Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-04
Ad.iltiona, About the Credit ,Eobiiicr

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The New York SIM of Friday morning /
says: ~ --tyT I
The following statement reached the 8, n
office yesterday by the hands of Mr.. John 4
Wesley Nichols, Mr.. Trains photographer: |
Oh TIE OCEAN, EUROPE BOUND,
OFF NEW YORK, Sept IS J
The Pacific Railway bin Of; 1904 ma
chined through Congress, Saving it with !
forty-four Democratic votes, who never |
asked or received a cent. The Radicals !
were all on the make. Thad. Stevens |
share was seventy thousand. -
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAM
[From the Springfield Republican,
Mr.. Ames comes in with his promised
denial, of course. He & gave " no stock to
members of Congress to induce favorable
legislation for the Pacific Railroad. But
will he go on the stand, and, under oath,
answer few questions? Did he not offer
to various members shares in his enter
prise, with a guaranty that they should pay
a generous profit +? And did he not urge
the taking ofsthem again and again upon
his associates? Did not some take them,
and did not those who did have them rea-
lie handsome gains Withoutrunning any
risks in return? And was not the distinct
understanding, nay, the positive assurance
| given that they should do so? Mr.. Ames'
denial is at least subterfuge. 1t has all
the moral character of lie. His own I'M
denied letters show this plain enough, and
| if Henry Wilson, Jas. @. Blaine, and Hen
ry Z. Dawes, and dozen other members
| of Congress can be got to tell all they know
on the subject, it will be proven beyond
the shadow of a doubt before the whole
| world.
Mr.. Washburn, Of Wisconsin Ga Grant
man,) made a speech in the House of Re-,
personalities on the Goth Of March, 1868,
from which we make the following eX-
| tracts:
Of the manner by which said last act
was passed, [ care not to speak. 1t is Of
the act Itself that | speak. Who voted for
this amendment act it is impossible to as
certain, as the record shows shat all at
tempts to obtain the yeas and nays on its
final passage failed. We know this, that
every interest of the people that was guard
ed in the first, was sacrificed in the second.
We know that the security Of the Govern
ment was subOldinated to 4 mortgage,
amounting TO over sixty million dollars
that the reservation of any part of the bonds
until the road shall be completed was re.
pealcd; also . per cent. net earnings to APP
ply to liquidate the bonds, and the provi-
, sion for applying the earnings of the roaC
, on Government transportation was also al
tered so as to require but One-half to be 81
stock that any one man could hold was re
+ moved. The land grant was doubled, Civ
ing the different Pacifi: roads territory
y according to the report of the Commission
er of the General Land Office, " within
, One-fourth Of twice the area Of England
q Scotland, Wales, ireland, Guernsey, JcI
h sey, the Isle Of Man. and the Islands of tn
Il British seas, and less than a tenth Of bein
!. equal TO the French Empire proper, an
q nothing that the ingenuity Of man could il
;. vent for their benefit was withheld. Thi
o is the presen, aspect Of affairs.
q | believe 1 state nothing MOI
than what is notorious when | say, thu
% the Vce-President Of the road has charge
!. the company with five hundred thoutan
v dollars as having been expended in Wasl
=. ingtOn to secure the passage of that &C
IF claiming tpat the money was expended
it a confidential Way, ana declining to furnis
any vouchers.
l viii simply say that 1 sta
what is a HCtOriC@S fact, that the Vic
President has claimed that lie used Il
money in 2 continental way in Washin
ton. But there 10 0na significant ia
) which | may be pardo,ed for adverttng t
- and it is this: that il this act Of 1864, v
-, tually voting away sky million dollars
IL the people s money, the opponents of it
20 vain demanded the Yeas and nays upt
~ ~ the final vote on agreeing t. tie report
II, the conference committee Of The ty
- | Houses, and by Which vote tie bill w
~ finally passed.