New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-07
A MISSING IOBBYJST.

II vas i'm evidence before the wilson I'D :
yestiparing Committee of Congress that sl26,Ooo
was expended in the lobby by the Union
Pacific Railroad Company in 1871, and that Oh
this sum S24,JO0 was paid by the Company
to Gen. G. NJ. Dodge OF Iowa, an ex-memDer
of Congress and Chief Engineer OF the road'
nv whom it was discussed. The Wilson COM
mittee was quite well aware that Gen. Dodge
had information that would throw Hood on
light upon the transactions they were ap-
pointed to investigate. An officer OF inc
House was sent to summon Gen. Dodge 10
appear before the Committee but although
the report was circulated very actively thaC
he was on his way to Washington from vari-
GUS points, he did not appear, nor could ne DE
found At the time the summons was issued
Gen. Dodge was in Texas. On the night Oh
Wednesday, Jan. 80, he left Marshall, In that
State and proceeded by special engine TO
Long View some thirty miles distant, on the
international Railroad. On Thursday morn
ing. the Goth, he left Long View, in company
with his private secretary, by the lnterna-
tional road, and on Saturday night, Feb. ],
the two were registered at the Mckinney
Hotel. in the town of Mckinney, Texas, three
hundred miles from Marshall, on the line OF
the Houston and Texas Central road The
next morning Sunday, Feb. q they took
special train to the terminus OF the Texas
Central road from whence by stage they went
TO Sherman, where they took dinner; then ten
miles further, to Denison, where they took the
Sunday night train for st. Louis, reaching the
latter place on Tuesday. the 4th Inc hrst
newspaper paragraph that seemed TO Indicate
any knowledge of his whereabouts was In the
local paper at DenisOn, Texas, which, under the
head of Personal" gave notice that Gen.
sc. NJ. Dodge passed through Denison the
e" other day en- route to Washington, to testify
before the Credit Mobilier Committee"
This item was doubtless started as blind.
Gen. Dodge remained in st. Louis from the
4th to the 14tb, in cOncealment, inquiries at
the hotel where he was stopping being an
swered with the statement that he was not
there, and bad not been there for some time.
On Friday, the 18th, he left st. Louis by the
Chicago and Alton road, and went directly to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he remained until
the 2lst. Ii was then announced, and our
readers will doubtless remember the circum-
stance, that he had started for Washington to
appear before the Committee. But he never
appeared.
There is no reasonable doubt that this man
spent the entire month aud more from January
29th till the 4th OF March lodging the officer
sent by the Sergeant-at- Arms, and evading
the summons to appear and testify. His con-
nection with the corruption fund of the Union
Pacific road in 1871 is well attested. Put upon
the stand rs a witness he could throw more
light upon some of the dark corners in this
business than any other man in the country.
But he has so far succeeded in evading the
summons. Shall be continue to do so' Here
are the facts prominent before the country.
Gen. Dodge held in his possession, and is said
to have disbursed for purposes of cOrruptng
the Congress of the United States, large
sum of money. Sought after by Committee
of Congress to testify the facts, he eludes the
vigilance of officers sent TO summon him, and
snaps his fingers in the face of the Govern
ment which he has attempted to corrupt.
About the first business for the next Congress
to take hold of will properly be the search
for Gen G. NJ. Dodge, late Chief Engineer of
the Union Pacific road