The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-25
Crcdit-MoD.Iicr Investigation SoE-
.;rcsssnnn Kelley and Sfcc'k'ressaett
Colfax Try 60 CraWfist, bat A'nes mas
Memory Refreshes'-Gises up wee
President COlfax as Hopeless.
rsrecial telegram to the Dispatch.I


WASHINGTON, January 24.-ReprcsentatiVe
Kelley, of Pennsylvania. cross-eyamined
Cakes Amcs before the Credit-Mobi!ier Com
mittcc to-day, and did not make much out
Of the "man with the refreshed memory"
Mr.. Ames said he held ten shares of Credit
Mobilier stock that were the property of MI.
Kelley. as well as ten shlres Of Union faclhc
Railroad stock, and upon Mr.. Kelley asking
him how soon he could deliver the ten shares
of Credit-Nlobiler and dividends Mr.. Ames
produced the certificate Of stock from his
pocket. and ut Mr.. kelley's request handed
il over TO Chairman Poland, saying that he
would soon deliver the dividends; but as
Mr.. Kelley saw he did not own them, Mr..
Ames could not see how he was entitled to
them. After Mr.. Kelley's tilt Fice-Presi-
dent Colfax tried his band. The following
is substantially what occurred:
Mr.. CoIfax: Mr.. 'Ames, in your private
memorandum-book, which hope the COM
mittee will have brought here, have you the
names of members Of Congress whom you
let have stock Answer: Yes, sir.
Question VIII you tell me why you made
that check which you say you paid me Fiya-
bic to IS. c." when YOU made the ole you
say you gave to Mr.. Allison payable to vii.
liam B. Allison! Answer: can't say, for
some of the dividends ! did not rut II j. ny
7 f-ip
this check !?
Answer: No, sir. ttncvcr belonged to me.
Question Have you ever told me durln"
the past four years thlt was the owner OF
this stock?
Answer: don't know whether l did or
not. don't know If anybody his told me
within The last four years that | own my
own hat [Laughtcr.] dc not understand
your version Of The affair at all. gave YOU
check, and lcrc is the proof Of il by the
books. What is the use of trying to get
around it CT over il u:
Mr. Coltax: Where was l when you gave
mo tbe check-n the ch,ir OF on the floor
Mr.. Amcs: Oh! don't kuow-l can't re-
member that.
Mr.. ColEax TO the committee): I repeat,
exactly rs | stated before, that ! never re-
ceycd dollar on any account from the
Credit Mobiicr. / never saw this check.
and do not know whether it was signed by
0. Amcs or Cakes Amcs. Why he made
this check payatlc to "S. c. / cannot
imagine. Icould not have had added to my
income $1,000 without remembering some
thing about it. During the whole of the
four years he has never proposed to pay NE
ANYTHING, and never told me was the owner
of The stock. told Mr.. Ames would not
buy into lawsuit, and that ended the mat
ter between us. -
Mr.. Ames The check for S532.74 CON-
plcted your payment for the stock:
judge Poland to Mr.. ColfaX: Do you
admit that you gave him check for s532.14:
Mr., Cellax: / suppose so. thought at
the time l was paying $500 on my purchase
and interest. but did not understand that
this completed the transaction. l understood
dividends had been earned and were unad-
iusteG, and would 20 10 makeup the balance
due from me, but did not understand that
they completed the purchase. He did not
remember of Mr.. Ames's saying anything
about selling bonds when the $500 were paid
by witness. He had the impression that the
proceeds from those bonds, when sold,
would 90 to complete the purchase. He
supposed he did pay Mr.. Ames the 1892, "a
by a check on the Sergeant-at-ArmS,
but was confident that he never re-
ceived any check for $1,000 from Mr.
Ames, either payable to "S. G." or Schuyler
Colfux, or bearer, or for any amount what
ever. He supposed the check marked "S.
c." was some memorandum of Mr.. Ames's,
bv which he settled the matter after he (Col-
fax told him be would have nothing to do
with the stock, and would not buy into law
suit. He had received no certificate OF the
stock and no proceeds from it. he had er-
deavored since he had been Speaker of the
House ard Vice. President of the United
States to make his salary and private income
~
making every month or two statement oil
his financial condition, but had never pre-
served them. If the committee would OK
anime the checks in the First National Bank,
where he kept his account, they would See
that he always wrote his name on the back
of the checks without being asked, whether
payable to order or bearer. The singulality
about this matter was thnt DIR. Ames stated
thai this check was payable to IS. Co. and
others received checks payable In thei'
names. u.
Mr. Ames MIr. Coifax, did ] not render
you statement of the sale of bonds re-
eeiyed as dividends, and you gave me that
$532 check for the balance due? ~
Mr.. Colfax: No, sir; there might have
been slip of paper; a memorandum OF the
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