The Republican journal., 1876-06-01
Blaine and the Bonds.

The assailants of Mr.. Blaine. in his own
party, continue to trouble Names favor
lite candidate with charges of crookedness
in the matter of bonds. The question of the
Little Rock Bonds, as it stands before the
Committee, is thus briefly described by a
correspondent. under date of the 26th-
''Mr. Blaine appeared before the House judiciary
committee to-day and testified that the package
which was delivered to him by Robinson contained
prospectuses and circulars of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railroad. A letter from the wife of
Curry is in the hands of the committee in which
she ayers that she heard Robinson tell her husband
that the package which he (Robinson) gave to
Blaine contained twenty railroad bonds Robinson
still insists that he told such thing And there
the question OF veracity between Robinson and Cur
~ rests. Each of these gentlemen was put upon
the stand, and each gave the other good character
Tor honesty integrity and veracity, which gives
somewhat ludcrous aspect to this otherwise rather
grave matter Mr. Blaine, in concluding his testi
1hony, said: That is all there was in the whole
story of the package There was nothing any more
mysterious in it than if should hand this book to
the chairman 1t was delivered in Il crowd, carried
into the house and thrown down without care, and
it lay in my room with miscellaneous lot of papers
probably for year. referring to ii every now and
then. Mr.. Robinson never delivered Ine a bond of
the Fort Smith and Little Rock Company either in
Washington or any other place. 1 desire to make
that statement as broad /. can be made in every
shape and form, both inclusvely and exclusively.
MI chairman, WINE 1 am here desire TO repeat,
under oath, in relation to this entire $4,000 charge,
the statement made by me the floor of the House,
in all its parts without mental reservation purpose
OF evasion, rs the iron clad oath says"
No sooner had this declaration been
published, than another attack is made in
regard to dealings in the stock of the I'M
fortunate Northern Pacific Railroad. A
letter is published in the n. y Sun. writ
ten i'll 1870 by Blaine to Warren Fisher,
Jr. Of Boston, in which the latter is Of
tered Il large amount of Northern Pacific
shares. The letter concludes as follows
will be In Boston Tuesday noon, and will call up
on you. Of course if you don't it, let it pass.
You will receive an immediate issue of stock to II
considerable amount, and certificates of land stock
also. or course in comforting with others, keep my
name quiet, mentioning it to no one unless to Mr..
Caldwell
The Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Herald, in regard to this new rev
citation, says
Great surprise was expressed that Mr. Blaine
should ever lave written letters capable of doing
him so much damage The attention of members
at recalled the half forgotten facts which
became public nj the time Of the failure of Jay Cooke
& Co. and after the failure announced, and
when the statement of the assets of the firm was
published there appeared among them debt of the
Hon. James q. Blaine, Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, OF over $4,000 on the house, No.
81 Fifteenth trcet,n which he then lived, and which
he still occupiea. The face of the mortgage
SsS iJi. -, and to this Mr.. Blaine gave three
notes of $ll,Ul.ll each, to run respectively two,
four and six years at per cent. At the time OF the
failure interest had been paid, aud it had accrued
10 the amount of $4,000. The amount OF the
seemed indicate that it third part of
some large transaction. When the Cookies lent this
money to Blaine at per cent, they paying
per cent. on deposits call. The house itself was
not worth than $4,000, il being in the centre
of block and rather cleaply bu.t. A transaction
remarkably favorable TO bfr Blaine naturally at
tracted some attention; but there few who
dwelt upon the seemingly uncharitable inference
that Mr.. Blaine was receiving money from those
influence on the floor of the House of Representa-
thea. That is the Interpretation, however, which
has been put upon the matter by many persons to-
day, in view of the Adams revelation.