Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-04

O8CiOuHt ucdu-llneS, ana largely COP
led into the New York Tribune. III
charges that Speaker Colfax ant
Speaker Blaine kept Cakes Ames q
the head of the Pacific Railroad
Committee; pretty untruth, Anne,
having only been a member of it
but never its Chairman. In tn,
same paragraph, he says: came.
carried through Congress scanda
lous proposition by which the Gov
eminent abandoned it's first mort
gage of this highway, and allowed
the private mortgage bonds of thu
railroad to take precedence" Anl
this is repeated editorially in tn,
Chicago Tridasac of last Wedncs
day.
The falsehoods as to abandonment
Of Government mortgages / have al
ready shown you from Mr.. Bowles
letter of August, lS65-that this wai
already the law before capitalists
were induced by the influence of thu
representatives Of the New Yorl
and Chicago Tribunes and mysel
to accept this very proposition O.
Congress, and to risk, in what many
then deemed an impossible worl
the millions" Mr.. Bowles appealed
to them to invest. And this very
proposition which Gath denounces
as "scandalous," and the Chicago
Tribune denounces editorially, was
supported, when passed, by Messrs
Sumner, Trumball and Julien, as
well as by Mr.. Amcs and an over
whelming majority of Congress
Nor did Mr.. Ames invest q dollar in
the Pacific Railroad till after the
letter of Governor Bross to the Chi.
cago Tribune, Of Mr.. Bowles to the
Springfield Republican, and OF Mr.
Richardson to the New York zri
b,t'ae, had been published-mort
than q gear, too, after this enact
maent By Congress- IN 1864.
"Gath" says in this same para
graph of his letter that Games was
able, with the help of the most emf
nent men in the Republican party
to collect from the United States the
gross sum for carrying the mails
over this road, while, at the same
time, he never paid the interest on
the Government bonds as it &C.
cured"
The facts, SO utterly at war with
this charge, are that the railroad
has never received nor ever claimed
but half of 1.-THE gross sum for car
rying the nails" the other half hav.
ing al'cays been retained and ap.
piled on the interest of the bonds
that Secretary Boutwell, desired in
1870, to retain the whole, but the
Senate judiciary Committee having
been instructed to examine the
question, decided that the Congress
ional charter authorized only half to
be thus retained, and Congress SO
re-enacted. After twelve pages Of
debate in the Globe, the Senate Sc
decided by thirty-six to eighteen
Senators TrumbuIl and Thurman
both speaking and voting in its favor.
This correspondent concludes this
paragraph thus: :'In short, the
Union Pacific Railroad first begged
a loan from the United States OF
from sixteen to sixty thousand dol.
lars mile, and then robbed it OF
the interest Oh the loan, forced the
loan itself back to contingent
place, and pasted it over with an
other and private loan Of its own,
and then swindled it out Of the
whole gross sum for the mail SER
vice."
These charges are very grave,
and if true would blast. forever the
character Of men capable Of such
and give color and contir-
nation to the original charge Of
bribery and corruption. The only
answer necessary to them is that
not only does the Congressional
Globe prove, as l have shown, their
entire falsity beyond all contradic-
ton, but the editors and proprietors
of the Chicago Tribune know, of
their own knowledge, that there is
not a particle of truth in any one of
these sweeping alsifcations of
their correspondent. What could
have induced them to. print them,
even amid all the excitement Of a
political canvass, is a mystery to
me.
Mr.. Colfax closes with the follow
ing scathing rebuke:
Let me ask you, now, if the pub
lie have not the right to demand
from the editors and proprictors Of
these two great newspapers, the
New York and Chicago ziIdumes,
some personal explanations. Day
after day their papers have been
filed with innuendoes and charges,
some Of which they happened to
know, better than all other men,
could not possibly be true, and
nearly all the rest of which they
we'll knew their own files explained
Or disproved. Day after day they
have sought to make the people Of
The United States suspect number
Of their prominent public men, and
The builders of the UnOin Pacific
Railroad generally, band Of
thieves, scoundrets and swindlers,
and they have demanded that those
thus assaulted "should be heard
FROM" Well, they have heard now
. calm, dispassionate statement
from one Of those whom one Of tile
Tribune stigmatizcd as "the Twelve
Apostles who sold out to the Credit
Mobilier at 500, 900 apiece" sub
nit, in sorrow for those who thus
s bear false witness against their
neighbour" that clearing their own
skirts from the scandal" Of their
course is the next thing now IN order.
Hawloy on Greeley.
At Greencastle, Ind, the other