Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-14

get An opportunity for the inventor NJ ~.
spencer repeating rife TO bring that ma.
arm to the attention. Of the Secretsrv ~ !,
War. he came on 70 Warrington, and had
Cameron had given orders TO have It testad
by the Ordnance Bureau. 1t had been tho,
oughly tested, and the experiments were -
satisfactory that preliminary order for On
GOO rifles was made. He had been paid NJ,
an extravsgsut, but Q moderate, fee for Lis
services, which he had just - much Iibertv
to take as any lawyer or agent had TO taks
fee. Subsequently he had taken and naiS
for $4,000 worth OF stock In the COMPANY
That was the whole story. There are The
five letters. There are the whole OF them
and here is Mulligan's memorandum. keen
it as protection for myself, to show fhs
identity of the letters in every respect
Mr.. Glover-Will you have that memorap.
DUN read?
Mr.. Blaine-I will do so.
Mr.. Hale-Does this exhibit cover every
paper that came from Mulligan!
Mr.. Blaine-Every solitary scrap.
Mr.. GlOver-Let that memorandum be read
at the clerks desk.
Mr.. Blaine (sending it to the clerks deskl-
Yes, will be glad to have it read
After the memorandum was read. Mr.
Blaine said;
"Now, would be obliged for any gentle.
man, when he reads these letters, to see the
obvious intent in which that memorandum
was made up. desire, also, to call attention
to the fact that those were the letters for
which was ready to commit suicide and
sundry and divers other desperate things, in
order to acquire them
l have one or two more observations to
make. The specific charge which went 10
the committee was whether was a party IN
Interest to that $64, 900 transaction. I submit
that up to this time there has not been one
N Ia M urn To III.
letters were picked out OF a correspondence
extending over fifteen years. The man Mul-
ligan did his worst-nis very worst. They
were picked out of the most intimate bust.
ness correspondence of my life. l ask YOU,
gentlemen, and ask with some feeling, If any
OF you could stand closer scrutiny more
rigid investigation of your correspondence?
Now, there is but one piece of testimony
wanting, there is but one thing to close the
complete circle Of testimony. There is one
| witness whom l can't have; but to whom
| the Judiciary Committee voted to send
| cable dispatch-Jo siah Caldwell. I ask the
gentleman from Kentucky if that cable dis
patch was sent?
Mr.. Knott-The gentleman from Virginia
(Hunton) and have both endeavored to get
CaldwelPs address, and have not yet got IT,
Mr.. Blaine-Has the gentleman from Ken.
lucky received cable dispatch from Cald.
welly
Mr. Knott will explain that directly.
Mr.. Blaine--I want categorical ans wer
Mr.. Knott have received a dispatch pur.
porting to be from Caldwell. How did you
know got itg
Mr.. Blaine advancing down the aisle)-
When did you get that dispatch!
Mr.. Knott want you to answer my ques.
ton first
Mr.. Blaine-I never heard Of 1t till yester.
day.
Its Mr. kunft--IIOw did Won haur
Mr.. Baine--I heard that you got dispatch
last Thursday forenoon, from Josiah Cad-
well, exonerating me completely and abso-
| lutely from this charge, and with great We
hemence OF mannsrl you have suppressed IL.
Loud applause and cheers on the Repuhli-
| which caused the Speaker pro tenn. to lecture
the galleries and to direct the doorkeeper to
clear the floor Of all unauthorized persons
After some time spent In having order re-
| stored, Mr. Blaine again returned to the
| charge, and demanded OF Mr.. Kuott An Al.
swer to his question.
Mr.. Knott (contemptuously)--I will an
| swer when I get ready. Go on with your
| speech.
(Mr. Blaine here offered his resolution in
| structing the judiciary Committee to report
| forthwith whether such telegram had not been
received from MIR. Caldwell, and on which
resolution the House subsequently refused
| to second the previous question:
| The gentleman (knotD intended to con.
| vey the idea that l had some illegitmate
knowledge of how that dispatch ~es OBJ
tanned. have had no communication with
Josiah Caldwell, and no means of knowing
| from the telegraph office when it was re-
ceived. But tell the gentleman from Ken
lucky that murder will out, and that secrets
will leak. l am prepared to state to this
| House that at eight o'clock, or Whereabouts,
| last Thursday morning, the gentleman from
Kentucky received and receipted for q mes
| sage addressed to him from Josiah Cald.
WE'LL in London, entirely corroborating and
sustaining the testimony of Mr.. Thomas A.
Scott, winch Caldwell had just read in New
York newspaper, and entirely exculpating
me from the charges, whice l am bound 10
| believe, from the suppression OF that DIS
patch, the gentlemen are anxious to fasten
upon me.