The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-06
Mr.. Belmont (angrily and i'm perative!y)-
Yaif q uomnnf until sneak IC hen SLOWLY

| MT. belmont lanSTlly ANU I'D tS'"' way
Wait moment until l speak. hen slowly
You have asserted talsehood because said
the other day in the committee that was not
responsible for those quotation marks. Inc
construction which put on your dispatch was
the right one, and will leave ii to those who
choose to READ your dispatch carefully enough
to decide between us. AS TO your statement
the first one that you made-I do not propose
that this committee or that the press OF that
the country shall undertake IN any way to
judge my method of replying TO your asser
ton That Significantly, and pointing pen
handle in the direction OF MIR. Baine's lace
| will convey to you In private.
Mr.. BlaiAe-The quotation which I read
from Mr.. Belmont Is not the one that has quo
tation marks at all. When he stated that the
quotation marks were not with his knowledge
| [ dropped that one and the one that refer to
| is the one which, avoiding quotation marks,
construes my dispatch. He says: "On the 10th
of December Mr. Blaine wrote his last dis
patch to South America, IN which he says, in
effect, that there shall be no treaty OF peace
without the recognition of the Landreau claim. y
There is no escape by quotation marks there.
There are no quotation marks in 1t. lie gives
construction, and he gives an untruthtul
construction.
Mr.. Belmont very deliberately, and with
suppressed passIon)-Now this is the very last
word that am willing to give here. The
words sin effect mean just what they say
that that is the construction to be but on your
dispatch; but as to your re-assertion about the
character of my statement, as | have said just
now, my course OF action IN that regard Will
be conveyed to you in private. 90 not pro-
pose to make any scene here with you or to
make any capital one way or the other You
may do that If you please. l think that that
| hat hot 10 wi
are usually guilty Of think that you are a
bully and coward. Sensation.
!. Mr. Kasson-Thls is certainly unparlia.
mentary
Mr. Blaine-Mr. Chairman, this man has
: dlsgraced his place. He Is the organ of men
{, who are behind him. He was put there to in.
suit me. His meaning was to do it. l beg to
say that he cannot do It. 1t Is not in Mr. Bel.
monts power to insult me. He may say
"falsehood" and bully" and coward" as
, much as he pleases l recognize that he is
speaking for men behind him.
Mr.. Belmont-What say is entirely on my
, own responsibility, and repeat that you shall
of course, very soon learn my method of deal.
ing with this question and with you.
| The Chairman-Now, let that conclude this
f scene.
AS pertinent to the above and explanatory
between Mr.. Blame and Mr.. Belmont, we give
the following extract from the comments upon
it of the New York Ereniag Post. well
, known Republican paper:
The real trouble and the true cause of MIR
, Blalne's anger was that Mr.. Belmont, in hi'
construction of the meaning OF the despatch
. was substantially right. Other acts of MIR
. Blame concerning the same subject, taken II
Q connection with the despatch, will only
, siren CITIZEN that impression with every candle
, mind But 1t receives especial strength from
the extraordinary variety OF expedients Mr.
4 Blame resOrted to under Mr.. BelmOnts stub
e born examination Now he asserted that ev
, erything he did was inspired by the most ar
:, dent devotion to the cause of peace, and theI
u he represented the war in South America al
y an attack, not by Chill, but by England, upor
G Peru for the sake of plumber without fighting
q for It, Now, by most wonderful perversiol
' of technical terms, he spoke of the Landreal
g claim as a thing he was in duty bound to TAX
t. up without further inqulry-res adjudlcata-
d because one House of Congress had recon
mended it, while the other refused to notice il
y and because the State Department had declared
it to be deserving inquiry without passing up
g on Its merits and without expressing the leas
h inclination TO enforce 1.-THE most marvellOu
doctrine OF res adjudicata ever heard Of; ant
= then again he represented the same Landreal
J. claim as thing of no importance, which hat
d absolutely no influence upon his diplomatic
}. action. Mr. Blaine has, in this very examlna
4 ton, been on so many sides OF every question
- that he authorizes US to use our discretion II
j Judging where he really was. And, Looking
G calmly at the whole case, most people vii
, come to the conclusion that Mr.. Belmont was
not far out of the way.