The sun., 1873-02-05
THE MoBILIER INNOCENTS.
THE PR0BABLB ICTION OF JUDGE
POLIND,S COMMITTEE.

A Report to be Mnde to the House Setting
FoPth What has Hecn Proved In Each
Casc-Dcspcrate Efforts to Influence the
Committee in Favor of the Innoccnts.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.IThe Credit Mobi-
ller excitement still continues, although Com
mittee No. l is doing nothing, and No. every
little. The general subject OF discussion just
now is the probable action OF Judge Polands
committee. VIII they mako a report or will
they simply report the testimony IL Is OF
course impossible to say what the committee
will 60, although IL Is quite evident from certain
indications which more than one member Of
the committee have given within the past few
days that report will be made which will set
forth precisely what the committee believe has
been proven In each case. ] believe that the
testimony of Mr.. Ames. coroborated as II Is by
documentary evidence, has made profound
impression upon the committee, and especially
upon Judge Poland.
THB TESTIMONY CONCLUSIVE.
Prior to this there were so many positive con-
tradictions and irreconcilable differences In the
testimony given by Ames, McComb, and the In
nocents themselves, that there was room for
the committee to slip around the responsibility
Of making a report but when Ames began to
recover his memory, and corroborated all or the
essential portions OF McComb's testimony and
hatly contradicted the statements OF the va
rious Senators and members Of Congress who
had testified, the committee at once began to
exhibit signs Of uneasiness- A grave and solemn
duty was fastened upon them from which there
was no escape without discreditlng Ames az a
witness. Then Ames followed up his first sup
Elementary testimony by producing such con-
elusive corroboraiing documentary, evidence
that there is no possible way In which Judge
Poland and his colleagues can escape the un-
pleasant duty before them.
The COMMITTEE SATISFIED.
4 hal ala hat N ms
| jorty Of the committee have fully made up Their
| by their disposition to close the investigat on.
| Enough has been proven to satisfy them, and
| they do not care TO prosecute the inquiry any
| further. However. to satisfy those who still
| hope that Ames may have forged his menoran-
I dn, they have compelled him To produce his
| original memorandum book. When this has
In his final defence, the investigation will in all
, probability close.
EFFowrs TO INFLUENCE rHR COMMITTEE.
The implicated members hope that the com
mittee viii not make any other report than to
simply submit the evidence taken: They and
| huence the committee and to prevent them
from making a report They know very well
that II the committee does make q report
| proven In their judgment In each mans case
| In the present excited state Of the public mind
no five men would dare to suppress the
| guilty innocents feel and know this; hence
they are desperately striving to avert the calam-
ity that awaits them 4 the testimony Is Impair. ar
| the committee without even recommendation n
IL IL moral and political death for GarGeld, and
| all his guilty associates.
! most desperate effort is being made by the
| friends OF Garfield 20 save him at least from the
| general ruin. IL is so evident however, that the
| who have hitherto felt some sympathy for Gar
| field are disgusted, and abandon him TO his fate