Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-26
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR
This Afternoons Dispatches.
Associated Press Reports.
NR. CcLFAx'S seUrH BENDSPrECH
what ie Knows about the Credit N a.
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he GoEs FOR GATH AND rHE TWO rRfRr-xRs
his speech az South Bend, Indiana, yeSter lav
denying the credit mobIlier Islander, 30 far a. N
concerns him, Mr.. COl.aN, in continuation a a.
Here / might stop, 6uc some 0! these papers
have heea . anxious, day after day. 20 he A
from these gentlemen, whom they would have
been quick q defend instead OF TO asparse a Il. a.
ear 80. taat l mast continue this exposure.
Inc isNortse corresF Ondent OF the present C.ica-
q ITttEEs, Gath, ~ Gas instructed Is he states
IN his recent letter, to invest gate aud write M
Tor IL az paper the credit mObiieT. I shan refcr
now 10 one single paragraph out OF his inauy
Columns - consPicuOuSly printed in that pap r
with sensational headlines, aud largely cobis
IL the New York Tribune. He charges IA n
Speaker CO!fgN and Speaker Blaine k.pt
Cakes Ames on. of the head a. tie
Pacific railroad committee petty urtruth-
Ames having only been a member Of IL. but
never chairman. In the same paragraph he
says:-"Ames carried through Congress sea-.
dalous proposition by which the government
abandoned its first mortgage Of this highway
srI allowed the private mortgage bonds Of the
peated editorially in the Chicago Tri5sHs of last
wednesday. l have already shown Won. from
MI. Bowles' letter CT August, ls65, that this wa
already the law before capitalists were indeed
by the influence of the repro sentatiyes OF tn
New York and Chicago TribVaes and myself 10
accept this very proposition OF Congress, an 20
risk in what many of them deemed an imoos-
sible work the millions Mr.. BOwles urgentlv
appealed 10 them 10 invest; and this very PROM
sition, which "Gath" denounced as scandal5us
and the Chicago Tribune now denOuncas e,li-
tOrialiy, was suppoa ted, when passed, by sum
ner, Trumbull and Julian, as well as BIZ Amss
and an overwhelming majority of Congress-
Nor did Ames invest dollar in the Pacil rail
road till after the letters of Gov. Bross 10 TIE
Chicago Tribune; OF Bowles to the SpringdeIJ
heIUJticGn, am Richardson 70 the New YORK
tn Hne lad been published, more than a year.
too, after this enactment by Congress in 'IsS4
''Gsth" says in this same paragraph of his lstfar
that Anes was able, with half OF the most EN-
inent men of the republican party, 70 collect
nom TIE lni-ed States gross sum FOR Carving
the mails over this road, while az the same TIM
ne never paid the interest ON the governments
bonds. With this charge are Others thar the
1aiToaG has never received nor claimed hat
haf OF The gross sum for carrying the mails.
the other half having been alwavs "a,
tanned and applied on the interest OF
the bonds. SECRETARY boutwell, ba.iraI "a
$50 to retain the whole. but the Sen sts iudi-
ciary committee having been instructed 10
examine the question decided that the COurres
slouaI charter authorized only half TO be thus
retained, and Congress SO re enacted. After
twelve pages Of debate in the GloJs, the Senate
then decided by sc = L, Senators rrumbuII AID
Thurman both speaking and voting in its favor
This correspondent concludes THE parayrauh
thus: I" In short, the Union Pacific railroad first
begged loan from the United States of fcou
$40 coo TO SO, O50 mile, and then robbed Il OF
The interest On the loan, forced the loan itself
back I'd a contingent place, and pasted il over
with another and private loan OF its own aud
then swindled il out of the whole gross sum for
mail service. These charges are very grave and
IL true would blast forever the character of the
men capable OF such conduct aud give color
and confirmation 10 the original charge of
bribery and corruption. The only answer reces-
sary TO them is that not only does the Congress
sional Globe, as / have shown, prove their
entire falsity beyond all contradiction, hut the
editors and projectors OF the Chicago TriJaRs
know OF their own knowledge that there l. NOT a
particle of truth I'm any one of these sweeping
falsihcations of their correspondents. What
could have induced them to print them, even
amid all the excitement Of the political cam,
psigD, is mystery TO me- Let me ask Won now
il the public have not the right 10 demand from
the editors and prOprieto-s OF these two great
neSspapers-the New York and CHICAGO
1TitUaes - some personal explanations f?
Day after day their papers have beer filled With
inUendoes and charges, some of which they
happened 20 know better than all other men
could not possibly be true, and nearly all tue
rest OF which they we'll knew their own flies ex-
planned OF disspprOyed; day after iay thew have
sought 20 make the people OF the United States
suspect number OF their prominent men, and
builders CT the Union Pacific railroad generality
as hand OF thieves, scoundrels, aud swindleTs
AID they have demanded that those aSsailed
should be heard from. Well, they have heard
now calm, dispsSSiOnate statement from one
Of the men whom one OF theTribuncs stigmatiZcG
as tie " Twelve Apostles" wLJ sold out 70 the
credit MOaiiier at $4,000 piece. 1 submit in
soTTow, for those who bear false witness arainst
their neishbOrs, THAI cleansing their own skirts
from the scandal Of theis course, is the next
thing now in order"