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


going on.
Mr. Hunton-I never intimated any
such thing. Laughter The gentleman
is raising man of straw to knock him
over. But do say that after those let
tiers we're mentioned incidentally, the
gentleman, on the suggestion of Blaine,
moved an adjournment, and put on the
ground that he was sick. An adjourn
ment was had as we did not like to keep
our colleague in misery and Distress
When Mulligan was put on the stand the
next morning, he proceeded to make
personal explanation.
HuntOn here reCoun'ed Mulligan's eX.
PLANTATION substantially as it had been
printed.
Hunton, resuming-Who has right
to complain, the gentleman from Maine
Maine or the committee? The gentleman
from Maine or this HOuse2 Here was a
witness summoned from Boston, who
did not appear as a voluntary witness
but came under compulsory process Of
the House. 1t is matter which inter
ests the House. He was entitled to the
protection of the House. 1t is a matter
which concerns the House more than
the committee. claim that according
to well settled princi pies oflaw those let
ters belonged to Warren Fisher from the
time he received them until he delivered
them 10 Mulligan, and from that time
forth Mulligan was entitled to their ow-
nership. Blaine had no more property
in those letters than he had in any piece
Of my property.
Mr.. Frye--Did not Blaine offer to sub
NIT those letters to be examined private
ly, and did not Hunton say he would
not examine them privately.
Mr.. HuntOn-I refused to receive them
privately. told Blaine, II do not want
10 see your correspondence, either pub
lcly or private. have no right to see il
as a committeeman, and those gentlemen
who sit on the other side of ME have the
same right as l have" had the honor
of an invitation from Blaine's house to
read those letters, but | replied in the
same way. 1t is for the House to deter.
mine whet er the committee did right
or wrong. If / have erred it has been
an error of Judgment, and / say to day
it is a job | never fanCied.
Mr.. Knott, Chairman of the judiciary
Committee, said he had listened to the
imputations upon himself within the asi
two hours, which, coming from differ.
ent source, he might perhaps answer diff
terently from the manner in which he
now attempted to answer them. Those
who were intimately acquainted with
him knew that he was the last man in
the world to seek personal controversy
and he assured the House that of all
men in the world the gentleman from
Maine (Blaine) was the last man with
whom he would want a controversy -
That gentleman was entirely immense in
his proportions. "Why. man he doth
bestride the narrow world like a Colossus
and we walk under his huge legs, and
peep about to find ourselves dishonora-
BILE graves" Personal con roversy seem.
ed to be that gentleman's forte. He re-
minded him of Homer's description OF
Dionlede:
"Dire was the clang and dreadful from afar,
The armed Tidedes rusl ing on to war"
As friend Of his would say, the gen.
tleman was entirely too bumptious and
usurptious for him. Laughter on the
Democratic side. Two.thirds of the
time the gentleman was in the House he
did not seem to realize whether he was
a Speaker or simply member, and to a
stranger it would be an insulable enigma
to which which he was. The gentleman
had quite unnecessarily lugged him
(Knott) into this personal matter of his
own. In the first place he had insinua-
ted that from some unworthy motive he
(Knott) as chairman of the Judiciary
committee, had appointed on a sub com
mittep which had charge of these inves-
legations, the gentleman from Virginia
(Hunton) and the gentleman from North
Carolina (Ashe), and in answer to that
he had to say, first, that either of those
gentlemen was his (Blaine's) peer in any
sense of the word, and that in point of
honor it was no dispara ement to the
gentlemen from Maine to say they were
his superior. (Hisses and other marks
of disapprObation from the Republican
side of the House.)
Mr.. Knott-That is all right. There
are three kinds of animals in the world
That hiss-vipers, geese and fools. Ap.
jplause, In the second place this sub.
committee was selected long before there
was any jnsinuation, public or private \
that the gentleman from Maine was in
any of the alleged fraudulent transac-
tiOns on the part ofany of these corpora
tions and it did not seem to me when
the gentleman flung his imputations at
me, as little strange that he Couldas.
eribe such motives to me under the cir
cumstan2es. Even grantingthat thegen
tleman from North Carolina and Virgin
ia were his personal enemies, it does
seem little remarkable that you can not |
touch one of these railroads but the gem
tleman from Maine will squeal have
mo doubt that it struck Mr.. Harrison as
ia little remarkable that when that $75-
600 bond transaction was mentioned in
the meeting Of the Directors. the Treas
urer of the Union Pacific Railroad COM
lpany should say, DO not say ANYTHING
about it, il will involve Blaine" But
this committee was raised long before
had any intimation that Blaine was in
volved in it in any manner. I went to.
MS personal friend and colleague Frye
and asked him to take position on the
sub committee, which he declined. The
gentleman from Maine seems to inslnu-
ate it is the settled purpose Of the Judic-
iary committee to do something or other
which might peradventure prevent him
from receiving the nomination of his
party at the coming convention at Gin
M I h,,r, h. - LII
that so far as ! am concerned we are per-
fectly willing he should receive that NOM
ination. Ifin the pending campaign we
cannot defeat the gentleman from Maine
then our canse is entirely hopeless. ZAP.
planse on the Democratic side.) If he
shall receive the nomination, and be
elected by the American people in the
face of all the facts, then we can say, the
good Lord have mercy on the American
people. Shouts of laughter) n