Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-07-19
BLUFFISG PRoCroE KNOTT.

The scenes attending upon the read ing were those of the widest excIte- ment. The Speaker was powerless tO preserve order or to prevent Biaine's | partisan friends from cheering to tae echo. The sympathles of the galleries, which were packed, were with Blaine, and these added to the tumult and dis order.
 The letters read and the excitement having subsided, Blaine walked over to the Democratic side. and. standing di- rectly in front of J. Proctor Knott, pre- ! cipitated another sensation. This was really more startling than tbe riist, be- cause unexpected. Mir. Blaine said:
 "fhere is one piece of testimony want ing. There IS but one thing to close the complete circle of evidence. There IS but one witness whom 1 could not have, to whom the Judiciary Committee, talk ing into account the great and intimate connection he had with the transaction, was asked to send cable dlspatch, and ask the gentleman from Kentucky If that dispatch was seut to him"
 NIT. Frye-Wbo?
 Mir. Blaine-To Josiah Caldwell.
 MT. knott-I will reply to the gentle man that Judge HuntCn and myself | have both endeayored to get Mr. Cald- wells address, and have not yet got 1t. NIT. BlRine-Has the gentleman from Kentucky received dispatch from Cald- well?
 NIT. Knott-I will explain that di- rectly.
 MT. Blaine T want e categorical an- swer.
 1 Mir. Knott-I have received dispatch purporting to be from Mir Caldwell Mir. Blaine-You did.
 NIT. Knott-How did you know I got it?
 MT. Blaine-When did you get It? I want the gentleman from Kentucky to answer when he got it. Mir. Knott-Answer my question first. Mir. Bla'ne-I never heard of 1t until yesterday.
 Mir. Knott-How did you hear it? NIT. Blaine-I heard you got a dis patch last Thursday morning at eight o'clock from Jo-iah Caldwell completely and absolutely exonerating me from this charge, and you have suppressed il. | Protracted applause upon tue floor Jid in the galleries. I want the gentleman | to answer. After a pad,e Does tie . answer!
 Mir. Knott-I will answer that when I get ready. Go on with your speech.
 Mir. Blaine-The gentleman from Kentucky in responding, probably, think, from what he said. intended tO -onvey the idea that I had s1me illegitimste knowledge of how that dispatch was ot.aiEed. l have had DO communication with Josiah Caldwell have had no means of knowing from
 he telegraph office whether the tele- gram was received. But Itell the gentle man from Kentucky that murder will out.
 Mir. Glover-That is true.
 Mr. Blaine-And secrets will leak. And tell the gentleman now, and I am prepared to state to the House, that at eight o'clock last Thursday morning, or thereabouts, the gentleman from Ken [ lucky received and receipted for q mes sage addressed to him from Josiah Caldwell. in London, entirely cor roborating and substantiating the statements of Thomas A. Scott. wlieh he had just read in the New York papers, and entirely exculpatIng me from the charges. which, l am bound tO be- lieve from the expression of that report, ! the gentleman is anxious to fasten upon me.
 It was this scene which Bob Incersoll ] had reference tO when he spoke of Blaine as the Plumsd Knight hurling his lance full and fair in the face of his ! enemies