Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-06-28
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third of it is devoted to an explanation
and defense OF the Credit Mobilier, the
excitement about which he attributed to
what he called the uproar about what Is
cautiously stated as the back-pay steal.
The Credit Mobilier, he declared, carried
terror to the hearts of the unsophlstlcated
people, mainly by its name; which,
not understanding, they thought must
mean something dreadful. The press
added to the panic and frightened those
who had owned Mobilier stock into the
belief that they had committed wrong in |
holding it. He said the Credit Mobilier
investigation OF last winter had left a |
stain upon the Nation, aud cast a gloom
over those who believed in mans capa- |
city for self government. Freedom OF
the press is indispensable to free institu-
tons, and yet it seems as though the
freedom of the press was the only free
dom left in this country. 1t seems as
though the freedom of the press was
absolute despotsm to everybody but the
press. The press frightened Colfax and
Patterson into the idea that to own Mo-
bilier stock was criminal, and they ap-
pear to have rushed into the effort to
disprove their ownership. The proof
conyinces all men that they were mis-
taken and uncharitable, that they in
tended to prevaricate, and SO these men
who had done nothing before the investi-
CATION worthy of censure, are whistled
down the wind, racked and ruined for
ever, and forty millions of people are
stamped with apprehension and alarm.
| The Credit Mobiier he declared owed
the Government nothing. The Govern
ment paid only what it agreed to for the
Union Pacific Railroad, and had, and has
now, interest in the matter as between
the the two Companies, the Unin Pacific
| Company and the Credit Mobilier. The
suit instituted by the Government against
the Credit Mobilier Company, or to use
the speakers language, against mankind in
general, be said was the result of the
panic into which Congress was thrown
last winter by the agency of the press
against the Credit Mobilier, and said he,
land the Attorney General has entered
upon the holy crusade, with what results
We shall see when the Courts pass upon
the case. The suit has no parallel in the
judicial annals of any civilized country
and the real question to be determined is
whether the Courts are as weak in {
popular storm as Congress has shown
itself to be The main points Of the
Senators argument in support of the in
creased salary bill and back pay, were
l LIST, that the sum fixed, seven Thousand
five hundred per annum, is none to-
much for the services of intelligent Sena
tors or Representatives inasmuch as it
as little as they can live on. If the com
4 pensation of Congress men was fixed &
Il lower rate than they could afford t
give lltli StINlteS Vic poNCIuhCi
would fall into the hands of the rich, an
l. lose its distinctive character as q Co
vernment in which the poor have an equ'
right in making the laws with the ricl
d Enlarging upon this point, he contende
that under the Constitution, it is actual
incumbent upon Senator or Represen
G alive to accept the pay fixed by law, an
that he connot refuse it without violatir
the Constitution which expressly says
shall receive such compensation. In r
~ gard to the back pay feature of the BIZ
he argued that as the Constitution mac
it the duty or right of Congress to
the compensation of its members, it W,
- as competent for them to fix the amou
90 on the last day of the session as the frs
that there was no contract, expressed
implied, between the people and Unit,
&C. States Congressman that the latter shou
rd serve for certain amount OF pay. II
81 man and his agent agree that he shou
IS. pay himself out of any funds of his Ell
of ployer in his hands, such compensate
us as he thought that his service was wort
IN the employer had no right to complai
IN Finally he cited former instances whe
tn Congress had increased their own pa
Il, as in 1856 and in 1866, giving list
e. Senators who received their back p
he then, and asking if there was any m,
20, willing to brand these men as thievt
he He argued that if it is larceny or less
he wrong to receive back pay now, it was
ce similar otfense to receive it in 1856
NJ 1866. The Senator concluded in t
st. following characteristic strain: "Was
is ington left the impress of his charac
fic upon his own and succeeding gene
cy tons. Jefferson, Madison, Hamilt
N and others gave an impulse to pub
lr- thought and fixed standard of pub
Is virtue, under which we have grown to
H. great and happy people; but it was
for Cakes Ames to lift the standard
l. public virtue clean out of mortal rea
the and clean out of human sight. Thil
ex. which are viewed in the light of {
as, Saviours teachings and estimated by
ust standard of christian morality, are
ave harmless as the cooings Of doves. .
re, larcenies morals, since, in the light
,ad 1873, and estimated by the standard
re, alarm and fright created by Ca
to Ames and the Credit Mobilier investi
the tions9 Earthquakes some times co