The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-23
ooLFAX's DEFENCE.
lie Come. out in a Card copcerninr the
Credit MobliIer-IIc Repeats HIS
ProtesIAtIons Of Entire
Inn0cenee.

Credit Mobiiicr-Iio Repeats HIS
ProtesIAtIons of Entire
InnOcenee.
New YoRx, June 22.-SchuyIer ool'ar
publishes a card In the Herald, in reply TO
an article in that paper on Garfield and
the Credit MobIlier, in which bis (COl-
iax's) name Is mentioned. He says:
In my case the pivotal point was a check
nn the Sergeant.atArms for 81 200, dated
June 20, 1905, signed by Ames, and payA.
BILE to as. Q. or bearer" This check was
unlndorsed and unreceipted for, but Mr.
Ames testified repeatedly that he had paid
It to me- in person as dividend on Credit
Hobllisr stock that ho had claimed 10 be
holding for me, but which ho did not
claim be had ever given me and stock GER
itlcates for, and In regard TO which stock,
although his estate has since been admin.
lstered upon, have heard nothing what
ever. 1t appeared from the books Of the
bank where l kept nv accounts that on
Juno %. two days after the date Of this
check, l had deposited sl,9o0, But l
proved by members Of my family that that
deposit came from entirely different
sources. OF the eleven COngressmen i'm
pliCaied by Mr. Ames' famous memoran.
,lum book three we're alleged by him TO
have been paid dividends by initIt checks
Judge Kelley by q check lDr $500 10 W,
D r. or bearer, General Garfield bv a
check for $3.50 TO o. A. or bearer. and nv
sell by the check for 5, 200 TO 4. .C, or
bearer.
As to the other eight members, Mr..
Ames had receipts or sol. 10 other Testimony
Is to some monetar; transactions on this
account, althou%.u all but two or three Of
hem had at;euIoned their stock. Bat all
hfee, OF inc members implicated BY these
Initial checks swore positively that they
mad never received or even seen them.
Sr. Ames, however, rather than TO lie
under the imputation with his partners
that he Lah himself used these unclaimed
and uupAid dividends, became more aud
more ang,iIy positive, and pToductd bis
memorandum bOOk as cortobOra'ive EVIL
lence. My co1nsel was only allowed by
mis- couuse! ine particular pages referring
10 this matter. 1t was a memorandum
book for 1868, with page aud printed
mead for each day OF the year aud few
lays over. And the twice repeated
.chedules, in which he had summed up
the alleged payments to these alleged C,n.
Sressional stockholders, were written 3n
uages headed, Sunday, June 81, " tpSge
I5S Poland's Report-prObably misphnt
nr June 2l) aud Saturday, January 9,
1869" tpage 450j. As all this evidence,
TlIh the check also, was ex paste, might
ask II, iu your very large bp,slness, you re-
member to have paid q stugle one Of your
iebts with an initial check without taking
a single recsigG or having any witness
present, or having the check indOrsed by
the payee as a proof that he had re-
eelved II?
But, besides my own solemn affirmation
hat never received any check 81 any
amount nor dollar in money from Mr.
Ames at any time or on any account what
aver, l add here the testimony ot Moses
Dillon, the Cashier OF the sergeantat-
Arms. Alter stating that he had "a very
positive IMPRESSION that he had paid
this very 81 200 cheek and others to Mr.
Aces himself, comes the following, pH2e
All:
"Question-Have you any recollection
a. 10 the amount Of bills you gave for this
81, 200 cheCk2 Ayes, sir. Think | paid
min two $500 bills and two 500 bills.
That was my impression when was be-
fore the committee the other day, ans
will state that within the last thirty hours
I asked Mr.. Ames II be did not think
paid the check 10 him, and he replied
he though! it very likely"
"QugsliOn, page 40. There is q check
payEble TO o. A. or bearer. Have you
Any recollection o! that? A. That was
paid TO himself. This Is the 500 check
alleged 10 lave been paid by Mr.. Ames 10
General Garfield T.
Page 4Sl, Cashier Dillon further testi.
Aes; II think paid all these checks pay.
able to initials 70 Mr.. Ames."
l will only add that John 7. Dew,
then OF the law firm Of Drew, Bliss &
Holmes, who was IN Europe du ding the
Congressional investigation, solemnly
averred when he returned ir. june that no
saw Mr.. Ames on June 20 OF %, 1868. pre-.
sent TO the cashier Of the Sergeant at
Arms check fOt $3.50, payable 10 S, @.
or bearer, aud pay the money received for
1t, there being ia I've hundred dollar bill
on the top, - some person with whom he
had beer converting on Southern cotton
caSes, Aud Hon. E B. Washburne, our
Mlntster to France, wrote mo that when
Nr. Ames' testimony wss received at the
Embassy, Mr.. Drew said 10 him he was
sure Mr. ColfGx bad not recei.ed that
check nor the money.
must not GinplIty on ciher points.
But II seems TO be iOrgotte.n that the cam
pAign charge Of 1872 wac that Mr. Ames
gave members this stock, on which they
received go to so per cent dividends.
When deuyinS this charge added, as re-
ported In tie chicago Mier Ocedn Oi Sep
tenlbe. Is, 1879, that | c,almed the right
to ,,uy Ii or any other stock, and would
do 1t probably II did not thereby buy In
10 law suit lextctly what did cause me
70 abandon It four years before.
Mr.. Amps is deal; and grievously "a he
.wronged me, ] hope that It was III q con-
fusion and excitement OF his midd, with
consequent im alrnent OF merIio y al the
time aud his over.anxIety D.. Justify him.
sell, that caused him to testiiy rs lie did.
nut Us you HbNc uIuubIat ulb 10 tLlb ul1-
cussion, repeat neaiD, Us hope for
Gods favor At the Judgement Day, | never
received dollar item Mr. Ames In money
or check that ! abandoned totally, and
u, the lOss Of shat had paid on Il, aud
four year, before there was q breath Of
scAnds., An inchOAte contract for twenty
shIres u this stock thAt.l never held nor
owned, therefore, any stock IN It, aud that
never saw the cheek payable 10 =. G. or
bearer ill the very week In 1873 On which
he swore that he had paid il to me as
dividend In June, 1903.
Nothing could tempt me 10 exchange
my pre-, ent enjoyable aud independent
life for anS public aeGvice; aud do not
Say this, eItlury, 10 affect public Opln-
ion, hut because am sure that In the
future, at that last day, II not before, the
truth have written will be ma mani
feat to all my iellow.citizsns and the rest
Ol mankind. Respectfully yours.
SCHUYLER COLFAI.
National Republican Committee.
WAsHISdToS, June 70 General Logan
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