The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-25
THE HOUSE.

Justice to Charles Francis Adams-Consid-
Grafton of the Sunday Civil Bill.
WASHINGTON. June 24-Mr Long of Massa-
chusetts. rising to a consideration of the Record,
said that, in speech made some weeks ago, the
gentleman from California, mr.. Henleyl had
charged that Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific Railroad. had committed gross
violations of law. He had asked the gentleman
to specify what these violations were, and the
only specific reply made by the gentleman was
that Mr.. Adams had himself stated that the
matter of free passes given by the Union Pacific
cost the government some s.. 900 day. He
Mr.. Longl had denied the correctness of this
statement, and he found that his denial was
altogether too broad. AS it appeared from his
published speech, Mr.. Henley had said that it
cost the company $4,000 day. Mr.. Adams, in
his testimony before Senate committee, had
stated that free passes cost the company So, 900
a day. But this was not violation of law, and
the statement was accompanied by the modifying
remark that many of the passes were issued to
the railroad employees. In extending his remarks
in the Record Mr.. Henly had made what pur
ported to be quotation from Dir. Adams him
SELF consisting of some fifty ight lines, and con-
tanning very severe reflections the Union
Pacific and on Mr.. Ames and the gentlemen con-
nected with him in the construction of the road.
It seemed to be a quotation from book or
pamphlet written by Mr. Adams in 1869. He
found, upon examination, that the first twenty
four lines of that alleged quotation were words
which were taken from that book or pamphlet,
but the remaining thirty-four lines were words
which Mr. Adams had never uttered and
never written, and which were incorrectly
and improperly attributed to him by the
gentleman from California. About eighteen
months ago an enormous pamphlet had been
published containing severe criticism of Mr..
Adams. In this pamphlet appeared the first
twenty four lines of the quotatlon then followed,
in different type, certain disconnected passages
which had now been put in Mr. Adamss mouth.
He knew that the gentleman from California
was not guilty, Intentionally, of putting in Mr..
Adamss mouth words he had never uttered,
and he knew that the gentleman would have no
objection to having the correction made in the
Record.
Mr.. Henley said that the gentleman was right
in the statement that he Mr.. Henley had at
trihuted certain language to Mr.. Adams which
he had never uttered or written. When he pre-
pared his speech, he remembered that, good
many years ago. Mr.. Adams had written
scatning arraignment of the Union Pacific, it's
directors. the Credit Mobier and Cakes Ames.
Before the Senate committee Mr.. Adams had
become not only the apologist, but the eulogist,
of the Union Pacific, which he had previously
denounced. He Mr. Henley had thought IL
fair matter of criticism for him to critcise Mr..
Adams past and present utterances. Not having
Mr.. Adams's pamphlet at hand. no had been
obliged to rely upon what purported to be cor
rect copy of il in newspaper, aud he had used
it, not dreaming that there was anything in il
that could not be properly attributed to Ar.