Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-17
THE CREDIT MOBILIER BRIBERY.
More Develspments-Oakes Ames' Letters
in Full-He Confesses to Bribing Congress-
men-The Stock Distributed.

More DeveIspments-Oakes Ames' Letters
in FuII-He Confesses to Bribing Congress-
men-The Stock Distributed.
Washington Correspondence New York Tribune.
Below will be found a copy of another letter
from Representative Ames, of Massachusetts,
to Col. 81. S. McComb, relative to the Credit
Mobilier matter, which is a facsimile of
photograph of the original now in the hands
of McComb's counsel, and forms very i'm
portant link in the already quite complete
chain connecting certain prominent indivldu-
ais with that enormous fraud upon the public
1t should be stated in advance, however, that
what purported to be letters preceding this in
in date, which were given to the public some
days ago, were imperfect and disconnected,
and only contained a portion of the matter
embraced in the original; therefore the last
mentioned letters, as copied from the photo
graphed copies, are here given in full, as fol-
lows:
WAsHINGToN. Jan. 25. 1885,
which B Bs{Ssf yssr and EOw
see him soon. You can say must not put too much
la eone Sns fSar Or for
ons H Ohio two Pennsy iSania one indiana Maine
and have three to place which shall pat where
batter dgs where they S5omd CO. hnk
700 oOO and distribute the stock whore it will
Let them have the stock at par and profits
md stock 5e Y want for distribution here
1 S1.
viii n most g9SS 9T S here gs ~
maKipe oG bond dividend in full We can do it with
om aa& & me Is % The Fnanss
and raise money easy we come ON short s %hlon 6,r
bonds 6on 0 to the compahS or them the
| toni Yours truly. oAKEs AMEs.
The next letter of Ames to McComb reads
WASHINGTON, Jan: 90; %; 1898.
/ hand a G..
dent fear any investigation here; what some ne Of Of
oUuned WITH %as
by your letter. what have 1one anS Se avn
I 6a have @ placed some With New York. have agreed
Yog aa~ sa oa he a IN ths New
S fs %6ra H6 they Or they
and Of that you would not want me to offer less than
GT!o2 Of bonds nc EHS viii
MR Sey and ds G.co as FnSHe We
used be Abls to borrow when we had no credit and I'd
soOd credit What say You about bond
6onss RsE' to se to snabs them
eGuS S ss t9os 8 1 NJ and hss
where the bonds the parties receive are the 20 PET
oe Eest amount to anytins With Sf the large
6SfE Tn or nei if they will lend their bonds to
company they have done before or lend the Money
that UndsrwoOds haEs taken 9dr,s half
a o9 H. at tome future day we are to send
wpafs pafs to hi him Yours truly. oAKEs AnEs.
| Here follow number of names of persons,
evidently written with pencil, as they are
! very indistinct. t''
The latest letter. which is now laid before
the public for the first time, will be readily
accepted as the most important of all, since il
| answers conclusively the quibbling deniali
| and statements made by parties implicated
and shows that the corruption fund of thu
Credit Mobilier was used, or at least INTENDED
for use, to influence members of Congress
The letter, it will be observed, ls WRITER
nearly one month later than the one abov'
published, but it is understood that severa
letters interviewed between that of Jan. 3
and the following: . '-'s s f.s
WASHINGTON D. c., Feb %. 1868.
| H s. MCCoMB, EsQ.-Dear Sir: Yours of the 2lst
at hand: am TO know that you are getting alon
so well with Mr.. West; hopo you Will bring 1t out q
satisfactorily that il will be 80 rich that we car
not help going into it, / return you the papers b
mail you ask for. You ask me II Will sell SOL
of my u p r. r. stock. will sell some OF II at pa
, Credit M o.. a. don't care to sell hear that M
Bates to sell out. think Grimes may sell 2 part
his at $3.50. want Sl4t0O Of the Credit Mobilier
sell here. We want more friends in this Congres
to get them to do it, unless they have an interest
| not be interfered with. Hope to see you here or
| New York the lIth. Yours truly, oAKEs AMEs