The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-01-19
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD JOB.
Berry
Racy and Astonishing Statements by George

New York SUM-
To the Editor Of the sun:
SrR-Here is only the text book OF a strange
story for many Years locked up:
lnasmuch as | passed the Cnion Pacific bill OF
6l bought Duff Green's Pennsylvania Fiscal
Charter of 80. paying Hall. Meyer, and Barnes
sisa ,ooo: paid the legisa,nre 500 10 change
charter 10 Union Pacific for 5000; inasmuch
as got got my friends TO subscribe sl,6000sO
Union Pacific inasmuch as my father, in law.
Colonel George T. Nj. Davis, was one of the Exec
utive Commute OF three holding full power and
my brotherih-law, Captain James W. Davis had
the S57, coo 900 An1es contract: and inasInuch as
DIR. 7. c. DuEant, the chief Director, Manager
President and cash keeper of this great enter
prise. was my guest for ten years at my Madison
am talking about when speaking OF Credit Mo-
bilier
stock collateral for $1,000 cash loan in 1855
This part of the SloO.Oo0 gold paid me by Nc
Henry through Citizen Barlow for building the
Atlantic and Great Western. when Sir Morton
Peto had that sl5.OO0 banquet at Delmonicos-
property which Jay Gould Dillon & Co. have
tried through the Courts, without success, to
make yalueless. They also owe me 2h per cent
on $40 900 600 or 81 O06 600 commission. which !
allow 10 accumulate and compound during my
psyche evolution, now rapidly coming TO head.
Tom Scott also owes me SjOO.OOO on Kansas Pacific
but with peanuts at five cents and one meal a
day. leave that also 10 compound.
When gave away half of Omaha City, 5000 lots
prospeclivey worth 5000 each, or SSO,0UO.cO0 in
all. prevented my children from cutting me up
in a Probate Court, TO see which part was most
rotten. and prolonged my own life. live like
fighting cock on $40 a week sent me by my daugh-
ter from her rents, while my sons earn their liv-
ing IN Kountze's Bank instead of driving four-in-
hands, sailing yachts, and dying in Clubs at
thirty
Ii is time for the Democrats to claim credit for
saving the Union Paeifc-that gigantic enterprise
The Republican party did It's best through Thad
Stevens, Garfield & Co., who were striking for
stamps, TO kill the project. l saved il through my
Durant who working for Republican sup
port. gallant band of Democrats backed me
without receiving dollar penny, or any ex-
went to the other SIDE who tried to kill the bill
in order TO strike Dumnt for million.
The bin was saved by the superior strategy OF
alongside OF Cakes Ames on the summit Of the
Rocky Mountains. Those two men saved the
road one Congressman. who paid cash for his
faint. Both were square and above board. Both
were outraged by as big band of knayes as ever
stole purse or cut throat.
Here are the names of the Congressman who
helped me checkmate Thad. stevens ssEindling
ring i'm passing the Union Pacific bill in %.
never paid them dollar. But for these Demc-
built TO this day: James Brooks. 5. 5. Cox, Chas.
Denison, II. A. Nelson John ID. Stiles, Myer
strouse, James :. Brown, w. p. Noble, William II.
Miller l.. ID. NJ. Sweat. James Z. English sam ].
Randall, Fernando Wood, Ezra Wheeler, NJ.
Odell, John V. l.. Pruyn, X. Mallory, C. H. Win
field, Alexander Long. W. A. Hutchins, John L.
Kalbheisch, :. i. Ancona. John B. Steele, George
II. PendietOu, William RadfoTd, John G. Scott
J. Lazear, A. II. Cofiroth, Daniel Marcy
These are the names that should be monument
al with Brooks and Ames. There are several
others which have slipped my memory. And yet
for fifteen years ] have kept the secret-a secret
open to anybody VINO chose to refer TO the Con-
gressional Globe OF 1864.
Yes, the amount paid by Dhrant to the. Repub-
licans was half a Million Bushnell audited the
accounts lie was the checklist man on this
continent. with the face of a saint. like Bush
NELL he lived off Durant from the time he built
monitors! McComb disputed this account be
cause Durant would not give him some
Credit Mobilier stock had promised. Hence the
exposure and downfall of Colfax, Bingham Pat
got out under his wife's coffin, and Garfield who
didn't know a stock dividend from a loan. But
these were '6S incidents, not o. In Ca the
stamps were gobbled.
Newspaper Row got its share. own MP to one
check OF 81 200 given K W. Latham for press sery-
ices in case of need. 1t was to be divided between
Shaw Painter, Adams, ID. ". Bartlett, Mhitelaw
| Ried aud John Russell Young. They fought over
! IL like dogs over bone, accusing Shaw of COB
bling more than his share, OF course do not
know how much each got; possibly some OF them
may have been left in the cold.
By the way, General John 4. Dix did get that
$4,000 Credit Mobilier check denied at the time.
You remember the Harlan $1,000 loan" the
| Frank Blair 900 check, as Government com
missions? They were all pensioned.
Long Stuart was the go between from Durant
10 the Thad Stevens-tiarfield-Gra All Ring For
Dumnt III. C. Crane signed cheeks which were
given 10 Stuart. (See cheek books u. y. and e..
Nj Stuart. you know, was deaf and dumb. He
didn't know anybody or anything. Hence, he
was bastiled by Congress in the Capitol Postoiice
where he lived on canvas backs aud champaign
paid for by Congress who joinedsiim in a body
at lunch at our expepsei
wonder II Baipe would dare 10 tell me that
he or his uncleS cousins and aunts had nothing
70 do with Union Pacific end Credit Mobilier?
Why did he put Cox In the chair and go on the
floor 10 speak when the Credit Mobilier Ring was
TO be shielded at any cost? Ny motto Yves, Inter
est or fcarl GEORGE FRANCIS TRAfN.