, 1873-02-12
WASHINGTON.
Further Details of the Credit
'MoDilier Investigations.
What Ames' Memorandum Book
Revealed.
Entries Of Three Transactions
With Vice President
Colfax,
The South Bend Statesman De-
MES all Of Ames' AL
legations.
The House Passes FarnsWorth's Two.
Cent Postage Bill.
Proceedings In Congress Yesterday.
The House Passes Farnsworth's Two.
Cent Postage Bill.

Special Dtspdteh 10 Tho Chicago Tribune.
AMEe' MEMonASpUu DooE.


sptcta, Dt,patch 10 The cafcaao Tribune.
A,1ra, mruoa.Enu,f noor.
WASHINGTON, D, q. Fob. 1.-THE attendance
at Judge Poland's Committee Room was untiau-
olly largo this morning, the attraction being
0akcs Ames' little book md tho revelations It
WAS supposed to contain. yico President oolfax,
"no Was u ~ utneia aiost inteiesteu. ""s Plos"
ene carly with Ills counsel, Judge Halo, OF Now
York. Amos came In rather late, fact OF which
Judge Poland uas mt slow In remindinr him.
, ne confessed % 5uusmon,, anu INN. lmmea.ately sooh
was the signal for business, and
tho ti , nombors Of TIL the Committee 199,, adjusted
his hands into hia..capacious pockets, ali eyes
were strained to catch glimpse Of the book,
which 1t was supposed he would produce. Ho
f7;d hr1no ont A. a1n.11 d;nrv hut n waa rot tta
ori,I,.f sro,. r,I,.h ~ ~.sn. oa,;,, h.ra 49,
oiSin"' 1lo1n "a'cn ~ laany eop'o' na!e poen
taken, and which was expected to contain add.
tionM faote about tho transactions sbotween Ames
The utter amazament Of the Oornmittoe and
tho rnanifegt disappoiptment Of thn Gil.
rious crowd, Amos soon gave Judge Poland to
underetoud that ho had not brourlt tho
Inc the example Of Colfax, Ames had secured
the aid Of counsel, and tho book was in the pos-
eossion of tbs LAWYER. Thia 1awyor nrnyod ~ Is ha
Horace F. Clarke, President Of tho Union Paoilo
Railroad. Judge Poland was inexorable In bis
domand for tho book. and would not allow tho
proceedings to go on TIL it was produced. The
borgeant-at-Arms was despatched in search Of
Clarke, and found that gentleman at
breakfast It appears that Amos was
under tho impression that Colfax's
counsel would cross- -exanaine him frat. and
that Colfax himsolf would orplain how ho camo
BY tho 81, 200, If he did not get It from Amos
II was very cloar that Ames wanted Colfax to
more effeotually trip lin up with the record Of
hia ]ittla book. but Poland yyould not care to
examino In thia manner. and 80 tho orieinai
memoraudum book mad to bo produced tho
ent1ie. in II seemed to bo serawiing momorauda
printed diary dates, so that the
book contained memoranda for 1869
rs we'll 90 1868: The cloaoas attention was given
ments did not come up to expectation, the only
new mnttor Of any special import being an entry
in January, 1869, Of u 500 paid Schuyler Coffax
In certificate bonds, with interest on the Same in
amount Of private matter in no way connected
with Credit Mobilier, and Amos insisted that
this part Of it ehould not be examined by the
Committee.
Judge Poland thought that the purpose Of tho
Investigation would be bcst served BY allowing
the Committed to go through tho entire book.
They were to be tic judges Of what was, and
what was not. connected with the Credit A1obil-
Of tho Committee, they discovered that ii veri-
fed, in all important particulars, tla evidence
horetofore givon BY Ames. Judge Haio, COL
Of Amoe. with a Wow to confuse him. and broak
down his former testimony. but It was useless,
The memoranda and the evidence OF Amos we're
there. and it became painfully evident. that no
amount Of legal tochnicalitios could obliterato
more hopelessiy involved, and ovon bis friends
among tic spectators could not shut their eyes
to % t5e fact that be had made mistake in again Il in
appearing before tho Committee. Bafflod at
@ mony. % judge Hale m made de- an m &' effort ITO to
onen m that bart Of tho ease rolatine
to Ames' famous letters to MComb, but
Poland quickly informed him that they did not rot
Waa there e p1ss % ooax s'a and be- bud
! nnytbinr to ahoW in thnt case l,e wos nt Ibortv
to nrocec3, Halo was rather nurtIy ;nforn,o1
| thai The lottore to M'Comb iiid not Affect tho
tstion. no no sttemnt vas made i bS S oolfax q or bis
connaol ia e1nain how he oama by thn al zoo
bi Far Wbch h Anpes awoars thai he rnyo ~ az colfn1 -
check on tic sorgeaut-at-Armn, Tho payiug
teller OF that office Was placed on tho stand, but
| ha Ind paid thc chock. "'0'''
~ Tha avonin1 eens;nn NJ tho nommittaa
vhcrcat Mr. 1o1fay VIVA rnt1crsfnod tn arntoir,
lis possession OF the 81, ,2oo is REGARDED as oyon
more T unfortnnate. Colfsx's exnlanation' is
| voted 1too thin" aud whom he concluded q
| general snnile Of inorcdulity passed oyer thc
countonances Of tho spectators. Insteal OF
helping his case, 1t is the general opinion that
| ho injured it,
| THE WILSON COMMITTEE.
| Mr. Wilson, tho Chairman OF tho Credit NO.
last % nicht. and vii resume tie taking Of testi
mony regarding the Union Pacific Railroad. An