The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-16

Q.-You received 5000 cash divided on his ten
shares? Ayes. sir.
Q.-And, as you say, paid him 1879 as the ball
ance OF the dividend due him? Al think L
did.
Q.-This general statement is not crossed of?
A.-No, sir.
ON this list of names for the June divi-
dend Mr.. Garfield's name is down TOR s329? A.
That would be the balance due.
Q.-The eros opposite his name indicates
that the money Yves paid 10 him? AYES,
sir. tr
1873 Sunday, June 81.
Checks on Commerce deposited with Sergeant
at Arms.
PAID James 1929
1t was impossible TO make the conviction
more clear, or to place Mr.. Garfield in a more
disgraceful light. First he swore that he
never owned, received, or agreed to receive
any of this stock or its dividends; then,
during the investigation, he approached
Ames repeatedly, to persuade him 10 let the
cash dividend which he had
pocketed go as a loan" and finally he
claimed a greater sum TO be due him for
account of stock than he had received, and
made q memorandum setting forth this
claim with his own hand in Ames ROOM
which was produced and made a part of the
record
The consciousness of guilt had betrayed
him into these new crimes. La struggling
to extricate himself he only sunk deeper
until at last pity turned into scorn and he
was regarded with contempt on all sides
Packed as the Com mittee was 10 acquit,
with the discarded Poland for Chairman as
the tool of the great corporations. yet this
case was so strongly made out that they
were obliged to bring in g verdict which
substantially charges Jury upon him,
will be seen by an extract from their report:
THE COMMITTEE ON GARFIELD.
He agreed with Mr.. Ames to take ten shares
OF Credit Mobiller stock, but did not pay for
the same. Mr.. Ames received the 50 per cent.
dividend in bonds, and sold them Tor 81 per
cent, and also received the 90 per cent. cash
dividend, which, together, paid the price OF
the STOCK ana interest, ana lett u balance OF
s329 This sum was paid over TO MIR. Garlic d
by check on the Sergeant -at-Arms. and MI.
Garfield then understood this sum the
balance OF dividends after paying for the
stock.
Mr. Garfield swore that none of the fore
going facts We're true in the most di rect
terms. and the Committee say. in so many
words he swore falsely, in that he did take
ten shares. and received the dividends and
cash balance.
This is not all. In the last hours of the
infamous Forty Second Congress, when the
sands were fast running out on the Sd of
March, Mr.. Garfield rose In the House, and
In lachrymose tones pretended to have been
( treated harshly. He said:
When testimony was given which appeared
/ to be in conflict with mine, waited, expect
/ ing to be called again II any thing was needed
/ from me III reference 10 these disc repancies.
/ was not recalled; and when the COMMITTEES
/ submitted their report to the House, a consid-
/ cradle portion of the testimony relating TO me
had not been printed.
can not now enter upon the discussion
! but propose before long TO make a statement
| TO the public setting forth more fully the
or unds of my dissent from the summing up
I (of the Committee) to which have referred.
This last ugterance is, like the hrsL, glar-
! ingly false in every particular. The proceed
4 iDgs of the Committee were published
! day by day in all the newspapers. TRere
was no need to recall him, as is weakly al
legged. It was his right go and demand an
examination at any hour, a member of
the House arraigned upon the gravest
charges. He WIS urged to go, and when he
refused to meet Ames, aud to face his own
handwriting. all confidence was lost. His
former friends withdrew their countenance
and trust, because he would not or could not
defend his character, explain his own per-
versions, and clear away the dark suspicious
that rested upon him.
/ na AMEs DEAD HE EXPLAINS.
When Oakes Ames was laid in his grave,
and carried with him much that he could
have told but held back, Mr.. Garfield did
I make "a statement to the public" While
the accuser and witness lived, he was dis
| Greet but no sooner had the destroyer done
/ his work. than he and Colfax, and the rest
of them" with q pack of swift witnesses
/ hired for the occasion, rushed into print,
expecting to reverse the judgment which
/ impartial opinion had pronounced. They
did not succeed. The brand of infamy ls
upon every brow connected with this astro
cious fraud. The ties OF party may hold
them up for a time, but one by one they are
dropping into obscurity and disgrace from
which there is no resurrection in this world.
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