The Portland daily press., 1880-07-07

them any Spec1hc information as to the
amount Of dividends they would be likely to
receive, further than has been already stated
viz: that in some cases he had guaranteed
profit of 10 per cent. They do not find as
the members of the present House above
named that they were aware of the object of
Mr.. Ames, or that they had any other pur-
pose in taking this stock than to make a
profitable investment. They have
not been able to find that any of these men,
bers of Congress have been affected in their
official action in consequence of interest in
the Credit Mobilier stock. -. They do
not find that either of the above named gen
tlemen in contracting with Mr.. Ames had
any corrupt motives or purpose himself, or
was aware Mr.. Ames had any, nor did either
of them suppose he was guilty of any i'm
chaser of this 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,
lSee pages s, and 10.
In Mr. Ames's first testimony he names
sixteen members of Congress to whom he
offered 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 of it.' Let me add that The last
grant to the Union Pacific railroad was by
the act of July, 1864, and that Oakes Ames
had nothing to do with the Credit Mobilier
till more than two wears after that date.
The point to which took exception to the
report of the Committee was this: the re-
port held that Mr.. Ames and Mr.. Garfield
did agree upon the purchase of the stock,
and that Mr. Garfield received 1929 on ac-
count of it. insisted that the evidence did
not warrant that conclusion, and rose in nv
place in the House and announced that /
should make that statement good before the
American public; that / held myself re-
sponsible to demonstrate that the Commit
tee was wrong; that although they charged
me with no wrong, they still had made
mistake of fact which was against the evi
dence and unjust to me- Soon after pub-
lished pamphlet of twentv-eight pages. in
which l carefully and thoroughly reviewed
all the testimony relating to me. have
now stood before the American people since
the Sth day of MAY 1878, announcing that
the following propositions were proven con-
cerning myself: That never agreed even
to take the stock of Mr.. Ames; that never
ceived any dividends from it, and never was
in any way beneficiary byit. Seven thous-
and copies of that pamphlet have
been distributed throughout the United
states; Almost every newspaper in the
Eriseu o.aIeS n'ss aaH coPy iialieu 10 II.
Daya. inoo0a VI 'Io rUtHyoeeoliu EoiiSress
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anu Snoio 70 noe ALoMn w nie a ilia,i who'
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ttasn o th pnopo',.,Ts ~ - ior
tiio .o'1 foa'ous In%S ?iea' Puuiio gournai,
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oaSe asI ena1 oi .ias poino Uel o 1alnelu
N,o na' oeon ieooiteu py Ine Aiiieilcah
poopto poltd % ga. No hppi"4se:I un
.S ueis sIaiu Una. ~. MI. uIIie cl rainesvine,
sInt ;t, on !ni1 plarlo ioM ,ot;e,
of e.". a.. I,'ITa sno OonInl.eo ~ ot NJ
~ enI hhoa'o =, ;t.J iesoi.a. i, ronard 70
th;s ,,a @u IopIIieF matter think that
gentleman is Probate Judge. wonder
II he ever heard OF two men making their
statement OF case differing materially
from each other without one or the other OF
them being perjurer. If l were in the
habit of calling names it would not be diff
cult to fnd name for man whose intel
lectual vision leads him to such conclu-
sion. If there is any gentleman in this au-
dience who desires to ask any questions con-
cerning the Credit Mobilier | shall be glad
it not be about as well to modify the talk on
that subject hereafter? Applause.
THE SALARY GRAB.
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to-, ,,,nn1', nf na;a;si aa,asrat 10 :.
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a tL;u suoJeos mnicn nas Slown threaunare ~
tlia % anu ". oesIre your a.tehtloh
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1a, "tS n;s sessiai eiOizens ~ tnls toWl
y. nu AZ na'e sisneu thsil naliies " s.aIeinehts
ii tne newspaPers GurlnS thaG discussion;
.i,f. nsS snst ml ta4 uaiiieii nau eoiiniiIIeu
Soren cnen' d .1oIey .laat, " use ahe pau
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s':t a: sioios ~ mas Sueu ~ 'his WIS., II l
and v q nr 1g orA u, Ul % . sa,,JSi
$500 or IS 900 more than we agreed for and
puts it in his pocket. it is simply theft or
robbery. He happened to have access to
the funds and he got hold of them: so did
Congress. You can't gloss it oyer.n saws
the writer, ''it is robbery.''
Now, fellow citizens, suppose YOU will
agree that you can wrong even the devil
himself, and that it is not right or manly to
lie even about Satan. I take it for granted
that we are far enough past the passion of
that period to talk plainly and coollv about
the increase of salaries.
Now, in the first place. saw tonight
what have said all through this tempest.
that for Congress to increase it's own nav
is not theft, is not robbery. and YOU do in
Justice to the truth when you call il so.
There is ground enough in which TO de-
nounce it without straining the truth. Now,
if Congress cannot fix its own salary, who
can? The Constitution of your country
says, in unmistakable words, that Senators
and Representatives shall receive compen-
sation to be ascertained by law and paid out
of the National treasury" Nobody makes
the law but Congress-. 1t was very deli
cate business in the beginning for our faith
ers to maze law paying themselves money
They understood it so, and when they sent
the Constitution out to the several States
the question was raised whether it would
not be better to put curb upon Congress
in reference to their own pay, and in sever
al of the States suggestions were sent ill.,
When the first Congress met, James Madi-
son offered seventeen amendments to the
Constitution and finally Congress voted to
send twelve of the proposed amendments to
the country. One of them was this: 'No
law to vary the compensation of the Senators
and the Representatives in Congress shall
take effect until an election has intervened"
In other words, the First Congress proposed
that an amendment should be made to the
new Constitution that no Congress could raise