Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-27
Corruption ut the Capitol.


Cakes Ames speak Ks out. terrifying and con-
frmine his utterances with nculpatory checks
and documentary evidence. And what tale be
tells He strips bare aud exposes in all their
moral nakedpes the the canting hypocrltes who
dabbled in Credit Mobilier stock, took greedily
its enormous dividends, AID then denied, in all
sorts of euuivocal phrases, having anything to
do with it. Goaded to desperation by the at
tempt to force upon him the whole load OF
oblouuy, Cakes Anes turns upon the Congress
men and makes a clean breast Of it. Cotax.
Wilson, Dawes Patterson. Garfield. Sco6eld,
Bingham, Alison--a shining lights Of the
Radical party, with two Northern Democrats
-one still in Congress, the other DO longer
there-are tracked through ali their turnlngs,
and windings, and twistings, and subtertuges
until they are caught. They sold themselves
for price, and they either did. or were ready
to do, the bidding of those who secretly held
for them the stock in trust, and IN the profits
of which they participated.
Giving the stock back or seeming to do so
when trouble asapprehended, does not change
10 the smallest degree the scandaous nature OF
the transaction. Cakes Ames acknowledges
that the stock is still, theirs, as well as such
dividends as have not yet been paid over to
them that he holds both for them, and that
they are entitled to receive boh-the only de-
Law 10 making the transfer and final settlement
arising from the suit Instituted by Colonel Nc
Comb.
Nor does Oskcs Ames stand alone. John
B. Alley, another Of the Credit Mobler ring,
testifes that he counseled Senator Wilson to
take stock in the company, and also contrlbut-
ed towards the fund which paid for that stock.
Another of the same ring-Dr. Durant-avows
that. at the solicitation of Senator Harlan: he
gave the latter ten thousand dollars where
with to buy his reelection to the I. S. Senate
because the Mobier ring had railroad inter
ests in Iowa
These, be it understood, are but the latest
revelations and illustrations of the widespread
corruption which has pervaded and tainted,
for several years, the very atmosphere OF the
Capitol, and by the decentralization thus, gen,
Grated has given encouragement to fraud and
peculation in all departments of the public: ser
vice. Caldwell, of Kansas, is proven to have
secured his seat in the Senate Of the U. 5: by
wholesale bribery Bogy, of Missouri, Is
charged with following CaldweIs example
Patterson-a carpet Dagger from PennsylVapla
is stated to have bought his seat IN the U.
S. Senate, of the legislators Of South Carolina
with scarcely, it is affirmed, Il show OF secrecy
Clayton, of Arkansas, got into the Senate by
force and fraud, and Ames, OF MISSISSIPPI
through the influence Of the bayonet.
Soon after the death Of the late Thaddeus
Stevens, it was currently reported that hun
dred thousand dollars, in bonds of the Union
Pacific railroad we're found among his assets
Since the publication Of the record in the Me
Comb suit, Geo. Francis Train, who-scatter-
brain though he may be-certainly assisted to
lobby the Pacific railroad bill through Congress,
has repeatedly asserted that he paid Thaddeus
Stevens-thep the leader of the Radicals IN
the House-seventy thousand dollars 10 the
bonds of that road. Subsequently, Mr.. Wash
burne, of Illinois, 10 speech IN the House de.
clared that FIVE hundred thousand dollars had
been used by the Union Pacific ring, where, to
repeat the wcll-known phrase of Oakes Ames,
:" it would do most good.
If We could believe that the pending lnvestl-
CATION Of the operations of Cakes Ames and
bis confederates would lead to the summary
expulsion of every member Of Congress, who
took brides of Credit Mobiier stock, We might
hope for better state OF things and purer
legislation at Washington hereafter. But we
have no such expectation. There are so many
members of both houses who have taken mon
ey, or stock or have been bribed in some form
or other By the lobby agents of steamship lines,
and railroad, and manufacturing corporations,
that they have personal interest IN shielding
those OF their associates whose scanda!ous prac-
tees have just been brought to light.
But whatever may be the report OF the in
vestigating committee. every impartial judg-
ment will visit with Unreasonable scorn and
indignation the men who, coming into power
as the regenerators of the Republic, and pro-
Tossing to base all their actions on high moral
grounds, became the greedy hirelings of mono
polists and spectators, and the servile crea-
lures of their wll.-Bdlto. Gt-ette-
A BAD MlsTAKE.-On Saturday man
named Warren, who belonged in Baltimore,
but who had been in Washington for several
weeks on visit, while passing up Pennsyl-
vania avenue, suddenly discovered that he had
lost his watch, and immediately reported the
fact to policeman, at the same time charging
the robbery to two very respectable young men
who were standing near him. The officer took
the THO to the station house, the young men
pleading innocence After the examination, it
was found that the man had left his watch at a
jewelry store on Friday last for repairs where it
.till remains The yoIlnp men intend To bring