The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-14
The Credit MObiIier.

The Credit MobiIier.
Washington dispatch of the both saws :
Judge Polands Credit Moblier Investigation
! Committee was largely attended to-day it being
popularity. expected that Cakes Ames would not
| only exhibit his original memorandum hut also
| letters receipts and statements from Congress-
men which would cause something like the
sensations attending the production of Pat
! terson r letter and CofaX's bank account. But
few of these documents were presented, how
ever, those offered being additional receipts
from Patterson. and statement OF figures III
Garlands handwriting, wherein the latter
makes Ames his debtor for - 400 on account
Of his Credit Mobilier investment. Robert s.
! Hale put III an appearance az the attorney of
Nlce-President ColfaX and proposes. on the
behalf of his client, to establish that the & 200
deposited i'll the First National Bank the day
after Ames gave him a check on the Sergeant
at-Arms for that amount. was obtained from
an entirely different source.
In the Wilson committee Joseph Il. Stew
art, of Washington, who received several hum
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 AZ 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
lclcu 10 dllhNeT JO-illOIrOW, or stand commit
ted. Stewart says tonight that he will go 10
jail before he will answer He distinctly testi-
fled over and over that not dollar was ever
paid by Inn to any congressman or newspaper
correspondents, but the committee insist that
he must tell to whom he did pay it."
Horace f. Clark, President of the Union Pa
citc railroad, was examined before the Wilson
committee ON the 3Oth ult. He showed that
he had never permitted the expenditure of
cent to influence the action of Congress He
introduced in evidence letters and dispatches
written to him by one of Gen. Buffers secre-
taries which he considered as All attempt to
backmail the company.
The Poland committee was devoted princ-
pally to hearing an explanation from Hon Job
Stevenson. as to his assertion that j. +. Wilson
and Speaker Blaine were connected with the
Dubuque and Sioux City railroads.
The Poland committee was mainly occupied
on the 3lst ut, III 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 i'll Washington, where it was asserted
he could do more good than elsewhere. He
received salary of Sl0,0 year, and his
wife held 100 shares of the Credit Mobilier
u r.
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 Will
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 a
fee of $50 000 while he was Minister to France
during the Johnson Administration, 10 nego-
tiate sale of the Union Pacific bonds. He
failed to sell any bonds, but kept the fee hand
ed him.
A Washington dispatch of the LIST inst saws:
The work of taking evidence has been prac-
tically completed by the Poland committee
there being no more witnesses to hear except
Ames and Colfax. and the committee have
made up their minds that nothing more can be
got from either of them Of vital Importance to
theinvestgation. Ihecommttee held private
session this afternoon. and determined to pro-
ceed directly to the work of preparing their re-
port This will take week or ten days and
in the meantime, Mr. Colfax will have an op-
portunlty 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 all 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 to the report Of the Poland
committee 1t is argued by some Of the ablest
have been proved against Cakes Ames, nor
against the men who took stock from him,
and that If such charges were proved, ii 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
wasb.anybody, and they may perhaps declare
Mr.. Cakes Ames unfit TO occupy a seat in Con-
gress, and indirectly recommend his expulsion.
The feeling against Ames is great that he
would be expelled in "A moment If decent
pretext could be found.
Washington telegram Of the Sd inst. saws :
The sessions of the Wilson committee are
drawing to a close, and it IL probable that by
the time the testimonyis closed the report will
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 il printed from dav TO
day. and thus il 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- |
biler trials occurred will be examined and all
the books in the New York and Boston offices |
of the Union Pacific road will be gone over.
While the Chairman il absent Mr.. Alley will |
be examined, and also Gen. Dodge, if he ar |
rives from Texts i'm time.
The Wilson committee had an uninterestinp
session on the 4th. John b. Alley was the |
only witness, and his testimony related almost |
wholly to the dry details of the Union Pacific |
railroad. and in an effort to show that nothing /
has been made ont OF the road that those |
who built it look bankruptcy in the face. and /
all that. Pending the return Of Cakes Ames.
the committee IL engaged in preparing "A report |
on the evidence already in. This report will /
take up the case OF each Congressman, and /
make special reference thereto. The report
will be accompanied by no resolution. but will
simply leave the House TO take such action a.
the evidence submitted may justify
The Poland committee reported TO the
House the evidence taken with regard 10 Sem
ators Wilson, Harlan, Patterson and Vice