, 1873-01-31

catastrophe TO avert which you arc Kind enough -
offer ynur aid tho Executive Committee of tle c.
pany shall be informed, to the cid that t
more definite information than have already rece:vr
We must abide the result not unnaindfu that tho SUI:
OF these conspiraeies themselves sometimes becor.s
only tho victims. An answer to this telegram, Ii.
dressed to my house, will reach me at sny t1-e.
inst letter, or tho :ubsaaco Of it. Il copy i. no -:
{slgned1 HORACE F. CLARK.
loft New York On sunday night, and camo 10
Washington and undertook to place the core
pondence in the possession Of soole member It
the House, so that il such a resolution as is !
been referred to had been introduced, the whoa
thing would have come out
The same day the Witness received the follows
ing:
a. vi. Clark No. 10 East 7tfents<ee'ia strtt, A<s
Tom long message 1ust received. cannot ~ ~
ssno your failure to get my first letter, and So lsss
you sassast any h:1s Vie whom II Ia ne;.
saS vsrfs 1rs oS toa
addressed to No. 10 East Twenty-second street, /
tSlgned) GEo. B. CoWI4M
To Cow1amTs telegram the witness said he y
piled ~ follows
TO George D. Co:clam, care General Eu:l<r, uoAi. Il
Your telegram Of this morning received. reg I
you deem mine Of yesterday dtscourteous. It Was
W. friendy IN @ its ehara:ter. and nd fet no eosrl
nsnt IN fteay expressing ny siewa relative to ef -
tgs 'ttoeebng To- + As tue ssq
quessed A. J. Popp;eton, Of Nebraska. who il frie &
and sdvisez Of tho Union Pacific Railroad conps =
L. now in this city to go to Washing II
tonight, and meet you there tomorrow morni d
to Mr.. pnpntAtCr 1yhttaTer N1u!1 ri
myself He is fully authorized to represent the Uni ID
Pacific Railroad Company In the matter referred ~
Please inform he by telegraph of tho receipt Of tt ~
5ou. {ssgned) Hoaacz +. CLARK.
The witnees resumed, and said PoppletJ4
came to Washington that evening. Witness ed
to Poppeton. nt.lking over this matter, thnt ta
one cent for the purpose suggested By Cord
lam.
By slocum-Was anything dono that MondayF
Auswer-Poppletons says q motion was ma1c
in tho HOUSE to suspend. tho rules, and sono~
body who had the papers offered to let the 1910
hutton come in, it he could bo permitted to plo-
duce the correspondence [5ocu1n here REFER I'd
to ths Globe, April 8, 1872, and read the resoll-
tion moved by Alr. Neeley requiring The psJmsaa.
psny- Mr. Brooke on that occasion, it appease ],
objected and called for the regular order Of bu r
mess, when Negley moved to suspend the rulss.
that he might oher the resolution. Negley mald
the point to the propriety of the stockholdt "a
opposing tho introduction Of the measure.
Brooks retorted by inquiring il it Was proper foI
a Wall street broker to introduce resolution ot
this character.1
Tie witness eaid: "Ihold in my hands tho pas
pers which wore thenin thepoeeesston Of Brool1,
and which have been read to this Committee,
and state further that not one shilling was cx-
pended except for the personal expenses Of 3lr.
Popp1eton in coming to Washington"
Tie witness, On being interrogated rs to t,o
resolution passed BY the Board Of Directors IN
December last, for the issue of seventy millio1s-
OF new bonds, gave the REASONS why they vers
not issued, among others, that they beca1as
due in 1874, and matured 60 aoon that thoy would
and besides, within two months past there hid
been forged coupons Of tho bonds already in tls
market to the extent Of S18o, ,00o, many Of whi h
coupons had been paid.
The Committee adjourned until tomorrow.