The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-02

THE WILSON COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. /, 1879.
The Wilson committee met this morning at half.
past ten O'Clock.
TESTIMONY OF WEBSTER SNYDER.
Chairman-was general freight and ticket agent from
witness now resides At Jamaica did not Know q
paid anything besides their msase and s'S
Sr sSeGe ws 9Hs ns Torne
in November and December, 1883. as 2 .sovernment
set Ms. s %
pay much attention to the road witness conversation
s Ssa s sas IT, sYnsIs hsd
pa
; wS Isl Ss ~
report witness did not take receipt or memorandSm
o q n as n
sides mileage Or Tor Services about s sxy eighty mile;
Examined BY NJ; Hoar.witncs: paid the money on
Durant who was Vice President Of the Union Pacific
to act aud proposition receive s25 900; Dr.
ssa he not @ s
which h; seemed me 70 require the payment;
should Pr tss ID
some ccnyersaen and have given the substance oft
without his sut6STisy Not actually orSIaSs
versation with DR.. Durant and Oliver Ames, the Pres
dent wrote letter saying that did wrong think
this was n NoSe e Ua q ~ s
assigned i rs%oVsI It was never ins
mated that I was removed for paying Wendell This
oSnea
Wendell gave nc Tssson for asking for the money he
to Ss him e d sySg
ineS,osstsa the witness who said the
General Buiord the other two Commissioners showed
The board Of Directors the company tacitiy acaul.
far IS be knew on their books show dsaPproval ne
ssss%Gsny never presented an account to him for the
CHARLES @. vANzANDr.
%
NOT IN & s s sen Of but
fore Congress Having been asked whether he had
on that % had 2
S svs be had mo
could not repeat with disnctness then related the
s sods b a
over certain moneys pr PpTsnt retained wit
pase and T Ss & soSs
Re
accounts settled; this Psrsof his seemed
70 they s we're s still III pend
Ing with no probability Of hearing the eomp!sants
t
he for Corrupt there was
vast amount 81 elimination ana recriminstiSn The
soaE 1souT ONE ausDasD AND ISIsIr;sis THOUSAND
DUO called and sesasd as % his with
the Union Pacific Railroad Company and his profits from
the co%miisss the eompany 70 ADJUST and pay the
u dSs SO Re Ne ds
formed himself Of the particulars concerning The
%ss sSS
hs 1s se
eS see &c Mr. and s1s
paid bis board S while here out his own pocket and
dollar to any party in WSshington
cned to go the committee audit settle the bill
for special legal expenses because he knew nothing about
Was there anything to prevent you from finding out
by resortng to the source OF information A. think
IN further examination witness said he had no.
hear anything about the expenditure OF the money nor
aid ne want 70 near; wnen ne came mere he was in
The CharmanSwhen you requested by Mr.: Ames
rotary the Treasury already taken action Withhold
90 enc s
A; ! satisfied the legislation would be friendly.
o1 w
asoad a
oliver Olive, Ames and John j. Cisco were appointed com
account, and audit and pay amounts found due. fflIs
acn proved satisfactory to them there should be fur
such payments 70 the construction accounts Witness
n sasa%
SSnas d,vdsnds sc and also in relation to the
ssn.s 6, ssorE..I
Credit MObiieI consists Council Hpi sSms and
Columbus worth about one hundred and fy-nye thou.
sf Snss f ssd x sss
I'D not 70 Collect a mSs w m
III the Ss pS ,Ss Of the land
would thus %, Cs doubled II be became President
contract no business has been transacted by Credit
M Mosr Us ~ % IS ss h
two thousand shares Of Union Pacific Railroad Com.
" @ AND oSs aSoa
the suspense account about the sloo for special
By % Se
SSnsFs e w ssss
subject EXCEPT what hs had heard IN hi room Witness
Ss
o hs rosS sy y done wSs %
aS s s hd net esn lac ss
the is miles
fhe paTt Of the
s SSt By Credit MoSer was not derived By
O. had cost the and the cakes Ames
The witness replied that such was the fact TO some cx
tent he made inrther explanations in relation the
asa. az , .S% put Ne the com
Credit Mopcr r. the to the Of the
tees TO whom the contract assigned no eoyernment
director had ever been In the Credit Mo-
ber nor had any stock been transferred 10 his
THOMAS c. DuRANr, RECALLED.
said that IN 1864 he had made win rosenb
b. Stewart to settle diculues with outside partics cn
cerncd III the Leavenworth and Pawnec RaIirond and
stated the limit beyond which he could not co-betwcen
four and I'VE hundred thousand dollars There was no
trouble with Congress- but among soue Of whom
sired the terminus g be at St Louis others at sew
cra other points. Mr.. Durant paid Mr. Stewart cor.
tain bonds after the legislation Congress or that
year, but took no memoranda of the details OF the
money that he had ever heard of was
spent among members Of Congress- no bonds OF Inc
Union Pacific Railroad Company passed TO Mr. Stewart