The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-30
THE CONGRESS SCANDAL.
TERRIBLY DAMAGING DEVELOP
MENTS.

Senator Logan the Lntest tlcttm-In-
difference of the Senate-SerIous Ma.
ture OF Senator Patterson's Cnse.
correspondence OF the New York Tribune.l
WASHINGTON, January 26.
Judge Poland's committee shook another
Congressman ont of the Credit Mobller bag
on Saturday. This was Senator John A.
Logan, who bargained for ten shares of the
stock at the same time with Messrs. Patterson,
Colfax AMI the rest. He paid nothing for it,
but the first Two dividends settled The account
and gave him balance Of 1929, which Mr..
Ames paid him in June, 1868. by a check on
the sergeant-at-arms. Mr.. Ames assured the
committee that Mr.. Logan was positively the
last. The bag ls now empty, and there are no
more Congressman hiding in the corners, II
Mr. Ames Is to be believed. He would have
mentioned Mr.. Logan before, he said. but the
committee had not inquired If there were any
more senators involved; they had only asked
for members of The House. Mr.. Logan's
case appears to be very mild one.
He got the stock and the dividends, but
returned them afterward. How long after
ward Mr.. Ames could not remember, bur he
thought within few months. His memory
Der. Of all the congressman who bit aJ MIR.
Ames's bait, Mr.. Logan appears 10 be the
most fortunate. Mr.. Ames forgot TO mention
his name along with The others when the pen
ciled list was endorsed on the back OF the
famous letter 10 McComb. Nobody suspected
that he had any Credit Mobilipr STOCK until
Friday, when his name was discovered In
Ames's account on the sergeant-at arms
books. He mado no denlals duriHg the can
rptrQntinn6
explanations to make now. He will probably
be called upon by the committee at their next
meeting on Tuesday, to give an account OF his
purchase and return oil The stock, and as he
will have no occasion to contradict Mr. Ames,
he will come of much better than Messrs.
Colfax and Kelley did on Friday. Whatever
odium attaches In the public mind to the own
ership of the Credit Mobiller stock, Mr.. Logan
cannot escape from, but he cannot be accused
of Ialsehood and perjury like other honorable
gentlemen who have appeared before Judge
Poland's committee.
The remarkable uuconcern with which the
Senate mas from the first looked upon the dis.
closures made In the Investigation before the
two Credit Mobilier commuters, especially
since they have affected the honor OF the pre-
siding officer and prominent members OF that
body, is matter OF universal surprise IN
Washington. It has heretofore been the Gus.
tom, when testimony affecting the honor of
member Of the other house ls taken before q
committee of either branch OF Congress, 10
seal 1t ND and send 1t to the house TO which
the member thus affected belongs This GUS
tom has always been observed when inVesti-
cations were conducted with closed doors,
but in the present case the evidence is pub
l!shed to the world, from day 10 day, and Is,
therefore, as fully known to the Senate as to
the public. The House, on The strength OF
newspaper reports, printed curing the heat OF
a campaign. rejecting upon the honor OF
some of Its members. on the very first day OF
the session, appointed the Poland committee,
and ordered it 10 proceed al once to inquire
in regard to the facts. The same reports con.
nected the names OF Mesers. Colfax aud Pat
terson with the same transactions, aud yet no
one has asked for an Investigation In that
body, or even hlnted that one was desirable.
But however vague the accusations ln re-
gard to bribery may have been, the case III
regard TO Mr.. Patterson has now assumed an
entirely new and far more serious aspect.
Unless he denies his signature to the letter
and receipts produced yesterday by Oakes
Ames, he stands convicted of the most delio-
crate false swearing. 10 Two carefully writ
ten at Elements, made 10 the committee, he
denied ever having owned Credit Mooilier
stock, or having received dividends thereon.
Oakes Ames put In evidence receipt tor
such dividends. People who care for the rep
utaton and dignity OF the United States Sen.
ate are unabs to see how it can allow
another day to pass without taking some pub.
lie action On the startling Developments ol
yesterday,