The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-28

investigating Committee
The report of Poland's investigating
committee into the Credit Mobilier swin>
de, and the culpability of the several
Senators who were connected WITH il. has
not only failed to give satisfaction, bot
has afforded ground for severe structures
from the independent portion of the press.
Dawes, Garfield, Kelley, bingham, SEQ.
field, eto., have been let off cheap. while
Ames and Brooks are recommended for
expulsion. This is. in short, the result Of
the investigation, which should have
terminated ANONYMOUSLY the Senatorial
career of all who participated in the huge
fraud. This IS what the New York .Sun
says
The Poland committee, in recommend
ing the expulsion from Congress ofOakes
mes and JAS Brooks, and then white
washing their accompliees, have com
United grave offence agaipst off ;ial
Pur ty, orderly government, public morals,
and common decency, which every mem
Der of the committee will live lung enough
to bitterly regret. All right minded per-
sons, of whatever political Tarty, will in
dig"antly resent the partial, unwise, I'M
just, and illogical conclusion to which the
committee have arrived, and will be sure
To attribute this strange result to their
deliberations to something quite aside
from firm purpose to perform an imper'
alive duty without fear or favor.
The case of Mr.. Brooks stands 10y itsel
And however painful it may ne To his
party associates and his many friends t.
see this stigma put upon him, every good
| citizen, who calmly considers the evi,
denee, will regard it as only a due meas
ure of retribution for very unworthy
/ deeds.
| The case Of Mr.. Ames occupies totally
| different ground If he is guilty of mis-,
| demeanor, as he certainly is. and, there
! fore, deserves to be expelled from the
| House, as he undoubtedly does, he ought
not to 20 ont with Mr.. Brooks alone. Nc
such Judgment as this will be accepted
as fair, impartial or just
! The committee seems to take as the
basis Of their action a law of the United
States which makes it a Bisdemeanor fOI
any person to bride or attempt to bride
a member of Congress or other Fedora
officer, and for any member or officer Il
accept Suca bride. The committee Their
go on to show that Ames. by bestowing
Credit Mobilier shares and Pacific Rail.
road bonds upon members of Congress
in the manner he did, was guilty of the
offence specified in this law.
In this the committee are doubtless
right But pray, if Ames was guilty il
bestnwing the shares and bonds, were no
the members Of Congress who accepted
them 10 the manner and under the cir
cumstances disclosed by the testimony
likewise guilry? The five members 0
the Poland committee are lawyers, ant
Ut least two of them have presided on the
bench, and the Chairman was for man,
years Judge of the Supreme Court 0
Vermont Now, do these gentlemen i'm
agine that there is a tyrO IN the pTofes
sion so stupid as not to see that if Ame
is guilty of msdemeanor his aceompli
ees are equally guilty2 Nay, more, d
they not perceive that the law which the
take as the guide for their action is aimee
especially at members of Congress an,
other Federal officers who accept tn
gifts which the other party to the trans
action offers
Do Messrs. Poland and Niblack an
/
derrate the intelligence of the American
people as to believe that with one indig
nant touch they will not rub off the thir
and bungling coat of whitewash wit
which they have endeavuTed to cove
Messrs. Dawes and Garfield and Kelfe
and Bingham and ScOfeld Do the
suppose that men who love fair plav wi
look on approvingly while this coward !
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power of the House to crush Oake
Ames for offences which he committe
in common with, aye, ard for the speciG
benhtof, a dozen Of the most distinguishe
Senators and Representatives in Congress,
while all who participated in his gifts an
pocketed his money, and then went 0
the stump and on the stand and lied abol
it, are allowed to walk out of the Capt.
with certificates of good character
The honest masses Of the people 10y
t square, manly dealing. They will loo
with kindling eyes and burning cheek
upon this sueaking, skulking, dcspicab
effort to seize an old man like Cakes Amt
5 who has reached the verge of three'sco
!, years and ten, and bind upon his shou
q ders all the infamies of his fellow-parti
ipants in bribery and venality. VII
/
"a proved himself the onl5 truthtelling M
Y in this whole band of cSnspirators again
It law, honesty, official party, and pub
" docorum He has shown that there ii
d redeeming clause in his charater.
a has shrunk from going very deep in
!. perjury But where, IN this partieul;
10 stands his fellow cOrruptionists
What course Mr.. Ames will deem
l., proper to pursue we have no means
, even coniecturing. He is a man of
j. good deal of shrewdness and frmne
and he has in his possession mass
ugly facts and taletelling memOrant
re Whether the Samson of the Credit NJ
"A bilier wilt sit still while the Philistir
make sport of him next Tuesday rema
70 to he seen.
Id However it may be with him, we tr
n there is honor aud courage enough in
or House to meet the RICH, eous demands
public opinion by so amending the rep
of the committee as to sink the brand
m condemnation into the foreheads of
its who have offended Ia like manner W
=. Ames and Brooks
=" The Terms offered to the ModoC
SAN Francisco, Feb. 20 "A dIspa
" from Yreka, to>night, says Mech;