The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-27

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
81 BULLY BLAINE.
He Puts in some solid W Ork
Before the Foreign Affairs
Committee.

C0lm mllBGe.
, Washington, 26.-Blaine said to Il
committee this morning that he hs
examined the diary oftbe late Presiden
Ii which he had been in the habit, fC
years, OF keeping a minute account of b
daily transactions, and found neitht
ShlpAerd uor Hurlbut, the Cochot,claim
nor the Peruvian company mentioned
neither does his private secretary remenl
per ever to have heard him mentio
teem. None of these South America
dspstches we're prepared during tn
Presidents sickness. Blaine, mentione
the fact o. certain dispatches which wer
blocked out before the President wa
shot, but which remained in StGtu qu
until after the succession of Presiden
Arthur. In explanation Of Presiden
Garfeld's views upon the subject Blaine
said: President Garfield, in converse
ton with me. said Mr.. Llncolt
directed Secretary Seward TO bring al
1 foreign dispatches to him and not to the
/ cabinet unless hs SO desired, Continued
Blaine: From that time forward
never submitted anything to the cabinet
which involved permanent policy OF
change of policy, and 10 step which
would involve change of policy on the
| part of this government was ever taken
by me without first submitting it to the
President and receiving his entire sp-
proVsl and direction. Blaine alluded to
the efforts which had been made to fix
upon him (Blsine) the responsibility for
a certain policy towards South American
states, which was calculated to Involve
this country seriously, and continued:
l don't desire to assume that President
Arthur is responsible for any such effort;
/ aequit him entirely, but I desire
all this time to place this matter
before the committee correctly. hi inc
then produced the original draft
Of instructions, which were given
TO Trescotp which he read, and pointed
out the corrections which had been made
by the President, some of them at his
(Blaine's) suggestion, and commented
upon the corrections and their merits and
dement's. He added, Il do not by any
means find fault with the President for
changing his mind, but this is the origi-
nal draft of instructions TO which Presi-
dent Arthur gave his assent, and which,
following precedent, I keep. desire to
state most solemnly that the assumption
that [ ever interpolsted line or sylls-
bic in the dispatch after it was agreed to
by the President, is as false as the lie
that was circulated over the country that
I was, during tAe Presidents sickness,
blocking ont q foreign policy of my
own.
At this point Belmont proceeded to-
PROFOUND q series OF prepared questions,
manly directed to;inquire into the policy
of the department in the Oaili-Peruvian
trouble, and the instructions given Tres
cot. Witness, in reply to 8 question,
stated that he bad never made an exam.
; ;;;a;;1u ;;2to the merits Of the Ccchet or
Landreau claims. He had never consid-
cred the Landreau claim as Teadjudi-
Gated.
Belmont then propoundsd q series Of
questions in regard TO the terms "s96d
officers" or officially" and a somewhat
lively tilt ensued between the examiner
and the witness, which was suddenly
brought to q climax by Blaine's remark
ing, with some emphasis: 81 hope, Mr..
Belmont, you will be a gentleme n. Il
shall be one, and shall treat you as sdch.
I am not in a police court, to be bad
gered. I must answer my questions in
my own way, aRd you must not under |
take 10 correct me-" Belmont dis
claimed any lack of courtesy or desire to |
badger. He entertained the highest re-
spect for witness.
The examination for some time pursued /
The direction of repsrtee and rotor s, the
examiner persisting in putting his own
upon the tenor of BIaiae's
while the latter persi;tently
insisted upon their meaning as written.
Blaine, addressing the shairmsn, said:
i must confess this seems to me very
examination" Witness
hen explained at some length just what
were given to Hurlbut in
citation to the Lahdresn claim, that he
hould simply use his good Office to
ecure q hearing for Landreau in The
courts In Peru. was an adventuresOme
ough, added Blaine, to ask a foreign
to give an American 8
iearing in its courts. The case was most
sirly arbitrated and the property has
'one the way of the old world; England
las gobbled the gusno and q million tons
f it are now advertised in London, worth
100000, 900. Blaine continued
With much earnestness: "The En-
fish bondholders put up the job Of
var on Peru, aHd it was loot and booty.
they make a mistake who speak of this
var as CHILEAN var. 1t was an English
Vsr on Peru, and I take the responsible
ty to so put it, and l dared to ask that
hearing be given to an humble citizen
( q government that hardly dares to be
ut over night, and my foreign policy, to
uote the expression, would have driven
his country into war with Chill had it
ot been thwsrted. Why, it is believed
II over Chill that the United States got
ut in time to save q thrsshing; that her
ir-brained secretary Of state was just
bout to involve her in war when she was
aved By his removal land we are laughed
t aud cartooDed in their papers A
tile gathering of LOCO, 900 people on the :
rest coast of South America would have
iven US q terrible thrsshing, so we let
ne dismem berment of Peru go on and
lowed England to bag the spoils,"
sing and adding with much emphasis:
history will hold the United States re-
,onsible for it."
The examination proceeded for some
me, and lapsed into continuous rattle
repsrtee and counter retort, which
conYulsed the spectators with
lighter, and left 1t a matter of some
oubt which was the examiner, and
hich the witness. Blaine asserted that