National Republican., 1880-03-23
KELLOGG'S PROSECUTIONS
His Arrangement of Their Real In
stigatOr.
Impotcncy OF tho Prosecution in Matter of
Fact-A Model Democratic witness
Hold Up to the Public vIew--Tho
ftoen-IIundroj.D Dollar Cou-
trpct- Several Pertinent
polnts Presented.
Senator Kellogg,s spocoh Yesterday.

Senator Kcliogg's speech Yesterday.
III the Senate yesterday, after Mr. Hill had
road his long report on the Spof'ord. kellogg
case, Mr.. Kellogg addressed the Senate. A
portion of his romarks are given herewith;
Mr.. Kcllogg said nothing but tho oxtraordi-
nary circu instances that exist would justify
him in asking tho attention of The Senate even
for few minutes, aud he proposed even now
to occupy but short timo. Ho suid
II feol justified in doing this not only by the
fact that the Senator from Georgia has done the
unprecedented thing Of reading his own re-
port before the Senate aud prcdicating some.
at least, of his allegations against me upon owl
dence that he alleges exists in tho Record and
that deny NJ existing in the Record but be-
cause tho Senator from Georgia, before any
evidence was taken in this case, declared pub
licly and privately that ho intended to drive
mo from tho Senate, and mado IL distinctly ap-
parent that ho had already prcjudged the case.
lie Is my judge. 1t Is the Senator from Gcor-
gia who was chairman Of tho subcommittee
at Now Orleans; it is tho Senator from Georgia
that before the committee, when my case was
being considered in November, 1877, told the
committee that lie would provo that | had
| manipulated tho returns and had iutcrtered
In connection with protest before the return
| ing board. 1t was tho Senator from Georgia
who came on tho floor Of the Senate and moved
| to rccommt the report made by the Commit
| tcc on Privileges aud Elections in my favor,
| asserting that he had evidence in his posses
sion to establish tho fact of my illegal inter
| ference with the sessions of the returning
board. All this appears in the Record. 1t was
! the Scntaor from Georgia that sent to the Sec
rearys desk and had read telegram dated
Now Orleans and signed IL. L. Smith, saving
in Substance, 'Wo have discovered evidences
that inculpntcs Kellogg IN connection with
| the returns before the returning board u
| telegram which, rs have stated IN public two
or three times-and Ich challenge contradiction
was paid for to tho amount Of $500, and which
was false IN every limo and word.
"The Souator from Georgia has como before
the Senate with his report containing caro-
| fully.selected extracts from tho testimony, and
he has read them in sErill voice in order
that the Senate and tho country might DO pre-
clu1ed from u furthor knowledge OF the testi-
mony than what Is contained in his report,
until the effect of it, prcjudlcial to me- had
operated here and elsewhere, knowing that tho
Senate, so 20 speak, Is u pulpit with huge
sounding board, and that every word here
uttered goes to the uttermost ends of the land.
I stand here to toll the Senator that more than
one-half of the allegations he has thus made
arc not sustained by even tho slightest fig
mont of testimony, and the Senate will SO find
when they como TO examine the record. He
scarcely opens his mouth but out blunder
| flies"
Mr.. Kellogg went on to show tho feeling
| against him on tho part OF Mr.. Hill, aud the
complete failure to show any thing against him
by the witnesses, Stokes aud Miller. Ho then
said: "About 3 o'clock in the afternoon Of the
second day ii WAS apparent from manifesto.
| tions around ME that coumhiad WIS to be
fired. Tbs door opened aud they brought in y
Polish Jew spy, saturated with the fumes OF
whisky and tobacco, offensive for n distance
of several feet around him. All the clothes he
had on would not have sold for fifty cents.
| They brought that besotted jew and seated
| him ut the end of the table, and they began to
gather around, and l knew the grand crisis
had come. They were determined to have
something at last. Tho Senator from Georgia
sat himself in front of Barney Williams and
told Barney to tell his story.
"Mr. President, I will not go into that story,
except TO say that in substances it amounted to
this: That | had employed hm-a man
who admitted that he was n perfect stranger
| to me until he presented himself to me here
at this door-that | employed him to 90 to the
depot aud watch for tho arrival of the wit.
nesses from New Orleans; that ho went there
| day after day for three or four days-hc sn nys
every night-to see that the witnesses had
come, though his own evidence showed he ar.
rived only the night before them. At last
they came, and on the night of their arrival
ho took tho five witnesses from tho Philn-
delphia Hotel, whore they stopped, down F
street, to tho back entrance of Wizards Hotel,
took them up tho back way into my room
about IL o'clock ut night that there was any
quantity of champagne, cigars aud cognac al.
ready furnished. The witness every now and
then would say to Senator Hill, Il wish had
some of that Cognac now; 1t was good cognao,
| Mr. Senator. | cannot speak so good English
as you, Mr.. Senator; but | wish had some of
that cognac now' Then he would add, 4
am afraid will be hurt or lose my pension for
| 7 70 mi pur-
ney, 60 right along; just tell all about it, the
Senator from Georgia would corsoingly reply.
| But l will lose my pension that am trying
for oh, no you won't, Barney the Sona-
tor said, 'We will take care Of that
"And then the witness went on aud swore
! that In the prc3encs of nine men gave $500
apiece, in new Sl0o bills so stiff that they
would not bend, to these five witnesses, and
we all nj last broke up about daylight in tho
morning, aud ho aud tho witnesses went home
with grand hurrah and tho exclamation
that they would Give 1t that old rebel in the
neck /!
"AIr, Pre,idcnt,thc Senator from Georgia sat
with nostrils diated and eyes flashing, and
swallowed these chunks of perjury with mani
fest delight and when l demanded an i'm.
mediate investigation into tho character of
this mHn--ior IL was unknown TO mel was
told, Aftor q while you shall have q chance,
| (vory kindly, toO), and as soohhs you produce
! your Witnesses VIC VIII 90 INTO lti Dut thluk
we had better adjourn now This for effect.
Scatter these SETTLING lies broadcast all over tho
North, aud everywhere; after while VIC will
| listen to your reiutatiOn. On several occasions,
when witnesses had made the most damaging
aud transparenty untruthGul statements in
regard to me on direct examination tho
watch OF the Senator from Georgia would in
dicate that It was time to adj ourn before u
proper Gross.ez Examination could be had. When
| BarHey's examination in chief closed The first
day by direction Of the Senator from Georgia.
hs was T5InAndod 20 tho custody or the ms.
sistant sorgeant-at-arns for the protection of
his precious life; and all tho time the commit
tee remained IN New Orleans, except day or
two, he was lodged aud fed at the public
cost, with an assistant serseantRt'arms de-
tailed as Udlet do chanljre.
Everybody laughed, everybody dorided the
testimony, except the Senator from Georgia,
An oX.Democratic recorder camo TO me that
night aud said: Governor, / do not think
very much OF your party, but when they bring
such men as Barney Williams to malign you,
this Is too ridiculous altogelheri and if you
want, | Hill go before tho committee and
swear that that maa has been impeachcd be-
! fore my court repeatedly and caunot DO he.
| licYed on CATH So the nest morning sum
moned that judge and information reached mo
constantly from Democrats IA well as Rcpubli-
CAns from the former Osupgiully of tho iufl.