The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-21

Ames, therefore. "carried" the stock for Col.
fax. ~ he did for other timid Congressional
bnbe-taksrs. and paid him the dividends upon
Il - they we're declared
Then Collar appears before the committee.
and makes statement upon oath in his own
behalf. He admits in that statement that ho
paid Ames about $500" and owing TO the
financial troubles" Of the poor shovei-making
miiiionsire has never aaked him to repay il!
impecunious Ames. Generous Colfaxi But
10 most positively and explicitly denies-the
generous Colfax-that be has ever received
from Ames, or from anybody, any dividends,
IN money, stocks, bonds or anything else, ON
Credit Mobilier shares
Then Ames-getting vexed ct this sort Of
nat pcrtury by ColfAx, Kelley and others-
covers his memorandum book and his memory,
and swears point blank that ON the 18th day Of
June. 1868, he paid to Colfax . dividend of
q, 300. in check for that sum upon the Ser
geant-at-Arms.
Collar again takes an oathsto tell the truth.
and nothing but the truth, and denies posi-.
lively that he ever received from Ames. or
from anybody, the sum Of q, 200, or any other
Then the Sergeant-st-Arms II called upon 10
produce the checks made BY Ames which he
has paid, and 10, there in . check dated June
20, 1883 made Dy Cakes Ames. and payable to
s. G. or bearer" And the Sergeant Arms
tsstifies that this check, ~ appears upon his
paid on the 2lst day Of June. 1858. the day
following its date, and charged to Ames' ac-
count.
A third time Colfax goes upon the witness
stand and swears that he did not receive
q. do in juno. 1868, from Amss or anybody !;
that he never saw the check for 81, 400 payable
to '' 5. c. or bearer and that he In positive OF
this. because lac could not have received that
amount OF money from any source without
recollecting it.
Then the cashier of the First National Bank
| Of Washington il summoned, and the books OF
that bank showing Colfax's account are ex-
amined. And therein 1t appears that on the
nd day Of juno, ls6S-two DAYS after the ated
Of Amss' check to 81. c." and one day after
| the money WAS drawn upon that check from
the Sergeant Collars account was
credited with the sum Of Oh, 96s.63. Next, the
deposit ticket, showing the items of which that
sum was made up, IL produced, and ID found to
Be in Schuyler Io,fax's Handwriting, and one
| Of the isms Is the sum Of 81, 900 in currency !:
| the remainder Of the amount being made mp
OF checks or drafts.
This il the chain Of evidence. which convicts
Schuyler Colfax Of bribery, of falsehood and
Of perjury. There il only one possible loop
hole Of escape, and that he has himself closed.
The facts point to his guilt with degree Of
certainty sufficient to convict him or any man
before any intelligent jury, unless he can
prove by the most unimpeachable evidence
that he received the sum of 81. 900 which he
deposited on the 22d of June from some other
source than the Ames check for that sum,
which WAS cashed on the previous day--that ia.
unless he can bring Other proofs to convict
| himself Of perjury. For he has already sworn
in the most positive manner that he did not
receive that sum from any other source. or
any source. on that or any other day in that
month.
There il no use for this man. or his party
friends. to beat about the bush any longer.
| He stands before the country . convicted liar,
perjuTer and bribe-taker. He il fallen with his
political compeers into pit Of infamy from
which no political trumpet can ever bring him
| forth.
| DisgrscefuI to the American name ~ the fat
il, this man is vice-Prssident Of the United
States. Though he has barely . month Of re-
manning ofScial tenure. il il plainly the impera-
tive duty of the House Of Representatives to
present articles Of impeachment against him.
| For crimes Of not . hundredth part the enor-
nifty Of those which this man has consulted,
men are every day convicted and sentenced to
State prisons. Perjury is felony. whether
committed by gutter-rst or Vice-President.
/ Bribery 10 q crime no LEES hcinous in . member
| Of Congress or President of the United
States than in . Chicago Alderman.
The rubbi>h Of criminality In our political life
must all be lwept away or il viii sweep away
the Liberties OF this country. Chicago Alder
manic thieves and bribe-taken. Tammany
thieves and bribe- takers, Credit Mobilier thieves
and bribe-taken, must al b brought to the
penalty which Justice infiicts without remorse
upon less conspicuous and less wicked crimi-
nails There In no alternative but destruction.
Tweed and Colfax. Connolly and Kelley, Oakley
Hall and Cakes Ames, Garvey and Jim Brooks,
Sweeny and Patterson; the thieves in New
| York and the thieves in Washington; municipal
thieves and Federal thieves; Republican there's
and Democratic thieves; bribery and villainy
BY parcel and by lot, must Be spewed out Of
the public life Of this people into jsils and PEN
| itentiaries or the end Of free government II
close ct hand--C Chicago Times.