The Portland daily press., 1880-06-18
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE IS.

claims Gannral
Soifeo Hc. nun SoIS auu no uiofe, as pal
Geld denied If. and asserteS that he borrowed
from him S3O0 and no mora and afterwarS 70
turned il. and that he never received anvthing
from him IN acconnt of stock wy 'AIe
Now as 70 PROOF. tart OF the memoranda
tres j.; b?;S H. m ieee Th mere INC I'll
tarod nnder Ganarai Corfa15,s 800 ~. 81 ~u,
of three not crossed off which Mr. Ames ay
nlained was becanse II had never haan SettIad
or adjusted. Here is the entry in fnII
GARFIELD.
10 shares Credit N. q 600 M
mos. 10 DAYS ..:.......... IA 3S
-
Total .$1D43 SO
100, 90
Int to limo 90 szoa 90 90
oo4
Total. ...................s 27l 90
1000 c. M.
notwithstanding ba said ha had M otbor
antrv in relation 70 Mr. Car6aIa ~ az ooJ ~
1u.iy III f ef W WI. uarheiu on the ga OF
tee statement of an alleged account with
Genaral Garf;eld &c foJlows. ~
j. A. g. Dr.
1868. To 10 shares stock Credit Mobier of s. 900
Interest. ......,.... ............. ~
June H. 10 cash.. 3z9
Toto, q ore
Cr
1868. BY dividend bonds Union Pacific rail-
road $1,000 at ~ per cent. less . per cent SITS
June II. ny dividend collected for your ac-
count ''.........'............... 600
rh;. a...,t .,.:. -,
IhiS account ne GAINED 70 nave maze up
Ironi ms memorandum DOCK Dut when tne
memoranoum pook was subsequently pre-
quoseo was ho' copied from IL, put was partly
maoe up from memory ~ comparing TINS
e ecce WIN the 9nLry MADE IN me diary, as
1rst quoted, ~ Will De seen that they are not
tat i ts e,.ner IA SUBSTANCE OF lorin ana
~ 'IiS % new eieaiea HSoo Is aaoeG,
I I X an aiieseo payneHt Oh %o-9 III cash
tn , To- 10 .ns tSry eteen1 III uispute;
Gnpr l1'euso PloSi .la' 'His sum was pala
oo iad EalneiI 10 iou1u III tne proauclloh u
aomoon o1 NV ~ WI. Anies On tne oergeant
oyaio. Inc Iot,omiIs 10 I.e ians uaSe Vi bhe
onooA ID repor'eo III the 'estiihohy'
June Y, 1868:
; ay ~ "A: OF 5earer tnree hunared ana twenty
-'''' D'"-' "Nu 0n'i 10 W my @'''u nsKrs ANrs
->'.'
lbs t Imeck 4, oears no l1aorsement or otner
i NO tnan INC wolos ano nguIes gwen ABOVE.
~ mao uIawn Oh Tue I1u Jay Oh June, anu, as
aS ~ . sue uooAs VI .pe ceIgeans-aCarns,
mae pai1 .no eauiS uay. ouI II ILLS CHECK was
p alt " y uenelal Harne,d on inc account Just
duu.oa ~ IusI nave oeen oeiiverea 10 nm
says tna1 ne received payment on the 18th OF
'uno'
CONCLUSIONS.
General Garfield himself has made review
of the whole subject and from If claims that
the FOLLOWING Conclusions are CLEARLY estah1
lished nv the evidence.
"Thet neither purchased nor apreed to mr.
chase the Credit Mobilier stock which Mr.
Ames offered TO sell me nor did T raceiva anv
dividend arising from It. This annears 1 not
only from INV own testimony. but from that
first given by Mr.. Ames which ;s not over
thrown by his subseonent statements and is
strongly Confirmed nv the fact that in the case
of each of those who did nnrchase the stocl1
there was nroduced as evidance of tba cole
either a Certificate of stock recaint Of now.
ment. check drawn in the nama IF the navee
or entries il: Mr.. Ames's diary of a stool ~
count, marked adjusted and closed. Int that
no one of these ev;dences ayistad in reforenoo
to me This nosition is further confrnoaJ bv
the snbsennent testimony of Mr. An,aS VII
though he claimed that I did receive 1929
from him on account of stock. vet he reneat,
edlv testified that hevond that amonnt T neNar
received or demanded anv div;dand that 49,
was ever offered tn me- nor Tvas tba suhiaot
alIuded tn in conversation M A,nos ~
mitted in his testimony that after Daoembar
1867. the various stock and hond div;damdss
Amounted RI on .unraaota Of ,noro 49, eoo
ner cent and that bstwea,, garnar,, 1oeo ~ ~
Nav 1871 ali these 5v;dends we 80 a;S a. ~
several of those wbo nnrchasad stooi p"'I NJ ~
conduct was wholly INCONSISTENT wifi tha snn,
nost;tion of snc merSh;u TO- VIII me sup
Year 1850 was horrnwnn on ~, ~ hs,;, eno
Ronse in Wash;ngton and sannr;n y, nv oraSit
ors by mortgaaes on NV nronartu any oil th;s
time il is admitted that I racsived no div
dends and claimed none. The attemnt 70
nrove sale Of the stock r. mo 10 wbnI5H NV
Conclusive. for il rests first On . CHECK nayahle
to Mr. Ames bimseIf. concerning wbiicR he |
said several times in his testimoSy ha J;d not
know to whom If was Maid and ssonuS Iiu nv,
loose nndated entr;as m he " d;arD 9Th po;
Their nrove sale of the stacl nnr INV anraaTt
on r. The onjv fact from which IL p m99ss;h1
for Mr. Ames ~ have ;nfarrad a., 10
to Inv the stock was the Lon 70 on NC If 9snn
But fiat loan was uade months befors ~J ~
check of Tnna % 1868 and was renaid 10 tho
winter of 1880 and afer TIT It, thara ,roro
M transactions Of ON Govt hat.naa1 ~, W.,
before the investigation was enJed Mr. mms
J,o;t+ed that 90 r. ~; was enoee Mrc Aines
That the offer which Mr. Ames ma6a to ma