Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-09-20

CAlOuIcu1 duu 1O~ uduJ SudIcS were CIcu-
tied to each, win appear from the following
list, as furnished Colonel MCCoNB by Mr..
OAKEs AMEs. Here it is:
Shares
Blaine, OF Name. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Patterson, of New Hampshire. ....-...... 5000
Wilson, of OfMassachuSetts. tts.........,........ 2,e00
Painter, Rep, for Quigley. 3,oCO
s. ColfAx, speaker. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,OOO
Scofield and Kelley, Pennsylvania, each. 1000
Elliot, Massachusetts. tts.-.........-........ 5000
Dawes. Massachusetts,. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1000
Fowler, Tennessee OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1900
Boutwell,, Massachusetts, ............ 1000
Bingham and Garfield, Ohio, each. ....... 1900
Endorsed: OAKEs AMRs, January 80, 1868
In further confirmation Of the above,
Colonel MCCoMB has filed in the court in
which the suit is now pending, letter ad-
dressed to him by CAKES AMEs, from
which we extract the following passage
You say L must not put too much in
one locality. / have assigned as far as l
have given-four from Massachusetts ; one
from New Hampshire one, Delaware !;
one, Tennessee onc-half, Ohio; two,
Pennsylvania one, Indiana one, Maine;
and [ have three to place, which 1 shall
put where they will do most good to us. /
dul ucIC Oh CuC SPOG, duu Cdu DcGCcf ,JuUSO
where they should go. L think after this
dividend is paid we should make our cap
ital $4,OOO,0O0, and distribute the new
stock where it will protect us. Let them
have the stock at par and profits made in
che future. The so per cent. increase on
the old stock want for distribution here,
and sOon."
The manner in which the act of bribery
was covered up, is thus described, on what
is said to be the authority Of one of the
counsel for Colonel MCCoMB.
He (Ames) would first hand the MEM
Der or Senator certificate of stock, and
tell him it was a good thing. If asked
how much money was required he would
say, Not a cent at presents Then in a
few weeks he would again pay visit and
hand the gentleman a check drawn by the
Treasurer of the Credit Mobilier, and say /:
Here is your first dividend This first
dividend was sufficient to pay for the stock
at its nominal value"
That the dividends we're sufficient to do
this, is shown by the following extract
from Colonel McComb's testimony:
90. What dividend was declared on the
Credit Mobilier stock after the delivery of
the Ames contract? A. My books show
that l received January 4, 1863, 90 per
cent. Union Pacific Railroad stock, 3S4 per
cent. Union Pacific Railroad stock, 50 per
| cent. Union Pacific Railroad bonds above
dividend was on $50 shares; February s
got from it in dividends, so shares of stock
| of Credit Mobilier; June II l received 30
| per cent. in Union Pacific Railroad stock,
with go per cent. in cash, on $50 shares
July 3, 1868, rs per cent. in stock and Is
per cent. in Union Pacific Railroad bonds
on $50 shares; September 3, IS per cent
/ in bonds and 100 per cent. in stock; De.
cember 10, 200 per cent. i'll stock. In ad.
dition to this there was 144 per cent. in
gold paid in January, 1868, Credit A1obiliel
stock, and u per cent. in gold for cast
| dividends.
We have thus given the substance of The
astounding revelations which were made
public, for the first time, few days ago
Mr.. BLAINE, who is of the parties i'm
plicated, is the only one who has thus fal
undertaken to give the charge, as concerns
himself, what the New York Times call
ga broad denial" But it is no such denia
as the gravity of the accusation demands
1t is, as the World justly says, " crafty
sand evasive." He says he never owned
any " stock" in the Credit Mobiler.
The answer of the World is:
"The object of Mr.. Oakes Ames vas no
to make Mr.. Blaine and his associate!
owners of Credit MObiIler stock. HI
was not making them speculative
| present such as President Grant has 81
often received. lie was engaging them fol
a price to do his work. 1t was not work
for them to be proud CT. If Mr.. Blaine
IT. fNp h 10 in, h.
matter, he is by far too astute q person tC
have taken it i'll stock. The stock was as
signed to the purpose Of purchasing him
not to him. lie may perfectly well have
pocketed its price without ever lingering
one of the certificates. Did he do this
If he did not do this-then Mr.. Oake:
ames has most cruelty slandered him, anC
that, too, when there was no occasion fOl
slandering him and real risk in SANDER
ing him. Why should Mr.. Oakes Ames
have done this ,"
Why, also, should not Mr.. OAKEs AME:
be brought forward to testify in ehe mat
ter? The charge against these prolninen
Radicals is not one which can be whistleC
down the wind with - broad denial" i
is one that has to be met. The testimony
is of record. Its truth has been affirmed
by Colonel MCCOMB under oath, and i!
further substantiated by letters under Mr.
| CAKES AMEs' own hand. And if We are
not henceforth to look upon Congress as ;
hot-bed of all that is base and corrupt
Messrs. BLAINE, BOUTWELL,, WILSON
DAWES, COLFAX, BINGHAM and their as
seciates, must, individually, and severally
"rise to EXPLAIN" aud it is their bounder
duty to see that their explanation is nc
only satisfactory to themselves, but to The
people, whose servants they are, withou
respect to party lines.