Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. DLAINE'S DENIAL. A Flat Disclaimer of Ship
 herds Charges. INTERESTING POINTS IN THE SCANDAL A Sharp Summary of Shipherd's
 Character. WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT, A Heated Discussion in the
 House.
WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT
A Heated Discussion in the
 House.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Blaine SefOr0 the SOM ihkGLee--A SGtphS
 Denial of Shipherd's Charges The | Policy of the State Departme ent-Other 1 Matters.
 1 WASHINGTON, April 24.-It was to be ex- pected that Mir. Blaine would be able to l make very interesting speech in the matter of the Peruvian business and the testimony of Jacob R. Shipherd. This he certainly did this morning, and if the cross s-examination of 1 Mir. Blaine shall not weaken the points of his l speech, his statement that 'there is big lie outs!somewhere, D and that ''Shipherd is the l author of it,, will go without saying. Mr. Blaine was promptly in the witness chair at | 1O:3O, looking better than he has for many weeks. His period of rest has evidently been I of great benefit to him physically, and the 1 color which during the Presidents illness | disappeared from his checks, has returned 1 The committee permitted him to make gen. l eral statement. The statement was 1n the | main a general and specific denial of tho I main points of Shipherd's testimony, and he ! mustered such an array of proof to sustain l many of his points that there would seem 1 to be little escapes for the dreamer Ship 1 herd. First of all, MT. Blaine never saw the papers missing from the State depart ment files, which form the basis of this l inquiry. It was impossible he said, that l any head of department should read or know all the correspondence, least of all cor 1 respopdence of ''such entrashiness as Ship ! herd s Ietters': and the chief clerk of the de- l partment would have been wanting in his 1 nsnal sagacity if he had laid upon the desk of ! the Secretary papers which vera only fitted | for the waste basket Mir. Blaine did not l know how the papers disappeared from the I files, nor where they were. nor had he ever ] seen them. As to Shipherd himself. Mir ' lace ohQfJ JR 1 He had never seen or heard of him until 1 July %, and then thought Senator Blair ! must have made some mistake ln spelling ! bis name, as he supposed he was to see some Mr. Shepherd. The story of the ! interview Blaine contradicted. The first ! interview, instead of being half the night. l did not exceed fifteen minutes. and he did not see him again until October 13
 "although. ''said MT. Blaine from MT. Ship ! herds testimony it might be thought that l l was spending the summer with him." The foreign policy of the government, Mir. Blaine { thought could best be learned from the cor ! respondence of the State department, and l not from the mouth of this witness; and an ! examination of that correspondence showed l that the policy was very different from what 1 Sbipherd had stated that it was, or "had ! hoped that it would be-" ''There have been some comments said MT. Blaine, ''that did l not kick him out of the house the first day ! he came. put, Sa q bQ6 eX secretary. WILL ! severity, Git is not cutomary among men to kick out doors man who is introduced to you by a United States Senator, who says he has l distinguished ex-Senators in his employ as counsel, and who mentions as his partners and associates some of the most distinguished business men in the United States" Yet on that day Shipherd, in the presence of Sena- tor Blair, informed MT. Blaine that ex -Sena- tors Boutwell,, Cragin and Conkling, Scott ! Lord Judge Robertson and ex-Senator Eaton
 were his attorneys. and that among his busi- | ness associates were B. D. Morgan, Sel1gman, and August Belmont. Reasons of this sort,
 Nr. Blaine thought. excused him for not per
 forming the act of kicking him out of doors in July although he practically did that ! later When to this was added copy of an Ialleged opinion in favor of his enterprise from William M. Evarts, Shipherd seemed at
 least entitled to respectful hearing
 The most striking part of MT. Blaine's
 testimony was with reference to Shlpherd's
 statement that at the first interview he told ! the Secretary of State that he had offered ! bribe of S25O, GOO to Minister Hurlbut, and I that he had also informed all of his counsel ! of it Mir. Blaine denied this for himself,
 and produced letters from the following per
 sons, all of whom in various ways denied ] that they had ever heard of this letter or ! offered bribe to Mir Hulburt until they saw ! Shipherd's letter in the New York papers,
 namely: Senator Blair, ex Governor Bout
 we'll, Collector Robertson, ex Senator Cragin
 and Scott Lord while William M
 Evarts declared that neither he nor his firm, nor any member of it.
 at any time gave Shipherd an opinion upon
 any subject whatever MT. Blaine denied the ''Go in, Steve," expression in the strong | est terms, and said when the committee l were laughing at the picturesque vlgor of hls
 language, that he thought the denial covered
 the ground, but he could throw Ill few I ole 6nn 6 ] that while 1t was difficult to establish mega
 tive when the two principal actors were in { their graves, he was certain that President
 Garfield had never heard of Shipherd or his l scheme and much less gave 1t the counte- 1 nance which Shipherd asserted he did in his 1 account of the Fifth avenue conference With Hurlbut. Mir. Blaine did not believe they ! ever had such a conference. It was enough, he said, for Shipherd's purposes that MT, l 1 Hurlbut had registered in New York on that f day ''In short, said MT. Blaine, forgery
 is his employment, and perjury IS his pas 1 time. I don't regard him as responsible. 1 If he is, it is matter for the grand Jury.
 Mir Blaine concluded by giving an account of
 the Landreau claim. which he declared had 3 absolutely no connection with any claim a which Shipherd represented.
 f A tilt between MT Blaine and Mir. Belmont at the close of the formers testimony this
 morning showed that on Mir. Blaine's cross ! oXaMlQaL1OQ, WHICH VIII UcSlh OAl " ONhCoOdS some of his statements will be closely exam
 ined. Mr. Belmont says he did not care tc
 examine the witness to day, but when his turn comes under the committee usage he will inquire into the status of the Landreau
 claim and its relations to our diplomatic Tn
 terference in Peru. Meanwhile he stands by
 his construction of Mir. Blaine's despatches , and he will undertake to show that Mir i | Blaine has not stated accurately the attitude of Secretary Fish and Congress on the Ian i dreau claim.
 The Guiteau case to-day came up in the | supreme court in banc, Judges Wylle, Coz
 and James. Mr. Scoville formally wi hdrew . Reed Monday, May s, was set down for ar
 gument on the bill of exceptions.
 Felix Lebanon, representing the National | and Dr. G. c. Somers, representing tht l Western association of Andersonville sur l. vivors in Washington, urge the passage O.
 the Senate bill giving pensions to ex prison
 CTS of the war in cases where the military
 record of disease is necessarily incomplete | through absence from their commands. = Secretary Teller believes that there will bt
 no serious difficulty in the settlement of thu
 Ute troubles.
 Counsel in the case of Kilbourne vs. Thomp
 son to day fiji d a motion for new trial or D. the ground that the court erred in allowing l2 certain evidence for the plaintiff, and that thu
 verdict is contrary to the law and evidence , and that the damages awarded are excessive . exorbitant and outrageous.
 The signal corps station at Sandy Hook, N
 J., reports: Captain Blankinship, of thu
 steamer C. w. Lord, reports as follows Lief
 Boston April 20 with merchandise and pas le sengers for Savannah. On the 22d at 9:3O a s. m, being then sixty miles northeast by eas ne of Five Fathom lightship, the crank pil at broke disabling the ship. We made sail ant ir tried to work in shore, but failed as the wint
 was variable and not in our favor. On tn
 23d we sighted the steamship Alleghan. - bound out from Baltimore to Providence
 who answered our signals of distress an
 lowed the vessel inside of Sandy Hook har
 bor. Sue was anchored last evening and tn
 Allegheny proceeded on her voyage.
 The first assistant Postmaster General ha E written decision strongly condemning thu
 act of postmasters who, when letter is open we ed by a person under a mistaken suppositio to that it is addressed to him, remove the CT
 velope to ascertain the address of the write . and return the letter and ask for informatio
 to secure it's delivery to the proper person ss Postal employees must regard first class ma
 ter as inviolable, whether actually closed wit
 seal or not.
 to A successful exhibition of the Pintsch sy so tenn of lighted buoys was given below Ale7
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