The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-25
TELEGRAPHIC
THE OILY sHIPHERD.
&c Gomez BacIs at BIaine.


furnished for the use Of the press 81
eighIy-four page pamphlet, entitled
''The rejected testimony Of Jacob r
Shipherc, refused by the committee on
foreign affairs Of the House Of Represen-
. tstiVes. in session at Washington, MAY
18th, 1882" He prefaees his testimony
with q personal note to the public, il
which he ironically refers to the late Chill
ian minister at Washington, Senior Don
Marcial Martinez, and to Blaine, as the
men who had discovered that the Peru
Wan CompaDy was q spectre Intriguing
for the possession of property belonging
to America. The testimony submitted
is, be says, that which he prepared in
advance for tie committee. There hiss
been a great demand fer this testimony
which Shipherd determined to put in the
hands of newspaper experts to do with it
as they chose, and after submitting some
documents, bling mostly his own letters
TO Secretary Blame, General Grant, the
Peruvian minister, ETC., and few being
letters from General Grant, approving
bis (ShiJ herd's) action IN the N sitter.
| He then reviews the testimony of Hurl-
bert, editor of the WcTLd, and claims that
in most essential point Hurlbert's testi.
| mony confirms his To disprove Blaine's
statement that the President did not even
( now there was 8 Peruvian Company,
he produced Secretary Stanley Browns
letter, saying the President had received
Shepherds letter on the subject and re
ferred it to the secretary Of state. Ship
herd is particularly severe on Blaine,
and declares his only wish
in testifying voluntarily wss to
vindicate bis foreign policy and to
try to dissipate Shepherds testimony.
He maintains, however, that Blaine did |
net maIerisllY contradict him, although |
he showed himselfto be foul-mouthed |
rufhan. He berstes the committee for al |
lowing him to be assailed by Blaine. He |
declares, regarding the letters produced
by Blaine from Shepherds counsel, that
Blsine's testimony contrsdicted his letter
and was q true statement. The other
letters we're incorrect where they CONTRA
dicted his testimony. he produces tele-
grams from Senator Blair to show that
the interview of July 1st never occurred,
but that be frat met Blair on July I'D.
This discrepancy he attributes to Blair's
fsllAble memory. He discredits Robert
Christy as witness, even il his letters
submitted by Blaine we're perth to the
issue, and finally breaks out with the ex-
clsmstion that It is wesrisome to meet
in detG:l half of Blaine's facile inVen-
tons. He takes up the testimony of J.
+. Gilmore, and proceeds to chow show
easily this little man lies" He intro
duces several documents in doing this.
Shipherd then reverts to the correspond
enee between Blaine and Evarts, Of last
April, which BlRine introduced to show
that Evarts dissiaimed knowing Ship
herd, and had never given him legal ad-
vice. He explains that EVarts had, in a
cssuel cor versation q the Coehet claim,
given the opinion referred to. He does
not wonder that EYarts had forgotten
il.
He submits an affidavit of Jas. Mont
Eomery, vice president of the Palace
Stock Car Co. of New York 10 corrobo-
ration.
Shipherd declared that Blaine, as
usual, lost his head and deter mined to
froWn down the Peruvian Company,
when Hurlbut raised the cry of fraud.
He ironically refers to the sudden
lapses Of memory which he says seized OF
ex-secretary Of state, bankers, editors,
senators and others. There was regular
he critIcizes Whitelaw Rsid's forget .
fulness and produces q letter from him !
wishing Shipherd all SUCCESS.
He says: IF Aurlbut was upriRhttsnd
honorable and received from me an offer
Of bride Of S25O,O00 to corrupt his Of :
ieial action and made no response Of
'corn and rebuff 10 one, and gave no
warning to his government, nor the :
public for FIVE months, and during that
lime kept up continuous correspondence :
with me, the whole tenor Of which was to
assure me that he would gladly cooper :
ste with me, and even begged me to
secure special Instructions, conformablo ;
Q my wishes TO be csbled, and also Wroie
Blair and Boutwell, TO the same effects snd :
What shall we say Of him7"
Shipherd casts considerable dou BIT upon
6laine's declaration that certsin docu-
neAts which were presented to President
fairfield never came to his (Blsine'sl no.
Ice and says this legally raises strong b
resumption against Blaine. {,
he points out what he calls numerous r
in Blaine's own testimonV, o
I'D ID fact devetes some sixty Of the G
lightly pages 10 cfiticising, attacking and q
enOnDcing Blaine IN bis methods aud 8,
esliDonY. q
Some space is devoted to showing D
therein various witnesses sgaiast Il
hipherd contrsdic:ed themselves, the n
scord and the truth. Shiphsrd gives II
% names Of these prominent public il
lea on whom he relied as our people, n
nd the circumstances that led him to q
ely on them. b