Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1884-09-18
ed lands to Arkansas and Mississippi

ONO river via DlLLlo hock TO leXas
boundary near Fulton, in Arkansas,
with branches to Fort Smith and the
Mississippi river" Mr.. Blaine knew,
further, that the very bill referred to
in lis two letters OF October 4th, by
promoting the passage Of winch he
had done Mr.. Caldwell "a great ia
vor," was ian act to extend the time
for the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad Company to compile 6fhe
first section Of twenty miles III said
road" thus keeping the land grant
for the benefit of that road aIice-scon-
greSSionaL action beyond the time ORR
ginally conditioned. He knew fur
Their that, in addition to this, Con-
gress had in 1872 passed an act re-
lieving the Little Rock road OF cer-
tain restrictions concerning the sale
of granted lands which had been i'm
p )sed in 1869. And now ask You
Senator, whether, in the face Of all
these acts of congressional legislation,
Mr. Blaine's solemn statement before
the House of Representatives, by
which he tried to whitewash himself
that the company derived its life,
franchise, and vaiue wholly from the
State" and that 1.-THE Little Rock
road derived all that IL had from the
State Of Arkansas, and not from Con-
greSs," and that the company aOas
"anaenable and oasUerable 10 the State
and mol al any sense to Congress, was
anything else than deliberate, un-
blushing untruth, known by him to be
such ?
You also deny that when Mr. Blaine,
on the same solemn occasion, declared
he had never received any Fort Smith
bonds, Except at precisely the same
rate that others paid, he said what
was not true. Again, what are the
facts? Mr.. Blaine's words before-the
House Of Representatives. We're these
I'm common with hundreds OF other
people in New England and other
parts of the country I bought some Of
these bondS-not very large amount
paying for them al precisely the same
rate that others paid. | never heard,
and do not believe, that the Little Rock
Company ever parted aoiM bond 10
any person except al the regular price
fired for their sale. Instead OF receiv-
ing bonds Of the Little Rock aaA Bort
Smith road as a gratuity, 4 meUer mad
one ercept al the regular market price"
When Mr.. Blaine said this TO the
House of Representatives on April
"a, 1876, before the Mulligan papers
became public, he knew, but the pub
lie did then not know, that he had re-
ceived large quantities of bonds upon
the following contract;
"BosroN September g. 1860.
4" Whereas, have this day entered into
agreements with A. & P. Coburn, and sunday
other parties resident in Maine, 10 deliver
them certain specified amounts Of the com
mon stock, preferred stock, and first mort
gagged bonds Of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad Company, upon said parties
paving TO Inc the aggregate SUN OF 81 900,
which several agreements are witnessed by J..
O. Blaine ami delivered to snid parties by
said Blaine:
Now this agreement witnesses that upon
the due fufInent Of the several contracts re-
ierred to by the payment OF the 81 30, 900, and
for other valuable considerations, the receipt
of which 10 acknowledged, ] hereby agree to
deliver 10 j. @ Blaine or order, as the same
come into my hands as assignee Of the con-
tract for building the Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroad, the following securities
namely: OF the land bonds, Z per cents,
B 30, COO Of the first mortgage bonds, gold,
6's, $32, 500. And these $4,000 Of land
bonds and S32, 800 Of first mortgage bonds
thus agreed to be delivered TO said Blaine are
over and above the securities agreed TO be de-
livered by Warren Fisher, Jr., assignee TO
the parties making the contracts, which par
ties, with the several amounts 10 be paid by
each and the securities to be received by each,
are named Ia q memorandum on the next
page Of this sheet.
And IL 10 further agreed that, in the event
Of any one Of said parties failing to pay tho
amount stipulated, then the amount Of secu-
rites to be delivered TO said Blaine under this
agreement shall he reduced in the same pre-
portion that the deficit of payment bears to
the aggregate amount agreed TO be paid.
VARIES FrsHER, JR., Assignee"
That this contract was carried out
appears from memorandum in Mr..
Blaine's own handwriting, produced
by Mr.. Mulligan before the investiga-
ting committee in Mr.. Blaine's pres
ence without word of objection from
him as to its correctness. And in the
face of this contract, and Of the fact
that large quantities Of Little Rock
bonds went to Mr.. Blaine, according
to the memorandum, without any
payment on his part, as a gratuity or
commission for Little Rock securities
passing to A. & P. Coburn and other
parties from Mr.. Fisher, Mr. Blaine
had the hardihood to say that the
Little Rock Company never parted
with bond to any one except at the
regular price fixed for their sale, J" and
that he himself "neyer had one except
at the regular market price" Inboth
these cases Mr.. Blaine evidently said
what was not true; he knew it to be
untrue when he said it, and ne said it
with the obvious intent to deceive the
House of Representatives and the
"forty-four million of his country
men, whom Mr.. Blaine took into his
confidence" How do you call this I?
/ know how you would have called it
before Mr.. Blaine's nomination, but
that nomination seems to have had a
strangely confusing effect upon party
mems notions as to public morals. To
call it brilliant audacity in the hand
ling of truth NAV suit the vocabula-