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4 $e jostity tneir conviction under tne statute | tersto mceVomp, copied in the which subjects their offence to a penalty of three years’ imprisonment and a@ fine, a feeling of awe seemed to creep over the spectators, Brooks’ face here gave a nervous twitch, and Ames smiled in a grim way, Upon the conclusion of the | are also savisfied that Yeading Brooks arose, and, with a trembling voice, arraigned the report as ‘unjust, partial and per- secuting.”” His remarks did not convince any one, but, still, produced a feeling of sympathy for hig age and his great sufferings. After some debate between Butler, Poland, Kerr and otbers, Tuesday next was assigned for a dis- cussion of the report. Some preferred an earlier day, and the Speaker pro tem. stated that as a question of privilege it could be called up at any lime, but Tuesday was the day finally agreed upon. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE REPORT are accepted by & few and reprobated by many. Nearly all the democratle members denounce the report in the severest terms, They say they scorn the proposition to make scapegoats of Brooks and Ames, belie! NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. ee vidence. where hi and accurity of the investment. ~ But the committee | holders who consented to it supported for benefit ited, been published and etreu- fie Intonda to pide the elook tow: believe that they inust have telé that there was come. | Mr. ii what power had Mr" Brooks to emioree enue Trtsa taconee nisdistect dashes the cameos pence ‘OM TT’S DEFEAT. to us," and azain, Ling so out of the mainary course of bxt-iness in the BUA atti, to have for $5.00 stock worth $15.00 or | his election. ‘This tact we judve had a. most important ‘4 Ab ted hone rrinwps 1x tas conaress."" extraordmary dividends they were receiving 4s to , Mr. McComb awears that he heard a con influence in deiermining the action of the House tains In his letter to McComb and aiso in his statement pre- | render ton between Mr. Brooks and Mr. Alls case. The committee have no occasion in this report to ik | pared by counsel, he gives the philosophy of his acti THE INVESTMENT ITSRLP SUSPICIOUS, stockholder and one of the Executive Committe discuss the question as to the power or duty of the House wit: thathe hay found there is ho duicuity im getting | and that this was one of the motiverat there action. ‘The | which MS. Ben urged he should have the in'a case whore n constituency, with a 1ull knowledge of men to look niter the sown preperty., This committee | commitiee have hot been able te. Hine tat. nice at. hess | Gamat Atty alates the objectionable 2 man have wlecied in | FTOw the Battle W1s Fought t Mr. Aines entertained a tear that | members of Congress have been affected in their oMfizial | selt to be made to be their represent . itis hardly & case to be sup- 2 » s When the true relations between the Credit Mobilier | aciion in o aananonce of their interest in Credit Mobilier A GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR, posed that any consti uency with a fill knowledge t! oY WwW. Comp nt the Union Paciiic became, generally | slook, It has boen suggested that the tact that none of | and also that being a member ot Congress he would | aman had been guilty of an offence involving ioral and on. none ene means by which we t Peek os: SS wereby eed o 0 those “e hoes Mr. Ames take re the, sou ram SiGe Oh at ee turpit de, wou! eloct him. The majority of the ect tract circ from ‘8 sense of im- . had ve eg on ropriety. not of corruption, wasto beinieried.. The | conversation, or that Mr. Hrooks ever made ruch & state: | man could te forted Eee haie Hess neat ere t nee danger that Congre-sional | invostiga:lon ‘and action » a state- Would be invoked. ‘The meinbers of Congress with whom | committee believe this ts capable of explanation with- | ment to Mr. Alley. If therefore, this matter rested sider the expulsion of such ® mat. any violation of the Te dealt w nit ndly porabie to a Face Rallcond oud Mr nsesdid notivar | road under the Ames contrat cise Seiy pee me vides | cent PF expect to find them favorable to moyen favorable to a Pacific out such inference. The protiis of building the | wliolly ue a a4 HfeComl, the. commit: Flahts of ihe electors; tor while the virctorshave rishis | New Jersey’s Second Struggle for Independ- Hs hostile to | Among auch holders of Cridit Mobilier stock ‘As should | procured the stock by such lise of his po-ition; but ail the | rights. also, that" should Ho respecte fd peek: | ence—A Terrible Blow to the Railroad Mono- it, bi f " ir aetivizy and watchs | 6 ‘and become parties to certain colditions set out | circumstances seem to point exactly in thai direction, | But that in such cane fulness im Cpteaition iene coiscarabie accion by Giving | in tho contyact of tremor toihe Gatos on that traee: | Sek msrancee, soem te pols aatistactory solution of the | would be entitiad tothe greniect enealeratioe aa tk poly—Midnight Scenes in the Halls of the them a personal interest in the success of the, enterprise, | ter from Mr. Ames to new holders would cut off the right | question above propounded. © Whatever claim Mr. | this should form an tim t element in its determina- i especially bo tar ay it affected the interest. of the Credit | to dividends irom the trustees aniew they became parties rooks. had to stock, “elther legal or moral, | tion Iarendily admitted. It is ‘universally conocdcd, aa | , LeSislature—Applanse, Cheers and Ex- Mohilier Gomnpany, On the 9h day ot December, 1307, Mr. | (0 the agreement, and this the commitice believe tobe | hat been adjusted aid satatied Sere Durant’ | webelicee that the House has ’ ' ..C. Washburn, of Wisconsin, Introduced in thé House a | the true reason.wiiy no transiers were made. 1 “ Peter hav 8 getting ior himselt or to give to his son- AMPLE JURISPICTION TO PUNISH OR EXPEL A MEMBER citement During the Debate—The Dill to regulate-by law the rales of transportation over | mittee are alse ot opinion that there was also @ sai sfac in law, we belleve froin the ¢| wastances attending the | for an omonce committed during higterm asa member’ B Li the Facil Hallroads. |, Mr. Ames, |, ae, well as | tory reavon for delay on Mr. Amey? part to close gettle. | whole transaction thy obtained it Ynowlng that it | though committed during a v; abt Congress and lack List and the Roll of Honor. others interested in| the Union | Pacific oad, | ments with some ot the gentlemen for stocks and bonds | was yielded to his official position and influence, and | no way connected with member, Upo' 5S were oppored to this, and desired to det measures, apparentiy hosiile to that company, Were sub- | tracted to them in the Fall of 1853. | Mr. McComb | positions. Mr. Brooks c! troduced into the House by Mr. Washburn, of | commenced a suit against the Credit Mobilier Company | this sock whatever; that the benefit and .advan' nd Mr, Washburne, of Hlinois. The cominit- | and others, claiming to be entitled to 2590shares.o1the | his right to have tt he cay sequentt, Wiscons tee believe that Mr, Ames, in hi had specially in mind HOSTILE KPFORTS OF THE and desired to gain stren Kh to secure their deieat. The | much of the stock assigned to him as trustee, and he was iz that Dawes, Scofield, Garfield, fpaerence in one of his letters to Washburn's move makes | not, therefor Hooper and Kelley were as guilty as Ames and | jiiite apparent Th Brooks, They scout the opinion advanced by | ten in conne @ foregoing ix deemed by the com- | hands until that suit was terminated. It ought also to | colorab! tatement of facts as to Mr. Ames, | be stated that no one of the presentmembers of the House f i ‘etion with what will be subsequently | above named appears to have had any knowledge of the | it, of course, as ti he had received as dividends upon the stock con. | wiih the intent to secure his favor and influence in’ such what principe eat that euch a jurisdiction can be main- ims that he has no interest in | tained? It must be Y che fol- mas thas De hea ao taperess ‘of | loving that ihe offence showahim tobe ancusweriey | ‘Tom Scott docs not own the Legislaturewot New ‘¢ to Mr. Neilson,his son-in-lawy | and improper man to be @ member, or tha’ bly oa t | Jersey, The battle on Monday night—the most re- dividends upon it. "The committee | brings odium and re} Ne ras cir judg gad been date ee bet feel it | markable ever fought within the legisiative halle 13 distributica of tho stocky MESSRS. WASIROR dit Mubilier stock upon a subscription for stock to th: and that he had had nb provaited to be the cast, tor In their judginent | offence had In taetdald Hey Reads met be sefopelied ce ere Neen | fre unable to dnd MAND CINCUMSTANC Comen to light aiterward, ts th oat a iy ALL THE FACTS 1! TANCKS: i hl is te h of the stock signed to him wa trustee, and he was | show Mr. Brooks to be the real and substantial owner, | acters ae the reproach gad deere sone ae Ney | Of the Garden State—settled that question, The il tl Neilson's ownership is merely nominal and | allowed him to be @ member, = less? Woe can see | autocrat of the Keystone State, not content with MY In June, ‘ag & cash diviaena of | no difference in principle in 2.000 upon those JS) shakes of stock, Nellaon received | lamp ene sould be neta oe, te oases, And to tne vase possessions recently acquired by Bs him in Jersey, issued an edict that no nxious tohave the stuck go out of his je, Stock, was ip his name; tui py the | biirary distinction, “having no just ioundatio : stated of his transactions with particular persons, dealings of Mr. Ames with othe: bi sume day jt was paid over to Mr. Brook: icilson says) | our judgment the time is not at all teri the report that Congressmen could have been | “ile Amermade ome contracts Hor atocw inthe creat | . «No cone orig CHARGE, is Copa ad. auch ofthe $1000 Aivanced byte Brooks fo excep! ‘tbe oupled with the fuel that he seas rewlorsed more railroads shail ,be constructed im that verda % Mol members ot 16 Senate. In discus ie. committer rt for t a 4 then, repal ut $1,( w wil ie knowledge ls constituent 80 verdant as to be In: Dilasful: ignorance with re- | sions ot alg sunibee the, Maman Or mmemiars of Meet Raced eenth ra fe Cette Gee PE th a oan, Lut Mr, Brooks continued te hold $L00er che Union | whut ‘he had been” guilty. arid, im such event, we have | State without his permission. The people, loyal Bard to the motive that actuated Oakes Ames in | houses have been connected, and all these transactions | corrupt motive or purpose himsel!, or was aware that Pacifie bonds, which Ne: giving them stock at about one-third of its real {1GTe fo Rearly simultancous that the committee deemed | Mr. Ames had any, nor dtd either of value? Several leading democrats say that there | all persons Mucaanned aerial i ere 4 the'sume to the House.” Waving done thi having directed: that evidence transmitted to the that they will not consent to the expulsion of | Senate, the committee consider their own power and | not acquit them, and here, as wel js no doubt of the guilt of Ames and Brooks, but hen members ot ¢ y,t0 obtain all evidences in their power as to | guilty of any impropriety or oven in mn say's he gave him Ss collat, given. our, Sawa oe nee ot goeme to us absurd to | to their republican institutions, demurred, and at ifson me yaapermitied Hes a renee anitQuitiea AMOLUTION, a e ne pee tal election members were returned to ‘one time in stimony he T an offence which was unknown is constituents. he Legisiature from every quarter of the State allowed ing Chi i y % me tit been, that this vi oNellyon anya during | of he power ol the Howse and ihe trdearourd ofits | With instructions to oppose the pretensions of the rooks, an erly, | railroad king and check any iurther encroachments them suppose he was | eral security, and te draw licacy in becoming | interest upon ihe others, ither house, and to report | @ purchaser of this stock, Nad it appeared that these | todraw and retain. Bui ‘of the amount he wa w Your's presents. Mr, Neilson say: Summer he borrowed $14,000 of M nd the House ¢entomen Were aware of the enormous dividends uvon | spok this stock and how they were to b: earned, we could | and. anywhere, the com- | the roper exercise may be laid hold of and used in| tueve two uness the o:ner reereant mombers go | invavmemigrs cr the Senate ae auceng Orme! S| Heated tach soahalecg Gevtrtamat yecated | Nat ARG ae MG aan ange genoa slat | ay apenerct agua rut Ruota ewer atzow | (Mad ng and ch os ie: e tl r fur as members of the Benale ai oncerne 1, Lo "4 5 ven to ita nt ‘al ut, according stimony, dir. lour | and siinites tm can preventit. LW ¢ 8 war “ WI Some ot Mr. Amos* contracts fo sell stock were with | lands, ind promised a liberal loan ol government bonds, | years hell S1OOUiK bonds as arcurity tne BRO, ead Wo re $0 sila pM i “ along with them, William R. Roberts was asked this evening what } not members of .the he thought of Poland's report. His reply was reach as to thong. Sgnuemen, and reported the nine to an ana epcure nee Lad ws mozigage VECe the roe. from ae Mronys ae OF aire nic! — istended rs r . | the House. As the House has cea ave Jurisdiction | which should be « lien prior to that ofthe government, | presents rather than’ the delive of mo! unique and witty. “Well, I will tell you my opin. enberes ih comimiston Uaeenntdataion |: Coantass waver uienaen Ke te ion," said he; “the Crédit Mobilier investigation is a pyramid of fraud, the base of which is republi- can and the apex democrati€, The committee have reversed it and put the entire republican pyramid upon the democratic apex; but it won't stand there long."” Oakes Ames said to-day, in reply to a remark re- garding his expulsion, ‘‘’hey would expel me for telling the truth, and they would expel Brooks for dying. Bosh! Where is the man without sin? Come on with your pelting.” THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE” WASHINGTON, Fe . 18, 1873, ‘The special committee appointed under the fol- Jowing resolutions of the House, to wit— Whereas accusations have been made in the public press, tounded on alleged letters of Oakes Ames, a Repre- éentalive trom Massachusetts, and upon the alleged am davits of Henry 8. MeComb, a citjzen of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware. to the effect that members of this House were bribed by Oakes Ames to periorm certain legislative acts tor the beneiit of the Union Pacifle Rail- road Company by presents of stock in the Credit Mobiler of America, or by presents of a valuable character. de- rived therefrom; theretore Resolveg. That'a special committee of flve membors be appointed by the Speaker nro tem., whose duty it shall be Vo Investigate whether any member ot this’ House was ‘bribed by Oakes Ames or iiny other person of corporation dn any matter touching his logi-iative duty. : Resolved further, That the committee have the right to employ a stenographer, and that they be empowered to sond for persons and papers— Beg leave to make the following report:— In order to aclear understanding of the facts herein- after stated as to contracts and dealings In reference to étock of the Credit Mobilier of America, between Mr, Ares and others and members of Congress, At 1s. neces- sary to make A PRELIMINARY STATEMENT of the connection of that company with the Union Pacific Railroad and their relations to each other, Tbe company calied “The Cred: Mobiller of America" Wasincorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and in 1864 the control of its charter and franchises had becn obtained by certain persons interested in the Union Pacific Railroad Company, tor the purpose of using Ras a construction company to burid the Union Pacitic road. In September, 134, a contract was entered into between the Union Pacific Compan, by said Hoxie of 1u0 mt sot said road trom Omaha we: is contract was At once assigned by Hoxio to the Credit | alter the settle: Nobilier Company, a8 it was expected to be whon made. Under this contract and extensions of it some two or Liller Company, but no considerable profit appears to arrailroad to the Pacifle was of such vast in it, and, government, it se ed Likely to tail of In 1865 or 1866 Mr. Oakes Ames, then ber of the House from the State of Ma: brother, Oliver Ams, became interc Pave usetis, and his ‘were men of very large capital and of known character and integrity in business. “By their example and credit and the pei foris-of Mr. Oakes Ames many men of capital were induced to embark in the enterprise and. to tio have been realized therefrom. he enterprise o: building | bilier gmiinde and | December, 1 was beset by so many hazards and risks that the eapl- | chase more C talists of the country were generally averse to investing | gested that he ompletion, company to build the nd now # mem. |g he ‘Company and also in the Credit Mobilier Com- | per cent it M pany, as the agent for the construction of the road. ends adove that 3. AMES take $1,000 gentlemen who were then members of ihe House, but are | to be delivered as fast as sections of the road were com: | ceived the resent Congress. ihe committee | pleted. As these alone paige not be suficient Congress | counts ap) have sought for and taken all over tIrem ag it their duty to make any spec ch, leaving the House and conclusions upon the testi in regard toeach of the the committee deem it the facts they find proved by the ev! ony. their own poe ets, but only, to build the road. ‘The men | Dillon received, which seem to haye been applied to- | and no less zealous for the rights of eanbers of the present Flouse | who controlled the Union x thirds or the th it kee At to expel be lerest on $11,000 of the collatorals, No they do. not like is polifea or reliziousprineipies. or | With monopoly!” gud to this all political asps ar to have been keptbetween Mr. drooks joutany reason at all, they have the power. Such | rants had to attune their voices. The people , and doubties: what sums he has received | exercise of power. be ont in violation of : ; PT eee peg ert yg eget r such wrong in the views wo hold, Itis the ; that the owners of the road, | belonging to him, Mr. Brooks’ efforts. procured | duty of cach house to exercise lis rightiul functions upon | 202 Of the:National Railroad, as a rival to the cial finding of facts as to | should execute “a morgage prior to that of | the stock and hls money paid for all the cash dividends. ‘“ppropriate occasions, and to trust that those who come | Pennsylvania Central, was retarded by the action the country to their own | the governmnt | to raise money to put into | He has received and holds all the bonds except those | atter them will be no les faithiul to du'y | of he Court of Chancery. 6 postpone action till the evidence within their | authorize: the company to issue their own bonds for the | Mr. Nezisot ‘acitic seem to have adopted | wards paying Se the flity shares. Without further com- | tree popular representation than themselves. It willbe | the question should be terminated in the Courts duty to state specially the | asthe basis of their action the right to encumber the | ment upon the evidence the committee find that the 1) | quite time enough to square other cases with right, ren. would be to mock at public opinion, idenee, which, in some | road bys Mortgage prior to that of the government to | shares of the stock appearing on the books of the Credit | son and principle when they arise. Perhaps the best PI af instances, is paintully conflicting. the full extent, whether the money was needed for the | Mobilier in the name ot Neilson wore really* Way to prevent them will be to maintain strictly public Accordingly, on the very opening day of tne MR, JAMES G, BLAINK, OF MAIN onstruction of the road or not, It was clear enough they TIE STOCK OF MK. BROOKS. in‘egrity and publio honor in all eases as they present iowor the Tepiaia’ il Mr. James G. Blaine, ot Maine, is among thoso who | could not do this directly and in terms, and therefore | and subject to his control, and that it was understood by | themselves, Kor do we imagine that the people of the | S¢Ssion O/ the Legislature, a bill, ever since known have in the public, press Wen Charged with improper | they resorted to the device of contrcting with them- | both partics. Mr. Brooks had taken such an interest 10 | United States will charge servants with invading thelr | ag Assembly bill No. 3, was introduced to charter participation in Credit Mobilier vod nthe, piesent | selves to build the. road and fix. a price high enoush to | the Credit Mobelier company, and was #0 connected with | privileges where they coniorm themselves to the preser- | the New York ana Philadelphia Railroad Compan pheaker, and it was Mr, Blaine who moved the resolution | require the issue of bonds,to the fullextent, and then di- | Dr. Durant, that he must be regarded as having full | vation of a standard of official integrity which the coo Thi pany, for this ‘i estigation. The committee have, therefore, | vide the bonds or the proveeds of them under the name | knowledge of the relations between that company and | mon instincts of humanity recognize as essential to all is Was an . . taken evidence In regard to hi rom ix that | oft roflt on the contract. All those acting In the matter | the railroad company and ot the contract between then. | social order and good government. OPEN DECLARATION OF WAR Mr, Ames had conversation w taking tem shares ot the stock, 00d investmeat. Upon eon: im. they find ith Mr. Blau and recommended it sideration Mr. Blaine con- in regard to 3a | to be the etter have been fully aware of this, and that this was | He must have known the cause of the sudden increase in ‘The foregoing are the views which we ore er to | and Tom Scott forthwith poured his troops into ctof the transaction. ‘the sudden rise of | value of the Credit Mobilier stock and how the large ex- | submit upon the xeneral question of the jurisdic: ion of | Ni sey. o 4 t Mobilier stock was the result of the adop-"] pected proiits were to be made. We have already | the House over iis members. But-apart from these | New Jersey. reported from tlie to, tie soot Cluded not to take the stock or stock of the Union Pacitic scheme, Any undue and unreasonable | expressed our view of the propriety o! a | general views, the cominittee are of the opinion that Railroad Company, and never did take it, and never paid | profits thus made by themselves was as much member of Congress becoming the owner of stock of "THe FACTS FOUND IN THT PRESHNT Case forced a battle on an unwilling enemy not yet pre- or received anything on account of it ‘A FRAUD-UPON THE GOVERNMENT avhich he possesses so much knowledge, But Mr. Brooks | amply justify the taking jurisdiction over them, for the | pared to take the field, and in the trst skirmish he MR. HENRY L. DAWES, OF MASSACHUSETTS, asifthey had sold their bonds and divided the money | was not only a member of Congress, but he was a govern. | following reasons :— Wongn easy victoiy. beople flocked to Trenton Mr. Dawes had, prior to Decemoer, small Investinents in ral! on In Vecember, 1367, Mr, Dawes upplied to Mr. Ames to purchase a $1,00)'bond of 11 towa. Mr. Ames infor Credit Mobilier stock, w! the railroad bonds." In answer to inguiry by Mr. Dawes Mr. Ames satt the had the contract to build the Union acitie | pertectly legitim ed him that he had sold the but that he would let him have tor 1367, made some | without golng through the form of denominating them | ment director in the Union Pacific Company. As such it | The subject matter upon which the action of members | from ail parts of the State to resist the i bonds through Mr, Ames. profits on building of the road. Now, had these | was his duty to guard and watch over the interests of the | was intended to be Rontuenced was of @ condinuous | Mass Ronnies 1 ee held by crater cout nig res ete they tees Rese, Kentlemen, and had they un- | government in the road and to see that they wero pro- | charactor, and was ay likely to bo subloct of Congres | the exicémeont coe ne eoeat neat and members of ‘slood they were to share in the proceeds of the ected and preserved. To insure such faithiulness on the | sional action in future Congresses as in the Fortieth, The 2 bind scheme, they would have deserved the severest censure. | purt of government directors Congress very wisely pro- | influences brought to bear on members were us likely to | the Legislature were warned ot the consequences is $1,000 ten shares Had they known only that the profits were tobe paid in | vided that they should not be stockholders’ in the ‘road. | be operative upon them in the future as in the present, | Of treachery or treascn Lo the cause of the people. hought was becter than | stock and bonds or the Union Pacific Company, and so | Mr. Brooks readily saw at though becoming’ a | and were so intended. Mr. Ames and Mr. Brooks have Shortly before midnight on Moniay both armies make them unde reate iD Gare: cannes ee to the dootrine ad ee foes eee me Aye torbid- Doth onmsintied members ot the Honse to the present | were facing each other in battle array. The ladies, urged ‘efore us and elsewhere, that itwas | den | of ye was & ime, aud so have most of the members upon whoin tl i ‘ i ¥ for members of Congress to invest in | Violation of its spirit and essence, and therefore had the | {utiaences were sought th be exerted. ho connie, | emulating the women of Limerick, were present in he cedar Raids road, in Credit: Mobilier Company | which has be Toad, and thought, they would make money out | 4 corporation deriving all its rights from and subject at | stock piaced In the namo of his son-in-law. The transfer | are, therefore, of the opinion thatthe acts af three, | hundreds to cheer on the deienders of the good Orit, and thatit would boa good. thing: that tic would | all times to the action of Connresa in such ance tins | of the’ Oakes Athos CrntCACe EG tea ae ee ee auaier | to, there! Properly be irented ay ollences against the | Cause. In the men’s gallery A guatantee that he should get ten per cenc on his money, | Tule of the House, as well as the rules of decency, would | ing of the road under the contract. from which the enor. | fouse. an within its jurisdiction upon the most THE CRUSH WAS TREMENDOUS. find that at any time. Mr. Dawos did not want ihe | require such meniber to abstain from voulng on sviy ques, | mous dividends were ail derived was “alk ducios we, | toe rule. WO, Members of the committee, | In vain did the Speaker endeavor to repress the stuck he would pay back his’ money, with ten percent | tion affecting his interest. But after secopting the posi- | Brooks’ official lifo as a government director, must have | Mears. Niblack and McUrary, prefer to express tumult by striking with his gavel incessantly. The interest. Mr. Dawes made some furiher inquiry in rel on of « member ot Congress we do not think he has ‘the | been within his knowiedge, and yet passed without tho | no opinion on the general jurisdictional questions dis. avel could not beh card, ui M Hon to the stock of Mr. John . Alley who said he | right to disqitatity hiinselt trom acting upon sub. | slightest opposition iron him. ‘the committee belieye | cussed In the report and their judsment, onthe grouni | £2Vel Could not be heard. At last he threatened thought it was good stock, but not so good as Mr. Amos | jects likely to come before Congress, “without some | this could nothaye been done without last § ated. | In relation to Mr. Ames.he sold to several | tO have the galleries cleared, The squad of lobbyists thought, but that Mr. Auicy periectly safe investment, °M luded ty purchase the te uary shai the balance of the price of the stock, a from the July previous, In ceived A DIVIDEND OF &r in money on his stock, and of and applied the balance ot $: them. ‘This $40 was all that Dawes as a dividend upon th prior to December, 1968, Mr. Dawes was ini suit had been commenced in the courts of t by the former owners of the bilier, claiming. that those it had no right to do upon iniormed = Mr. Ames tat, as there | in many ‘S.ate Legislatures that these intlu- | the fiftl litigation about the matter, he did not | ences are often controlling; so that in effect they | either house as follows: was a © paid Mr, Ames $390, und in a tew days uarantee Would make ita | higher and more urgent motive than merely to make a AN ENTIRE DISREGARD OF HIS OFFICIAL OBLIGATIONS: members of Congress stock of the Crodit Mobilier Com- | and camp followers were driven off the floor, and the r. Dawes theroupon con- | profitable investment. | Buc it ls hot so much to be feared mi Ging ane that, aoe Sr per enue ueera tie public | pan oN me invehe erat RO res, andon the ligh of Jan- hat in such a case an interested member would vote, as | interestsin the road, he joined himself with the pro- | moi h the purpose and intent thercby to influence Vv bill No. a ale Feaiter | that he would exercise his iniluence by. personal appeal 4 moters of @ scheme whereby the government was to be | their'yoies and decisions upon. matters to como betore viealtane ‘the combatants’ braced thonwetrea ine anand interest | to his fellow members and by other motes, which method | defrauded and shared in the spoll, In the conclusions of | Congress. The tacts found in the report.as to Mr. Brooks | }ital @ NLA. MISUADARIAEL 4 Mr, Ames re- | often is far mors ent thati a silent vote. fact upon the evidence the committee are entirely | show that he used this influence of his official positions as e work. Memver sitting near the HERALD DELIVER US FROM TEMPTATION, agreed. fn considering what action we ought to reconi- | ember of Congress and government director of the | 1¢presentative whispered, “This battie will decide xty rift cont We do not think any member ought to feel so confident | mend to the House yen these facts the commitice en- | Union Pacific Railroad Company to get fifty shares of the | Whether we are to remiina sovereign and inde- {t paid to Mr. Dawes $400 | of his own strengih a ‘low himselt to be broughtgnto | counter a question which hasbeen much debated —Has | stock of the Cridit Mobliier Company at par when it was endent State ora dependency oi Pennsylvania.” 20 upon accounts between | this temptation. We think Mr. Ames judges shrewdfy in | this House power and jurisdiction to inquire concerning | worth three or four times tha sum, knowing that itwas | fr wag in euch ‘as paid over to Mr. | saying that a man ts much more likely to be watchiul of | offences committed ‘by its members prior to their | given to him with intent to influence his voles and de. ALROUBE MERI stuck. | At some time | his own interests than those of other people. But there | clecHon and {9 punish | tiem by | censure | cisions in Congress and his action as a government ROE We at par when it was worth double that amount or | signal being given, the fight commenced,’ Assem- June,’ 1 is a broader view still which, we think, ought to be | or expulsion? The committeo are unanimous | director. The sixth section of the act of February 20, Hill, of Essex, suddenly took the floor and led off taken. This country is fust becoming filled with gigantic pte the right of jurisdiction of this House over the cases | 1363 (10 stat, U, 8. 7), is in the following words:— for Scott. Ward, of Sussex, came to nis assistance, charter of the Credit Mo- | ¢ rations, wielding and controlling immense aggre- | of Mr. Amesand Mr. Brooks upon the tacts found in re- THE PENALTY FOR BRIBERY. but when Canfield appeared on tue scene they beat then claiming and using Fee xg BMe Sy Atereby commanding | gard to them. | Upon the question of jurisdiction the com- | If any person or persons shall, directly or in- | g hasty retieat, Leteon, the commun der-in-chiet 80. Mr. Dawes there- influence and power. It is notorious Tubes BToneas ihe follow ng Laws resent the followin ihe constitution, in | directly, promise, offer, or give, or cause, or | OF the army of independence of New Jersey, took ‘icle, defines the power of | procure’ to be promised, offered’ or given ' an: ach House may decormino | money, goods: Fight dh Suction, ° piivet pAhy | the tleld, and with one desperate enarge slienced desire to keep the stock. On the 9th of December, 1868, | become the ruling power of the State. Within a tew | the rules of its proc edna, punish its members for dis- | ent or ‘reward, ‘or uy promice, contract, undertakinz, | the enemy's batteries. ‘This was the turning point Mr, Ames and Mr, Dawes had a settlement of these mat: Dawes was allowed for the money ho with ten per, centinterest upon it, and | that subject has brought great discredit upon the ¢ $400 he had received as a | far more believed than there were facts to justil: nd Hi, W, Hoxie tor the building | dividend, Mr. Dawes receives the contract than to get ten per cent upou hismoney, nt had no further \iteres ters, in whicn M. paid for the stoc accounted to Mr. Ames tor t Jongress has, to some extent, been brought within | orderly behavior, and w: ‘he concurrence of two-thirds | obligation or securit; the payment or delivery ot any | of the struggle. The Speaker (Fisner) acose r intiuences, and the knowledge of the public on | may expel a member.” It will be observed that there is | money, goods, right in action, bribe, present or reward and announced that he would cast his lot with tae pody— | no qualification of the power, but there Js an important | or an oiger Valuable thing whatever fo any member of | army of-independence, and the announcement was jut | qualification ot Ol xercise, mu: re 1e va or louse =o epresent ives of 18 nirds. The close | United States after his eloction as such member, | followed by a storm of d no other benetit und such is the tendency of the time, and the belief is i done with the concurrence of two- EY gmoney and | generalthat er is far t00 | salogy between this bower and te power ofimpeache | ard either’ before ore alte he aha heey members CHEERS FROM THE GALLERY. in the stock. ALL MEN ©AN BE RULED WITH MONEY, ment is deserving of consideration, The great pnrpose | and taken his scat, or to avy officers of the One more charge and victory: perched on the MR. GLENNE W, SCOPLELD, OF PENNSYLVANIA. and that the use of such means tocarry public measures | 0! the power of impeachment is to remove an unfitand | United States or persons’ holding any ‘place o/ trust or | banners ofarereidersc The reserves were brought 01 i thls oo a ‘ Hons of it some two : Corte ae pene parchassd ome oper Raplas areata taco proper. ene ember of Cong three ndred miles of road was builtby the Credit Mo- bonds ot Mr. Ames, and in that year the: ad conversa- | ong! sas himse! in circumstances of suspici about Mr. Scbficid taking ‘stock in the Credit ao: | so that any ‘discredit to the body chalt sui tot | Ment that Is Not ies prlieclonl one Moras ce Coane, | connection with any de the passage of this act with in- . but no contract was consummated. In | his account. Itis of the highest importance that the | are not ‘Air. scofleld applied to Mr. Ames topur- | national legislature should be tree o! ar Rapids bonds, when Mr. Ames sug- | tion, and itis of aimost equal necessity that the jeop should purchase some Credit Mobitfer | should feel confident that it isso. In i tree goveriynent | conduct show that he obwithsianding the liberal aid granted by the | stock, and explained generally that it was a contracting | like ours we cannot expect the people, will long respect | the deliberations and de nion Pacitic Road; that as it was | the laws they lose respect for the law makers. For | presence in it tends to bring the body into contempt and | suc It was che last charge of the old d and it Pennsylvania corporation he would like’ to have some | these reasons we think it behooves every man in Con- | disxruce. In both cases itis a power of purgation and | or causing or procuring to be protnised, offered or given, Che last charge oO! the ol ard ani man; ennaylvanian init; that he wot ed in the Union | interest, and that he would guarantee he should get eight | far as possib'e trom all such iniluences, that he may not | the case cr om pulaon tor the protection and ch: Scofleid would give him halt the divi- | only be enabled to look at every public question with am | the House, Th ht. Soofield stor it 1 ib done th ght it was all sold toc be‘ore anything urther was » Scofiekl was calle® home by sickness in his tanily, On nis return in the latter part uf 1363 he Spoke make on ‘the action of these members in tal to Mr. Ames about the stock, when M ut he would take ess | Unworthy Incumbent from office, aud though a judgment | profit, or discharging apy otticial function under or in. | up by PaLterson, ob ion | of impeachment muy, to some extent, operate as punish- | connection with any, department or the povermmont wt nimouth, who proved true to the grand old county on the rocks of which Wash- ubject to be impeached, but may be expelled; | tent to influence his vote or decision on any question, | ington'’s army leit bloody footprints. Patterson i taint of corrup. | and the peinolpal Purpose of expulsion is not as punish- | matter, cause or procecding which may then be pending, | 8&W the enemy wavering and he struck mercilessly, VA ment, but to remove @ member whose character and | or may by law or under the constitution of the Uuitea’ | ‘Mr. Speaker, now or never let us rid ourselves of sions of the body: and whose | hispince ortrustor promt andstnalsheseomeesmsiceed| the most gigantic monopoly under the sun—the aq of be conv: 4 iy f person or persons so offering, promising, or giving, Pennsylvania Ratiroad Company |"? uid sell it tohim atpar and | gress or in any public position to hold himself aloo! ag | purification to be exercised for the public safety, and in | and such inoney, goods, right, inactiva, bribe, present | Was terrific, ‘silence | order! will you keep ior She Drots snd chardoter, geward, indertaking, obli- pete Eade out ae speaker ot ap ark the @ constituiion defines the ci of im- | gation or se ny | crowd applauding and cheering in rt Hani he thougiithe would | «ye only to the public good, butthathis conduct and mo- | penchiment, to wit:—treason,, bribery or other high | tnoncr, xoods righty action, brive, present oF reward fared Fe MST a i Oo tyes be not suspected or questioned. crimes or misdemeanors. The office of +] or other valuable thing whatever; and the member, charged upon the enem. ‘The end was at hand. The only criticism the comunttce feel compelled to THK POWER OF KXPULSION officer of person who :hall in anywise accept or receiys,,| Charged upon th a oy ee Ring this | 1880 much the same as that of the powor to impeach that | the same, or any part thereof shall be liable to fh.*} “The Clerk will call the roll.” And as the Clerk id he | stock is that they were not suMcicntiy careful in ascer- | We ‘hink Itmay be safely assumed that whatever would | dictment’ as tor a high crime and misdemeanor | proceeded to obey the silence that reigned was the Rat in their judg- | be @ good cause of Impeachment would also be a good | in any of the courts of the United States ng ; Silence of a battle field on the morniug after the ‘acter of | or rewai r any promise, contract, urity for the payment Ames sa js money and | tainin, they were otting, and th takestcok in the Union Pacific, Comp in the | give, him @ receipt and wet the stock for him if | ment the agsuranice of a good investment was all the as. | cause of expulsion. It has never been contended that | jurisdiction for th trial of crimes and misdemeanors, and | turuage. The Toll of hone is as toliows, for it Credit Mobilier Company, Among. the e firm | Ne could. Mr. Scofield theretore’ paid’ Mr. Ames nce they needed. We commend to them and | the power to impeach for any of the causes enumerated shall, upon conviction thereot, be fined not exceeding | deserves a place, Not merely in the public papers Of S- Hooper & Co.. of Boston, the leading member ot | $104 and ‘took his receipt theretor, Not | to all men the letter of the vencrable Senator Bayar in| Wasintended to be restricted to those which might occur | ten tues the amount so-offored, promised oe given and | butin every homestead of New Jersey : Qvhich, Br Samuel il x Pectires Mlacat Tong after Mr. Ames infortyed Seofeld | response to an offer of some of this stock, found on pase | After appointment to a civil ofiice, sothat » civil oficer | imprisoned ina penitentiary Tot exceeding tem | y ny line House; Mr. Solna, Alley. th Der of he could have the stock, but could. not give hima ceri. | 740! the testimony, who had secretly committed such offence before his ap- | and the person convicted of so accepting or receiving the | _ Messrs. J. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Borton, Fiouse from Hassachusctis, and Mee cate Jor it until he could geta larger certificate dividend, pmmittee ‘find nothing in the conduct of either | Polntment should not be subject, upon detection and ex- | same or any part thereof, if an officer or any person | Budd, Campbell, Candeld, Cavilecr’ Cole, borémus, De tor from the Siate of lowa’ Notwiths Mr. Scofield received the bond. dividend ot eighty, pet embers ip taking this stock that calls for any | posure, to be convicted and removed trom office. Every | holding any such place oF trust or proft as aforesaid, | rell, ld dK Fisher (Speaker), Gaede, Gifford, Hoba Ous efforia of Mr. Aimes and others interes it, which was payable January 3, 1863, taking a bond | recommendation by the committee. nsideration of justice and sound policy would seem to | shull forielt hig office or place and any person <0 con. | Hoppock, Howell, Jones, Let dsay, Lutberr: great dim s experienced in securin; $1, und paying Mr. Anes the difference. Mr. Ames MR. JAMES NROOKS, OF NEW YORK, require that the public injerests be secured and those | victed under this section shall forever be disqualified to | Macknet, Marter, McDanold, McKinley, Morrow, Mute Capital. In the spring of 1867 tho Oredie Ved the sixty per cént cash dividend on the stock in | _ The case of Mr. Brooks stands upon a different state of | Chosen to be their guardians be free from hold any office of honor, trust or proft under the United | ler, Patterson, Ryan, <chenek, Smaliey. mith, A. pany voted to id fitty per cent to th June, 185% and paid over to Mr. Scofield $600, the | facts trom any of those already given. The committee ‘THE POLLUTION OF HIGH CRIMES, States. W.'smith, Sproul, Tuompson, Wandle, Washburn, Wild » Wvhich was then $2.80,000, and. to caus Amoantot lt. Beore the close of that session of G find trom the evidence as follows no matter at what time that pollution had ‘attached. If AMES AND BROOKS GUILTY. Willets and Worthing.on—al. uken Gaol adtesriber 0 4t wasenetied 1 Was towards the end of July, Mr. Scofield became, | Mr. Brooks had been a warm advocate of a Pacific | this be so in regard to other civil rs under insiitu- | | Tn the judgment of the committee the fact reported | ne fist of the adherents of the Pennaylvania bonus an equal amount of first mortgag Union Pacific Company.” The old. stock entitled to take this increase, but even the | Which Mr. Schofield was to retain the Credit Mobilier | tained control of the Credit Mobilier charter at favorable, terms offered did not’ induce all the | stock, and old stockholders to take it, and the — stock of the Credit Mobilier Company was never considered | neither Mr. A Jakes | in relerence to it, Mr. Schotied t Worth its par value until atter the execution of the Ames contract hereinatter mentioned. ¢ the I of August, 1367) a coutract was executed between the | Ames states that he tl nh Mr, | of Union Pacific stock in addit not deem it spectally important to settle thi Union Pacitic Railroad and Oakes Ames by wh Ames contracted to build 667 miles of the Union Pacitic road at prices ranging from $42,000 to $96,000 per mile, amounting, in the aggregate, to $17,000,000. Before the contract was entered hito, i Wes understood that Mr. Ames was to transfe! it to seven tras- tees, who were to execute it, and the profits of the contract were to be ‘divided among the stockholders in the Credit Mobilier Company who should comply with certain conditions set outin the An: strument transferring the contract to the trustees. The Ames contract and the transice to trustees are incor porated in the evidence submitted, . therefore, further recital of their terms is not deemed necessary, Substantially, all the stockholders of the Credit Mobilier. Company complied with the conditions named in the transter, and thus became ENTITLED 70. STARE said traste ht make the large stockholders in stockholders in the Ames contract and were raufed by Union Pacifie received the assent ¢ great y stockholders, but not of all. After the Ames c ‘been executed it was expected by by reason of the enormous price: the work, very large profits would be ing the road, and very soon the stock of the Credit Mo- Diher was understood to be worth much more than its par value. The stock was not in the fixed market value, but the holders of it December, 1357, considered it worth atleast double the par value, and int January or February, 1864, three or tour times the par value; but itdoes not appear that these facts were gon- <¥ pRovITS 4% the contract, All Pacific were also philier, and the and a. settlement was Mr. Scofield took The precise basis received back his mon ot ree ton. Sine © reason, disinclined ‘to take the stock, | railroad both in Congress and in the public made between them by | persons interested in the Union Pacitic road had ob- the settle ex nor Mr. Scofi in ons which rest upon the intelligence and virtue of the people, can it well be claimed that the law-making rep-- heir conviction under the above recited statute and | Autocrat is equally important, especially as it has 1 or- | Tesentatives may be vile and criminal with impunity, | subject them to the penalties therein provided. been printed tor wide circulation under the title of d the evidences of his corruption are found io | ‘The committee need not enlarge upon the. dangerous “THE BLACK List.” date his election? In the report made to_the Senate | character of these offences. The sense of Congress is le 5 “ i SeciDe s Messrs J. J. Anderson, Barnes, Carpenter, Carse, aving any sull data | then the leading man In the enterprise, made’ great ef. | by John Quincy Adams in December, 1907, upon the | shown by the severe penalty denounced by the statute . is y Barnes, Cat pp OTC rr thathe only | forts to get the stock of the Credit Mobilier taken. Mr | Case Jol mi Cooley, Farrter, Foreman, Hemingway, Hill, ‘Hopver, cas ith, of Ohto, the following. language | itselt. he offences ure not Violation of private Pp) rest upon it, while Mr. | Brooks was is used:—“The power of expelling a member for | right, but more against the very lite of a constitu. Leamt nae Plympton, Reardon,’ Schuitz, cotteld had'ten shares A FRIEND OF DR. DURANT, misconduct resujis, in the principles of com Iszard, non sense, | tional government by poisoning the fountain of | Ward, Whitec ion. The committee do | and he made some effort to aid Dr. Durant in getting | from the interests of the nation, that the high trust of | legislation. The dut evolved upon’the committee has Messrs, Campbell, Cole and Thompson first voted ference | subscriptions for the stock. He introduced the matter to | legislation shall be invested in pure hands. When the | becn of a most painful and delicate character. They | with the nays, but afterwards deserted their camp regard to Mr. Ames and Mr. Brooks would have justi- Atier $1,000 Union Pacific stock. | ganized under it tor the purpose of making ita consti nt does Not appear, | tlon company to build the road, Durant, who was that sgeitiement Mr. Seorteld has | some capitalists in New York, but his efforts were not | trusts cleetive it not to be presumed that the constitu. | have performed it to the best of thelr ability. ‘They have | Ind’ oined “the. viecorious’ tanker ei wo interest i Sree ier v1 with 8. Durii this perio ; ent body will commit, the iteposit to the keeping of ceeded with the greatest care and deliberation, tor, oe 4 had no interest in the Credit Mebilier stock, and derived | crowned with success. During this period Mr. Brooks \y ‘But mil artwiroen hig tettovy P ile they desired todo their full duty, fo the House and | Speaker announced that the bill had sed he no benefit thereirom. MK. JOHN BINGHAM, OF O70. stock for himself, and had spoken of taki In December, 1857, Mr. Ames. invest in the stock of the toatit would return him his m dends, Ar. Bingham agreed to take twenty shares, and | him. In October, 1867, Mr. Brooks. was ap pointed | Would that institution be which should be impotent to | the one h ruary, 186% about the Ist of ‘edit Mobilier, assuring him | was made between them, and Mr. Brooks was junder_ no | Mission of intamous crime, which became had tatked with Dr. Durant eb taking worthless characte: ek ror | woken of taking Mtteen oF | citizens have honored with their eonadence ina pledge | the county, they were most anxiourast toe imustiog | Faised a storm Of applause. and cheers fu the gale advised Mr. Bingham to | twenty thousand dollars of it, but no definite contract | f a spotless reputation has degraded himself by the com- | toany man. In forming these conclusions they have leries, and even on the floor, which it was impos- ddenly ana | intended tobe entirely cool and dispassionate: not to | sible to quell. tive indeed | allow themselves to be swerved by any popular favor on But while this splendid victory was achieved in nd or any feeling of personal fayor and ectors | discard from its bosom the contagion of such a member— | sympathy on the otlier, i; the Assembly the Pennsylvanians were viciorious joney with profitable divi- | legal obligation to take the stock or Durant to give it to | Unexpectedly revealed to the world, de d to Mr. Ames the par | by the President ene’ of the goverment. 4 Value of the stock, fv ich Mr. Ames executed to him | of the. Union Pacifle road. n_— December, | Which should have no remedy ot amputation to apply un- THE RESOLUTIONS, in the Senate. A bill providing tor @ new railroad, tome receptor agreement, Mr; Ames received At the | $86%, “afer the. stock ot ths can Gaunt | dil the pobon had soushen tee heaue oe The committee submit to the House and recommend | similar in every respect to the National bill passed dividends on thestock or money. some were delivered | was understood by thie familiar with the affairs IK Case OF SMITH the adoption ot the following resolutions : in the Assembly, except in the names of the incor- to Mr. ham and some retalned by Mr. Ames.” The | between the Union Pacific and the Credit Mobilier to be | Was that of a Senator who after his election, but not Fir—Whereas Mr. Oakes Ames, a representative in | porators, who ate all agents or friends of Tom ed thirty’ sh: Mr. Bingham for m had not al Neither M had sach records of their deal the precise amount of these di MK. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, ot tinally adjusted between them* until | worth very 372, when it wassettled by Mr, Ames retain- | Dr. Durant and claimed that he i such dividends a Retusl Ova bar cents nisin Foe arin legally bound to let him hy among other ‘reasons, declined to. take juri 4s the real owner ot the stock fromthe time | himself in any way legally bound to let him have any; | amol eli ‘ . vin December, 1967, to the set- | but still. on account of whathad been suid and the efforts | tion of the | charge tor the season” that the | “Resolved, That Mr. Oakes Ames be and ishereby ex, | son,Hewith stone, Wiliams and Wood. s72, and had the b much more than par, Mr. Brooks appli during a session of the Senate, had been involyed in the thiy House trom the State of Massachusetts, has been y erat i fe shouts heve Oph duaseo | reasonable conspiracy ef Aaron Barr, Yer thercusce guilty of selling to members of Congress ahares of stock | Scott, was passed by the following vote : not appear that Mr. ing. is general, and Was to antagonize some portions in the Credit Mobilier of America tor prices much below Yeas—Beesley, Edsall, Hopkins, Trick, Jarrard, Ly* which had been taken in the case of Marshall, a Senator | the true value of such stock, with intent the: ‘eby to mtlu- | deck McPherson, Moore, Newkirk, Sewell and Shep* Jit Mobilier stock and ac- | of Credit Mobilier stock. It do nitas | Brooks claimed that he had any legal contract for the he could entorce or that Durant considered | from Kentucky, the senate in that case hay ig, | ence the votes and decisions of such members in matters | pard—lil. - | to be brought before Congress tor action, theretore Nays—Banghart, Cornish, Cutler, Havens, Hendrick- nefitof alithe | of Mr, Brooks to aid him, he considered himself under | Alleged offence had been committed prior to the Sena. | pelled from his seat as a member of this House. r. Ames nor Mr. Bingham | obligations to satisty Mr. Brooks. inthe, taticr, "The | tors election, and. was @ matter cognizable by the | | Sivont--Whereas Mr. James Brooks, a Feprosentative rage Einar ail, Pane Se great Ganges wees ‘erty tl as to be able togive | stock had been so fat taken up and was then in such de- | Criminal Courts of Kentucky. of the commentators | in this House trom the State of New York, did procure | the bill passed in the Assembly comes before the vidends. mand that Durant, could not well comply with Mr, | Upon the constitution or upon parliamentary law assign | the Credit Mobilier Company to tsue and deliver to Mr, | Senate We Seenavivibeed: Brooks’ demand for 20) shares. After censilcrable nego: | aby such limitation as to the time of the commission of | Charles H. Neilgon, tor. the use and — benefit THE FRUITS OF THE VICTORY They find from the evidence that in the early part of | tiation it was finally adjusted between them by Durant the offence or the nature of it whch shall coutest and limit | of said Brooks, filty shares of the stock of may be lost. The fight on the Scott bill in the Sen- the secc of the Forti in December, 1857 terest July 1 to payor the stock, and stock for him until h 1817, Mr. Ames agreed with Mr. Kelley to | of Credit Mobilier stock, and Biving him with it $5,000 of | that the powe: poll him ten shares of Cr dit Mobilict stock at par and in- | Union Pacific, bonds and $20,000 of U: 7. Mr, Kelle: eth Congress, and probabl: AGRERING TO LET BROOKS HAVE ONE HUNDRED SHARE the power of expulsion. On the contrary, they all assert | stid company at a price much below its real oo f 5 “ f 14 mits very nature, té adideretionary one, | value, well knowing | that the | same | was so | fue, Wis An exciting ono. General Sewell, of emer nion Pacific stock. | to be exerc of course, With grave circumspection at | issued and delivered with the intent to influence the | den, was chief o1 y is, ohio cr wasnoithen prepared | Dr. Durant testified that he then considered Credit | all times and only for good cause. Story, Kent and ser- | vote and decision of said Brooks, and, ag a member of the | @ foeman worthy of his steel in rry the | Mobilier stock worth double the par value, and the | #eant all seem ‘to accept and rely ‘upon the ex- | House, on matters to be brought before Congress tor ac: HAVENS, OF OLD OCEAN, bomasagd stock, he was to give Mr. Brooks. wy Postion of Mr. Adams in the Smith case as sound. | tion, and also to intluence the action of said Brooks as a | not the old ocean that Homer personifies, but that? @ saved about one thousand dh Beaters, quatliamentary, | Practice,” page | government director In the Facile Railroad Company; | county of New Jersey on whose shores old Atlantic erally or publ own, or that the holders © stoc tie bond i Brooks the additional 10) shares he. A 59, “enumerates the causes “for expulsion trom | therefore : ' Gentted thay skeale be.’ Uae" hapegting seta ee TUS GGG es Mae eed Te the negotiation had ueen concluded petween Nr. Brooks | Parliament, but he never intimates that the ‘onence | "Resolved, That Mr, James Brooks be and is hereby ex- | (Ashes is biilows in his, Sngriest moog.) SHOR Comumittee thin gives enough of if 1 for uinety-seven per centrof tl an’ Dr. Durant Mr. Brooks said thar, as he waga gov- | must have been commited subsequent to the election. | pelied from his seat as a member ot this House, could I do otherwise,’ said this sterling Jerseyman, Te MISTORIC DETAILS June, 1863, there sa bi divide " of sixty ber ernment Sirector of the U alon, Fasito road, and as the Mf hen it tata aihods, fe that the framers of out mt — eo ate nd tee gen bd ee cae Wel peas and condition and value of the stock to make the follow. | cet, which Mr. Ames also receiv The proceeds | led such directors shoud not be stockholders | tion were familiar with. the parliamentary law ot En ‘enate in 1853 and bade defiance to Camden al ing deta‘led facts intelligible :—Mr. Oakes Ames was tien | of the bonds sold and the cash dividends received hy Mr. eWouk! Not hold this stock, and die | land, and musthave had in mind the then Fe THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. « ‘Amboy when that monopoly sought ® renewal of & member of the House of Represenatives, and came to | Ames amounted to $1,876. ‘The par value of the stock and . t to transier iL to hi Jaw, Char of the Wilkes case, it ts impossible to conel its leave! {ashwngron atthe commencement of the session, about | interest thereon irom. the previous July amounted to | H. Neilsin. “The whole ne Durant wag | meant to limit the discretion of the h ok sonar te ae meet the beginning of Dx r, 1867, During that month | $4,097, so that aiter paying for the stock there was a bal- | conducted by Mr. Brooks hit causes of expulsion. It isa received princip ve a a | Mos S INQIDES j Mr. Ames ent-red into contrac:s ance ot dividend due Mr. Kelley of $329. On the 23d da; NEILSON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TIE TRANSACTION, n that the constitution is to be interpreted w 5 Smacrosy we. | occured yesterday morning at the outer door of Dumber of members of Congress, both senators and ot June, 1965, Mr. Aines gave Mr. Kelley achees for thi® | exceptto tecelve the transter. “The $200 to pay for the tothe known rules of law at the time ot its adop- | At half-past one o'clock Mr. Poland, (rep.) of Vt, | the State Honse, -A waggish youth stood with resentatives, to let them have shares of stock in sum on the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Holise of Representa. | 10) shares was paid by Mr. Brooks, anil he received the rose to make the report from the Select Committee on | packages of cotirt plaster which he offered for sale h interest thers Credit Mobil F Company at par, w from the Ist day of the previous dul {1 does not aspear Liat in any. Instance he asked any of r lives, and Mr. “Kelley rece coinmhitiee fig that Mr. Kelle: money he this recelved was a these persons to pay a higher price than the par value and | bim after paying for the stock. interest, Hor that Mr. Ames used any special eitortor | Gends upon the stoek were urgeney to get these persons to take it, Tall these ne. | stock or bonds and they w gotiaiions Mp. Ames did notenter inte any details as to th j Ames. In value of the stock or the amount of dividend that mw be exp Mit, but stated ger be rood stock, and in several it ay guarantee that they should get at least ten per centon their money. Some of these gentlemen, in their conver: eations with Mr. Aimes, raised the question whether be ning olde Uhis stock would bring them: inby embarrass it as me ers of Congress in their lative action. Mr. Ames quicted such suggestions by ing it could not, for the Union Pacific. had re from Congress all the grants and legislation it wanted, and they should ask tur nothing more. In some in stances those t | ly that it would | s said he would MEMBERS WHO CONTRACTED FOR STOCK paid to Mr. Ames for the price of the stock, par and intere rs hey tind not. the money, Mr. Ames agreed to the stook for them | unul they could get the m hould be met by dividends Mr. Ames E stock holder in the Credit Mobilie nl any of those transactions to be sai tended to fulfil all these cont 18 from stock be to the company, At this time there were aly shares of the stock of the company, which had fo ason been placed in the name of Mr. T. C. Durant, loading and active men of the concern, Mr, Aines hat a portion of this stock should be assigned to | able him to fulfil engagements he had made tor he had made similar gneage ments, that he should be allowed stock to fulfil, Mr. Mc- Comb. who was sisted that 3 ‘k to his (MeCon EN ATORS and Representative finally wrranged t) aimed: a Towa. It was ni pany should bet erred to Mr. Ames, to enable him to pertorm lis engaKemen's, and that number of shares were 4 over on the books of the company to Oakes Ales, frnsteg, to distinguish it from the stock held by him be fore, Mr. Ames the ¢ to the company the of the stoc and interest irom the July. previo | formation as }, the money which eptember, 1308, Mr. Kelley received trom Mr. | Bi advance, to be pald out 0! tire variance in the testi- mony of the two men as to what the transaction between the money thereon, ‘Ihe | $5,00 of Pacific bonds which came with the stock. The Y tifleate of transter of the 100 shares from Durant to y qualifying a 1867. On the 3d of July, | ner of its exercise, assigning ne li y then understood that the palance of dividends due | Neilson is dated December the Credit Mobilier investigation. He presented the re- | tO every one that passed, He fastened to one mem- 5 to the st port, which the Clerk, Mr. McPherson, proceeded to read | Ye? ef the House, wno, in a half indignant tone, Ail the subsequent divi- | 1868, there was a dividend ofeighty per cent Union Pacafle | matter itself, they must be assumed to have intend in exttens snapped at him —witt ha din do I Ponte ithe U Pacitic onds paid on the Credit Mobiller stock. The bonds wel leave that to be determined according to established | ¢#fenso witheyour plaster “On, beg your pardon; CE SO Ue cece | Locale c ison, but passed over at once to Mr. | prinel ples as a high prevogative power ta beexercised | All the members implicated by the report were | Fetorted ther youth, “1 thonghe you inigit have Ks. Trisclaimed, both by Mr. Brooks and Neilson, | According to the sound discrotion of the body. Itwas | in their seats, Mr. Ames occupying a front seat, | heen wounded on the floor last night.” ‘The effect derstood betwoen | that the $1000) paia by Mr. Brooks was a loan of that | Hot to be apprehended that two-thirds of the representa: h ‘ ; aeat, w aoe here mid ousorevidende There. | pum by bim to Nelisots and ther aie Vendy Cocca | dopa oF ioe people would ever excrelse this power in.| and Mr, Brooks occupying his own seat, Tho | Of the reply on the spectators was electric, tor “ Sp cat 01 7 . every one member having voted ef between | from Durant and those’ recelved jor the dividend were | aby capricious or arbitrary manner, or trifle withor tram. | Speaker’ took’ a scat on the flor ot. the. House, | every one saw the point, the me For varinnce in’ the. Yost: | delivered aad held by bin as collateral asa wane | pio upon conaiutlonsl rights "AT the: tome inet | thechale being occupied by Mr. Com of Non’ ysis | {vety, minority. The fight may be reuewed in the loan, No note of obligation ‘was given’ for | could hot foresee what measures for self preservation or | Speaker pro (eu. Thexatleries were crowded with sive: | Senate at Any HOUR. ison, Nor, so iar as we ean iearn from | selt-puritication might arise in. the legisiauive body, | tetors and the most Mtense degree of Interest was maui. | thom was, but the committee are unanimous in fnding | the money by e proce! paowe the fucts above staicd. ‘The evidence reported to. the gither Brooks or Neilson, was any account or memoran- | Therefore it was that they did not and would not ander. | fested in the proceedings, ein ai THE ITALIAN MURD! House ives some subsequent conversations and negotia- | dum ot the transaction Keptby either of them. At the time | take to limit and define the boundaries of thowe neceast. | vine neon Cone ee TNE REPORT tions between Me. Kelley aud Mr. Ames on this subject. | of the agrecment or settlement above spaken orberween | tes, ghe doctrine thas the Jurisdiction oF the House over having been completed at a quarter pastitwo o'clock, Mr. — The committee do not deem it material to refer to tin | Brooks and Durant there was nothing said about Mr. | its members 1s exclusively confined to matters arisin, OF StIOn toe Cee ee reo nttee did not expect ‘ Morristown, N. J., Feb. 18, 1873, their report. Brooks being entitled to have fitty per cent more stock | subsequent to their election, and that the body is bound iy action to be taken on the report until it was printed, The trial of Luigi Lugignani for the murder of MR. JAMES A, GARFIELD, OF OMTO. by Virtue of his ownership of the 100 shares. Neither Mr. | £0 Fetain the vilest criminal asa member if his criminal | aud until each member had had an opportunity ot « dade s The regard to Mr. Gartiela as found by the com- | Krooks nor Durant thought of any such thing. Sometime | secret was kept until his election was fecured, has been Te the Waccaine cone Propose to have aday | hig wife was resumed to-day before Judge Dal- entical with the sof Mr. Kelley tothe | alter the transier of the shares to Neilson Mr. Brooks | supposed by many to have been established and declared My: BROGKO, Glecei at ie i nes'and eaadbe yes 1 The witnesses examined were Phill point of reception of the check for $32%% He agreed with | called on Sidney Dillon, then the Present of the Credit | in alt t the” Mouse, Ie. Teply to what on tee ee | ee . DP ir. Ames to take ten shares of Credit M restock, but | Mobilier, and claimed’ that he or Neilson was entitled THE FAMOUS CODR OF JOHN MILLER fnost. | (0 the House, In reply to what seemed tohim® | yongieeni, residing at 20 Baxter street, {pay tor the same. Mr. Ames received the eighty | to ftty' additional shares of the stock by virtue | before alluded to. A short statement of that oase will | mos i - caki; Meanele “6 b : percentdividend im bonds and sold them for ninety | of the purchase of the one hundred shares of Durant, | show how fallacious is that supposition. Wilkes had ih Me elf so p ha New York; raneis Cox, butcher, Dover; sevon per cent, and also received the sixty per cent cash | ‘This was claimed by Mr. Brooks as his right, by virtue of bean eleviet a semper ot, Parliament oo indians fre dosumen ee wick bad nos ee Pye se the James_ Kelly, James Armitage, constable, vid whie ne ot g toe! yp e crense oe! ein be e de- 6 e st oF | Oe ~3) . ot <a : . u dividend, which, tog with the pri f the tock and | the flity per centincrease of the stock herein before de- | and in 1764 was expe! jor ng published g libel of & and Paul Lucetti. This closed the evidence jnters over to lett a “bala Mr. Garaeld by rns. Mr. Ame: ent dividends and the subject until this i spondence betwe: Gi ne conversation between it be tound in the rep we do mot find that Mr, Ai the parties above nam; relations betw: Union Pacific be likely to receive turther tated, ~ They ail knew that the Credit Mobiler was bi Mobilier was a State ce to Congressional legislatic ite profs were expected building the Union Pacise ‘anit ents pareuth y create such An intere eof $329. This sui nthe Credit Mobilier Company and the | Mr. Neilson soon atte inpany, of gave them any specific in- | fiity shares, and on th the ainount o iid the Union Pacific Railroad, but it d that any of them knew that the profits o1 to be in stock or bonds of that cump action instituted by MeComb in the Supreme ( again elected, and. again ex- | aon Pennsylvania against the Credit Mobilier in December, | for the Prosecution, and the defence was opened . Mr. Dillon sald he didnot ow the Ministry. He i Dale. the leeding. stesthonleir ane. te similar offence, on the Sd ot Feb- Was paid | seribe : consult the leading stockhollers and be | pelled from omee for @ check on the Ser | but he would all the sat overned by them, Mr. Dillon, in order te mei Being again sigctea en the ih m Febru. tea . cag @ list of stockholders as long ago 49 | hy an address irom’ Mr. G. Wurts, who called the tf p & paper horiz’ . , the Commons passed the following resolution :— rece! '. 1867, | aA Hanae a yatioes amprrgre | QFOgh Piet Am, vine yba haan | pit aM that tho it was printed athengtin | Gem he LNG & eMELAT aN toed Bare Mr. rield on | it to be sigi most of the principal’ shareholder: of Parliament expelled trom the House, was and isin. | the testimony. . q 5 —But it 1s not alluded to in the report. that he was first struck from behind by a sharp in- jament;”” Wilkes was again elected, but the Mr. Potd¥p—We had no occasion to allude to Itin the | strament and then lost his senses, mens declared the seat vacant and ortered | report. Tfithas any bearing on the case it willbe botore |” ‘Tue trial was adjourned until to-morrow morn- ain elected | the House, bectuse It is part of the testimony. Ido not | ingar ualtpast Mit cl. On design to be led jato, the discussion now, | Ee tint wae mae a’ NAME, * he pre | read, the point of it being that 5 a 0 a ertificate for the °| vious action of Wilkes he had ible and fiat | appeur asa stockholder at that time of the Credit Mobi- | DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES,OF THE THROAT . 1868, the certifi. | the votes given for him were void and could not | lier, and that Charles N. Neilson’s name did appear as a AND OBEST. On the stock book | be counted, and gave the seat to Luttrell. Subse. | stockholder of 18) shares, and that this wus betore Mr. son procured Mr. Dil- in 178% the House of Commons declared the | Brooks was appointed a government Direotor. , a preteen e money to pay for the stock, and at the of February 17, 1768 which had asserted the | | Mr. BnooKs also presented the proctsrerbal of another | 4+ the annual meeting of the Board of Trnstees 4 to Dillon $1,008) Union Pacitle bonds | incapacity of an expelled member to be re-elected to the | suit in Pennsylvania between the wien les, showing dice of Dr. R flity shares of Union Pacific stock as collateral secu- seme Farliement to be Pain of the rights ot the | the pan pag ty Bye eae holding the | of this institation, held at the o ' . mi lividends were These bonds and stocks were a portion of divi | electors, and expunged it from the journal. Itwill be | stock and as to q | Hotel, the followin; The Credit don 9 _receivet at the time, he was allowed | seen {rom thiscopcisg statement of Wilkes’ case thatthe Mr. Potaxn ent ev that oe, apers had been paner, at the Fifth Avenue " Ber " Kind oF POF: Dot ubject | to receive the same per centaxe of dividends on | ghestion was not ralsed as to te power of the House to | presented he would merely say thar, al evilence aut | ofMicers were re-elected for the ensuing year:— y aud the fact that | these itty shares that had previously been paid | expel a member for offences committed prior to his elec- entitled as o! yak. i ‘commenced. sil ike, Not M® G, Samuel Courtney, President; Dr. J. J. Crane, to ibe derived from | on the one hundred. This matter hay never been | tton. The pointdecided, and afterwards most properly the suit ot actually cominenced till the Fall of rG.s a * ’ e Kailroad did not ap- | adjusted between Neilson and Dillon. Messrs Rrooks and | plunged. was that expulsion per a rendered the ex: nd. Par rat ached | to some | Vice President; William Moller, Treasurer; Colonel m in " ough est in. that-company Neilson Hotty testify that they never paid Dilton, wad Dil | pelted seinber leyally ineligible, ani that votes east Yor, paaroesealigs 0 the date or tfat’snat’ | Rush C. Hawkins, Secretary, and-Dr. A. Ruppaner, i P “4 an. Some cor: | After this ha rfetd and Mr, Ames and | made on the stock | this investiga= | s« he name in The com- | erased and the nam tee are sntisfied tha ENTERED ON TH BOO of fifty shares wa: rson other than he boo been ede The eeume. | anew election. At this election Wilkes w ¢ stock Was fir: by 1,143 votes, against 296 for hiscom ‘hOOKs moons! the Leth or April, 1768, the Hou ing elected a member to serve in this Mr. Wrogy in his negotiations with into any detall of the dividends they would | cate was issued to himand the than has already been from him or otherwise a@ contract company to # Not appear stock still stands on th ne ol isquality the holder ot Credit. Mobilier st trom par- | lon thinks he hag received his pay, ashe has not now | him could not be counted. The Wilkes offence was of “ trustee, except thirteen shares which have hoe trams: | Heipating io any legslation affecting the railroad come | the cttaterate in his possession, ay ts he as | Paid it | purely 4 yolltical character not involving maral turpk | bolder Selbaires ok hoe ten, ae iets) | pnysician and Surgeon, Number of patients at- ferred fo parties in no way connecied with Congress. The | pany. is pre ble by 3 from the collaterals i one tort a Foote ines seutiat ae aw eee ip ote, Shares. on the aun ot Fi mata thee wher ee tended during the year ending February 1, 1873, col pe does not fim! that Mr. Aes tad IN-NOCENT! IN-NOCENT! The subject has yever mand ceed it hiw ni here 3 r t a” re te ries ar whatever with any oi these mcnibcts ol Cope teee on the | Tn hie negotiations with these Inembers of Conzress Mr, sin honey, and no ome | Claimed ty hes.» te ebb eviaa-spdeacte be (Me. WnoORS Fein ett {hata man may be theowner ot | 78, of wiilch there were treated ior throat dis. subject of this stock prior to the evoinmence Ames made no suggestions that he desired their favorable seems abfe to give any “A PARTISAN POLITICAL PROSKCUTE sock borore his ow Me te tate teet cn matter re ecart, | eases, 533; for lung diseases, 246, he Preasurer’s session of December, 1567, except Mr. influence in Congress in favor of the rattroad c@mpany, | further light upon it. The whole business by whieh these | subversive of tl nts of the people and. of the Hherty Popeled picenton to the tact that on several cocaslo report showe’l the tastitution free from debt, with . aylvania, and it was not clatined that and whenever the question was raised as to whether the ty shares were y Mr. Brooks. | of the pre: These proceedings in the Wilkes case tool he had either ‘" sh balance in its favor amounting to $841 83, p N! # INTEREST OF THE UNTON PACIFIC a car existed from Mr. Ames to him as the result ownership of this stock would in any Way interfere with | Neilson knew nothing of any. right to have them, on ing the appearance of the famous “Junie” let, |) VOTED AGAINST THE INTEREST OF TUE ONION, This is @ most gratifying exhibit, bothas to num: Toon 1 oe ruRPONE AxD, or or eimbarrags then in thelr action as members of Con | and only went jor ine. ccrtteate when 'tokd ot | Fora and sever vm are devoted wo the discussion of | Rei sorumk, of Masachusctte suggested char tho discns- | her of patients treated and the fnancial conition KE AND MOTIVE OF MR, AMES ress, he assured them it woud no’ he cominittee, #0 by Mr. Bro, ie committee find that | them. The doctrine that expulsion creates ineligibility tee See . r, » or tend In contracting to let members of Congross have Crodit | therefore, do hot fiid_us to the meinbers of the present | No such rightto fifty 9 additional stock passed by the | Was attacked and exposed by hin with xremt force, bit nding objection te that. as towne question | Of che AnstienHon. er bavine renee venaeree Mobilier stock at par. which he and all other owners of | House above named that they were aware of the object | transfer of the one hundred, and fom Me Brooke | he concedes that it the cates of expulston be one that Py Poraxe had no objection to that, Aste the question | hig resignation, le having been appointed one Weonsidered worth At least double that sum, the con: | of Mr. Ames or that they. had any other | iamiliarity with the aflnirs of the company the eom- | Tenders a man unfit aud unworthy to de amember, he | of the te Contended Re ete hate it, stood in Mr. | Of the United States Commissioners to Vienna, but mittee, upon the evidence taken by them and submitted |p ¢ in taking this s.ock than to make a profitable | st have known his claim to them | may expelled for that cause, ag often as | was contended a fiutes of the certificates, | the trustees refused to accept the same, but in to the House, cannot entertain doubt. When he. said I is ponarent that those who ady: | naturally arises how was | he be elected. The case of Matteson, in | Asto Mt, Brooks! votes in Gonteccehe Mr. Poland) would | lien thereof granted him an unlimited leave of Sood meatioetegichation: he sated saat We pega wh of é y foe thelr sfo-k present Wore she Ap. | Eck At Fle Capen Be ie | the House of Representatives, bet tadetiction, ta ihe | merely remark thatatone dine the Calon Pacific Ratl- | ghsence a » he stated w 16 belleved | 4 4 h ( » did not, ¥ oo or iqur times | asa ont ny ation ¢ etion, fi dO n 2 - ~ - - 5 i a desired 10 accor pt Durnene owiedan i upon the fact of andod vor, an ne o a ade . ne is eahsr ee tp enlist strength and fends jn Consrcpe iy | payntont shone, kt ‘Ought ala to be chearved tet fh have “ued any infidence’ Re aid | in, the but as the whole rabject was ended by | feareceiel ketene ow whom and employés on the boulevards and avenues to Fab- ‘ould resist any encroachment npot or Interference | pentlemon who surrendered their stock to Mr. Aues | pt it, If he had’ this right he was | being laid on the t it fs qu Fea however. mn that ‘On motion of Mr. Pocanp the furthor proceedings under 8, anting to $33,728 6 1 the laborers th the rights and privileges already secured, and t | botore tere was any public excitement upon the sublece. | unaware of ft till told by Mr. Brouks and left the Whole | Was decided by the House. It appeared, |i rin that | On mot oa Ant Treadhy next ater the | THATY, 8, amounting to $33,725 61 an¢ abover ‘ent wished to create in them an interest Mention | do not protessto Inve Mone an mmer an Aoffinpro: | matter in his hands, It is clear that the shares were pro | case, that the charge against Maiteson had the | fenditey ot the journg on the 36-iuch mains to Febriary 1, $1,048 lie Wig own, ‘This purpose js clearly avowed in bisiet- | priciy iu holding i, but tor Teasons ailecting the value | cured by the sole efforts of Mr. Brooks. ands the stock: | come vublic. ead Bis ¢ Y