Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-02
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
KRIPBR LRFT AGAIN,
His Charge Against Boyn-
ton Not Sustained.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
The House Redeems the
Trade Dollar.
Quiet Again At. Cincinnati
But the Troops Still ON
Guard.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

General BoyntOn Enumerated - The
Charges Made by E1-SPeaker Keifer
Not Entertained
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The report of the
majority of the Keifer-Boynton committee
submitted to the House to-day opens by out
lining certain uncontradicted facts which are
summarized as follows: First, Boynton' s
previous unsullied reputation; second, that
he had never been known to have personal
interest in any subject of congressional &C.
ton; third, that neither McGarrahan nor
any of his counsel had ever known of Boyn-
toms interest in his claim; fourth, that Bo5n-
ton never spoke to Keifer of the claim prior
to the alleged corrupt proposal and never in
any way alluded to it except by
his letter of February 27, 1888; fifth, that
for six years friendly and even intimate
relations existed between Keifer and Boyn-
ton; sixth, that Boyntons press gallery
tickets signed by Keifer were not revoked
after the alleged interview; and seventh
that Speaker Keifsr did not call the atten-
ton of the House to the alleged violation
of its rules nor make public mention of it
until the present session of Congress. The
"AtAO8coD
TO corroborats his statements is then exam
ined. Az to his nephew the committee says ::
SIN estimating the proper weight to be given
to the testimony of young White it is to be
remembered that he is protege of Keller
and has been designated by Keifer as "a
smaller edition of the tramp" After a
caustic review of the contradictions in the
testimony of Elder and Garfield they are de-
clarsd unworthy of belief. Reviewing the
alleged interview as stated by Keller as ex-
traordinary and improbable the committee
adds: '.But in addition to the i'm
probabilities there are points of en-
phatic contradiction to General Refers
testimony. Keifer swears that after
the interview with Boynton Dunnell came to
him while in the Speakers chair and asked
to be recognized to call up the McGarrahan
bill and that he told him that he could not
be recognized. Mr.. Dunnell on the contrary
says that the Speaker agreed to recognize
him for the purpose indicated as soon as the
pressing public bills were disposed of. In ad-
dition to the palpable contradictions it seems
singular that when the interview had terml
mated as declared by Keifer that Dunnell
would seek recognition which had been SO
emphatically refused and equally singular
that he should have been treated with SO
much courtesy by the man who had been so
grossly insultsd in reference to this very bill.
The committee recite the events on the night
of March Sd and attribute the rupture be-
tween Keller and Boynton to the opening of
the press gallery on that night and the SUBJ
sequent action of Boynton and other CORE
spondents in relation to it.
Though not saying SO in words, the minority
follow the committee in its view of the testi-
mony down to the night of March 2, when
the alleged visit of Keller to BoJnton took
place. On this they say: without
intending to cast doubt on the
fairness and truth of the witnesses
to March 1, we feel sure they are
mistaken as to the day and that the inter-
view was day earlier.'' Having discrsdited
Keifer's witnesses and found Boynton mis-
taken as to date the minority 'ieaves the
question as they found it-a question of per-
sonal veracity."