The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-09
usUaY AMENDMENT.
rho r-ea,t-Mobilier investigations.

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fW,sh,netoi Correspondence New York Iribune-J
W.surSGros. December 5.-The first meet
ing of the Credit SIobiier Investigating Com
mittee will be held tomorrow. Persons VINO
know more about the facts Of this alleged
bribery business than has yet been MADE
public express the belief that the inquiry
will amount. to nothing-They say that Co.
lionel McComb, who Is in possession OF the
famous letters written by Cakes Ames, mas
no interest in reforming the morals Of Con-
aress, or in either aiding or injurirg any po-
,ltieal. party He wants to get the money
which Eic says Arnes owes him. The Hon
orable Jerry Black, his attorney, has said OF
late that as a lawyer he was bound to consult
the interests Of his client, and that to do this
his course might, be very different from that
which he would like to take as politician.
From this It Is surmised that a settlement or
the difference between McC0mb and Ames
is not improbable, and that II such settle
ment should be agreed upon the letters
which are the basis of the evidence against
Ames might not be forthcoming. Certain
friends of Mr.. Anes, who profess to have
some knowledge of his intentions, say that
IL McComb produces the letters he (Ames)
will swear that the stock was offered to
members of Congress as business transac-
ton without any bargain or understanding
that they were to vote in the interest OF The
Union Pacific railroad, and that in all cases
they were given to understand that they
must DAY for it, and In cash, If they took 1t.
Whether he will admit that any did accept
the otter is considered very questionable.
If the Credit-Mobilier business is tho
roughly ventilated by the committee there
is good reason TOR believing that the facts
will be found to be about as follows: ~,
FIRST That the letters of cakes Aines are
genuine, and that he was engaged IN placing
the Credit Mobilier stock among the MEM
bers of Congress, as he stated in those let
tiers.
Second That the penciled list of names
on the back Of one of the letters comprised
a partial list of the men to whom he intended
TO offer the stock, not of those who had &C
tually accepted 1t. ,,,ess.-I, :.
Third: That he did offer the stock TO
many, if not all, Of the men who nSure Oh
his list, and to q number Of other Congress
men, aud that some accepted 1t while others
refused. u.s. '...a. 2. 8"
Fourth That the Offer was made In such
an ingenious and plausible way that several
members were deceived into believing ~ 70
be a legitimate affair Of business and not
case of bribery, knowing that it is not un-
usual for prominent public men to be let
into a good thing in stock speculation, as an
act Of friendship toward them only ). put
that there were some who took the stock
who were well aware that they were selling
their votes, and that they acted accordingly
in all questions of legislation in which the
railroad was interested. $500
Fifth: That i'll all cases where the stock
was actually transferred the nominal price
asked was paid in money, but that this price
was out vi all proportion to the real value
Of the stock. and that the purchasers were
more reimbursed by the first dividend.