Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-02-22

For va are like unto whiied sepulebera, which
Indeed appear beEutiful outward, pat are "i'hiu
full Of dad mems bones
Il Is difficult to find temperate language
In which to express our contempt for
the whtewashlng report brought In
by Poland's investigating committee In
regard to the Credit Mobiller scandal. We
print an excellent summary of the report
from the editorial columns Of the N. Y.
Herald, and though 1t is mixed pretty
thoroughly with comments we do not and
a siugle one Of them too severe. That tine |
committee should recommend the expul- |
sion of Cakes Ames and James Brooks, |
was proper enough, but that It should
pass over the offences Of all the others
implicated In the affair, not merely WIN
out a word Of censure or rebuke, but act
ually resolve itself into sort OF counsel
| for their defence and attempt to prove
them innocent In the face Of facts which
show that to the acceptance Of brides they
added lying, and to lying, perjury, is an
insult to the intelligence Of Congress and
the country, and the most indecent exhi
billion of craftsmanship we ever have seem
James Brooks Is, to be sure, somewhat
more guilty than the others, he having
been a Government director, sworn 10
protect the interests Of the railroad he
, helped to fleece. But he did not lie any
= more indeeeutly than did Kelly, nor swear
= to lies with pny more hardihood than we
| l.k NJ nranEq Ia
4 Democrat, and, Mr.. Ames being Repub'
lican. the Committee evidently hopes, by
O melting out to those two an equal share o.
e punishment, to make II appear to the pub
II lie that the members of the two parties
~ shared equally in guilt in this matter, ant
: at the same time save to the dominan
% party In Congress the services of severa
IN valuable "workers," whose hands are NJ
If less useful for the work they have to d.
r. because, forsooth, their palms do Itch, no
A because they have been thrust into tn
=. dirty pool of corruption this investigation
n, has revealed to the public gaze. IN
n. fear, too, that the striking dow
10 Of so many prominent Republican
N at enc blow would injure the party, has
=. doubtless, Influenced their actions. Neve
If was q greater mistake made. The Reput
a lican party is not made of that sort G
os material, and if its representatives in Cor
-c gress do not reject this withdrawing II
Mt port and visit eondign punishment on tn
10 guilty it attempts to shield, they will loo
a in vain for somebody to white-wash thei
I'M before their constituents.
,ts Next Tuesday, the House of Rel
W. r.sentatives sits in judgment on th
ss. .niserable piece of trickery. May
of Judge with righteous Judgment, an
nd resent the insult offered to Its honest
ID and intelligence as the people at large al
If doing. If Congress does not wish Il
60 belief, which this withdrawing eommitt'
ma impudeutly bemoans as becoming ''fsr to
"a "generai, " " that all man can be rule
"a with money!" to become even more gel
eral they will reject this report with Il
contempt it merits. If they {
not want that once honorab
ain and august body, the Congress
II the United States, to appear to the who
is world as having no other sort of "honor
er' save that said to prevail amongst tAieye
The and which is of the sort whiC
yer leads rogues to shield each other fro
oty justice, let them expel every member wi
bat has PICTURED himself about his eonta
GU with these vile schemes of fraud. If tn
The do not want the text with which W.T. ha
Mr. headed this article TO be the dellbera
icy, judgment of the American people coucer
Tho ing them, let them purify their body
and this vile eorruplion.