The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-04
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nj o0I,YER AND lIeULELLAND.

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w,., IN. s,rviv,,e Member Of The Rirr
saws About The Wa.htnKton Payemen
Contract hittenden. The Agent,
Etory-R. q. Parsons Tells how GENERA
GartieId wns Retnln,dLThe I,ate chic
J1sIiee Chase,s View Of the matter.
A 0hicego co,ys.nondsnt ~ the flinein
SY,'eo 'IHNA ~, =. I n, $50
nau commercial reviews the 10 uoiye
and McOlelland pavement charge agains
General Garfield. He gives tho contrac
hot,.oo, ne A., ~ ~ a,a,t ohi,tsn
.ss"VVu s ~ ~ anu i's ash' $50
den, ana the pleadings In their suit ant
shows that the judgment OF the court wa
not upon the merits but upon O question
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y. -. t"". ~ t9pol1 S 20, &c M.C,s,
the surVlvlng partner oil the nrn, NlcOiei
land, ofwhich the following is part:
az see the special plea filed 'by YOUR at
to,naS naoiit,I s' ~ rsnas,ad ,1nmerdt
sStHey, pooi''Ae, W iePe"'eu . iuuenNs
or positive assertion, attempts 70 convey
the impression that you bought General
Gsrfields influence for 5000. Do you
object TO giving your version Of that"
"0f course you understand" responded
Mr.. McClelland, "tbat Mr.. Doolittle is q
lawyer, and that he was paid to present
our side as vigorously and overwhelming
ly az possible in the pleadings, and Il we
couldn't scare Chittenden OF BY. that bold
method, upon fual hearing we would
prove all we could and nothing lost by
oyer-pleading. five had proved theilems
in our set-off, we would have beaten Crit.
tenden without going into the Garfield
matter at all, and had the case gone on 10
Litigation that Is Just what we would have
done, and never have wasted time on the
Garfield employment The fact is, we new
er employed Garfield. Chittenden was au-
thorized by us to employ the necessary
counsel in order to present to the Board OF
Public works satisfactory statement
(brief) Of the legal status OF the samuels
or ironizing process and De Golyer No. :,
go that the Board would not fear litigation
by patentees and loss by royalty to 9TH
ers.n
"Then you did not employ Garfield at
all, or know OF his employment, or pay
him So 900 or any other sum for bis lntiu-
ence as chairman Of the Committee on
Appropriations l inquired.
mo sir" emphatically responded Mr..
McClellaud; .'and do not know only by
hearsay to this day that dollar Of our
money was ever paid Mr.. Garfield Ii
any was 80 paid, as'allegpd by Mr.. Par
sons, do not believe it was paid or re-
ceived corruptly. That was entirely a
private matter between Mr.. Parsons, who
had been retained as attorney and coun-1
sci by our agent, -Ghittenden, and Mr..
Garfield. do not remember to have ever
spoken to Mr.. Garfield in my life about
our business. Mr.. Chittenden wrote US
in his grandiloquent. style OF citation
about Mr.. Parsons employment Of Gener-
al Garfield, but We understood his (Chit-
tenden'sl motive. He was emotional In
his enort 70 impress US WIN RMS, MS aSnieVe-
"i fipo T9e Were Won I paid IN money
out OF the United States Treasury for what
pavement you laid there under that con-
tractT o,in, .N
Mr. McOleiiana answered.: MOI ny
any means. hau We oeen 50 palo, we
1nonld not nave lost so neayly on our
Washington contract we hau 70 iske
District oil oolumoia SCRIP IN payment,
and we parted win much OF u as as
connt oil hlty'seven cents on me dollar.
This scrip was inrnlshed, presume,
by the city oil washington government
and not by the United States govern
mentf Suggested lnlerrcgauSely,
Certainly" answered Mr.. McGIellahd.
Had everything gone smoothiy you
would nave maue money OUT OF your
washington contract inquired.
u think SO, II the contract bad been
sure and faithfully carried out py me
Board OF Public WORKS gur good d lslth
was shown by, our exPending S2o,VOu IN
the erection olr~oTks ~ washington ~
which TO prepare the Wool Mhen me me
Board annulled the award that s2o'VUO
was q dead loss.
A conversation isalso reported with Mr..
chi,tendan5 from which the following is
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taken:
{ @Doolittte's allegation in his ,plea'-bis