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h the business. But his precautions have not availed to afford him entire exemption from responsibility in connection with the transactions your Committee have inquired into.--Mr. Lea did not introduce Mr. Bailey to Mr. Russell, nor does he state that he appointed for them a place of meeting, yet it happened that these two persons did meet at the War Department on the same day that the interview between Mr. Lea and Mr. Bailey occurred. Mr. Russell says this was between the 12th and 15th days of last July. It was probably on the 13th day of that month. The Chief Clerk of the War Department, Secretary Floyd's most intimate friend, Col. W. R. Drinkard, was the medium through whom the introduction took place. On that day they had their first interview at the War Department, Col. Drinkard, as shown by his own evidence, impressed Mr. Bailey with the belief that Mr. Russell was a gentleman of great respectability and pecuniary resources, and that if the acceptances of the Secretary of