St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-01

he was to receive as commissions 1926, 900
land grant bouds, $31 $50 first mortgage
bonds and SIS, $50 in cash.
Mr.. Blaine claims to have bought bonds
never to have had one "except at the regu-
lar market price"
Mr.. Fisher, with whom he traded, should
be a COMPETENT witness on this point. He
says, p. SO of the evidence: 81 let Mr.. Blaine
have some bonds in his hands, but they were
for other parties," and in reply to the inter
rogatory, From whom did you get your pay
from Mr.. Blaine or the parties for whom he
bought them9 answered, ''from the parties"
Mr.. Mulligan also testifies, p "a, in re-
gard to the sale of bonds, they were sold
through Mr. Blaine to parties in Maine, also
that the third party (Blaine) was to get $780,
900 of land grant bonds and $32, 500 of first
mortgage bonds for his share in the transac-
ton. Upon P. 103 Mr.. Mulligan repeats
again that all the sales were made by or
through Mr.. Blaine. Furthermore, the mem
orandum book itself, in the handwriting of
Mr.. Blaine, says CONTRACTS made through j.
u. Blaine by Warren Fisher, Jr.) and then
enumerates names and amounts in detail
HE DID NOT BUY Gland GRANTS"
We have proved conclusively by the testi-
mony of Mr.. Fisher and Mr.. Mulligan that
Mr.. Blaine never bought land grant bond
OF the Little Rock 81 Fort Smith railroad from
them, and that all the bonds that he was to
receive or did receive were in the nature of
a gratuity or commission. Webster's die
tionary defines a lie as a falsehood uttered
with the purpose of a deception. Mr.. Blaine
did succeed for time in deceiving the House
OF Representatives and the committee, but
did he succeed in deceiving the ''Great
Searcher of Hearts, whom he so impiously
invoked to bear witness to his utterancesi
MIR. Blaine admits in a letter to Fisher, dated
Washington, April Is, 1872 that he had received
$50, 900 of the land grant bonds, for ne SAYS:
There is still due to me, on articles of
agreement between us, $40, 200 in land
bonds and S31 900 in first mortgage bonds,
making SOL, 900 in alp; and he also ad-
mits receiving on the final settlement, Sept
81, 1872 (see Blaine's statemenD at the
hands of Mr.. Mulligan, $40, 900 of land grant
bonds.
We quote testimony of Mulligan, p. 1914,
Mis- Doc. 176, House of Representatives,
44th Congress, first session:
Question by Mr.. Blaine, outside of that
book the memorandum book in Blaine's
hand writing)-How many bonds to your
personal knowledge went to me!
Answer-Only $40, 900 of my own person
al knowledge.
Q'-What bonds were those?
A.-Land grant.
Q.-When were they delivered?
A.-On the 2lst of September 1872.
Now What value received does Mr.. Blaine
pretend to say he gave for these $685. 200 of
land grant bOndsl He says: 81 never had
one except at the regular market price," but
Fisher and Muiligan's testimony shows that
he never paid dollar, but received them
either as gratuity or commission for his ser
vices in disposing of the other class of bonds
to his friends in Maine who did pay in cash. It
1t will be seen above that Mr.. Blaine was en-
titled to Sl25, 600 of the land grant bonds
and it may be asked why they were not de-
livered when the other class of bonds was
delivered to the parties in Maine.
The answer is that the bonds could come in
to possession Of Mr.. Fisher only as fast as the
road was completed, and it was stipulated in
the contract of Sept. 5, 1869, quoted above,
that they should be delivered as they came
into his (Fisher's) possession i'll the memo
randum book of these transactions in Mr..
Blaine's hand writing he writes: 1.-THE same
to be delivered by Mr.. Fisher as soon as
ready for distribution"
The following is the
WARREN FISHER CONTRACT
which was one of the papers in the Mulligan
package that Mr.. Blaine did not read, and
which are referred to in foot uote of the
Congressional Record, p. 36OS, as ''quite I'M
important"