Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-21

eho pOuobchub Iuhue bubTe nave ROb bn6 OOl-
FAX coat-of-arms on them. [Laugbter.l And
he says, furthermore, that no young mar
ried couple can be happy without having
one Of these bedsteads. [Laughter.l
want to tell you that have got no divi-
dends on that stock, but II get every young
married couple to buy bedstead Of the
Knoblock Furniture Company l will make
large dividends very soon. Laughter and
applause.]
The gentleman from the Chicago Times
says that Mr.. Blrdsell got patent extended
through my influence with the Patent Office,
and that have become partner In 1t. 1
don't knew whether Mr.. Birdsell got an ex.
tension Of his patent or not; but this do
know, that he would not apply to me for
anything Of that kind, for he has forgotten
more about the patents and the extension Of
patents than l ever knew. Laughter The
last thing Mr.. Birdsell would do would be
to get me to get his patent extended. II
there is one thing in this werld that do not
know, 1t Is patent law. l never practiced In
the Patent Office, and have nothing to do
with It. But the Blrdsell Company did say
to me that, as was coming back to live In
South Bend, they would like me to take
some stock in that Company, and l am a
stockholder 10 that company and am not
ashamed Of 1t.
lam stockhold0r in the Union Chair
Company, and If every married couple
wants to be happy, they will buy their chairs
from the Union Chair Company. Laughter
and applause
I merely bring this forward to show you
the inexpressible littleness of all these
things. / ask you II it is not the very refine
meat and quintessence of ittlenessp l ask
the man himself If 1t is MOTTO come down
here TO my own town, In whose prosperity
have always felt the liveliest interest, and
do this thingY No response from the Times
correspondent.] l have never received
farthing Of interest upon my Investments
Anrn 4, - 81 IL
up these things here, in order to see II they
cannot make point against Colfax
Laughter, applause and cries Of "Yesl yesI
It is."1
When get dividends from these compan.
les, as we shall get soon-aud as | expect to
get dividends from the clover huller as well
as the chairs laughter ii will invest them
right here at home in this town Of which we
are all SO proud. [Applause.l
Now, If you had voluntarily withdrawn,
as had, at a pecuniary loss over four years
before from an agreement to buy such stock
in woolen factory, you would regard what
have supposed as sufficient refutation of
a charge that you had been brihed by gifts
of stock and enormous dividends, but If you
added to all this the frank statement mat
you had said you would be willing to buy
this very factory stock at par, and to hold it
IL 1t would not involve you in litigation,
would you not think that your answer would
be full and thorough on every practical point
that the wanton calumny required you to
state? No one could have been misled by
my speech on the vital point; though no
such stock was ever given to me, | publicly
avowed my willingness to bear all the re-
proach that could attach to ar investment
of my money at par, as l then understood
it.
But I do not intend to rest the argument
on this point. Here call my enemies as my
witnesses. The New YORK Tribune of Sep
tember 20 published the telegraphic extract
OF this speech, with the following heading,
showing that it fully understood my denial
was to the charge of having had the stock
the Credit Mobilier that he did not pay for"
1t was eminently proper and fitting that this
same paper should, on January "a, print lit
orally quotation from the speech with the
essential word "give" lett out, and then
basely repeat charges of my untruthfulness
on the quotation it had thus altered and
falsfed.
Mr.. Colfax here exhibited the paper
The Chicago Tribune, also, which has
almost daily assailed me the past winter for
| alleged prevarication in the speech, did not
misunderstood it at the time. 1t declared
editorially, September 81, in commenting on
my speech;
"Mr Colfax claims the right to purchase what
ever stock he thinks proper even when offered him
at par, and when the accrued dividends are more
than equal to its par value"
And September %, the next day, 1t said
| (again l quote its insiuuation also, although
my payment Of the 1894 disproves that part
of iD as fellows:
"Mr. Colfax claims that he had the right to pur-
chase the stock of the tMobilier or any other
company. Ames got this stock put in his hands
that ne might sell t at par and pay the par value of
i out OF its then accrued dividends which was, In
fact, making present Of it, According to Mr..
Colfax, receiving Credit Mobilier stock at par,
with accrued dividends equal to its price, would be
straight-out purchase"
r
after the holiday recess, during which recess
Hon. Mr.. Ames said he had refreshed his
memory, by his memorandum at home,
| declared emphatically, as l did here last
| September, that had never received dol
| lar from him for dividends, nor indeed on
| any account whatever. He was present in
| the committee room and did not deny this
| nor dissent from it, though l asked him to
| cross-examine me. On that verv afternoon
| he told Mr.. Crounse, of the New York Times,
who swore to it afterward before the com
mittee, that my statement was probably cor
rect. On December II, in his carefully pre-
| pared and written-out original testimony, he
swore about me on page 20 of the report as
follows: "Nor can remember having paid
| him any dividends" and Mr.. Alley, his asso-
ciate, swore before the committee (see page
| 3ll OF the report, that before the holidays
Mr. Ames told him that 1 was substantially
correct in my statement as to the transac-
| tion. In spite, however, of the original tes-
timony of his which he declared embodied
the exact fact, and his expressing his con-
currence with my statement to Alley and
| Crounse, and listening without dissent to
my testimony of January Z, he came before
the committee on January % with a check
for 81, 200, payable to SO. @. or bearer"
which he claims he paid to me June 20, 1868,
but which being payable to no ones name
required no Endorsement, and could as well
be cashed by Mr.. "a" or Mr.. "B." or Mr..
a." or by Mr.. &C." or any one else. Never
having seen any check of his in my life till
1 saw this one in the committee
room, 1 asked him if my name
was indorsed on it, and he answered
/ was when he handed it to me. he answered
"No;" asking him if he remembered what he
said when he paid it to me, he answered
"No;" asking him If he could not remember
what said when so large check was hand
ed me, he again answered mo" asking him
if he had any receipt for it, he answered
"No;" asking him if he ever gave me GER
tifcate for the stock which he insisted | still
owned, he answered mo" Astounded al
this attempt on check payable to initial:
and not to my name, not indorsed by me
and for which no receipt could be produced
to destroy my testimony, Immediately haC
the Sergeant-a alarms, on whom it wal
drswn, summoned, with his cashier anC
. bookkeeper, to testify as to whether thel
had ever paid me the money for any sucl
check, and they all answered that they haC
no recollection of having done so. But sub
seqnently Mr.. Dillon, the Cashier of the
sergeant-at-Arms, testified that, while HI
could not swear with positive certainty afte
the lapse of years, yet his very strong i'm
preston was that he had paid this very 80
O." check to Ames himself (see page Az o
the report), and that when he had asked
Ames only thirty hours before If he had moi
done 1t Ames had replied that it was verl
likely (see page 4Sl ofthe report). In regard
to one portion of the checks from Anne
drawn for this June dividend there is no con
troversy. Four of them had the names il
full of Logan and Allison (both of whom re
turned their dividends to HIM, Patterson
and James Wilson. Four of them, however
for this very same June dividend, wer,
made out payable TO initials, namely
"s. c." $1,000; another SO. c." TO
$60O which he says was intended TO
scofeld; "W. D. K.," 1929, claimed
by him to be for Kelley; one 80. A." $32I
said by him to be for Garfield; but Kelley
Garfield and have declared that neither o
| ma aver saw these initial checks ScOhelt