The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-23

to the last annual report and admit that like
set of schOoboys had made a report with
out understanding the matter on which report
ed! III the proper mode of securing the proof
OF my assertions can not be reached, | will take
it upon myself to furnish the facts which would sub
stantiate them. Let the substitute be adopted
Let the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company be
requested to furnish their books for inspection and
the truth of the allegation either be proved or
dlsproved. | am opposed to this dictation on the
part of that company as to the in which it
will proceed to vindicate itself
Mr.. Fowler said he there fully to represent
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Not
for the purpose of generating or apologizing for
any act OF the company, but because he was op-
posed to making a sweeping charge against that
corporation without first investigating the matter.
lie would assure the gentleman that he too was re-
ssponsible for what he might say. He would not
lend himself to any act which was compromising in
its character, sooner than would the gentleman
who had lust spoken
Mr.. Tyson said: Mr. President, the gentleman
admits himself the representative of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company Sir who is the Pres
ident of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company?
Mr. John w. Garrett. | speak of him in his ex-
ecutive capacity God forbid that should speak
OF him or any man in his personal or social relations
as feel called upon to do of him in his executive
capacity.
Why, sir, he is the head of a clique of stock job
bers and spectators, who, by bold financial
stroke, has been able to seize upon the control of
this great Maryland work, costing thirty millions
of dollars, for the paltry sum of three millions or
less; as its head, disbursing annually from four to
live millions of dollars, surrounded by spies and
toadies of high and low degree, corrupting or
crushing every thing with which he comes in con-
hict-like the cloven-footcd god, surrounded
by satyrs and ogres of his own creating, re-
Yelling amid the unhalowed orgies of his court, and
prostuting this great work to his own bad purposes
Or like the vampire, who, in the dead hour of mid
night, has fastened on this "main artery of his
sleeping and unsuspecting victim, is drawing forth
her lite's blood to fill his rapacious nav, that he
may fit away ere the dawn perchance to parts un-
known, leaving the envenomed wound, of which
the sufferer must languish and die.
This, Mr.. President, is the party coming here to
dictate the terms of an investigation which we are
all anxious to enter upon
Mr. President, have no higher aspiration than
to live as have lived among my fellow merchants,
entitled to your respect trust based upon a char
acter for unimpeached integrity.
On the close of Mr. Tyson's remarks there were
loud cries of Question" 'question."
The President put the substitute on its passage,
when the "ayes" responded loudly and in numbers
The mays" were weak, and the President an
nounced the substitute carried
The meeting then adjourned.
The President has appointed the following gen.
tlemen on the committee: George R. Vickers, VIM.
Chestnut and Henry d uvall.