Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28

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: again in favor of extending the term
IS Of Gov. Bullock aud his Legislature In
e Georgia for two years upon ground, that il
: that were not done, society would be dis.
t turbed.
HOUSE.
The House reassembled at ten, the hour
up to the regular time of meeting being
: considered as part of the legislative day of
f yesterday to be divided among members
wanting to speak on the Expulsion resolu-
tons.
The MObiIier Debate.
Mr.. Bird favored the power of expulsion.
Mr.. Holman took similar grounds, and
regarded this as the first great contest be-
tween representative Government and the
great money corporations.
Mr.. Townsend, of New York, declared
himself against the right of expulsion.
The remedy for the decay of moral virtue
was not to be found in expulsion.
Mr.. Wood differed somewhat from either
! side on the question of jurisdiction. He
thought the Committee exceeded its au-
thority, and their report did not justify ex-
pulsion. Ames was chosen victim be-
cause he told the truth, sand turned States
evidence. Mr.. Brooks, he argued, could
not be comprehended within the scope of
the jurisdiction Of the Committee. He
would vote against expulsion.
Mr.. Porter favored some form of con-
domination, but thought expulsion dan
gerous precedent.
Mr.. spear thought the House could ex-
! pei for offences before election. He was
for expeling Brooks. He believed Dawes
and Schoield Innocent, but
Thought Kelly and Garfield Guilty.
At eleven to-dsy's session began.
Mr.. Sargent offered an amendment to the
resolution reciting the parliamentary doubts
in the case, and condemning the conduct Of
Ames and Brooks.
i Mr.. Hoar suggested that such an amend
ment created a still worse precedent.
! Mr.. Poland then proceeded to close the
debate. He replied to the argument made
| against the power Of the House to expel
members for offences committed before
election, and to sustain bis position by par
J lismentary precedent. Having disposed of |
that subject, Mr.. Poland came back to thu |
facts ia the case and to the scheme of the |
| Credit Mobilier and its inventors. He said |
1t did not require great ingenuity to get up /
scheme to cheat the Government out of |
forty millions, but it did require good deal |
OF wit to get up the machinery necessary
to run it successfully. They had contrived |
q, scheme that there was no man in New
York shfeWd enough to get up the running
machinery. They had to send
Almost as far as Boston
and find a man, and they got the right man.
But difficulty grew ont of that. This Bos-
ton lawyer saw mill with forsy-seven mil
lions in the hopper, mill with which you are
going to fitch more than half that sum out
OF the Government. When you have got
man with wit enough to devise means by
which you can do that and cover it up, you
cannot put off That man with a fee of three
thousand dollars. He must have six thou
sand dollars. The machinery had just got
into operation SO thst there would be no
difficulty, if they could stop investigations
in Congress and not be troubled by Gov
s+pIreut Directors. Congress and Govern
ment Directors were Lh5 only things left
that were to be feared and these had to be
taken care of. Accordingly MI. Ames had
come to Congress with shares Of Credit
Mobilier stock in his pocket and went
around to various MEMBERS of Congress
and the leading men and said that he had
got an excellent investment, a thing which
would pay II per cent; anG offered it to
members who he said Lad been good friends
to the Union Pacific railroad company. He
was fixing it so that those who took shares
from him should think it was an honest
thing. He had found it necessary to clothe
it in the hablliments of honesty.
The hammer fell, the debate closed, and
The House was broughS
Face to Face with the Question:.
Mr.. Fa-nsworLh, for the purpose of re-
feTring the whole matter TO the public,
moved to lay il on the table. The vote was
taken by yeas and nays and resulted, yeas
50, nays 1914.
While the House was voting on the reso-
luton to lay the whols Credit Mobilier mat |
ter on the table, Mr.. Brooks held his head
down, apparently absorbed in reading.
Ames sat on one of the front seats, leaning
his head on his hands, apparently following
the vote attentively. A bouquet stood on {
his desk before him. The vote was taken
in perfect silence with
Solemn Stiffness 1
pervading the hall, so that the responses
were distinctly heard. The members seats
were all filled and the galleries packed.
Ames, Bingham, Brooks, Dawes, Kelly and
Schofield did not vote.
The next question was on the substitut- {
ing of Sargents' resolutions for those report
ed by the Select Committee. The vote vas,
ayes, rs; nays, 10.
Mr.. Eldridge of Wisconsin, and Mr..
Voorhees, of Indiana, having originally vot-
ed no, changed their votes 10 ayes, and en-
deavored to give their reasons but were not
permitted under the rule which forbids de-
bate during the roll call. q
Ames Censured. :
Thequestion then required on the first of . :
y ell
Resolved, that the House absolutely con- Z
dennis the conduct of Mr.. Ames, member =
of this House, from the State of Massa-
chusetts, in seeking to procure Congress .
sional attention to the affairs of corpora :,
in which he was interested and whose in y
terest directly depended on the legislation -
of Congress, by inducing members of Con- .
gress to invest in the stock of said corpora y
ton.
The resolution was adopted, yeas, Isl;
nays, Sc. Mr.. Brooks voted in the mega +
tive. y
Brooks Censured.
The next resolution of Mr.. Sargent was =
then voted on. 1t is as follows; =
Resolved, That the House absolutely con- a,
dennis the conduct of James Brooks, a T.
member of this House, from New York, =
for the use of his position of Government -
Director of the Union Pacific Railroad and
Of member of this House to procure the IL
assignment to himself or family Of stock in eI
,he Credit Mobilier of America, corpora al
Jon having contract with the Union Pa al
.ific Railroad, and whose interests depend te
ID directly upon the legislation of Congress. III
The resolution was adopted, yeas ia, u
nays 80. tn
The next resolution included in Mr.. Ssr- IL
GENTS subtitute was as follows:
Resolved, That the special committee be N
discharged from further consideration of h
his subject. ID
Mr.. Hoar moved to lay the resolution and pI
preamble on the table. al
Mr.. Wood suggested that that would pre- te
rent the reporting of resolutions as to III
The Other Members Implicated. "
The Speaker stated that it certainly D.
would. 1t would be the Judgment of the H.
House that it had accepted and disposed of -
be report of the committee.
Mr.. Sargent asked what would Mr.. Hoar's
notion carry to the table. Would it carry
be resolutions already adopted? ID
The Speaker replied that it would not tW
n fI,o oil ado | In