, 1876-06-10
LIGHT WANTED,

worthless hontis to the Union Pacific Com
pany for $Gt,M>l in money. This transfer
wns noniinn'ly made by 1oM ScoT1. 1t mr.
rested the attention Of Mr.. HARRISON, Gov
crnmcnt Director of tho Company, for the
reason TINT these boudg were unIoatlcd on tho
Company at nearly par, though their quoted
vnluo WIS only from q, to 10 conts, and their
real vatue nil Afr. HAna1soa proposed m
investigation, but ROLLINS. the Secretary Of
tho Company, persuaded hin to abandon 1t
by telling him TINT "it would involve
B1A1HE.' Rollins haa since publicly admit
Ecd TINT he 1nntie TINT Btntcmont to IlARn1soN,
but las neglected SO far to reveal whnt bis
own authority wns for making it. Now tho
Democrats will charge, If Mr.. BLAINE 10 the
Republican candidate for President, that llo
did receive tho $4,000 pnid by thu Union
Pacific Company for these Little Rock bonds,
aud they will sus.ain their ohargo by M ad-
mission In one Of A1r. H1A1NE's own letters.
This point has never yos boon fully brought
out to tho popular Wow.
In MuL11oANa memorandum Of the con.
tents Of the BLAINE letters which AIr. BLAINE
took from him occurs the following:
No. l.. April IL, 1s7a-hamits the SO4, 900 sale
OF bonds, md palh tho money oycr In forty .eght
hours 10 Maine parties.
Turning to tho letter written by blaine to
FISHER, April IS, 1879, wo find it to bo in
reply to ono from Fisher, in which ho pro-
posed partial settlement Of their business
matters, aud had evidently hintcd tl,at BLAINE
Ind already secured largo sum of money
from the salo Of the bonds which had bcon
given him faa q gratuity or commission. In
order to correct this impression A1r. BLAINE
writoRt
Yon have been for sons t!mc 1aboy!ng under a
totally Errnncnus impression In regard to my results
In tho Fort Smith matter, The Bae Of honls which
Yoa spoke Of my mixing. and which yuu seem to
have thnught for my bcnr1t, were entirely ot,er-
wise. tfid not have the money In NY posscsslon
Jorty-tt9ht ho"rs. but posd II ortr directly 70 the
partlts HAo,A tried 1y eetry .4eans In my po,rsr
to prottct from loss, / am very snto that you
have little ca Of the abors the loascs, the efforts,
and the sacrifices hive made trfhfn the pat ytar
10 save thcsc innocent PERSONS who snvrstrd OIL my
request from personal loKs, and say to you to-
night soiemnly that a.n snln,easurah1y worse oil
t&nn II Ind ncvur touched the Fort Smith tnattcs.
Now, in denying that ho had received Il
large sum of money from the sa!o Of the
bonds which Ind boon given to him person.
ally, ho explains That tho sale ho did make
| was of tho bonds which he had originally
sold TO Lis Afaine friends, and which he bad
| taken of their hands aftcr the Investment
had proved bad ono. Now, what sale was
this, if not the transfer OF the $4,000 of
bonds 10 tho Union Pacific first through
CALDWELL and then through Ton SCOTT !?
Nr. BLAINE admits TINT he resofd the bonds
~, I. L.. H.. rs,
Then to whom did he sell them2 1lo hns
| nover yet stated, II fnr aa VIC know; and
! still tho transaction was too largo md too
important to him to hnvo been forgotten. A
! sal0 Of a lot of these bonds way made nj
treble their quoted value to tho Union Pacif-
10. ToM ScorT was tho purchaser, and Ito
says he got them from CALDWELL Very
| likely. But whero did CALDWELL get
| them? Was it lot from BtA1sg2 CALD-
WELLS dispatch to Pnooron KNOTT
does not deny thia, though this
! was tho point in issue. I1o merely says TINT
| SCorT'a atatcmont was correct, aud that ho
{CAIpwELI) nover gave B1A1sE any bonds,
| directly or indirectly, which Of itself is
proved false by BLA1SE's memorandum in
in his d;anatcb tlot tho hon,1a ,.h;c,, M IN
trorsycrred n r,ov scorr ali MI aon,o ~
him from R,,,.x 1tu1ceu n,,,yt, NV shar
tho, In roforrc1 ~ so,no othor sn,o - t,.ora
hor,,. ~ tho 1,tto, fron, ,,,,;o,, w. r's,,s
| quoted, then MuL11oAN's 3 memorandum in ro-
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Throws aolao .'Rht al6o upon t'''s TRANSACTION.
BLAINE felt himself ns'ter spccial obligation
to protect these people from loss, because
ho had persuaded them rs friends of
liy to purchase those bonds in on]cr
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