The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31


] and honorable one. [Cheers.l These let
| tiers, established two propositions; First,
| the primary object in writing that letter
was because OF the contracts en-
| closed therein; ard secondly, the ref
erence therein TO the CalIwell inter-
Blaine could not otherwise have gone into
another interest, namely, the sale of bond-,
which was not expressed in the letter. Mr..
Schnrz's assertion that these letters were
| written with corrupt motive Is untrue.
THE FAMOUS RULING.
The ruling made by Mr.. Blaine, that so
much has been said about, was made on the
9th of April Of that same year. AT that time
neither Caldwell, Fisher nor Blaine had any
interest whatever IN this Little Rock road,
| aud did not have for some three months
afterwards. 1t was ABOUT six months after
when Blaine, in looking over his record az
spe Iker OF TIE house, came across the ruling
and IN conve satOn with Fisher, ard in his
correspondence also. called attention to tue
| fact. will sh W you, "a pr"cerd in this,
that there vas no eason In the rulings that he
made on tbaT occ asion, the correctness or
which no one doubts in the slightest Gegr e,
no reason In relations exiting between The
parti $ SIX months afterwards, why he should
not have called attention to it.
THE BOND BUSINESS.
Mr. Schurz's next charge is that Mr.. Blaine
was rot correct IN his statement that he had
nothing TO do with the bonds which were
sold for SOL 900 to tue Union Pacific railroad
| company. state to you with all caudor and
honesty that there IL not single particle of
evidenc. tending in the slightest degree to
show that Mr.. Blaine ever had any
Interest in those bonds whatever or
anything VIVA ever to do with them.
| ate it brotdly aud en-
phatically, The evidence, on the contrary,
is clear that he did not. l cannot repeat the
evidence here to-night-it would require too
much time; but let me state the facts in ref
erence TO these bonds. The evidence shows
that Thomas A. Scott. who was az one time
president of the Pennsylvania line of
railroad, had purchased from Mr.. Calf
Mr.. Blaine had nothing whatever to
do with them; that afterwards Mr.
Scott was appointed president or the
Union Pacific railroad company, and as such
he performed We v valuable services for
that company. His services were SD valu-
able that in his opinion rhe salary which his
predecessor hai received as resident of that
CON- any, IS 900 per year, was not sufficient
to pay him for the services he had thus per
formed, and the otc RS of the 70 d
agreed with him in that respect, yet they
were unwilling, for some reason, to pay him
tuc salary lie ueSlTeu duu SpTedu IL upon inc
books, lest it IN some way might in
jure the company. Toese bonds which
Scott owned Of the Fort Smith q Lit
tie Rock road he had pledged. The
Pacific railr ,ad company purchased the
bopis paying 1000 for them, although they
were worth hut about SIC, 900 ut the time
intending that the difference betwe. tue
$50, 600 and the ST., 900 wou d be received by
MIR. Scott aud re aimed by him as ccmpenSa.
tion for the services he d performed, and
in that way his salary be incre led. Thomas
A. Scott, Andrew Carnegie, Nor on. b is, 81
Co.. and Pr siden Dillon of the Union Pacific
We're Ill agreed in saying that sucn We're the
fac t., and that James q. b aine never heard
OF them. CIR at applau. And a a last
witness, II oue more was wanting, Caldwell,
himself in Europe at the time building rail
roads, sent cabl-gram across 10 Pcpcor
Knott one of the Democ' attic c>mmitte.,
that Blaiue had nothing tu do with the hoods,
and that cablegran Knot tried t. suppress.
Tremendous cheer-.1 That shows the eve dent
fairness Of Democratic investigating commit
tres. Appl e. | a sure YOU expected, IN
the light of the evidep e, that the honorable
g-btl man, ~hru in mis- ely, would bivO
had he ca dor aud he homes Y TO admit the
IA t, that while that charge was mad it was
OVERWHELMINGLY shown to he Untrue by the
evidence. But he did not do it: and he not
alone did not admit the f,ct. but / submt to
You he repeated the charge and coupe ed
with it. another, so that he might as far as
p ssible, In pressing his argument and the
evidence upon the one, cupe it with tins
ch ,rge III such a manner that tn evidence
would apply TO both; and j submit he
did this with the evident intention of deceiy-
ing.
MR. SEIZURE BEARING FALSE WITNESS.
Let ma call your atteution 10 what he did
couple it with and what he said. Mr.. Schurz
spoke of the declaration Mr.. Blaine mtds in
the house of rrprrsen atives on the 9th of
April, 1876, before this Investigation which
brought out the Mullgan letters took pl zee,
in which he said that in the first place he had
nothing to do with the Northern Pacific
$4,000, and his holding OF thD Lift Rock
bouds was au entirely honest matter Let
Us see what he, Blaine, hen said: "As to tue
gu stion Of proprlety in m"mb of con
gress hold ng All invt stnent of this KIDD it
aust be remem' cred that tue bonds were
granted to The safe OF Arkansas aud not T.,
the railroad company; tb At TIL company de
rived us IFS and va ne aud franchise VINO ly
from thu stare, III to thp state the Jmpany
Is an" nable aud nnswerable and not in sny
sense TO CORRESPONDING, as SchurZ said,
to convey the I'd ainat it was just as iigrt
and proper for him t. purccase tho,e bonds
as it was f"r him to purcna'e a lot IN
Augusta. And then, Mr.. Schurz says, 'he
BLAINE went on to say that laud
grant road had nothing to do with
the government of tho United States,
and that its value was not in any way suD-
ject To the action of that government, and
especially not to the acton of congress-" |
say 10 ynu io-r light, aftrr u careful exanina-
ton of the reco DIS, that James &. Blame
never u tered such words. tApplause.
Why Mr. Scnurz thought il nece.s ny to go
beyond the record and put words in his
mouth that he never had uttered. or the sem
bl ,nce Their, of, l am sure l know not
might adopt the language of the honor
able gentleman vh-n, in speaking Of Mr..
Blaine In reference c. another m liter he said
he uttered an unJruth knowing 1t t. be uu-
true. for he purpos of dec'iving, and then
ask wpat that meant [Applause.l
Rem mber that the language which he thus
first quoted was tho Statement made by Mr..
Blaine that this railroad Company
derived its life, its franchi Q aud its rights
from the state in which it was organized,
and not from the COVE nment Of the United
States, and that 1t was prop r for him there
fore to purchase the bonds Of That company;
and the honorable speaker in his city
referred to these land-grant @ ,mpanirs .ni
to the fact that there W re land grant
companies in this state | desire TO illustrate
this question by a reference to the land
grant companies IN this state, and ascertain
whether IL was right for Mr. Il aiue to pur-
chase or not Congress granted to the state
OF Michigan certain lands TO aid In the con-
stru ton OF railroads in Mtchi gan. 1t
pr ci~ely the same terms the only differ
ence in the Two acts being that ArEan-
sas got even numb red sections, while In
Michigan they were the odd nu Dbcrs
These facts i am going to speak of
now are familiar 10 many OF you. Tho