Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-13

of the Credit Mobiler of America, heio py
him as Trustee on my account Mr. Am n,,.
stated that Scofield, Dawes and Logan men .
out after the dividend of sixty per CENT.
Witness said that Mr.. Allison sent MS stocn
back, and said he would have nothlng ,nu,
to do with it, and he (Ames) supposed Ine
stock being returned to him by Allison was
real transaction, and not nominal one.
In regard to his conversations WIN MI;
Garfield, Mr.. Ames said he (Gartield) had
wanted the witness to say as nttle as as no
could before the Committee that ne t1al-
field) might get off as easy as ne couia. MI
Ames produced memorandum upon Whlc u
were the following figures: "Sl, Ooo;
'"sl ,0O0;" ''$400." Total, ''$2 400;" and tes-
tilted that the figures were made by Garfield.
The first 81 900 referred to the Union racine
bonds; the second to the Credlt-Mobliler
stock, and the $500 to something
else he could not remember what. These
figures referred to what Mr. Garfield was en-
titled to.
Mr. Ames further testified as to MIR. kel-
ley, that he Kelley) had called the transac-
tion loan, and said he wanted to pay IL;
that Kelley gave him check, which ne
(Ames) tore in half and handed back TO kei-
ley, and both appeared sat SIZED with the
transaction. Witness testified: II did not
consider that he owed me anything; but
owed him and told him SO; he did not
deny it.
At the sitting of Poland's Committee on
the 30th, Hon. John Beatty, of Ohio, testl-
fed that he had conversation with Steven
son on the day before that gentleman INTRO
duced the resolution OF inquiry In reference
to the Sioux City Road in the House Stew
enson then said Ames told him that Speaker
Blaine was interested in the Dubuque d
Sioux City Road. After the resolution had
passed, Ames came and asked the witness
who put Stevenson up to that. Ames
said Mr.. Stevenson was on the wrong
track. Witness heard no conversation be-
tween Ames and Stevenson.
Mr.. Stevenson stated that, after he intro
duced the resolution, Ames did talk to him
more fully and freely than before. He and
Ames had had frequent conversations, dur
ing which he gathered the information on
which he based the resolution.
Alley testified that Congress had nothing
to do with the Sioux City IL Iowa Falls Rail
road land grant given to the road. 1t was
donated to the State of Iowa by Congress,
and the State gave it to the road. The road
was chartered by the State. The witness
was interested in the Sioux City q Pacific
Railroad; also in the Cedar Rapids Road,
but in none of them until after he left Con-
gress.
James F. Wilson testified that Cakes
Ames, Alley, and some other members of
Congress, were stockholders in the Iowa
Falls IL Sioux City Road had no knowl-
edge OF Blaine or Hooper being Interested
Witness was interested in the road; he
acted, as he believed, in accordance with
the true public policy Of the State at that
time.
Nelson was before the Committee On the
3lst, and went over again the subject of his
transaction with Brooks relating to trans
fers of the Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific
stock. AS to the loan of Dillon, the witness
thought 1t was paid by Dillon selling the
collateral security given by the witness.
DR.. T. G. Durant appeared, and submitted
reply to John 3. Alleys testimony of jan
uary T, saying that Alleys statements
were at variance as to the facts con-
concerning the corporations, and untrue
and unjust as to persons living and deceased.
Durant then quoted the records of the Rail-
| road Company, the HoXie contract. and the
organiZation Of the Credt-Mobilier. Ames,
Alley and their friends were not the original
subscribers in the Union Pacific Road, their
only interest having arisen from being
stockholders in the Credit Mobilier.
e Alley reiterated the former statement that
the cry of ''stop thief was made by the
thieves themselves, and he hoped the other
Committee would make full investigation
as to the history and management of the
road. He charged that no satisfactory &C
count had been rendered by Durant for
S435 900 expended by him, and said that the
person Stewart, who had s250000 of that
money, was now imprisoned for refusing to
testify