The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-29
the fierce and frosty trials Of the next two
months, is to try the evan and equablo climate
of the Pacific coast.


Oh the f0c1nC coast
ree Other Developments.
The Vice President yesterday took ground
upon the question of his connection with the
Credit Mobilier which proved very unstable.
In short address he requested the Senate to
appoint committee with power TO send for
persons and papers to investigate his relation
to Hoax Ames and see if there was any harm
in it This attempt to take the investi-
cation outside the committee which
has it in charge was doomed to
speedy stoppage. Mr.. Thurman. of Ohio,
with severity that looks as though Mr.. Col
fax will be made to feel every shade of rebuke.
addressed few telling remarks to the Senate,
with the bitter point in them that there was
only one way to please Mr. Collar, and that
was by impeachment, which should originate
in the House of Representatives. The force of
this speech will be appreciated in the fact that
the proposer of tho resolution, Mr.. Pratt, of
Indiana was alone in his vote for the investi-
cation. To have waited in fear and trembling
lest the impeachment might loom into q
gigantic shadow and enshroud him were bad
enough; but to find that the desperate push
he was about to make for freedom only
brought him face to face with the shadow
itself must be q terrible punishment to Mr..
Colfax. As with Mr.. Brooks, he said too much
for his own sake in saying anything about his
! consciousness of innocence.
The proceedings yesterday before the Poland
committee point the error, to say the least,
of his course. The cashier Of the First
National Bank of the District was called, and
seems to have fixed conclusively the fact that
the twelve hundred dollar check which old
Iago swore to handing Mr.. Colfax had in re-
ality been received On the 22d Of June, 1871,
it was found that Mr.. Colfax had deposited
nearly two thousand dollars in three checks
! and the sum Of twelve hundred dollars in cur
| rency. It will be remembered that Mr.. Colfax
distinctly swore that he did not receive this
sum from Hoax Ames; but, as this deposit
stares us in the face, we can recall the words of
old Iago-"I am sorry to hear you with q
| curious tingling sensation. The reservation
which Mr.. Colfax made at the time was that
| he could hardly receive such sum without
remembering it We are sorry for him, but
he should have refreshed his memory. Let
the whole people look from the scene in the
] Senate TO the scene in the committee room
and behold how the reputation a man toiled
for years to build can be blasted in day
Without impeachment without conviction
and degradation, the torture man so stu
ated as Mr.. Colfax must endure is painful to
contemplate.
| Before the Wilson committee the mysteri-
Gus one hundred and twenty-six thousand dol
lar item received some attention. The cashier
Of the company swore to handing James F.
Wilson check for nineteen thousand dollars
as that honorable mans share of the amount.
Mr.. Wilson, Like Mr.. Colfax, could not remem-
Der the transaction, and oath was plenifully
made that President Clarke would never allow
any money of the company to be used for
such purposes The use Of evidence of this kind
is not discoverable, as Mr.. Spence testified that
the money given to Rollins as his share of the
| gross amount above spoken Of was understood
by him to be for services in Washington. The
two million dollar item seems to be strangely
confused at present, and at the time
the Credit Mobilier received this sum
it is apparently not known yet whether
that body was not in debt to the railroad
company nine hundred thousand dollars
Millions playing shuttlecock backward and
forward, with somebody taking chip off
| every time the millions came his way, is
the only figure to express the transactions
Of these two companies.
! 1t is but just to Mr.. Blaine, in the Sioux
City Railroad matter, to say that there does
not at present seem to be any guilt attaching
to him in his transactions in the stock of that
road. The only consistent figure in the inves-
tigntion is ''honest, honest Iago.''
| The CEsNoLA COLLECTION. Few words are
needed here to give point to the long article