Show I TELEGRAPHIC HUBBELL TO CURTIS Jay Scorches George William Chicago Washington special Hubbell of the congressional committee gets back at George William Curtis in the course of a long letter of which tne following are paragraphs You continue to assert the circular signed by me virtually threatens with dismissal officers anl employees to whom addressed should they not surrender part of their wages There is no excuse for euch misrepresentation The phrase plogy of the circular shows the absolute absence of all the language of a threat It also affirmatively shows the request is for voluntary contributions Your misrepresentation mis-representation is therefore without justification jus-tification in the language of the circular it is equally without justification in the purpose of it That is proved by the fact that although like circulars have been issued biennially for at least sixteen years by republican congressional committees com-mittees and many persons have refused to respi nd to them there never has been a single removal from office or employment employ-ment fcr that cause The other accusation accusa-tion in the circular is an invitation to the commission of what is made a crime by I section 6 of the act of the 5th ot August 1876 As a matter of law this ia absurd There is no difficulty in the point as your lawyers will find out in QUO time if they have not already rho law does not apply to members of Congress Con-gress in any of its terms but is confined in all its parts to executive officers and employes This langurge shows and all the circumstances surrounding it prove your construction involves the absurdity ab-surdity that members of Congress are executive officers and the further absurdity absur-dity that it is crime for a man holding an office to freely contribute of his funds to a political committee Of course according ac-cording to you a civilian may contribute of his funds as of right but tI citizen becoming be-coming an official loses the right to help an organization whose principles he may support and whose policy he may deem essential to the prosperity of the people In other words under cover of protecting that official you degrade him You ask me to unite with you in starting an experiment ex-periment in a criminal prosecution against an officer or employee in New York for having complied with my request re-quest for aid for the republican canvass 1 will not do this for several reasons it would be an act of dishonor in me to punish any republican official who thus contributes besides it is needless as a means of testing section six In my opinion neither the attorneygeneral or district attorney require instructions either from yeu or myself as to the I meaning of the laws or their duties in them and 1 prosecufiens i for violating therefore leave the subject with them You having declined to unite in making n case against me as long as the records rec-ords of Congress show through all the gulf states the systematic use of tissue ballots for thq purpose of fraud the systematic throwing out of ballots the systematic defeat of the exercise I rights suffrage and every conceivable violation of law for the purpose oi thwarting the expression of tee popular i will and so long as it can be proved im1 ossibio to have a fair election and an I honest count in any portion of thin County coun-ty I propose to help maintain the republican re-publican organization which shall be strong enough to prevent these outrages or when their commission cannot be prevented pre-vented to punish criminals and to that end I propose to ask all good citizens officeholders or otherwise to supply the congressienal committee with the necessary neces-sary mean for smiting this crime against ovr common liberty To the extent that i you in the roll you are now playing may succeed in crippling operations of this committee you become themost efficient of all of the southern bulldczers and the most powerful promoter of their invidious invidi-ous and destructive methods and there I I leave you |