The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, April 23d, 1SS6.-Such
distinguished witnesses on the stand as
the attorney general and Jay Gould the
first in connection with the pan elec-
trio and the latter with the strike in
yestigation have made these proceedings |
particularly interesting.
The announcement that Mr.. Garland |
would testify before the telephone |
committee of inquiry drew an unusu-
ally large crowd to the crypt like room |
away down under the capitol, He made |
his appearance looking pale and feeble
| from his recent sickness, aud after a
courteous salute to the committee, drop
ped into the witness chair, in his care
less languid way, and proceeded to
give a clear simple and unreserved
statement of the telephone affair. He
had nothing to conceal and was anx-
ious to tell all he knew. He said the
pan electric scheme was simply an or
ganization of several impecunious gen.
tlemen who wanted to better their con-
dition. He was willing to go into it
If it offered any inducements.
Attorney General Garland III the
! course of his statement told the COM
mittee that he had never, in any way,
used his official position to advance the
interest of the pan electric telephone
company, that he would as soon thought
of Jumping into the Potomac with a
mill stone about his neck as to have
done so. He had never made penny
out of pan electric, but on the contrary,
was $500 out on that account, and he
declared positively that he had no con-
nection whatever with the bringing OF
the government suit and that his stock
was NOT gilt.
J. During the examination of MIR. HUH
It phreys, who is counsel Tor the Globe
IS Telephone Company, and in politics al
T Ohio republican, this gentleman stated
that Mr.. Garland positively refused Il
talk to him on the subject OF institutins
v government suit. "He convinced
IT me-" said the witness, ''that he was in
,e corruptible." "Did you try to corrup
hIm?" inquired Congressman Ranne.
IL of Massachusetts,. SCI did not" respond
10 ed the witness, shut may have had
suspicion regarding the reform preten
70 sions of the democratic administration.
"You think better of it now? ?" aske
!" Chairman Boyle. 81 found that som
10 democrats were honest" replied MI
Humphreys, land L think if two homes
ar men live they are Mr.. Garland an
Secretary Lamar"
The room in which the strike inVe:
ty tigation is being conducted was s
n overcrowded during the examinatio
.rt that only members of cOngress an
newspaper correspondents were admi
ted during examination of the gre;
Ell railroad magnate, Jay Gould. N
POwderly was very much gazed at an
ne does not look in the least like a son
toll.
When asked to tell the whole stol
as of the strike he replied that he prefe
~. red to answer specific questions. Du
10. ing the course of his examination |
said that the labor organization WI
perfectly peaceful. Sometimes
os members misunderstood the organic
ton. 1t was sometimes impossible
" control a man by any law when he his
he been wronged. One point Mr.. PoN
x derby said he wanted perfectly unde
Dr. stood. 1t was that If any of the knigh
,ra had violated the law the organizatiC
"a would help to punish them. The Ia
~ ~ of the land was supreme above the lay
tle of organization. He became mpassio
X ed on this subject and declared that
40 ViOlators, whether knights of Labor
1al capitalists, should be punished.
1t is an open question whether Il
-" senate or the house has been more cor
rs mendably employed this week. IT
to latter has not done much at anythiI
as and the senate has done little but vo
res away the peoples money. On one d,
Gle it passed between four and five hu
or dred pension bills. This is the large
- number of bills ever passed in one d;
e" by either house Oh congress sin
OK the establishment of the governmer
'rn The first thing the senate did this we,
er. was to vote $500, 600 for the erection
he fire proof hall of records in this cit
=, and Senator Hoar provoked a senotori
'u laugh by asking if the proposed bull
ger ing "Yas for the keeping of the pres
dents private papers ?"