The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-04
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A FIELD DAY IN THE HOUSE.
Knott's Attack on Blaine.
A sCATHIHa REPLY BY FRYE. OF Ne.
Passage Between Hunton and Frye.
A Stlninu Comparison by Mt. Hale
The ExOnoratlng Report Withdrawn.
A FIELD DAY IN THE HOUSE,
Knott's Attack on Blaine.
A sCATHIAa REPLY BY FRYE. OF Me-
Passage Between HuntOn and Frye
A Shining Comparison by Mr.. Hale
Tho ExOnoratlng Report Withdrawn
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WASHINGTON, Augusta.
KNOTT ExCULPATED.
The report Of the committee exoner'
ating Mr.. Knott from all culpability in
the matter Of the Caldwell dispatch was
presented, and made the occasion Of q
speech by Mr.. Knott in which he rehears'
ed the whole history Of the Blaine inyes.
tigation and reflected very severely upon
Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Knott having concluded his speech.
Mr.. Frye replied.
KNOTT SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
Mr.. Knott declared himself perfectly
satisfied with the unanimous exOneration
which he had received from the commit
tee. He read paragraph from Phila-
delphia newspaper which reiterated the
charge that be had UNANIMOUSLY suppressed
Caldwell's dispatch, and would have to
say word about it. He regretted the
absence Of tho late member from Maine,
and alluded to his sublime acting which
accompanied the disingenious resolution
that gave rise TO this investigation. II
was said that Blaine was ill-that the
hand Of God was upon him. Knott
threw out doubt that Blaine was really
i'll, and strongly hinted that
HIS ILLNESS WAS DISGUISED,
and only a further cover TO postpone and
obstruct the investigation. Mr.. Knott
then referred 10 the attacks Of the parti-
san press spread by Blaine upon him.
Mr.. Knott who was i'll labored under
great difficulties while speaking, 80 that
much OF hisspeech was unintelligible. He
went extensively into the history Of the
Blaine investigation; he summarized the
testimony Of Harrison, Scott and Rollins.
In regard 10 the testimony Of the latter,
Mr.. Knott said his evidence taken as a
whole, had corroborated the leading state
ments Of Harrison before the committee,
and had besides left an impression that
there was something in it, that it
was necessary to get Caldwell's testimony
on.
When the committee proposed 10
telegraph Caldwell, Blaine objected, but
perhaps Blaine had good reasons for
raising these objections. He went on to
rehcarse the story OF the Caldwell tele-
gram, and said that as soon as he received
il ho thought it
EXTREMELY FisHY,
and it then occurred to him that it was a
scheme concocted on this side OF the At
lantic to make the Judiciary Committee
and tho House itself an instrument oi
perpetrating fraud on the American
people. ne was convinced OF il, he said
on hearing Milligan relate the circum.
stances OF his famous interview with
Blaine, wherein the latter grovellcd alb
iectly in the dust imploring Milligan moi
10 destroy him, and where, in the face Of
pledge to return the letters, Blaine
coolly put them in his pocket, He sub
mitted that, after that he had ample
grounds for believing that Blaine would
not scruple TO be party 10 concocting
Of the Caldwell telegram or anything
that would tend 10 promote his private
or political ends. Passing on TO the dis
patches sent to Caldwell, under what he
called his p
tNgT MEILIrLuous FsYNoNYM I N,t
Of Favo; he said that Favo was the Italian
word for honey comb and considered the
name very appropriate in consideration
Of the honey which Caldwell had gather
ed through the instrumentality ofhis arch
broker, Jas. G. Blaine, and OF his being
gushing receptacle OF the precious treas.
ures extracted for him by the active and
disinterested Blaine. Caldwell had adopt
ed the dispatch concocted for him, but he
would just as readily adopt dispatch re.
questing him to say that Blaine stood by
and gave directions when God Almighty
wheeled the dirt out Of which the world
was made.
Mr.. Frye replied to Knott's speech,
He said he did not know when he was
more painod than to-day, or when his
feelings had been so wounded as they had
been to-day. An attempt by him to re.
vicw the testimony under the Tarbox
resolution was entirely unnecessary, and
an attempt to review it and pronounce
judgment on it by tho gentleman from
Kentucky (Knott) when that case had
been postponed until next December, was
without the slightest justification in hon
or or parliamentary law, that the testi.
mony, when it was reported to the House,
would convince beyond doubt every
honest and sincere seeker after truth that
Blaine never had ought TO do with the
$75, 600 Of Little Rock & Fl. Smith bonda
that werc purchased by Scott Of Caldwell,
and sold to the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. None but,a mind filled with
jealousy, filled with malice, filed with a
wicked purpose would dare to pronounce
Judgement on peer OF his on tile floor
Of tho House, on any y,such testimony. He
did not propose to review the testimony
In reference to the Caldwell dispatch, but
he asserted that II failed toshow anything
as TO Blaine inspiring or sending or seek.
ing to have sent any dispatch to Cald.
well. He repeated what himself and Mr..
Blaine had again and again said to Knott
that he might pursue the investigation tc
the very bittef end and that at that end
he should not find Hon. J. q. Blaine. Nc
mind that was not filled by bitterness, ma
lice, y,,..
- BY WICKED PURPOSES
would ever dare assert that Blaine insti.
gated Caldwell's clerk { Reed to. publish
those dispatches. When Blaine was on
the floor the gentleman from Kentucky
bad not attempted to make an attack on
him.. He had undertaken feeble and
unworthy defense against Blaine. The
friends Of Knott had asked him to agree
TO report that should exculpate him.
They said that be desired the exculpatiou
because hc had uniriendly looks and
uNFRIEEDLY CRITICISM
from his own side OF the House. He had
learned gratefully 10 have confidence in
that gentleman, to admire and love him
and he had exculpated him, and said that
hc had kept back that telegram in good
faith. \ But the
EXHIBITION OF MALICE
which the gentleman from Kentucky had