Mr. Ingersoll. Do you say now that the other routes of his, to the number you talked of, were expedited?
Mr. Bliss. I am not on the stand to be cross-examined now. But I do say to your Honor that there is no evidence of that in this case. And then I go beyond that, and say that I did not know those things then and I do not know them now.
Mr. Ingersoll. Very well; he made the argument on the supposition that all the routes were expedited. I say that not one of them was expedited in which Mr. Dorsey had an interest.
Mr. Bliss. There is no evidence on that subject.
Mr. Ingersoll. Is there any evidence of what you say?
Mr. Bliss. I put a supposititious case; you have stated a fact.
Mr. Ingersoll. I will put another supposititious case, and mine is that the other routes were not expedited.
The Court. That is the right way to meet it. Counsel ought not to turn to counsel on the other side and make an appeal to his knowledge in regard to matters not in evidence.
Mr. Ingersoll. I know, but he said he did not know it. Then I asked him, as a matter of fact, if he did not know—
The Court. [Interposing.] He stated his supposition, and you met that supposition—