Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-20

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: turned to the Senate. But one sin
: pie observation; Chaffee, so his Ow
: friends say privately, is destitute I
: education and of political talen
: He never made a speech i'm his life
2 and never had thought on govern
2 ment. He has, am told, but on
2 talent-a silver mine. / am pos
| lively informed that without thi
/ talent there never could have been
f Senator Chaffee. Laughter am
applause There is great virtu
in silver mine. Laughter. MI
Chaffee, of course, is a reformer, an,
supports the Hayes Administration
FlOrida-Simon b. COnover. 4
small State and a still smaller man
| do not know whether he will re
main after his term expires, but ! d,
know that he will not remain in tn,
Senate. He does not deserve many
words. He is carpet-bagger whC
sneaked into the Senate through the
usual method of corruption anC
trickery. He does no more repre-
sent Florida in reality than the
North Pole. OF course, he stands
well with his Republican colleagues
being Chairman and member Ol
some of the most important Com.
| mittees. OF course, he is an ardent
friend of the Administration
Kansas-Who do you suppose is
the new Senator from bleeding Kan
sas? / doubt whether you know
that his name is Plumb-P. B.
Plumb. He has no political record
and, hear, no political talent but
One-a bank. l am positively in
formed by citizen of Kansas that
without this talent there never could
have been a Senator Plumb. have
nothing more to say, except that the
successor of Pomeroy is an ardent
supporter of the Administration
Laughter.
Maine-James G. Blaine. This,
perhaps, is the greatest of all cham
pions of Republicanism! Would
you believe it that Blaine is Chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Civil Service Reform? 1t certainly
is a capital joke to put the King of
Caucus, the Prince of machine poll
tics, the Grand Master of all political
trickery, the hero of the Fort Scott
Road, and Tom ScOtt's loan, and
Mulligan's letters, at the head of the
Senate Committee on Civil Service
Reform!
Indiana-Oliver Morton, misguid-
ed, misjudging, miserable, melan-
chOiy man! Let us turn from him
in sOrrowful charity. Who knows
whether he can Danish what he him
self invoked and cOniured, the spirit
of the "blOody shirt? Applause ]
CREDIT MOBILIER's GIGANTIC ROB-
Berry.
Massachusetts Henry Dawes and
George Hoar. What a fall, my
Massachusetts Think of Henry
Dawes, who took ten shares of Credit
Mobilier from Oakes Ames, in the
seat once occupied by John Quincy
Adams or Daniel Websterl Credit
MObilier! Two fatal words. They
mean the robbery of millions and
tens of millions through faithless
public servants. What was the Pa
cific Railroad Company? Let the
answer come from a high Republi-
can authority, NJ. Washburne, for
the last eight years our ambassador
at Paris, and a member of Congress
when the railroad subsidies were
passed. In answer to Mr.. Dawes,
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, said 0
quote from the Congressional Globe):
81 am surprised that my friend from
Massachusetts,, Mr.. Dawes, should
stand here" &c. 81 would ask my
friend whether he knows that this
Company, whose road the GOUe7n-
nlent is buiLding, BY the enormous sub
Sidy of so, ,000, 900 and some 10000
600 acres Of IdJld, the Company get
tina the road loithOm the expenditure
Of q single dollar Of its OaCn money!"
DC.
What was the Credit MObilier ?
| will again let the answer come
from Republican authority. Iagain
quote from the Congressional Globe,
from the speech of Mr.. G. G. Wash
of March, 1868:
ga, B, G and ID are the stOckhold-
ers of Pacific Railroad. A, B, Cand
ID, under charter from the State of
Pennsylvania, organize themselves
into Company, called the Credit
MObilier of America. A, b, G. and
d, stockholders, enter into contract
with the Credit Mobilier to build
this road at fabulous prices, and the
Credit MObilier let out the contract
at the lowest figure at which the
road can be built, making a clear
profit of the difference between the
price at which the contract is taken
and the price actually paid to those
who do the work, sum / am as
sured will not fall short Of many,
many million dollars. 1t will read
ily be seen from this that the Com
pany practically contracts with itself
to build the road, and that the enor-
NOUS figures they exhibit as repre-
senting the cost of the road are absO-
lutely fictitious"
And what was the profit of this
Credit Mobilier? l again quote
from the Congressional Globe. In
spite of all attempts at whitewash-
ing, the official report of the Poland
Committee admitted that the books
and papers Of the Credit MObilier
showed the cost of the construction
of the road to have been $50, ,720,-
958 "a, while the Railroad Company,
or rather, the United States Govern
ment, had to pay $93, ,546, ,2S7 %,
leaving to Credit Mobilier a clear
profit Of $43, 1926, 1873 81! Think fit,
a profit, clear profit of fOrty-fOur
millions of dollars! No wonder that
the stock of which Senator Dawes
held ten shares rose from nothing
to three hundred, when dividends
of so and so per cent. were quietly
divided every few months. And
who participated in this most gigan-
tic robbery. The very Republican
Congressman who were sworn to
protect the peoples interest. That
great reformer, Garfield, held, ac-
cording to the records of Congress,
twenty shares, received all the div
idends, and retained them, too. But
to return to Mr.. Dawes. He is most
cordially in favor of the Hayes Adj
ministratiOn and a shining light of
Republicanism. Applause.
Mississippi-Bl Blanche Bruce, black
man, though not the only black
statesman in the Senate. He, too,
never lived in Mississippi until the
war. My own State, Missouri, is
entitled to the honor Of having given
him birth. Elected Sheriff of one
of the counties of Mississippi where
the negroes strongly predOminate,
he made money, and the Legislature
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