The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-24
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as the amounts you expected to real
ize."
Now, admitting this explar alton to be
true-which it is not-what does it
prove2 1t convicts Garfield of falls, :
hood by his own showing, and is i'm
portant in fixing the date of the trans
action with Ames, a date which he had
evaded before the committee, and which
corresponds with the entries in the diary. |
He says it twas in 1S67-6S" that "the
only memorandum" stating the amounts
expected to be realized from an invest
ment of $1,000 in Credit Mobiiier was
shown to him; and that Mr. Ames wrote
down the figures above cited to illus rate
the different sums.
If Mr.. Ames ever showed such a
memorandum to Garfield, be mlst nee
essarily have explsined to him of What
elements the figures were composed,
otherwise they were incomprehensible.
He could not explain them by any pos
sfbility in their relation to the Credit
Mobiler stock without exposing the
connection between the Pacific Railroad
Company and the Credit Mobilier Com
pany, because the dividends were deriv-
ed from those two sources. Conse-
quently Gen. Garfield mas demonstrated
by this attempted defense that he must
have known in lS67-6S What he pretends
not to have known until "the winter Of
lS69-70." There is no escape from this
conclusion.
In regard to the figures, Mr.. Ames's
testimony is important, and the follow
ing extract give the pith of it:
20. You say these figures were made
by Mr. Garfield?
GA Yes, sir.
20. What do these sums represent
How did he put them down?
"a $1,000 Union Pacific Railroad
stock $1,000 Credit Mobilier stock
and S400 which he could not remember
whether it was to be in cash, stock, or
bonds.
20 That was his idea of what was
coming TO him?
GA. Yes, sir
@ Did he put this down as his re-
collection of the statement you made to
him2
"a. so understood It"
This testimony has the marks of truth
in every syllable, and it is corroborated
by other proofs, showing that Garfield
was as fully informed in 1S67-S of the
whole Credit Mobilier scheme as he is
to day. Mr. Washhurne of Illinois in
troduced his resolution to regulate the
freights on the Pacific roads, on Decem-
ber II, 1867. No action having been
taken by the packed Railroad Commit
tee, Mr. Window Of Minnesota renew
ed it On January 20, 1868, and it was
put off until March II, when the Globe
reports as follows:
"Mr Garfield: / move to refer it to
the Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, and call the previous question"
He knew what he was about in trying
TO kill the resolution. Mr.. Washhurne,
of Wisconsin, moved another resolution
on February 4. 1868, to inquire if the
twentieth section of the Pacific Railroad
charter had been legally executed. On
the 10th of March, 1868. Mr. Washburn
made speech on the Window resolu
ton, and exposed the whole fraud be-
tween the Credit Mobiiier and the Pa
cifc Company by name, and showed the
) methods by which it was consummated.
in fragrant violation of law. Mr.. Van
Wick, of New York, repeated these illus
trations on the 18th of May, 1868, when
} he declared "they have created Ring
inside the corporation"
Mr.. Garfield was present in the House,
voted on these resolutions, and, as has
} been seen, took part in trying to defeat
one of them. Yet be had the effrontery
to say in his pamphlet: "In the winter
} of IS69-70"-a year after these proceed
ings in which he participated-"I receiv-
} ed the first intimation l ever had of the
/ real nature of the connection between
the Credit Mobiier Company and the
, Pacific Railroad Company"