Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-05
Proctor Knots COWardly Attack
on MIR. Blainc-Hc Gets severely
Punished,

on Mr.. Blainc-Hc Gets Severely
Punished.
Proctor Knott, the Chairman of the Ju-
dietary Committee, has cherished an i'm
placablc hatred to Mr. Blaine since the
latter exposed his dishonesty and mean
ness in regard to the investigation in which
Mr. Blaine was personally interested. On
Thursday, thinking he good opportunity,
Mr.. Blaine not being in the House to an
swer him, he allowed his hatred to have
free expression, but was most severely
punished by Frye and Hale.
The occasion was report to the House
generating Knott in regard to the Cald-
well telegram. This it appears was
agreed to by the committee, in good ma
ture, they little dreaming of the explosion
of malice that would follow, as the in
vestigation had been postponed until next
December When the report was submit
ted to the House, Knott arose in his seat,
accused Mr.. Blaine of fegnng sickness
to avoid Investigation, and then proceeded
to give his own version of the inyestiga-
ton, to defend his action in suppress
ing the Caldwell dispatch and to calumn!-
ate Mr.. Blaine in the most shameful man
ner. Mr.. Frye followed and administered
deserved chastisement to Knott, and Mr..
Hale and Mr.. Hoar joined in severe con-
dempation of the latter, after which the
report generating Knott was withdrawn
and recommilted to the Judiciary commit
tee, whence it will probably never appear
again The democratic side of the House
even were disguised with the baseness of
the attack upon Mr.. Blaine, and regret
exceedingly that it occurred. The follow
ing is a report of the remarks of Mr..
Frye and those that followed
FRYE of Maine, replied to Knots speech. He
said he did not know when he was more panied
than he was to-day, when his feelings had been
so wounded as they had been to-day. An attempt
by him to review the testimony under the Tarbox
| resolution was entirely unnecessary and an at
tempt to review it and pronounce judgment on it
by the gentleman from X, (Knottl, when that
case had been postponed till next December, was
without the slightest justification in honor or in
| par liamentary law. That testimony, when il was
reported to the House, would convince beyond a
doubt the honest seeker after truth that Blaine
never had aught to do with the $40 900 of the Lit
| tie Rock & Fort Smith bonds that were purchased
by Mr.. Scott, of Mr.. Caldwell, ana sold to the
| Union Pacific Railroad Company.
| None but a mind filled with jealousy, filled
with malice, filed with wicked purpose, would
dare pronounce judgment on peer of his on the
| the floor Of the House on any such testimony as
that. lie did not propose to review the testi-
mony in reference to the Caldwell dispatch, but
he asserted that it failed to show anything what
ever of Blaines inspiring, or sending, or seeking
| to have sent any despatch TO Caldwell. lie re-
peated what himself and Blaine had again and
again said to Mr.. Knott, that he might pursue
the investigation to the very bitter end, aud that
at that end he would not find the Hon. James
| &. Blaine. No mind that was not made reckless
by bitterness, by malice, by wicked purpose,
would ever dare assert that Mr.. Blaine insgatcd,
stood over helped on Mr.. Caldwelrs clerk
| (Reed) to publish these dispatches. When Mr..
| Blaine on the floor the gentleman from Ken
lucky had not attempted to make any attack upon
him, but he has undertaken feeble and unworthy
defence against Mr.. Blaine. The friends of Mr..
| Knott had asked him to agree to a report that
should excupate him. They said that he desired
excupation because he had unirendly looks and
| unfriendly criticism from his side of the
| House. He had learned gradually to have conf
dence in that gentleman and he had exculpated
him and said that he had kept back that telegram
| in good faith, but the exhibition of malice which
the gentleman from Kentucky had dared to make
| in the absence of Mr.. Blaine had satisfied him he
had not learned or known him.
his haaSt tha, Draentinn,on - knaw M "a bad
| struck down Mr.. Blaine, that for two and a half
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