New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-01-27
THE CONGRESS SCANDAL.
MORE DAMAGING DEVELOPMENTS.

SENATOR PATTERsoN's CASE - SPEAKER
BLAINE AND THE SIOUX CITY ROAD.
10y TELEGRAPH TO THB TRIBuHRl
WASHINGTON, Jan. e6.-Judge Polands COMMITTEE
shook another Congressman out of the Credit Mo
tilier bag on Saturday. This Senator John a.
Logan who barganed for ten shares of the stock AZ
the same time with Messrs. Patterson, Colfax, ana
the rest. He paid nothing for it, but the hrst TWO
dividends settled the account and gave him bal
anee Of SS29, which Mr.. Ames paid HIM IN june
1865 by a check ON the Sergeant-at-Arms MI Ames
.ssnred the Committee that Mr.. Logan was posi-
lively the last. The bag is now empty, aud there
are no more Congressman hiding IN the corners, II
Mr. Ames is TO be believed. He would have men
toned Mr. Logan before he said but the Committee
had not inquired if there were any more Senators
inyolyed they had only asked for members of the
House Mr.. Logan's case appears to be very mild
.pe He got the stock and the dividends, but
returned them afterward How long afterward, Mr..
Ames could not remember, but he thought within
few months His memory of dates was poor that
he could not remember OF all the Congressman who
hit at Mr. Ames's bait Mr. Logan appears to be the
most fortunate Mr.. Ames forgot to mention his
name along with the others when the penciled list
was indorsed on the back of the famous letter to
McComb. Nobody suspected that he had any Credit
Mobiier stock until Friday, when his name was dis
covered in Amess account on the Sergeant-at-Armss
consequently has no retractions OF explanations to
make now He will probably be called upon by the
Committee at their next meeting on Tuesday, to
gye an account of his purchase and return of the
stock and as he will have no occasion to contradict
MI Ames, he,wlll come off much better than MeSsrs.
Colfax and Kelley did on Friday Whatever odium
attaches in the public mind to the ownership of the
Credit Mobher stock Mr.. Logan cannot escape from,
but he cannot be accused of falsehoOd and perjury
like other honorable gentlemen who have appeared
before Judge Poand's Committee.
The remarkable uneoncen with which the Senate
has from the first looked upon the disclosures made
IN the investigation before the two Credit Moblier
Committees, especially since they have affected the
honor of the presiding officer and prominent men,
bers of that body is matter Of universal surprise
in Washington. 1t has heretofore been
the custom when testimony affecting the
honor of a member of the other House is taken
before committee Of either branch of Congress, to
zeal il up and send it TO the House to which the
member thus affected belongs. This custom has
always been observed when Investigations were
conducted with closed DOORS but in the present case
the evidence is published to the world from day to
day, and is therefore, fully known to the Senate
rs to the public. The House, on the strength Of
newspaper reports printed during the heat Of cam
paign rejecting upon the honor of some of Its mem
bers on the very first dayfof the session appointed
the Poland Committee and ordered it to proceed at
once to inquire in regard to the facts. The same
reports connected the names of Messrs. COlfax and
Patterson with the same transactions, and yet no
one has asked for an investigation in that body, or
even limited that one was desirable.
But however vague the accusations in regard to
bribery may have been, the case in regard 10 Mr..
Patterson has now assumed an entirely new and far
more serious aspect Unless he denies his signature TO
the letter and receipts produced yesterday by Cakes
Lmes he stands convicted of the most deliberate
false swearing In two carefully written Statements
made TO the Committee he denied ever having owned
Credit Mobilier stock, having received dividends
thereon Cakes Ames puts in evidence receipt for
such dividends. People who care for the reputation
and dignity of the United States Senate unable to
zee how it can allow another day to pass without
taking some public action the startling develop
ments of yesterday.
Nothing of importance was elected In the exam
instion Of Ames and Alley about the Dubuque and
Sioux City road beyond the fact that Speaker
Blaine had stock in the company formed to com
plete it, together with Senator-eect Allison, Oakes
Ames and Alley. Mr.. Amess memory got befogged
again Both he and Alley had forgotten the lmpor-
taut fact that the land-graDt to the road was re-
newed by an act Of Congress passed In February,
1865 The original grant was made In 1896, ana
under 1t the road was built from Dubuque to Iowa
Falls The remainder of the road was completed by
the Iowa contracting company, OF which John D.
Blairs of Blairstown, N j.. was President and Ames
and Alley directors. This company agreed to take
the grant and build the unfinished portion of the
road from Iowa Falls to Sioux City, and it was
probably by their procurement that the grant was
renewed Mr.. Ames said that no dividends had yet
been earned by the company. he thought that
friend living in Skowhegan, Me-, had furnished
Blaine with money TO buy this stock An exaInina-
ton of The Congressional Globe shows that WashDurne
of Illinois made strenuous opposition to the passage
Of the bill through the House renewing the grant,
but got very little support. On the final vote con-
curing in amendments put on the bill by the senate
Mr.. WashburDe could not rally strength enough 10
call the Yeas and NAYS There were three roll-cans
when the bill first passed the House, on neither OF
which MI Blaine voted 1t is Sioux City and Pacific
Railroad and not the Dubuque and Sioux City, THAT
particularly needs investigation. This road got all
the Government subsidies Of bonds and land, the
ZANE as the Union Pacific, without the surveillance
of Government directors 1t was diverted from the
line originally prescribed for it, in order to get vaiu-
able Iowa lands and made local road of no conse-
ouence instead of an important branch Of the Union
Pacific, joining that road at the Tooth meridian
CAKES AMES'S TESTIMONY ON SATURDAY.
SENATOR LpGAN's NTEREsT-wHo FIRST SOUGHT
THE sT6CK-pAMAGING DISCLOSURES AGAINST
SENATOR PATTERsOE-ANXIETY OF CONGRESS
MEN TO SECURE TIE sToCK-THE SIOUX
CITY ROAD.
iYson THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE fHBUhEI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The following Is
verbatim report of Cakes Ames's testimony before the
Poland Investigating Committee, to-day
CAKES AnEs RECALLED AND ExAMMED.
BY the Charman-Upon the books Of the sergeant-at-
Ans produced yesterday in the list OF checks charged
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