Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-09
The BIaine-BOnd Affair.

tives yesterday,
MIR. Lord, Of New Yorx took the e 'or to call
up the Geneva award bill bu. yielded to MIR.
Blaine. OF Maine, 10 relation to motion which
he had made yesterday to reconsider the vote
| by which the testimony taken before the judi
ciary Committee was ordered to be printed.
| He waited to have embodied the proceed
iugs the dispatch received By MIR Knott from
josiah Caldwell 10 London, and also what took
place 10 committee yesterday.
Mr.. Hunton, of Virginia, said he had DO sort
of objection 10 that.
Objection, however, was made By Mr.. Southland,
OF OHIO, and then MIR. Lord OF New York. call
ed up the Geneva award bill, on which MIR.
Monroe, of Ohio, submitted some remarks.
MR.. TARBoX RISES TO A QUESTION OF PRIV
LEGE.
Then lat 9 o'cI~ck) Mr.. Tarbox, of Massa-
chuse,ts. roso to what he called matter OF per
sonal privilege 10 this question of coDsue-
ration was raised by Mr. Lord but the Speaker
pro tenn, (Mr. Cox, OF New York; ruled that
matters OF personal privilege always took prece
derce OF other matters.
In the meantime Mr.. o Bren, of Mary land,
called up and had passed Senate bill to remove
the political disabilities of W. h. Jenlfer, OF
Maryland.
Then MIR. Tarbox took the floor, and com
mcnced his speech By quoting from Mr. Blaine s
speech of Monday last, I'D which he stated that be
(Tarbox) had informed MI. Frye that the reso.
luton offered by him was not aimed at him
(Mr. Blame but that be Blainel had regard
ed the assurance With some degree ofiucreduity.
He Irarb,x did not rise with any purpose OF
convincing the ncreduous mind OF the gentle.
man from Maine. What that gentleman 5
opinion might be as to his rarbox's sincerity
or any other quality, was as lmmaterlal to the
public as it was to himself. The whole tenor
OF that geutlemau's speech, however, was that
the res Tuition which put that investigation IN
progress was conceived 10 partisan malice and
was prosecuted 10 political malicc toward him
personally 10 viodication of his own Tar,
box 81 good fame, it was proper that the House
and the country should be put 10 possession OF
some facts about it. Alter the conspicuous,
not to say ostentativu3, championship of the
inyiolabiIity Of private correspondence by the
: gentleman from Maine, he rarbox was sur
, priscd that private communication of his to the
gentlemau's colleague Mr. Frye, mad in a
courteous aud obgng spirit, was made use OF
by him in manner entirely uncalled tor and OF
vulgar impertinence. By the law as laid down
by that gentleman that conversation Was biz
Tarb private property. Some laughter
Oh the DtuuCldllC slOS' IL wac q ooei 'o"i
cation between him and the geDtleman's col
!. league 10 the trankness and privacy Of personal
aud private Intercourse, and Was therefore as
. much entitled to immunity as though it was
written By pen.
According to the gentleman Mr. Blaines
theory prisoner 10 the dock would have the
=, right to take from witness letters and docu
! ments that night teud to his conviction and
bid them in despite Of court, jury and witt ness,
and yet having laid down that rule be Blslnel
had violated, for his own purposes, cunVersa
ton between him Mr.. Tsrbvx and the gentle
mans colleague He would give to the House
the history Of the resolution Introduced by him
Mr.. Tarbox then related how. wneu he had
fist offered bis resolution it was objected to
and that be had then given notice that he would
offer it Oh the following Monday; how he had
been W tied upon by Mr.. Frye in regard to 1t,
and how he had said to that gentleman that
the investigation proposed by his resolution
would not involve Blaue's integrity, and how
| Mr.. Ergo had stated to him that for reasons be
: did not like to explain but not the absence Of
bis colleague he preferred that the resolution
would not be offered until the folluW.og Tues
day or Wednesday, aud that then uu objection
TO it would be offered 90 the Republican, side
of the House. Soon afterwards Frye had come
to his desk and asked for the privilege Of ex
amiuug tie resolution, aud having got 1t, be
retired with it, for wnat purpose he larhox
: did not know except as be Inferred from subse
] uuent events, and then he returned it to him
with the statement that he withdrew all obi &C.
ton to his presenting it at that time.
That was the history Of his rarbCx 81 rea.
ton to that res tuition. He had meant by it
) Just what appeared Cd its face, and nothing
more. He had spoken with entire fran kness
to the g.ntlemau from Maine MIR. Frye. He
did nut suppose that he was doing the gentle
man Mr.. Blaine az i'll service when he set
the Inquest on foot, or that the gentleman
would 81 esteeml it. AS a man oflotegrty, who
had 20 stat to hide, he supposed that that
desired the Credit Mobilier investigation, which
he himself had put 10 motion. However, later
revelations had influenced his Tarbox S iudg
: ment, he had not anticipated when he offered
the resolution that the Inquest woul1, if order
: ed, involve Mr.. Blaiue dlsreputably.
At that ,ime be had some vague tradition OF
Mr.. Caldwell as celebrity of doubtful fame 10
New Eaglaud business circles, aud who was
conveniently beyond the seas, where he was
safe in his eDj yment Of his inalienabe rights
of liberty aud the pursuit OF happiness. But he
had no. had the slightest hot that the gentle
man (Baioe) had been in confidential business
relations with Mr. Caldwell, or 40 operator in
that class of $ ,curities which figured in the sus-
picious trans ,cious of the Uoion Pacific Rail
road Company. So he Guild not have designed
any injury to The g.nt!emau from any dis.
closures 10 that lioe. If he had known theu
what he knew now be might have agreed 10
his Blaiue's) opioion as 10 where the resolu-
ton would bit, but he had not had that gentle
mans Consciousness
The gentleman had charged that this was a
persecution OF partisan malice, but he asked
what was the history OF the case. In, gentle
mo Blaioe) seemed TO have been suspected
in that trans action, not by personal and politi.
cal enemies, but by personal and political iut-
mates, who knew him best Harrison, the
Government director aud political sympatbiz,r
with the gentleman from Maine, had thought
it; R,llins, the Treasurer of the Uuiou Pacific
Railroad Company, had thought it, and had
hr,wu himself mos gallanly into the breach
to dcteod the geutlem ~, even at the risk of
what was more valuable than life-his own
| honor Fisher had Thought it, the intimate