Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-13
The Credit MObiIier.

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The Credit MObiIier.
| Washington dispatch OF the 29th says :
| Judge Poland's Credit Mobilier Investigation
Committee was largely attended to-day. it being
! popularity expected that Cakes Ames would not
! only exhibit his original memorandum but also
letters, receipts and statements from Congress-
men which would cause something like the
sensations attending the production of Pat
| terson's letter and Colfax's bank account. But
| lew OF these documents were presented. how
ever, those offered being additional receipts
from Patterson, and a statement of figures in
| Garland's handwriting, wherein the latter
makes Ames his debtor for 50, 400 on account
of his Credit Mobilier investment. Robert s.
Hale put In an appearance as the attorney of
| Vlce-President ColfaX, and proposes, on tie
behalf of his client, to establish that the 81 200
deposited i'll the First National Bank the dav
after Ames gave him check on the Sergeant
alarms for that amount, was obtained from
an entirely different source.
I'm the Wilson committee, Joseph B. Stew
| art of Washington, who received several hun
dred thousand dollars in connection with the
| legislation of 1864 on the Union Pacific rail
road, was critically examined. He was finally
driven to the point as to whether he had paid
any newspaper publishers, when he declined to
answer on the ground of the relations of clients
to attorneys the fact was reported to the
House, which ordered that Stewart be COM
PEELED to answer tomorrow. or stand commit
ted. Stewart says tonight that he will go to
| Jail before he will answer. He distinctly testi-
fed over and over that not dollar was even
| paid by him to any Congressman or newspaper
correspondents, but the committee insist that
he must tell to whom he did paw it,
| Horace f. Clark, President of the Union Pa
citic railroad, was examined before the Wilson
committee on the Both ult. He showed that
he had never permitted the expenditure of a
1 To inf31r 41ao Az ,ofn
introduced in evidence letters and dispatches
written to him by one of Gen. Buffers secre-
! taries, which he considered as an attempt to
blackmail the company.
The Poland committee was devoted princi.
pally to hearing an explanation from Hon. Jot
| Stevenson as to his assertion that J. T. Wilson
and Speaker Blaine were connected with the
Dubuque and Sioux City railroads
| The Poland committee was mainly occupied
ON the 3lst ult., in listening to the revelations
of Thomas G. Durant. He showed how the
| election of the Board of Directors had been
| controlled by fictitious subscriptions and legal
maneuvers. under the direction of Gen Butler
and threw additional light upon some of Cakes
Ames contracts. He said that Gen. Dodge
| the Engineer-in-Chief of the Union Pacific
railroad, was member of Congress, and spent
his time in Washington, where it was asserted
he could do more good than elsewhere. He
received salary of $4,000 year, and his
wife held 100 shares of the Credit Mobiliel
| stock. Alley took the stand, and met Mr.. Du-
rants statements by the somewhat familiar re.
mark that the cry of stop thief was raised
| by the thieves themselves.
Considerable evidence was taken by the vii.
son committee, but none of it was important
except an incidental admission from President
Clark, of the Union Pacific railroad that Gen
Dix, now Governor of New York, received 8
fee of $50, 900, while he was Minister to France
during the johnson Administration to nego-
f:ofn OIL Of +Ia TT,,1O, NIL II
failed to sell any bonds, but kept The fee hand.
ed him.
A Washington dispatch Of the list inst SAYS
The work of taking evidence has been prac-
tically completed by the Poland committee
there being no more witnesses to hear except
Ames and Celfax and the committee have
made up their minds that nothing more can be
got from either of them of vital Importance to
theinvestigation. Thecommittee held a private
session this afternoon. and determined to pro-
coed directlyto the work of preparing their re-
port. This will take week or ten days, and
in the meantime, Mr.. Colfax will have an OPP
portunity to present any evidence he may OBJ
tain, and Mr.. Ames will be expected to produce
| his memorandum book Whether he will do SO
is an open question, and if, when he returns
he says that he cannot find his papers, the
committee will not press him.
There is much speculation and wide variety
of opinion as to the report of the Poland
committee. 1t is argued by some of the ablest
lawyers in Congress that no charges of bribery
have been proved against Cakes Ames, moi
against the men who took stock from him,
and that If such charges were proved, it would
be out of the province of the Forty-second
Congress to discipline members for what was
done during the session of the Fortieth Con-
gress. Nevertheless, Judge Poland has openly
| declared that the committee would not white.
wash.anybody, and they may perhaps declare
Mr.. Cakes Ames unfit to occupy seat in Con-
&Ix-, l.,
The feeling against Ames is so great that he
would be expelled in moment if a decent
pretext could be found.
A Washington telegram of the Sd inst. says
The sessions of the Wilson committee are
drawing to a close, and it is probable that by
the time the testimony is closed the report viii
be ready for presentation to the House. as the
members have kept themselves thoroughly in
formed from day to day of the importance Of
the testimony, and the bearing of the informa-
ton furnished by one witness on that of an
other. The testimony is printed from day tt
day, and thus it is before each member of the
committee. The Chairman, Judge Wilson
left for the North tonight, and will take testi
mony and examine books in Philadelphia, New
York. and Boston. In the foImer city the
records of the courts, where the Credit Mo
bilier trials occurred, will be examined, and al
the books in the New York and Boston Offices
of tia Union Pacific road will be gone over
While the Chairman is absent Mr.. Alley vii
be examined, and also Gen. Dodge, if he ar
rives from Texts in time.
The Wilson committee had an uninterestins
session on the 4th. John B. Alley was thu
only witness, and his testimony related almos
wholly to the dry details of the Union Pacif,
railroad, and in an effort to show that nothing
has been made out of the road that thost
who built it look bankruptcy in the face, ant
all that. Pending the return of Cakes Ames
the committee is engaged in preparing a repor
on the evidence already in. This report vii
take up the case of each Congressman, ant
make special reference thereto. The repor
will be accompanied by no resolution, but viii
simply leave the House to take such action a.
the evidence submitted may justify.
!, The Poland committee reported to tn.
House the evidence taken with regard to Sen
ators Wilson, Harlan, Patterson, and Vice