The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-30

marked personal and dated the 26th inst. asking an
investigation of your practices by the House, and
threatening public letter unless by todays session,
l caused investigation. Your conduct has placed
you so far outside of the pale of gentleman to
make it degradation to notice you. You have been
often shown TO be liar and defamer of character
that it has become unnecessary to deny
anything you say and you conceive ii to be the bust
of Congress to occupy its time investigating your
bad deeds. TO thus dignity you.
Your colleague CIV. b. Shaw in defaming me, and
who presided last spring over the meeting of few
members of the press to condemn me, many years
ago shown land he compelled to admit the fact,
appears by the public recordsl to have taken lo
600 as lobbyist while correspondent and as far as
know he has had the privilege of the press gallery
ever since That meeting refused to investigate the
truth of the charge against at your and his in
stance when they must have been known by both TO
have been false Do you think the present House should
investigate each case of your violations OF all
manlness by daily lying about in the press and
otherwise and appealing TO others to do the same as
] am informed? Does not such conduct on your part
forfeit all right You may have to sit with gentlemen OF
the pressl
Shall not move the investigation you ask because
do not believe If is the business o the House OF KEEP
resentatives to investigate your corrupt conduct
There is rule of the House against your being
lobbyist Members of the last House land the record
shows the factl know YOU lied in your publication that
opened the press gallery for The admission of mem
bers wife the last night of the session All mem
beers of the present House know you lied when you
published that when the seats were about
to be drawn. l went in haste to Mr.
Cannon of Illinois and asked him to request the priv
ege of being allowed to select etc, to which OBJ
lection made These and other like matters need
no investigation by the House to learn their fasity
know that you forged a letter last summer and
published it to the country purportng to have been
written by to the Secretary of the Treasury, Civ
ing date, and about matter of grave Importance
ut as was informed at the time merely stating your
printed card had been rightfuy interpreted by the
public advance confession of your guilt lob
byist.
If when YOU told me near the close of the last Con-
gress that was a fool for not making money while
Speaker Blaine and Colfax had done and that there
was still plenty to be made if the Mctiarrafan bill
could be gotten through, l had thrown
you as you deserved from my foolh Asuppose II
would have been wiser for me- But up to that tune
you and l had been good terms although had
been warned by friends and your public reputation to
beware of you. l treated you ienently, although l
have never spoken TO recognized Won since. You
have from that time to this been devoted in your
work-by all manner of falsehood-of assaing my
character. You did not say who with you inter
ested in the McGarrshan bill but intiInated that you
had colleagues. My knowledge of the lobby clique
the correspondents. for l think most of
Them are gentlemen; but all have
suffered in public esteem from y0ur bad example and
of them have been infuencelby yoH TO do what
they say they heartily ashamed Of correspond
ent of newspaper should regard his position one
ID high responsibility and of all things, should be at
least truthful
do not pretend to say that cGarrahan had no merit
in his original land-clai1n, but when you explained
to the bill you wished to get through Co1srsess
provided for the issue OF many niiiOns OF acres OF
landscrip, which shpA,3 De about the value OF the
since rnore), and that there would be an
abundance to divide, l. for the first
told youit would not pass the Forty-seventh Con
gress. have letter from you dated Feb. 81, 1888
asking me to recognize member gnamed) to move to
suspend the rules and pass the bill which Is OF date
earlier than talk. No person has ever spoken to
me in opposition to the McGarrahan bill and my po
stion against it taken, You know, at the time
yeu explained its nature and purposes leave it for
the public to decide whether the lobby who work for
big jobs do it for pay sentiment
The committee of investigation you speak of has
given you more concern than me. But 1t
has afforded you another, excuse or
10 80 aud hovra Tau1a1 chaI
untruths pretending they the result of test
1nony disclosed before the committee. dislike the
idea of noticing your letter at all but you propose
publish it, It may be due the public that some of
the facts should go out along with it. OF course you
would not publish yours without publishing this with
it. J. WARREN keller.
MIR. KEIFER COURTS INVESTIGATION.
AT the conclusion of the reading Mr. Keifer
again took the floor, and said that in converse
ton with some of the members he used the I'M
fortunate expression that there was 'clique"
of newspaper lobbyists. That might be true,
or it might not 1t seemed to have been reported
to General Boynton that he had used the ex-
preston He at once rushed into the papers and
commenced denying that he was guilty
of any connection McGarrahan in the last Con-
gTess. Certainly he tKeifer) had not mentioned
it up to that time Now, this man appeared to
be friend of his until about the LIST of March
last. when he came TO him with this bill holding
handl. 1t should. be borne in mind that on the
9th Of February Boynton had written him
letter asking him to recognize a member of the
House to move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill, saying he believed it was right and putting
in the usual disclaimer that he had any interest
in it. This letter Mr. Keifer also sent to the
clerks desk and had read. The letter is as fol-
lows
Dear General-McGarrahan you have doubtless
heard Of hnl appealed to to ask you to give Dun,
"A ask q
has been reported favorably from the committee To
have a vote seems fair when side is great
monopoly The bill appears to be fair to both
sides have interest of the remotest kind in this
matter but always thought Nee. a victim of rich
H. V. BoYNToN.
Continuing Mr. Keifer said that his impress
sion was that he did not answer that letter, but
.ither the next day or the day after Mr.. Boynton
came to his room wien other persons were there.
When the room was cleared he began CONVEX
satiop something like this. He said: ''Keifer,
what do you think l think of your I said. II
don't know, l hope we'll" He replied, II think
you are a fool l did not know what he meant,
loud laughter He answered. l had been
Speaker of the House; that / might have made
money as Speaker Blaine and Speaker Colfax
had done; and then proceeded to say, with his
bill in his hand, that there was
plenty to be made yet if we could
get McGa1rahan's bill through. Continuing with
the alleges conversation, Mr. Keller stated that
Boynton explained to him how an immense
amount Of money could be made by the issue of
scrip, &c. Boynton used the word millions.
When that interview closed, which was just then
and there, and Bognton left his room for good
reasons, his come ton and relation with Boyn-
ton ceased, and from that hour to the present
minute he had never recognized him or spoken
to him. Boynton had devoted his life to going
to other men and people and telling falsehoods
and having them published all over the country.
He had undertaken to defame him (Keifer)
in every conceivable way. He understood that
on the last night Of the session Boynton and
Shaw said they had found opportunity
TO defame him before the country and make him
appear opposed to the combined press and
respondence of the country If this resolution
was to be adopted, he wanted it to be torn wide
open. It appeared the correspondent who took
$4,000 as a lobbyist was the man who was
lected as the Great newspaper chieftain to pre-