Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

receive, further than has already been
stated viz: that in some cases he had
guaranteed profit of 10 per cent. They
do not find as to the members of the pres
ent house above named that they were
aware of the object of Mr.. Ames, or that
they had any other purpose in taking this
stock than to make probable investment
) > They have not been able to find
that any of these members of congress
have been affected in their official action in
consequence of interest in the Credit Mo
blller stock. : : They do not find
that either of the above-named gentlemen
in contracting with Mr.. Ames had any
corrupt motive or purpose himself, or was
aware Mr.. Ames had any, nor did either of
them suppose he was guilty of any impro-
priety or indeliacy, in becoming a nur-
chaser of his stock" And. finally. that
the committee find nothing in the conduct
or motives of either of these gentlemen in
taking this stock that calls for any recon-
mendation by the committee of the house
See pages S, 9 and 10.
In Mr.. Ames first testimony he names
sixteen members of congress to who he of
fered the stock, and says that eleven of
them bought it, but he sets Mr.. Garfield
down among the FIVE who did not buy it.
He says: "He Garfield did not pay for
it or receive it, : He never
paid any money on that stock nor received
money on account oft" Let me add that
the last grant to the Union Pacific rail
road was by the act of July, 1864, and that
Oakes Ames had nothing to do with Credit
MOblller till more than two years after that
date
The point to which | took exception to
the report of the committee was this: the
report held that Ames and Mr. Garfield
did agree upon the purchase of the stock,
and that Mr. Garfield received 1929 on ac-
count oft. | insisted that the evidence
did not warrant that conclusion, and rose
in my place in the house and announced
that | should make that statement good
before the American public; that / held
myself responsible to demonstrate that the
committee was wrong, that, although they
charged me with no wrong, they still had
made mistake of fact which was against
the evidence and unjust to me- Soon
after published a pamphlet of twenty
eight pages, in which | carefully and
thoroughly reviewed all the testimony re-
lating to me. / have now stood before the
American people since the Sth day of May,
1873, announcing that the following prop
OsltlOns were proven concerning myself
That / never agreed even to take the
stock of Mr.. Ames; that | never subscribed
for it, never did take ii; never received
any dividends from it, and never was in
any way made beneficiary by it. Seven
thousand copies of that pamphlet have
been distributed throughout the United
States. Almost every newspaper in the
United States has had copy mailed to it.
Every member of the FOrty-secoud con-
gress-democrat and republican-had a
copy, and there is not known to me man
who, having read my review, has denied
its conclusiveness of these propositions. |
have seen no newspaper review of it that
denies the conclusiveness of these PROPOSE
tions. 1t is for these reasons that great
public journal, the New York Erenirg
Post, said few days ago that on this point
Gen. Garfield's answer had been received
as satisfactory. Applause. l under
stand that a Mr.. Tuttle, of Painesville,
said here on this platform a few nights ago
that either the committee of investigation
of the house of representatives or Mr.
Garfield had committed perjury in regard
to this Credit MObilier matter. | wonder
if he ever heard of two men making their
statement of case differing materially
from each other without one or the other
of them being a perjurer. If l were in
the habit of calling names it would not be
difficult to find a name for a man whose in
tilectual visions leads him to such con-
clusion. If there is any gentlemen in this
audience who desires to ask any questions
concerning the Credit Mobilier | shall be
glad to hear it. No response. If not,
would it not be about as well to modify
the talk on that subject hereafter? APP
plause.