The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-06

why so anxious to assist the Arkansas
delegation, that he hurried his own mage
OIL To Logan as soon as the fact was
made known to him that an amendment
was going TO be moved?
But what happened after this bill was
passed? In less than three months from
that time Mr.. Blaine was presented with
a large amount of stock in the corpora
ton which he had saved from destruc-
ton, and acknowledged the fact in the
following interesting letters to one
Warren Fisher, of Boston, who had
taken the enterprise up as soon as Mr.
Blalne'S nice ruling set it on terra firma.
1t may be prefaCed that Mr. Fisher
had been Mr.. Blainc's broker, so to
speak, for many years, and was part
ner of Blaine's brother-in-law for a long
time.
As GENEROUS As HE COULD EXPECT.
Augusta, June %, lSG9,-To W, Fisher, India
street, Boston:
My DEAR Mr.. FIsHER:-I thank YOU
for the article from Mr.. Lewis 1t is
good in itself, and will do good. He
writes like man of large Intelligence
and comprehension. Your offer to admit
me to participation in the new railroad
enterprise, is in every respect as gener-
Gus rs | could expect or desire. thank
you very sincerely for it, and in this
connection | wish to make suggestion
of somewhat selfish character. 1t is
this: You spoke of Mr.. Caldwell dis
posing Of share Of his interest to me. If
he really desires to do so, ! wish he
would make the proposition definite so
that could know lust what to depend
on. Perhaps if he waits till the fuil de-
velopment of the enterprise, he might
grow reluctant to part with the share,
ana do not by this mean any distrust
of him.
do not feel that | shall prove dead
head in the enterprise if once embark
in it, see various channels IN which
know can be useful.
Very hastily and sincerely, your friend,
). q. BLAINE.
MORE THAN SATISFIED.
Augusta, Me-, July ,, lSBO-To W. Fish
MY DEAR Mr.. FISHER You ask me
il am satisfied with the offer YOU make
me OF share in your new railroad en-
terprise. OF course | am more than sat
iSlled with the terms of the offer. ]
think it most liberal proposition. III
hesitate at all it is from considerations
no way connected with the character of
the offer. Your liberal mode of dealing
with me in all our business transactions
OF the past eight years has not passed
without my full appreciation. What
wrote YOU on the 2Jth was intended 10
| bring caldwell TO a definite proposition.
| That was all. ! 80 10 Boston hy same
train that carries this letter, and will
call at your Office tomorrow at l. IN. II
you don't happen to be in, no matter.
! Don put yourself to any trouble about
! ii, Yours, d. q. B.
| 1t must have been pure gift OF slice
| Of "bO0dlc,' else why the fear that the
" offer might not be perfected? II il
1 was business, dollars and cents, trans
! action why necessary TO impress upon
! Caldwell and Fisher that "hc knew he
would not be dead head in the matter"
and what were the avenues 10 an Amer
can Speaker to be "useiul in many
| ways that he saw? 81 see various
channels in which / can he useful. y
What were they?
! But the Speaker was not content to let
| the matter rest here. lie continued to
| impress upon these men the value and
! Importance of his action in the decision
Of the point of order, insisting parenthet-
ically, of course, that he had TO sustain
the point when made. He doesn't go
further and say that he himself had to
suggest the making of the point and
| rush his private page OIL
to see that it was done. However,
| here are two more of the famous
letters referring to the transaction. II
will hc seen that not content Oh one
letter detailing the circumstances the
Speaker wrote another on the same sub
ject the very same day and accompanied
il with the Congressional Globe that the
gentlemen might sec with their own
eyes how much they wcrc indebted to
him for his services i'm the premises.
nm IT Avn nnN'1 EtnI ~,
Augusta, Maine, oct. 4, lSGl-TO W.
Fisher, Jr Esq, q India st.. Boston:
My DEAR SIR: | spoke to You a short
time ago about point of interest to Your
railroad company that occurred ut the
last session OF Congress. II was on the
last night OF the session when the bill re-
newing the land grant to the State OF
Arkansas for the Little Rock road was
reached and Julian, of Indiana, Chair
man of the Public Lands committee,
and by right entitled To the floor, at
tempted 10 put on the bill as an amend
ment the Fremont FL Paso scheme a
scheme probably well known to Mr..
Caldwell. The House was thin and the
lobby in the Fremont interest had the
thing all set up and Julian's amendment
was likely To prevail il brought tOaVotc.
Roots and the other members from
Arkansas who were doing their best for
their own bill, to which there seemed Ia
he no objection, were in despair, for il w0s
well known the Senate was hostile to the
Fremont scheme, and if the Arkansas
bill had gone back to the Senate with
Julian's amendment the whole thing
would have gone ON the table and slcpt
the sleep of death.
In this dilemma Roots came to me tc
know what on earth he could do under
"a la f.tsh hl enid .s..Is /.
constituents that the bill should pass.
told him that Julian's amendment was
entirely out of order because not ger.
main. hut he had not sufficient cont.
dcnce IN his knowledge of the rules IL
make the point, but he said Gen. Logan
was opposed TO the Fremont scheme and
would probably make the point, | sent
my page To Gen. Logan with The Suggcs.
tion and he ut once made the point. ]
could not do otherwise than sustain il,
and 50 the bill was freed from the mis-
chieNous amendment moved by Julian
and at once passed without opposition.
At that time | had ncye- Seen Mr..
Caldwell, but YOU can tell him that with
out knowing II did him Il great favor.
Sincerely yours,
J.G. DLArNr.
AvCU,TA, October (, lSW. MY DEAR
Mr. FISHER:--Find enclosed contracts
of I he parties named in my letter of yos-
tcrday. The remaining contracts will
be completed as rapidly as scircumstunccs
will permit,
| enclose you u part of the Congress
sional Globr of April 9th, containing the
point TO which | referred ut some length
in my previous letter of to-day. Non will
hnd IL of Interest to read it over and see
what narrow escape your bill made on
that Inst night of the session. or course
1t was my plain duty To make the ruling
when the point was once ruised. If the
Arkansas men had not, however, hap
pcned to come 10 mo when ut their wits
end and in despair, the bill would un-
doubleday have been lost or at least post
poned for year. l thought the point
would both interest you and Caldwell,
though occurring before elthur OF YOU
engaged in the enterprise.
| bog YOU to understand TINT I thor.