Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-21
HOW CAMPBELL WON.
KER REPLIES TO BLISS.
Words of Milk and Honey Followed by
Merciless Slap.

Merciless Slap.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-Mr. Ker was
before the Springer Committee to-day to
reply to some of the statements recently
made by Col. Bliss in his testimony.
When Mr.. Ker asked on Thursday to be
allowed to appear to-day he requested a
member of the committee to ask Col. Bliss
to be present, saying that he and Col.
Bliss did not speak. Col. Bliss was noti-
fed of Mr.. ker's desire and was present.
Mr.. Ker said.
''COl. Bliss has assumed that my testimony
was wholesale attack on him. He is mis-
taken, and do not think that my testimony
will bear him out. / want to say for Col.
Bliss that he is keen, bright, sharp lawyer
Of great ability and Of untiring energy. His
familiarity with the papers of the case was
simply wonderful. He seemed to know all Of
them by heart. We relied on Col. Bliss be-
cause he had tAe facility of understanding pa
pers.N
Mr.. Ker then proceeded to analyze Col.
Bliss testimony Of the last two days, and to
contradict him directly in nearly every essen
tial point of his story, saying that he intended
to convict Col. Bliss Of deliberate falsifying
Col. Bliss, he said, intimated that Mr.. ker
gave McSweeney copy OF the bill of fare of
the celebrated Dorsey dinner, Of which Nc
Sweeney made good use in his speech.
GIVING BLISS THE LIE.
"Now. said Mr.. Ker, ssMcSweenev himself
told me that he received that paper from Mr..
Bliss. 1 deny most emphatically that L gave
the book to McSweeney. If Col.
Bliss (turning to that genteman) has
any answer to make to that
| let him make it. Mr.. Bliss says that no effort
was made TO read an interview with him in
the court room before he got on the stand
here and under oath and swore that | COM
mitted a falsehOOd. He might have the re-
cord that shows that an attempt was made to
read the interview. Col. Bliss was not there.
I In ard
| Col. Bliss has here testified that he knew
| what it was when the indictments were drawn
up, yet he professed ignorance at the time"
| Mr.. ker accounted for Col. Bliss attack on
| ''It appears" said Mr.. ker, "that there was a
man named for United States Marshal by the
President, Some charges were preferred
| against him by Brewster Cameron, While
| going to Philadelphia one afternoon on
| train with Col. Bliss, he said that my friend,
Brewster Cameron. was getting himself into
/ 4 deal of trouble. Here's this Strobach case
| he said. after the President has made the
nomination, and it has gone TO the Senate, it
is no time to make an attack on him. II an
| attack is to be made il ought to have been
made before the nomination.. 1t is just this:
Brewston Cameron Will have to quit the De-
partment Of Justice or the Attorney General
viii have to GO"
PASSAGE WITH BLISS.
81 had not been used to getting Cabinet
| secrets. Maybe Col. Bliss wants 10 deny"
Il don't want to deny it." Col. Bliss replied.
| exctedly There are some letters on that
| subject that I'll send to the committee. Isaid
that Cameron had twice attacked men nomi-
mated by the President, and thought that
such things ought to be stopped"
would you favor a Cabinet officer saying
nothing, if. after a nomination, he found out
/ something against a mans" asked Mr.. Van
/ Alstyne OF Col. Bliss.
''Not at all. but when information is in the
/ department before nomination. | think that
/ il ought to be given to the President
In referring 10 Col. Bliss testimony that
/ William Pitt kellogg's name did not appear in
| the papers in the Post Ofiee Department, Mr.
Ker said: "Col. Bliss knew in his heart that
| Mr.. Kellogg's name did appear" The wit
ness said that he had prepared for the March
/ term an indictment in which the names Of
| Price, Brady and Kellogg were Joined to-
/ gether, charging them with conspiring to de-
/ fraud the government. Mr.. Bliss had said
that kelosgis name was not mentioned
/ before that grand jury.
DRIFT OF wALsH'S TESTIMONY.
''Why, Walsh's testimony was all Kellogg" ("
/ Mr.. Ker said. "Walsh testified that he got
drafts from Kellogg, and paid the money over
! 20 Kellogg