Testimony of Joseph B. Stewart before a "select committee," given on the 18th and 29th of January, 1873, with remarks about his "contempt."
Contributors: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Gibson Brothers, printers
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Credit Mobilier of America -- Corrupt practices; Union Pacific Railroad Company; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Governmental investigations -- United States
Other titles: Bastile
Notes: Concerns Stewart's involvement in a Reconstruction-era scandal concerning the illegal manipulation of contracts by Credit Mobilier of America, a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad (1865-1869).
"Having been denied the printing of my testimony by the House of Representatives ... I am compelled in self-defence to print it myself": p. [3].