St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-08

of The most audacious attempts to tamper
with the public records known TO the history
of congressional proceedings.
1t will be understood by airy one at all
familiar with congressional legislation, that
the fate of bill is by no means determined
by what is termed final VOTE" The pre-
liminary sKirmishing and preceding motions
comprising the progressive history of a meas
ure, plainly indicate its actual growth, and
show more conclusiyely than the final vote,
who were its real friends and who its dis
guised enemies. Fortunately for the truth OF
history and the falseness OF Dunnells dis
puted political chart, the salary bill, in its
preliminary stages, is just such test of the
friendship or enmity of those who finally
voted for or against the bill.
The history of the preliminary votes is as
follows:
on the first day of March, 1878, the first
distinct effort was made by those favorable
to increased and back pay. On that day Ben
jamin Z. Butler had mBde a motion 10 re-
consider a vote by which increase OF salaries
had been defeated. This brought all the real
friends of the measure for the first time TO
the front A motion was then made by Nj.
Farnsworth, of Illinois, TO lay the motion TO
reconsider on the table. This would have
killed the bill on the spot, but it was de
feated. Ayes Go, nays los. Dunnen voted
No, which was for the measure. (See Globe
v March /, page p This vote gave the
measure its first life, and made Its after eX-
iStence possible. Here was the happy op-
portunity for the real enemies of the bill 10
kill the back pay in the very hour OF Its
BIRTH but Dunnell voted TO LET 1T LIvEi
Now, the man who thus, by his votes, per-
mltted the measure TO go through its prelim-
mary stages. fully indOrsing the principle 1t
embodied. must be held to be guilty Of desir-
ing and securing its final passage. lie helped
to revive the measure after II had been de
feated, and voted for it in the shape in which
it was revived. Does any one suppose that
Mr.. Dunnell was so transparent an idiot that
I,,A hat ha 1nf nv
these votes? Or are his constituents such
transparent idiots that they don't compre-
bend just what he was doingf The
MOTIVE gives character to and inter
prets these votes. He wanted money
TO build that house in Owatonna. He aided
in every preliminary vote to establish the
principle of back pay, and when at last back
pay came. he rushed to the pay clerk, eagerly
pocketed his portion Of the swag he pre-
tended he was shocked to see stolen from the
treasury, and Immediately thereafter, by the
magic agency of plenty of money, the Owa-
Ionna mansion rose i'll majestic beauty OIL
rectly out of the sand
Now, we propose to show by positive testi-
mony, never before given to the public, that
Mr.. Dunnells claim to a negative vote on the
final passage of the bill is falsehoOd, and
that his assertion of such a vote was an
afterthought, determined upon as deliver
ance from his desperate situations; and fur
. ther that he attempted, by the baSest and
most INSCRIPTIONS means, to estaDllsh the
falSehood which he had announced.
Mr. ID. has over and over again stated to
his constituents that he voted NO on the final
passage of the bill. We shall prove by all
the official testimony, concerning every pos
sible phase of the case, that he did NOT
vote no.
First-In the journal of the House of that
session, on page 55S. he is recorded as pres
ent and not voting upon the pending Dill
black pay) This is the only official and
original record of such transactions; all
others are merely copies.
CORRESPONDENCE RELATING THERETO.
(COPy)
OwATONNA, Mimi. March 20. 1873.
Messrs. Rives d Bailey:
GENTs-In the pamphlet edition of the
GLOBE containing the proceedings or March
Sd, you have me put down as mot voting
on the final vote on the salary increase, while
III the Daily GLOBE for that day you have me
recorded as voting NAY, which did. The
Daily GLOBE was right, and the pamphlet is
wrong Now. that was an exceedingly i'm
portant vote, and l very much regret the
error. Is it too laie to remedy: certainly
hope not.
i WOULD MEET THE EXPENSE IF NOT TOO
LARGE. Shall l hear from you on the SUBJ
ject? NJ. H. DUNNELL.
ANSWER.
CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE OFFICE,
WASHINGTON. ID. c.,
HoN. NJ. II. DUNNELL Owatonna, Mlnn.
DEAR SR:-Your note Oh the 10Th ultimo.
relating to the vote on the passage of the bill
prOyiding for the increase of salaries, came
10 hand this morning, and has been read with
care You will remember that you CAME TO
OUR OFFICE after the Daily Globe had been
made ready for the press, and INSISTED that
The foreman should CHANGE YOUR NAME from
the place where the reporters had put II, that
is, AMONG THOSE NOT VOTING, to those VOTING
NAY.
The foreman, transcending any authority
possessed by him, ACCEDED TO YOUR REQUEST
AND MADE THE ALTERATION. This change
attracted the notice of the reporters, one of
whom, Mr.. Lord. at once wrote us as follows:
THE REPORTERS LETTER
WASHINGTON. ID. c.,
March 8, 1873.
In the Globe of this morning. page A, first
column. the list of yeas and nays on adopt
ing the report of the committee of confer
ence on the legislative App. bill, contains
the name of Dunnell among the nays. THAT
Is WRONG Ii was NOT IN THE LIST FURNISHED
YOU. AN CERTAIN. 1t is not i'll the list of
the clerk, and the clerk WOULD NOT PUT 1T IN,
THOUGH DUNNERL INSISTED UPON IT. His
name belongs among the not voting, and
MUST BE PUT THERE, If you want your list TO
correspond with the House journal. Did
not Dunnell call at the Globe and HAVE HIS
Yours, etc., WIN. BLAIR LORD"
Investigation proved the correctness of the
main FACT in Mr.. Lords letter, your name
was returned to the place it ORIGINALLY
OCCUPIED in the Globe, and the edition has
been so printed.
In this matter we have followed the only
course open to us, and we regret that there
has been any misunderstanding about it.
Very respectfully,
+. & J. RIvEs & GEO. A. BAILEY.
Mark Mr.. Dunuells letter: Il WOULD
MEET THE EXPENSE IF NOT TOO LARGE J.
There is the disingenuous offer OF bribery!
IT. LII al, nrf
upon the records of congress- Why the
70 rgery: To cover and protect Mr.. d. in the
falsehood which he had so premeditatedly
told as to his vote, i'll order that ne might
screen himself from the wrath of an indig--
nant constituency! Could dupllcity and
tergiversatlon go further?
we leave MIR. Mark ii. Dunnell, suspended
in the meshes of the net which he has spread,
n spectacle of modification to his friends
and dishonor to himself! Truly did Senator
era, declare that this was bad year for
Christian statesmen.
DUNNELL's METHODS.
AUSTIN Mimi, Jan. "a, 1877.
To MARK H. DUNNELL, Washington, d. G.
SIR have been told that you have a
fondness for letters; indeed, ii has been init
mated that good portion of your valuable
time while in Washington is spent In writing
communications to your political employees
by which term mean postmasters, route
agent and revenue officers within your dis
trict 1t is also stated by some very wicked
and rebellious men that these communion
tions are mostly for the furtherance of your
personal aims, and in no way relate to pro-
per discharge of the public service. A nice
little package. well preserved, now lies be-
fore me, containing about one hundred let
ters over your well-known autograph, and
received by me while attempting to dis
charge the duties of postmaster at Austin,
would seem that there is some truth in what
has been said. 1t can not be expected that
man who employs about two hundred body
servants for political purposes, and under
takes the job of directing and controlling
their acts by writing to them some five or six
thousand letters annually, would recollect
distinctly the contents of all these epistles.
Indeed, it would De strange if a man could
spread himself over so much surface and not
appear rather thin in places. BY way of
a reminder of the past, (and retro
spect of your record ought not
TO be unpleasant to YOU, as well
rs To discharge what / conceive to be nv