Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-20

'The opinions of the press" upon the Poland
report are coming in, and they seem to be col
Ored q good deal by locality, and personal feel
ing. In Massachusetts,, for instance. the ques-
ton whether the committee should have
ssseooped up" more members than Ames and
Brooks is mixed up with the contest for Y.
=. Senator. The Boutwell, men Including the
Ben Butler men) insist that IL would have
looked better for Mr.. Dawes III, like Mr.. Bout
well aud Mr.. Blaine, he had refused to take the
stock at all The Dawes men, on the other
hand, claim that there Is more pitch upon his
hands than upon those of Boutwell,, and that a.
the Boston Advertiser states it, the former has so
tar the confidence of the people OF Massaehu-
sets and their representatives i'm the legislature
that ''tO-day Mr.. Dawes leads in the senate. and
the tendency of the house is in his Iavor." This
assertion Is derisively cOntradcted by the Gioke
a. 1.-the fgment Of diseased brain.'
The New York papers, generally, treat the
report as Misunderstanding report" The Times
treats the question the most dispassiOnately, but
does not endorse the report. That paper agrees
with the committee s.tlat a knowledge of the
relation Of the credit mObilier to the Union
Pacific railway would have made the holding of
that stock by a member OF Congress dshonora-
bic act" but does not agree with IT .sin its
Ienient assumption that such knowledge was
not possessed by the Congressman who purchased
the stock, )" and adds:
''if they did not know its character they must
have been curiously deaf and blind to what was
going on about them With those who knew
anything about the Union Pacific railroad in the
winter Of 1855 the purpose and origin of the
credit mObiller were well known that they
may fairly be said TO have been notorious Ger:
tainiy Congressman rho took stock i'm a scheme
10 cheat the government, under these circrm-
stances, deserve some well-defined measures of
condemnation, and we regret that the commit
tee recommended none. We trust the House
VIII remedy the OMISSION
The Tribune recapitulates the names of all
who participated in the credit mobilier stock
transactions, with a summary of the cireum-
stances in each case, and concludes as follows:
''Weil, the wickedness of all il Is not that
these men were bribed cOrTIptly Influenced
but that they betrayed the trust of the people,
deceived their constituents, and by their eva
siOns and falsehoOds confessed the transaction
10 be disgraceful. And now a whole Congress of
grown men is to deliberate seriously upon a
resolution that puts the sins ef all these upon
two. Partisanship has never stopped so low as
this before. We cannot believe the resolution
VIII Pass No gentlemen of the American Con-
gress, this Is no answer TO the people. Stop all
this. Pass no resolution. Drop IL where il is
Remand the whole business to the people You
have only scratched the surface of the whole i'm
quiry-leave il now. Face outward. March,
The World seems disposed TO make a political
issue on the case in behalf OF Mr.. Brooks, and
Says:
itIVtN W Coifililttt l. UOckerE OF
Justice, and disgrace 70 the men who drew IT,
and the body which has not the spirit TO reject
In everything which OakeS AmeS did for which
% II proposed to eSpel HIM some republican
Congressman was partakeT OF the crime. For
everything which James Brooks did for which
= proposed to exrel him the strict parallel can
te found or ineluded in the act OF some repub-
lican Congressman who sits securely in his seat
and votes upon the resolution. The Committee
have indeed administered a warning to Com
gressmen. But the verdict in the case of Cakes
Ames y a warning to corrupt COngressmen
against turning states evidence. The verdict
in the case of James Brooks is warning to cor
Iupt congressman against being democrats
This 10 Il, and nothing more"