Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-05


MEETINGS WITH HILL.
Tha witness said he owned no stock in
the Bell Company or in any kindred COM
pany. He had met Mr.. Hill several times
and found him TO be great anti.monop-
oily man. lie had several times offered
articles directed against railroads, and
the witness had bought one or two within
the last dive or six years.
The chairman then turned to some Of
the sun publications and referredgpartic-
ularly to an article entitled @Haunted
Telephone" whlch appeared in the issue
OF March -. THAT is a stJry--a work Of
maginatiOn-intended to illustrate
principle" remarked the witness.
The Chairman--"To illustrate the Pan
Electric enterpriseW
The Witness.-"Rather; aud the general
situation. You Will find 10 very good
reading; didn't write 1t. 1t was written
by one OF the young men in the ofice-a
veJy brilliant young man."
~ guess So" commented the chairman,
dryly.
A NEW CABINET oFTIcER.
The chairman also referred to on article
entitled "a New Cabinet Officer" and re-
marked that in neither OF tue articles was
the legal aspect discussed.
The witness replied: "They are views
of a political and moral nature. They
were not written by me. | wish they
were. | wish had the faculty to write
such things"
He admitted that he regarded the ar
ticles as quite severe attacks upon the
parties referred to but thought them quite
justifable. 81 think it is, generally, a
KIND of scandal" be said, Gin which the
Executive of the United States is made
auxiliary"
Continuing, be said he had not attacked
the whole administration but certain
members of it. He should support the
Democratic President great deal more
earnestly than Republican President, if
he thought the President was right.
PREVIOUS cHAGR1N.
The Chairman-Did you not have some
reason TO disapprove OF the course OF the
administration before discussion of Pan
Electric matters in the Sum-
The Witness--I had never fully ap-
proved of MIR. Cieveiand's civil service
principles, but there was nothing about
that of a scandalOus nature. 1t was bad
politics and bad patriotism, but the Pan
Electric was of n different nature.
The Chairman inquired If the whole
course Of the Sun bad not been Influenced
by other causes of dissatisfaction.
The Witness-I should think not; no
man can answer that he is entirely free
from influence OF some sort.
Mr.. Ranney-The stockholders had
nothing TO do with the publication?
The Witness (crisply THE duty of
stockholders is to receive their dividends.
Laughter
Mr.. Ranney-And yours to earn them?
The witness assented.
LIKE THE CREDIT MoBILIER.
In reply 10 Mr.. Oates Mr.. Dana said he
regarded the Pan Electric organization
as similar to the Credit Moblier in its
features.
MIR. Oates-You said that the President
should have had more sense than TO per-
NIT suit to be brought. Your belief, l
think. was very high In the gentleman's
the Presidenps) abilities before the cleo
ton?
The Wltness--I thought very highly of
his abilities In some respects. | think he
was very bad Democrat, and / tried
very hard to beat him. ! came mighty
near doing It, too. He had tight squeeze
"a plurality Of only 1000 votes in New
York, and Burchard did that. Laughter. 7
The Democratic party would be great
deal better off to-day in my Judgment if
he had been defeated.
MR.. GARLAND's COURSE.
The chairman inquired whether, If the
law had made provision for the discharge
of the Attorney Generals duties by an
other officer, when the Attorney General
was interested, the witness thought the
Attorney General should have resigned.
Mr.. Dana replied that under such a
statement, where the law clearly pro-
vided for such a circumstance, there
would be no necessity for resignation.
The Chairman--Is not that this case
precisely?
MIR. Dana-L do not think that it is.
The Chairman-All the evidence in
this case is 70 the effect that the AttOr-
ney General refused from the beginning
to have any connection whatever with
the application for suit in the name of
the government, and that he had left
the city. 1t has been testified BY the At
tOrney General and Solicitor General
that the suit was ordered by the SOlIc-
itOr General without any previous con-
yersatiOn with the Attorney General.
The application came after the Attorney
Generals departure. The suit was or
dered by the Solicitor General on his
own motion. If these things be true, do
you regard the Attorney General as Gull
pable in permitting the suit TO be brought?
Mr. Dana--I think that the Attorney
General should have protected his de-
paTtment.
The. Chairmau-And prevented the ap-
plications being allowedg
Mr.. DanR-And prevented the appli-
cations being allowed.
The examination WAS concluded with a
question from Mr.. Millard:
elf Mr.. Garland had found, on his re-
turn, that they had taken advantage Of
his absence to institute a suit, should he
not have discontinued the suit or left the
department."
THAT is what l think" replied Mr..
Dana.
Mr.. Millard-He should have dIscon-
tinued IT.. N-r
Mr.. Dana-He should have smashed 1t.
THE DISPUTED PARAGRAPH.
The interpolafed matter consists Of the
following paragraph, which appeared at
the end bt the volume made up OF the
majority and minority report and testi-
mOny:
''The majority have all along conducted
this investigation as though they felt 10
incumbent on them 10 find somebody
guity-as though some great party in
terests would be jeopardiZed unless they
reported that somebody was guilty or
something. We have helped them 60
draw a drag net in every muddy pool
anywhere aud everywhere taey we're
thought they mad captured the boss
bOOdler, aud when they reached In 20
grapple with and 10 land him. they i'm
variably found that IL was only "A small
sucker which they took between their
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