St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-06

cape JOHF OW maze on that last night OF the
session. Of course it was my plain duty to
make the ruling when the point was once
raised. II the Arkansas men had not, how
ever, happened to come to me when 1t their
wits ends and in despair, the bill would I'M
doubleday have been lost, or AT least post
poned for year. I thought the point would
interest both you and Caldwell, though oc-
curing before either of you engaged in the
enterprise. Sincerely,
w. f., Jr., Esq. j. G. Blaine.
Something Omitted.
The reader should understand that these
daily issues of the Record are printed from
movable types, and are not stereotyped until
after the lapse Of several days, when they are
printed from the plates aud issued in bound
volumes at the end OF the session. In the
bound volume of the Congressional Record,
volume 4, part (, 44th Congress, first session,
.. 3606, this letter is reproduced, and in addi-
ton TO that which is given abo-e, the follow
ing is added.
Il beg YOU to understand that thoroughly
appreciate the courtesy with which you have
treated me in this railroad matter, but your
conduct toward me i'm business matters has
always been marked by uubounded hberAlity
in past years, and OF course 1 have naturally
come to the conclusion to expect the same of
YOU now. You urge me to make as much as
I fairly can ont OF the arrangement into
which we have entered. 1t is natural that
should do my utmost to this end. / am both
cred D. only one Ting and that is deGHite aad
ee;,lcSsed arrangements trjM -Hl' CGI9cei an
caTio,s to doqtre the interest he has promised NE.
Bat DO not get defRite understanding Nth
hisoa as hare ,eih yog. I shall be in Boston
in few days, and shall then have an oppor-
tunity TO talk matters over with you. / an
disposed 10 his,k that utGteee7 I do icih Mr. Cqid-
5ral mast reilly Be done through goa. Kind re
CARDS to Mrs. Fisher"
With all mis- "audacity,n Mr. Blaine did
not nave the check to read this part OF the
letter, and let the country know, through the
Associated Press. how an xious he was in 1859
to acquire the ''interest'' be (CaGwelD had
| promised him. Mr.. Blaine shrewdiy calcu-
lated that before this letter would appear in
the bound volumes of tie Record several
months would elapse, and all interest in the
! subject would have died out, and this was
! probably the motive of this deceitful act.
Having shown thus clearly Rlaine's skill
and success as a suppressor, let him appear
in another role that of
i Falsifier of the Record.
On this point take the letter upon the sue
ceeding page, 1907, dated Augusta, Me-, Oct.
4, 1871, in which he says:
III have your positive written contract to
deliver me S125, 600 land bonds and S32, 500
first mortgage bonds OF this
whole amount OF bonds due me I have re-
ceived but $50, 600 land grant, leaving but
$75, 900 of those and S32, 500 first mortgage
still due. < =
Mr. Caldwell has raDeotadl,- ocsurad n, q thot
l should be paid all the bonds due me under
contracts with you and outside of that $780,
600 due me from him."
viii Mr.. Blaine dare to say that the letter
quoted from above is printed incorrectly.
When be took the letters from Mulligan, the
com mittee of the House underworld to prove
their contents by Mr.. Mulligan to which Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. Frye strenuously objected
[see pages 100 and 101 of the report of the
evidenced. Mr.. Hutton, the chairman said,
| however:
II have asked the witness question as
to the contents of those letters so far as they
bear upon the subject matter of the resolu-
ton. That is perfectly proper. If Mr. Blaine
is apprehensive that the witness will give a
garbled statement, inadvertently or other
wise, the remedy is in his own hands to pro
duce the letters. If he declines to produce
the letters then the evidence is legitimate -
Mr.. Blaine then said:
II would prefer making a statement in
advance, but if the question is insisted upon,
l have no objection to it,"
On the next page, 102, in questioning fur
tner Jas to the contents Of the letters, Mr.
Hutton asked Mr.. Mulligan:
SIS there anything else in these IA letters
OF Mr. Blaine to Mr.. Fisher which bears on
the subject matter of this inquiry-to wit
the Little Rock & Fort Smith bonds, which
went afterward into the hands of the Union
Pacific Railroad Comyany!"
Answer-"Mind you, sir, do not know
about what particular bonds went into the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. There
are bonds that Mr.. Mulligan got from MIR.
Fisher. Whether those were the particular
bonds or not l don't know. Mr.. Blaine him
self said, or | understood from his letters.
that these bonds that went in there were the
bonds that came from these parties named
Whether they were his own bonds that he got
this commission on l do not know. There
was one letter in the package where he told
Mr.. Fisher how much was due on these
bonds. He told him he had received s55.-
000 of bonds from him and $40, 600 from
Caldwell on an outside matter; that is $50
600 of bonds on Mr.. Fishers account las
percentage that he was to get upon those
sale of bonds, to which testified yesterday,
and the $4,000 of bonds which he got from
Mr.. Caldwell"
Mr.. Blaine is present, and does not con
trovert this statement. A moment before
Mr.. Mulligan said to the committee: s'Mr.
Blaine is here, and listening to what say
1 consided my word as good as any man
that ever lived.
There is
An Evident Discrepancy.
between the letter quoted from above as to
the number of land bonds delivered to Mr..
Rlaine and the sworn eridence of Mr. Mulli