The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-02
YOUNG Mr.. ACKLEN's CASE.
The House Judiciary Committee not
Convinced Of His Innocent Motives.

Convinced of His Innocent Motives.
| WAsHINGTON, March 1S.-The case
of Representative Acklen, charged
with legislative forgery in having
presented to the House report pur-
porting to have been agreed to by the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, is being
Investigated by the House Judiciary
Committee. The Committee on For
eign Affairs Investigated the charges
several weeks ago, and reported to the
House the facts of the case without
any recommendation. The first in
vestigation conclusively proved that
Mr.. Acklen had been guilty of an
report made by himself purporting to
have been agreed to by the Foreign
Affairs Committee, of which he Is not
a member that the committee had
really refused to act favorably upon
the document which Mr.. Acklen pre-
sented as a favorable report that Mr..
Acklen made his false report in such a
manner as to cause the Journal Clerk
of the House to believe that the report
was being made tor Mr.. King of Loui-
siana, who was then absent from the
House. Mr.. Acklen said in his defence
that the fraudulent report was not in
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simply document which he desired
to have reprinted that the bare facts
of the case should not be considered in
rendering judgment, but that the ques-
ton of motive should also be taken
into consideration. Mr.. Acklen was
confident that he could convince the
House that there could not possibly
have been a motive on his part for the
commission of such a dishonorable act.
The case was referred to the Judiciary
Committee, with instructions to in
quire especially into the question of
motive. Meetings were held yester-
day and to-day, and the facts thus far
developed have not tended to acquit
Mr.. Acklen.
Mr.. King, when he heard that Mr..
Acklen had presented the report to the
House, was greatly angered. He felt
that Mr.. Acklen's conduct had placed
him in a false position toward the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which
he is a member. The two gentle
men met in the Speakers room at the
Capitol, and the there Mr.. King taxed
Mr.. Acklen with having acted dis
honestly. 1t is said that the dispute
waxed so warm as nearly to lead to
blows. Mr.. Acklen agreed to make
an explanation to the House which
would be satisfactory to his colleagues.
Mr.. King said that he could not trust
Mr.. Acklen to make such an explana-
ton of his own accord, and he insisted
upon writing statement which Mr..
Acklen should read to the House. Mr..
Acklen promised to do this. While
Mr.. King was engaged in the room of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Mr.. Acklen rose and made a personal
explanation which was entirely un-
satisfactory to Mr.. King. The latter,
therefore, wrote statement, gave it to
Mr.. Acklen, and the latter requested
the Record reporters..to substitute it tor
the statement he had made publicly to
the House. The committee to-day had
before it the stenographic report of the
language actually used by Mr.. Acklen,
and compared it with the statement
which appeared in the Record. The
differences between the statement made
by Mr.. Acklen of his own volition and
the statement he was compelled by
Mr.. King to publish In the Record
were so great as to induce members of
the committee to believe that Mr.. Ack-
lens motives were not so innocent as
he has represented. The committee
will continue its investigation next
Monday.
"Send me translated Talmud," is
clause in about ten letters a week which
we receive. It appears that people
have no idea of the size of the Talmud
and the variety of its contents. It con-
sists of sixty-tl,rcc books, 5SO5 folio
pages, which, translated page for page,
would make no less than 3,576 octave
pages; hence, twenty-scvcn octave VOL
umes of 500 pages each. The Talmud
contains the learning and traditions
of no less than six centuries among tho