whole
tft- fa A all a IN he
advances which have been made. Why was the
gentleman silent as TO that All the necessities
Of the party demanded It..
Here the hammer tell
The SPEAKER pro tenpore The time OF the
gentleman has expired.
Mr. FRYE. Why have hardly commenced
my speech,
The SPEAKER pro femPors. The gentleman
from Maine Mr.. Hale yielded ten minutes OF his
time.
Mr.. HALE. yielded i've minutes more.
Mr.. FRYE. thank my colleague. why did the
gentleman from Texas Mr.. Mills read the in
come returns OF the Secretary of the Navy from
$3.50 TO lst9, when he knew a. well a. | know IT,
but was silent about, that the Secretary OF the
Navy in lSG5 paid an Income tax on $4,000, "a Y
OF over e. 100, and which the gentleman from
Texas knew would be allowed the next year "a
the payer Of the tax, and deducted from the tax
of that year. Why did he make these statements
when the Secretary OF the Navy himself testified
uurOutTAlCktu mat ne hAt Dttb 10 sen
$4,000 of United States bonds TO keep up his po'
st0n here in the city OF Washington and that all
he was worth 10 day more than he Was worth the
day he became Secretary OF the Navy came from
rise In property Why did he not say, rs Is prov
en- in the case, that the accounib books Of \ u.
Cattel 6 Co contain every item charged aga in-
Mr.. Robson
Now what is Il about the Cattellsr A. q. Cat
tell, ES.UnItcd states senator, was for twenty
years the friend OF the Secretary OF the Navy
The Secretary Of the Navy was the attorney and
counsel of A. c. Cattell Co. for ten years before
he became the Secretary OF the Navy. hence all
these business transactions between them. Now
submit TO this Hosse-fOr have not tiuie 10 eX
anime the evidence, and | ask them 10 examine
this testimony for them seycs-that they cannot
find one scintilA OF evidence IRON the beginning
TO the end of il which connects the Secretary OF
the Navy In the remotest degree with selling HE
influence 10 contractors with receiving one
dollar OF benefit from them.
On the contrary, u viii be found that the Score.
tary OF the Navy himself testified before the com.
ntee that he never received one dollar from any
contractor or for any contract; but when he heard
by public rumor that T.. G.. Cattell was endeayor-
! Ing to sell his influence with the Department, he
| the Secretary, Immediately went TO philadelphia
and informed the party IN charge there that no
such thing would be allowed Tor A moment. r.
G. Cstteli testified that the Secretary kept in
profound ignorance Of the facts, as WAS his broth
| er, A. Cattcll, 30 Tar "a II could be done.
ROacho and other contractors, two in number,
testified that the Secretary Of the Navy told them
| that under no circumstances should they pay
dollar or a cent to h. g. Cattell or any other man
in order 10 produce contracts that II he knew OF
| their doing II the contracts would not be granted
Where is the evidence that the Secretary was
| knowing 10 this commission business? There H.
not one word in the whole four thousand pages OF
testimony.
/ tncty and squarely that he never extended favor
| TO L. g Cattell or 10 any other contractor or 10
Any other purchaser OF supplies whatsoever; and
have here a list OF twenty.three leading officers
#, ha N.vv VhOm q called witnessed. all OF
them having served from twenty i've 10 forty.hye
years and every one of them having been in posi-
/ lions AS commissaries, quRrtermasters, &c. where
they had the right legally 10 purchase supplies Tor
/ periods covering the whole time that Mr.. Robson
has been Secretary OF IN. Navy, and every one OF
| them TO man Iestihes that there never was any
request for favor on the part of the Secretary vi
the Navy; that there never any favor extended by
| them; that he never directly or indirectly asked
! them TO extend favor to any living contractor or
! furnish ngman. Why does the gentleman from
! Texas Mr. Mills why do the majority ofthe Nav.
! al committee disregard all this testimony and in
their report never mention IL NJ all but go entirely
upon suspicious of their own! The necessities OF
| the party demand IL.
20" il Is said, "the Secretary of the Navy must
have got money improperly, because this Cattell
! sold his influence Gentlemen, do you not know
! that your inrunce and your votes are sold every
| day that you SIT on the floor of this House do
| YOU not know that brokers and lobbyists IN Wash
/ ington and New York are selling the votes OF the
very best of you every day that you live! Do
| you not know that they sold the vote Of Hon.
| William Pitt Fessenden for a thousand dollars
o man who could not be corrupted by all the
money In the world; whose yerenduring monu.
ment A. that he dared 10 stand up In the impeach
ment Of Andrew johnson and vote mot guilty -
against his whole party And yet, do you dare
assume that he was corrupt? DO you assume
that Congress IL corrupt! Do you assume that
| the chairman oil this committee, the gentleman
from Tennessee, 10 corrupt because some miser-
able scoundI ell sells his influence with him that he
never had, and his vote which he could never con.
troll F.. u. Cattell did this and nothing but this
yet the majority Of the Naval Committee find that
Mr.. Rebeson is corrupt because Cattell Is u
scoundrsll
Here the hammer fell.
| Coy. Hayes letter OF accordance is