The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-23
WHEELING w. VA THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY %, 1873

been stockholders in the Credit Mobiller
to his knowledge; neither Of them ever
paid witness anything, or received any
thing from him. as to Speaker Blaine
he had no further statement to make; he
never paid witness anything, nor did wit
ness pay him anything; his name wa
not upon the books ofWitnesS at all.
Q.-And he never derived any adVan'
tage from the stocks or the talk?
A.-No sir, only in abuse.
Judge Poland-Well, how abou
Dawes stock?
A.-Settled for 1t by paying one thea
sand dollars, about tho same as others
Witness had quite an account with Dawes
having bought bonds for him TO the al
tent Of three or four thousand dollat
and at another time invested for him
$4,000 in the Iowa Falls & Sioux City
Railroad.
Odd you pay uny dividends to
Dawes? ~
Al thinkI did sir. paid him six
hundred dollars dividend, or paid it in
part, about four hundred dollars, be.
lieVe, as he owed me on other matters.
@. When was this matter ended be-
tween you and DawesP
A. In December, 1868, he received
stock and dividends, but he Dawes got
frightened at the DuG-Green suit, and
we settled on tho 9th OF December, 1868.
He got back his $1,000 and ten per cent
interest. Tho witness hero produced q
promissory note given him by Dawes in
making the settlement, dated December
0, 1869, Tor $2O,300, payable on demand
with interest. When Dawes purchased
the stock he paid $500, on the 11th Of
January, 1868, and the balance in few
days afterwards.
Judge Poland-Well, as to Garfield,
will you state to the Committee the de-
tuis of the tranActions between yourself
and Gen. Garfield in regard to the Credit
Mobilier?
Al agreed to let him have ten shares
of Credit MoOiller stock at par and the
interest in December 1857, or January
1868. Garfield did not pay me IN money,
and / sold the thousand dollar bond re.
ceiyed with stock, and received seven
hundred and some dollars from the sale.
In June received a money dividend Of
six hundred dollars, which with the
money received from the bond, left bal
ance due Garfield Of three hundred and
twenty.nine dollars, which i paid to him
and did not deliver him any stock either
before or since. He never had any stock,
and the only thing he ever realized from 1t
was three hundred and twentY.nine dol
lars.
Q.-Has that three hundred and twen-
ty.nine dollars ever been repaid to your
Al have no recollection oil it.
@. Did you ever loan Garfield 1929?
A. Not 10 my knowledge, unless he
calls this loan, which I believe he does
l will let il go as he wants IL.
Judge POland,-Well, but it must go
as the truth.
Mr.. Ames-Wcll, truth is what 1 am
telling you. Witness never supposed he
had any right to the $500 given to Gar.
field, and never claimed it. he would
not undergo what Garfield had undergone
during the past month for 800 thousand,
let alone $829.
Judge Merrick-Have you had some
correspondence with MIR. Garfield in the
last few days touching this matterP
Al hardly know what it did touch.
Had not kept copies Of tho correspond
ence, merely put his reply on tho back of
Garfeld's letter. Never received letter
which General Garfield said he left at
Arlington.
Judge Poland-Well, what about Kel-
ley?
MIR .Ames-He agreed to take one thou
sand dollars worth ofstock. The transac.
ton in the amount and detail, was exactly
similar to that with Gen. Garfield. Wit
ness still holds the stock Tor Kelley, and
supposes that he (Kelley) considers him
self entitled to it and dividends.
Judge Poland-Well, as to Scofeld2
Mr.. Ames-WCll his case Is similar TO
that OF Dawes. Did not recollect how he
settled with him. Thematter was settled,
however.
Judge Poland.-What about BinghamH
Mr.. Ames.-Well, his statement Is
substantially correct. Witness received
$4,000 from Bingham to invest in Credit
Mobilier stock. He invested 1t. Bing-
ham received the benefits and dividends
from 1t. At one time Bingham wanted
to sell his Credit Mobilier stock, but wit.
ness advised him not to do it. As to ].
F. Wilson, witness had nothing to say
different from what Wilson had said,
and he did not desire to make any quail
tications to the statement Of that gentle
man.
Judge Poland-Therci is one gentleman
whose name appears on this list who we
have no rightto enquire about, and that's
Painter.
Mr.. Ames-Well, Painter had q right
to buy stock, and did buy. BE paid ior
it and received dividends. -.
Judge Poland-Does he holdit now?
Mr.. Ames-l hope so-no, believe he
has sold 1t.
Q.-Att the time you were make these
contracts was there anything pending be.
fore Congress to affect the road?
A-No, sir.
Witness said Painter settled Tor his
shares and received dividends. lie had
no reason 10 suppose that Painter held
sock for the benefit Of any one but him.
self. The aggregate number Of shares
distributed by witness was one hundred
aud eighty.
Q-What became OF the residue Of
three hundred shares assigned to your
Mr.. Amcs-They were distributed to
other parties outside OF Congress,