, 1872-12-04
DAILY TRIBUNE DECEMBER l. 1872

maze the memorandum at that moment on the
naek Of one of Ames'own letters to me,-the
Same which has got into the testimony That is
no" the thing leaked ont. The letter was CO.
creed from me in the course Of litigation, and,
public with it,"
Linen the weakness of the evidence is in the
tact that you alone wrote the memorandum, and
nobody can get the stock-regiHter to confirm
your memorandum. At the same time, the very
1nconapleteness OF this evidence at law will DO
moral proof to thousands of men. It lacks the
lawyers, ,al1ansement. but what is missing in
evidence carries most Conviction
Colonel M'Comb-" Ames might haze made
false entry OF the name Of the congressman, or
he might have dictated entries or names not on
the !egiste1 had no suspicion Of such posai-
blhtles at me tlme: we we're on fairly amicable
terms; members Of the same Company, and he
read straight On, giving me- time to copy the
list. ---
ss It seems to me, Colonel, that you- ara em-.
p1oying . Formidable array Of counsel for very
d. Co. care for the Credit Mobilier charter now,
having worn it ont, and having no responsibility
Within the State OF Pennsylvania longer. The
-lfobi1ier has about wound up, has it not :" ~
Colonel MComb-"No. It is still worth
three millions Of dollars at least, and it's charter
is worth preserving"
rstAre you still 8 stockholder2'
Colonel M'Comb-'Y Yes. I possess Bi1 Tor
sixty, correspondent not certain] shares, and my
suit is not to get in but to get my proportion Of
what have paid for"
Colonel IL M'Comb-'sYe Three or four mill
ions." ~,
:. pESA1s or TIE coNanEssMEN rhprlcArEp: lc
.As soon as the foregoing statements we're pub
ished; Speaker Blaine published the following
card denying the charge as regards himself:
70 Tie Editor ef Tic Kennebec .1onrna1: -"
The sensational story in the Boston Herald Of
yesterday, in regard to my ownership in the
Credit Mobiher Of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, in connection with Secretary Bout
well, Senator Wilson, and Messrs: Dawes, Bing~
ham, Garfield, and others Of the House OF Rep
resentatives, i8.a mere campaign cdndrd utterly
baseless and greundleas-- + never owned dol
lar in the Company in my life, either directly OF
indirectly, through myself or through another.
depart in this instance from my usual practice
of suffering campaign slanders to pass without
notice, because this particular falsehood is cir
cumstantia11y narrated, and is, understand, to
DO widely distributed over the Third District in
order to influence the vote on Monday next:
subsequently Mr. Dawes wrote the following
letter.
PrE1sEELn, A1ass, Sept. II, 1872.
! My DEAR ROGERS I thank you for denying as
false libel the charge Of the New York Sun, 30
nor any other man, dead or alive, ever gave me,
directly or indirectly, penny Of the stock Of the
':Credit Mobilier," or Of any other corporation
in this world. never owned dollar or any
stock or any property Of any kind that did not
pay the full value Of with my own money, earned
By my own hands. Truly yours,
H. L. DAWES.
11r. Cola. denied the charge as to himself in
a speech at South Bend, and Messrs. Kelley,
Wilson, and Garfield made similar denia1s.
Finally, Cakes Ames delivered an address to his
constituents, in which he denied that he, had
ever furnished any such List to MComb, [but
said nothing about the letters.
This is all the testimony that has been fur
nished to the public up to the present time.
The lawsuit of MComb Us. Ames ct a. vas
commenced about four years ago.