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attention by a bright sash around his waist, but he bad dispensed with it to-day as a graceful tribute to the solemnity of the occasion, & motion that the floor be cleared. This proposi- tion following the admission of the ladies, to which Dick had not objected, was decidedly uangallant, and very properly denied. Man to address the Speaker. “STERE 18 OUR MAN FOR A pownegiean a thought every one when he rose; Dui ba i pl made a motien that the House ignore the special order and take up the Legisiative and Executive Appropriation bill, could have had in this was to bother Garfleld, as the latter is very sensitive as to any interference in his management of the appropriation bills, Butler's proposition was, of course, jecred at. Meanwhile, it was evident that Jndge Poland was speech, and only awaited the signal or to open fire upon the enemies of his report. The venerable ex-Senator from Vermont «back of Butler’s desk, as sn oMeer of the Old Guard ould get a chance to speak charged with from the Speal stood up in the aisie, |) solemn and straight 4 on duty. Butler sent up his resolution proposing that the cases of the implicated members be tried before the District Court, and that the House be relieved of its duty im this respect. after this interruption was allowed to proceed, He seemed to feel the importance of the occasion, His speech was deliberate and graceful, His voice ‘was ut first !ow, but gradually increased in volame, though not losing its steady uniformity of cadence, He moved to and fro, and would occasionally walk down to Butler’s desk and lean over the Essex statesman as he delended himself from attacks made by nance. THE THE ENFANT TERRIBLE OF THE HOUSE in his report of yesterday, During the whole speech Oakes Ames sat in a front seat near General Buuer, as if he desired to be under the wing of his power- ful ally during the coming storm. nervous; he flushed at tumes, looked over occa- sionally at his friends in a deprecating way, and then would subside behind the shelter of his huge hand, which was ample covering for his counte- Afew seats removed from him sat Banks fat his desk, quiet and calm as though he did not in- tend to take any part in the coming debate. ASPECT OF THE POLAND OOMMITTE! did not denote any special excitement, sat near Hoar and looked impressiv appeared stern and attentive; his glasses above his forehead and nursed his right forefinger gently as he listened to Poland’s argu- ments, He plainly showed, however, the symp- toms of an intended speech. were heaped belore him, and he was the only mem- ber of the committee who looked as if he were going to take an active part iy. the debate, Allof the Congressional victims were present. Brooks, who at the opening of the proceedings had lain ona sofa in the background, where his wife fanned his fevered countenance, came pushing through the crowd to lis desk when Poland com- menced, giving the most painful attention to his speech. his for a spe Kerr, these two men, eyes, spectator, of Re insisted upon Butler was the next The only object he Poland objected, and Ames was very MBBRS OF THE Merrick shoved up Books and papers Garfield was in his seat and looked sad, as though at times tears were ready to start from disinterested Kelley sat away back, solitary and gloomy, his hair hung over his brow ina tragic fashion, and he seemed distressed with a sense of loneliness, His booming voice was silent and his desk pore no evidence of the usual preparations h, Scofield gave careful attention, but aid not in any way appear anxious to be heard. In looking through the House the SYMPTOMS OF COMING SPERCHES were to be seen here and there, Was loaded down with books and papers, which he consulted occasionally; Eldridge, of Wisconsin; Morgan’ and Bingnam, of Ohio; Fernando Wood, of New York; Dan Voor- hees, of Indiana—all showed preparation for a Participation in the debate. hour to the case of Brooks and Ames. In his sol- emn, denunciatory way he reviewed the crimes of His manner was thatof agreat criminal lawyer before a jury of his countrymen, asking for the conviction of some criminal who: freedom would be dangerous to the well-being of society. At the close of the hour Judge Poland was allowed thirty minutes more, during which Butler’s desk Poland devoted his time he devoted himself exclusively to the ques tion of the jurisdiction of the House. his time was call by some one tended, Dear Butler, galleries. when, sultation, disclosed the sincerity, times. they retired author of being intoned by McPherson. ology and the close logical argument plainly demonstrated the writer to be a keen lawyer, and not a shovel-maker or a railroad contractor, Tappleton, attorney for the Union Pacific Ratiroad, Was the author, although Butler and Caleb Cushing were both credited with its authorship. Matters began to get heavy about this time. The immense crowd had absorbed all the purity of the atmosphere, and were engaged in the depressing occupation of inhaling it over and over again, though freighted with all kinds of corruption. This seemed quite appropriate for the occasion, but was very stupefying in the effect. Farnsworth was the next man on the floor, AN ELABORATE DEFENCE OF AMES, and pranced about with considerable agility, but spread himself over so much surface that he was quite thin at times, Farnsworth, according to his ‘Wont, indulged in a good deal of claptrap, and his appeals on behalf of Ames sounded pathetic only to those who do not know his characteristic in- several good points against the report of the Poland com- mittee, the principal one being the declaration that there must be two men to a case of bribery, and that one man Could no more commit bribery than hq could commit matrimony. i wort! Butler objected to Mr. allowed to infringe on eternity, and there being other objections made, the venerable member from Vermont took his seat, thus completing the open- ing soliloquy in the House drama. At twenty-five minutes past one P.M. the Speaker said:— “MR. OAKES AMES IS ENTITLED TO THR FLOOR.’? Oakes was at this time looking terribly nervous. His face was flushed, his hand trembled, and he fell back upon his handkerchief to conceal his agh tation as he unfurled the printed slip of his speech, which he sent up to the desk to be read by the Clerk. Mr. McPherson came forward to the desk, the red hairs of his beard fairly bristling with the importance of the occasion. mistaken his vocation. anactor. He put himself in Oakes Ames’ place, and the audience no longer saw McPherson, the reading clerk, but Oakes Ames McPherson plead- ing for mercy. Oakes Ames McPherson struck at times several interesting attitudes. He would brandish the manuscript in his leit hand, a8 with his right forefinger he emphatically sent home the points made portion of it, Poland being McPherson has He should have been At this june- the manuscript which was The legal phrase- The remainder of Speech was progy and wearisome, and at the close of it the crowd began to thin out in @ small degree, 88 if they were disappointed in the expected sensation, Judge Merrick then took the floor and made, in a measured, sledge-hammer style, an unanswer- able argument in favor of the report as far as it went in the punishment of Ames and Brooks. The earnestness. Of Judge Merrick was terrible at He seemed the very embodiment of justice, end bis stern demands that there should ke uo When where an appeal is made to Congressmen to know why he (Ames) should have the honor of a long life of honesty taken away from him, McPherson’s voice descended to a plaintive accent, and all the pathos indigenous to the Mc- Pherson bosom was breathed into the sentences before him until many shed tears, Oakes Ames sat in front, at his first chosen seat, During the reading of the speech his face was covered, and occasionaliy his hand- kerchief would steai up as if to wipe away a tear. “Oakes Ames is crying’ was murmured in the This caused the vast audience to turn away from the gyrating Clerk to the old man bowed down at his desk weeping over his disgrace. An involuntary thrill of sympathy went through the spectators, the same that moves an audience in gazing upon a condemned man. ture Butler went over and conversed with Morgan, from tho floor for con- Teading of NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. howev it i built, when on the 16th day of August, 1367, ft was #ui Again, I protest against tlie conclusion of the committee Sesnlustger Sing Semeuiied-auee- ser ert Haan Mi Sieg Goris | satay on. nies Anta iaenae Gargateere | hcearcrne sanitangre aie Aer painful, made@ deep impression upon mittee differ entirely wi rentloman and the few | contract => tay ner lpsT. stele igllotment 0 er tatu cif called mem- riially to (iiss ‘The select | were built. applies, Whatever result ay a res ee BeBe Vd audience and caused the faces of the acoused mom. | Priornan wi ic ‘ ated he Rol Comm! bers to alternately blanch and fush with emotion. | committee di bd Loto tata ‘gentlemen im re- run ananone OORRUPT RAI JUDGE MERRIOK’S SPEECH cane THE LAW ON THAT BUBJEOF, Hebembor, 1367. Glance tess moment atthe siosiisn at was decidedly the best one of the day. He | It never had been the lay trusted in God that Union ith w, and he it | the Paotite Oc spany and my conneation w id be, or that it his | at that th a jong and nearly ineliectaal answered with calmness annoying interrogatories Sountty shat og vilest ‘ee — eee aan gle final mot th road NEAOTIONS can doubt thi courts Jaw Oe alt ey eraveots Witt CONS, Aside, from tere addressed to Mr. McComb, tis Tointer the motives autribated: (ome. by ry rer even, U a the committee. nic to laters ware of the circum- intervention in its affairs. No one these leiters were written, aud a from Farnsworth, Eldridge and others. 2 anne | ee ee ca te ee ae a De rad ee net to soba Begotten nd, purposs, mus was that of one impelled by a stern sense of duty. Bere and be allowed to sit beside auch pad jong. been. and 4 ‘instance, nner i think, carry to any unbiased Ciatad the j-courlenes raat After denouncing Ames he turned to James Brooks a wera hero from fnasachusetts—Caughter)—and that io ofthe zy «' ‘cmbark constrae, Mr, Durant, Mr, yale be ee ion of an ‘ s as and his lashing of the cadaverous, agonized ag} fhe House had no power te expel such « man, but that | Hon (of, ee mrt ot peng ha wea ete ant oe ee poe forte bys oh cope pur. from New York was terrible. So fast came Rosey that that Was the law wasn mockery, He be- | reason ¥o apprehend fithe or Vegialation, 408 | be + for valepost tom to persone wiih bod: ve surdit Ty dep: ‘past ndship, Words from Merrick’s lips that his weak 7 tite part o The gentleman: ‘om Macescsuze emule, friendly eitiude and mo loud in | were te foarg ortanities of profita- swayed to and fro under the strain like @ reed IM | or anybody else could ever make intelligent people of | demonstrations of a} ‘al of petrity | be ba at had no desire or expectation d as if impelled by some | the country believe it, Tt needed the m ho was which we had tn! Re rel my = my sole object was the wind. Brooks listene ‘THE LNVENTOR OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER MACHT ar iments and Revernm nt 9 hase | to gat an ‘as much Of this stock as possible to be fearful fascination, When Merrick sat down tt was | to have devised such a doctrine. (Laughter and ap- juties brought them in contact wi used obi: of the character named. d the weak sophistry plause.) company re. ciamorous ior increased sj con- nape fore, icComb objected to my receiving evident that he had demolishe Mr. Iixcx, dem.) of Ky., here interrupted Mr. Poland ever lost an opportunity of expressing 80 entered upon a struggle to pre of Farusworth. and said he wanted rar bisa & questi =e tad nd tg eh To i 4 eves vent it, 1 natural a co ae ar emai and The Message of the President in relation tothe | They haa betntcas lbs, Dolo af aout wih weed bey onal ie and i wound t have been. 3 eat marounete uy on nid at 2 9 happened ‘that, ‘in Louisiana trouble interfered with further discus- | when Mr, Bowen, ot south Caroling. | ee nase Soyo bout tataseie' ta ie crteenke” adh her uci Bee notind rae ron yy myself ne “+ to be 7 % ir, McComb hada and sion in the aiternoon, and at five o'clock @ recess | had then riron in hls piace and maid that Rowen while. | whove praises everywhere Hiied the press and were on | iden heat Intérest, and I therefore urged upon him that 1 major in the Cont ‘army, had the lips ot the peo; had so disp of the stock as to enhance the general was taken until the evening, which was to be de- | Mant inite Conederate army. (had killed his colonel, m6 erboR av rus oxaar worct slrength sand influence of the company, tor whose wel yoted to debate only. while in prison the federal army came along and bi Asa matter of history, no legislation ai it epeoting fare icitude was not less than thy own. It is no pee EE his tetters; that he then became a loyal citizen, and that | the pecuniary interesta of the company was asked for for to this to aay that the statement General Bickles ‘haa told him (atten) that Bowen's | three years and a halt after the date of the alleged sales | contained im the letters on which I most relied PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. conduct had been so bad that he had incarcerated him Mobilicrstock, and then only insotile- | to influence his mind I now: concede contained arain, The man was known to be @ bigamist, yethe | ment of a purcly judicial question suddenly and without | expressions Mable to, be construed "against had been sworn in, and no member of the House had | wi rung it, In @ critical period of its for- purity ot my, motives. Tried by the testof casual ani ever moved to expel him, He (Mr. Poland) was a mein- fenes and in reiation to which no controversy had ever | confidential letters, often. writte and uncer cir- 2 Wasminaron, Feb. 25, 1873. | ber of the House at that time, and had not made such a. fore been made. Under no other state of affairs aud | cuinstances and surroundings entircly different trom ‘The callertes were filled half an hour before the time | move. Ue himeolt (Mr. Beok) had thought that the | 19 no other weutude of the government ould Lior_a | those in the light of which they are Anterproted—tramed ed re: ite and 't have bee: pi <- ier Lit mome: in induced to et fora specific purpose and to accom: of mecting. Every soat was occupied and evory stand: | peak oriniamsous Chafasten sont “Sougress trom the | sponsibility entailed b ra ontrack favo pear. colin 6 trouble a 1 and incidental ing place filled. The corridors were impassable, belng | Southern States, but was the power or right | of $47,000, © the fon. Hocied upon and deliberately weighed, but ‘duns, off crammed with late comers pressing for a chance to get | 'PEDEO INST 4 10: soo the procise point of Mr. Beck's | files im BAe ye eG etna ‘ddonce ordinarily existing. betw admission. The cloak rooms and all the spaces at the anes on. em we IS of Binapelt as of bie Hehaae nee ore ce ‘mounitin pasties, eurenee fa Gnas weneenatoueniete ,. ir. Becn—The in nN isos enon . indeed, Tear of the members’ seats were jammed with Poni: | cloar jurtediction over the past conduct or the members. | tinent, extending through a Rous ® pradent. s wise and almost perfect inan, who There never was before such a crowd of curious aig! prior to their election. hostile Indian om. loca! > gould ombrge Grom such ‘i ordeal complotely {ree trom seers in the Capitol, Mr. Po.any had not the slightest doubt. tte When | ductors ot constragion trains were i ai the it , It was more than half-past eleven when the reading | the question asto Mr. Bowen had been rai it hi Sculped at el 5 eel us soute tute of water, ? OAK RBLIRVE MR QUILTED og been prematurely r Aman being a murderer, except as supplied by wa one to ons wish, the: to declare, roadest pe ofthe journal was ended and when other preliminary | not make him yy ‘as A member of Congress, The | hundred iy vi rae to thousands of and animals epee Jang! cappale, that in writing poree business of the day’s session was disposed of. In the | votes cast for him had to be oanted, 1nd i had to be | engaged in construe! n—the immense mass of material, one. had, in view the objects above caumerated; 28 admitted; but, as soon ashe had got his seat, it ‘the | iron, ties, lumber, timber, provisigns na never instant imagined that trom them meantime the crowd became denser and the ecene | Gute ofother members of the House, ‘as honest and de- tran: un. ‘of the motive and purpose of » to be trai from. noisier. Ladics had been admitted within the body of | cent men, to expel him; and if what'was alleged against f ‘miles—1 admit tm aye 2 er Pronk, Hin of subseanent | corrup! ag moc ra of Congress—motives lstory and the mutations ty ded ‘a8 the which Isolemuly declare the hall and stood ¢rouped up at the mouths of allthe | Mr. Bowen was true he Paige ae abt ght of ‘ an ins sntacky. (ir. Bock tion ofa higher motive—nain ty, the ‘deans 1 purpose: ‘TE nover emtortains|. The in. ircle, and ey toconneotmy | whom‘ had dealings; the proven Hot ta Thover urged aisles and pressed around at the back of the circ! The gentleman from Kentacky (Mr. Beck) seemed to connect my 101 ings; ven 1 bnev re . name conspicuously with the greatest public work of the | its purchi ry 6 CY — OP many of them had achieved prominence by gaining Pos. | ATG ie tore he, was 19 bemors Diamed for hon-ncHok | present century, fas by uo imeaus strange that iy credit piebadge SHOWA AboStodia tee ween ein it session of the chairs ofmembers. They did not seem at | inthe matter than himacif If Mr. Bowen had been | With conservative financiers like Governor Wi ura | in my judgm t> stand as a conclusive refutation all abashed or conscious of being outof place. On the | guilty of the charges alleged against him the House had | should have been shaken and that he ave ee offences mpareed: men ayers and feyond this, If 3 “4 t anair of keen, fire amplest and fullest legal jurisdiction of the matter, | hastened to call in loang which in his judgment this con- | submit thata long and busy lite spent in thé prosecution contrary, they wore for the most part + | and most certainly if the case had ever been properly | tract proved to be In unsafe Raa of business pursuits, honorable to myse!i and usetul to anxious, determined persistence and eagerness in the | presented, and it his conduct had appeared-to have been ‘NOW CONSIDER THRER hegre mankind, and a reputation hitherto wi hout stain, - c fe Under these circumstances, With All legislation songht | should of its own welght overcome and outweigh ch Prt of hole onfecte, sack ag characterizes them when | Fivempuiion oe Cound) would: Rave voied fOr | , ,Urved and no futuro actiouof Congross‘to to wakcater | saleiy upheld hy sue muconsiiered. ind wn Wir. i ded to discuss the report made | Seteaved: ie charges tbat tha anod f noes of copfidential business communicauons. HatpemaN, (dem.) of Pa., apparently impre: Mr. POLAND cade Broo ? woneenenilty of selliaig: | A coo! ot i Qt by Mr. Butler, ot Massachusotts, yesterday, and denied | to members of Congress 8) of kin edit Mo- SHOCKING IGNORANCE OF PAST KVENTE. Tet ue ase Weare San ethic Ceeat | eacieme ce eC rane feeeameriy as | GURY oct Menta egaematomaarenes |, Totem cea eee rece err BIE et a it . Le reper peel a 5 that ies vy nd bee opened Iittie sourch he had heen able to make snegTast even. | such inembers in matiors to bo brought petvre Congross statements of the broilts accruing from the dif- 4 gua copsent and that 28 t00 late to objegs Th, had foun nish, f Wi entary Histor two | for action.” It tue ch ge tye ito cated upon ferent contracis for the cons ‘uction Sarodcs a Mr. Malgepin fafaldod and his bud was ned with | canon wuboequent 40 iat of lin Wilko the oi the ‘Hon oL GUS Dee, Hh osdoe to dusnige ae eStrcnse meas: | tract Wheris. he-etate of the country, woe earnest igre See ne eas tn Speaker of esnay charset r ( ars ug oyutaeicbd 8 dbs peed seid at prices so mant- Leer pry crt oraater f: na ye prey tere He aE LutbeLan Fen eae eae 3 Sera ah paranoid Bodie nad | fostly and ‘palpably’ below the true value as io con | paralleled snged of aatenction and the vismorous de- THE REPORT OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER COMMITTER, Fe ae weet | fuandeot cae cOUner he ee ca de. “ be J the Engli Parliament as to | clusively presume the expectation of some ot Pe sot Or Sp omplotion, seem to nt peti Her.) ot Mase. an unpre fhole™ on ee peau tote Sua) haeattork) no matter when | |ry advantage in addition fo san ges Tron ce erate forgq cen, and parton Sonncated with the Credit Mobilier Legislative Appropriation bill, on which their offences were committed. ony Tho sbanga wise have crn re at palpate Hope actce MFRS are now to be tried Dy Sir; Gaurizto, CG. M.) of Oto, chairman of the Com. | . Mr. ELpuipcrDoes the gentioman claim that Congress | that their ownership would create in the holder acer | Randard foreign to, the time and circumetancos under mittee on Appropriations, intimated to Mr. Butler that {t | hag the same power as the British Parliament? Fone purpose to shape legislation ji ee Work asd one. Tt i barley ne failure would be just as well for him to attend to his own busi- | Mr. Pouanp—Certainly I do, y, jons to the ness, and leave the Committee on Appropriations to buit which bi laugh | it Was proposed by some members’ No Coleen a rebuff which brought the laug! anne Br cposed by oo gains led with th ial order. r. BoTLem of Massactiisetts—The bear) the clark Pood the emiatice providing Poland) ald that he would divide his cn seller, f +4 t Third—Some distinct and specific matter or thing to be | stock was proved and it became manifest that the on Fre, hall hour extension of time having come to a end | brought borore Gongreen and on which whe voles ane dee | modium ¢hrougs Which ike work ould go, on was tre cisions of members are sought to be influenced, should | constructing company, which would undertake to build an (Mr, | be alleged and proved the road ana take the securiues and. stock of the com- im Sans were. pany in payment, whe ow q the whole enterprise had eae It is by no means clear from @ complete halt and was set in motion t ry my individual ont B > ir. PoLAND—Certainly, tr Hed at jo, teekimony thes ‘the a it he Boneea of 8 naetin Fore. aud oflcred the fol- BytNe-It bo goeson much tonger it wohld be CBK WHS Bola av» pTice lows han Ys stig vals, 1f waa | orodit aud moans wad that Sf ny AaspeImisey wae Fee rode cane Of MR RaR Qe an Hoe bs apple mrgurare, hot on the market? Te bad ho market Yaiue. Unlike an | prise should have een uvancouce, Wore if possie % Whereas Select cofimittee of the House has, after in- | toars of fatighter), Tobjett t his going on. ordinary marketable commodity. it bad no current price, | presont that question to the same public Pentiment, the vestigation, reported to the House testimony which is Eoveral he gos Py fa Kind Bot object and Be amount tfor yhiet. it som be a Sepanded post same state of national opipion which, ox fed ! the sng . —1 withdraw the ol he temperament o' 4 ation he exigency arose, I wou. adly go. retire a bey naire AE SANT] if Ghouum) (dem se fohject on the ground | a-sume extraordinary risks oa the one hand, of his tor: | Congees ca Une ey eee aety, and gladly go, to or more members <n House; and whereas the t Mr, Suocom, dem.) of N, ns at there are firteen or twenty members who desire 'y to.conservative and strictly solid investments on | that justice, and the motives and transactions of one pe- er pel ot cant now eee va ak. Siok ” 4 the othe. Itigsin pacar before @ Commitice of this House, | riod ace to be judged by the prejudices ot another, at ith the Hotse; and whereas {t clearly appears that Mr. Potanp (courteonsly)—If the gentleman will with- | by witnesses largely interested in railroad construction | hour when the fluctuaiions ot opinion are extreme and whatever acts we © oF offences committed by | draw his objection I was about to say that 1 did not de- | and operation, and of great financial ability and strength, | violent beyond the experience of former timcs, members of the Hs by any civ cers of the | sire any further extension of time—(laughier at Slocum's | that when this stock was offered to them atpar,itwas | The actu: cost in money of building the road United States now in office Or others, Wefé done and Spear ay T ghall Qave an opportunity to close the | instantly declined by reason of the enormous risksin- |. was about seventy millions of dollars, and all omitted more than five years ago and witha the | debate. volved “in the enterprises on which its value de- | statements of a less cost are based upon mere fartatiction of the Bupreme Court of the District of Co: ‘the Srraxen—The gentleman from Massachussetts, who | pended. These cen naliees helloreds that all tho | estimates of engineers who never saw the work and ut- lumbia; and whereas no legal or constitutional right to | 1s affected by thisresolution (Mr. Ames), desiresto address | capital investe was jeopar- | terly tail to FSP, jhe conditions under which it was of } e! the House, and sends to the Clerk's desk his remarks to | dized, and the venture was declincd on the | prosecuted. profit on this expenditure, esti- Pie eEae done ce eorunieat aby a neubor peore Rie be rend. ‘they willbe read by the Clerk, ie rule that no promise of profit justifies a raceme. man in hating the securities and stock at theif market value election thereto exists; but punishment of all crimes and Mr. McPuxrson, the Clerk of the House, then proceeded, | embarking in any enterprise in which all the capital in- | when received in pasment was less than ten millions, offences agains laws should be after trial by Jury | with great ¢locutionary power and effect, to read the | vested is Hable tobe sunk. Apart from some Proof that a | as can be demonstrablyjestablished in any Court, and jouginent of a Gourt of competent Jurisdiction argument prepared by or for Mr. Ames, who occapied | small amount of this stock changed hands between per- FIFFY PER CENT PROFIT A COMMON INVESTMENT. The That in the judgment of the House, | one of the trot bers with his head resting on his | sons addicted A peeseauan @t about one banired and It isin testimony before a committee of the House by ‘obab! hand, watched a ly the effect on the audien flity, nothing ts shown in reterence to its value except | witnesses who have spent their lives ag contractot Ebmitved by a ro uuive, from the Some of the close, keen hits in the argument elicited | that'it was not ou the market, and had no ascertained well as those who have been builders, o nee An oper - é matter of the Crédit Mobil whispered comments of approval and occasional laugh- Brice bY overturn the presumption of innocence and | tors of some of the great trunk lines of the Sofintry, that unishgble by the statutes of tl ter. It was listened to through: with ‘the greatest at- | Substitute the conclusive papnration of guilt mm the | tor twenty years past the ordinary method of building satcommon law, such as giving | tention. ! ms simple fact of such a transaction océarring between mon | railroads has been pty the medium of construct false swearing, inay have been | — The following ts the épééch of Mr. Atte who had long maintained the most friendly Personal re- | ing companies; that few, if any, roads involving a large in testimony, within the Dis- OAKKS AME! SPEECH, lations—of whom noth: was asked, and by whom | outlay of capital are built in ‘any other way; that erefore the Clerk of the | _ Before the House proceeds to the considoration of the | nothing was promised—is to overturn all the safeguards | a profit of trom twenty hirty Ber cont is ered to cal @ copy | resolution Toported, on Tuesday last. by ‘the special com. | afforded person and property by the common law, and in | not unreasonable in any. case, and that upon the con- et % be forwarded to | mitice charged with the investigation of alleged transac- | lieu thereot establish an puantsitorial code, wader which | struction of the Union Pacific Railroad, estimating it with District Attora , Prosecuting of the | tions with certain members of this body Im the disposition | no man’s reputation Is safe. * retetence to the magnitude ofthe work and the risk in. United States for the district, with & recom: | Of shares of the capital stock of the Oredit Mobiller of PERSONAL AND PECUNIARY. ohrred, no could reasohably object to a profit of mendation of this House that the samo and other testi. | America, I desire to submit the following statement :— Ithas been assumed that the ownership of Credit Mo- Aly percent. The like evidence is given by a govern- dt to the Grand Ju: ing'In eal - | events so intimately connected wita a portion of the bis- | and pecuniary in ‘ocuring Congressional legis- | fol jeul nd emnbarrassni countered, ai righ at the next Seapion, threo, that may take such tory of the construction of the Vion Y Pacific Railroad | lation tavorable to the Unto Pacifle Railroad ‘Company, yea has not yet outlived the recollection and realization em, ehebeaber rrr ere F ceed to trace such history in greater detail than would | alleged distribution of C1 Apper- | that I shall ask the indulgence of the House while I pro- | or preventin« legislation adverse to it, At the date ot the : ¥ t, declined to yield toh: therwise be ne ce; Ames contract had ‘beim muade and wesle pre eee et |. So euy as TAS Re ee ay . POLAND, (rep.) of Vermont, declined to yie ave | otherwise cegeary. mes contr: rr 2 mi ‘was in progress ‘o faras Iam pecuniarly concerned, it would have the Tubstitate oftered, and accordingly the peaker ruled ‘On the Ist day ‘of July, Barts wae passed and approved | execution. It was completed and the road covered by | been bette! that Thad never heard of the Union Pacific that it was not betore the House. an act of Congress authori ng aud providing tor the | the contract turned over to the company about the close | Railread. At its completion the company found itself in ‘THE CASE YOR THE PROSECUTION. construction of @ rallroa pelenrere line from the | of the year 1868. Not until two years atter was any legis- | debt about six millions of dollars, the burden of which Mr. Po.anp then opened the case for the prosecution in | Missouri River to the Pacifle Ocean. The practicability | lation asked for by the company, and then it was such | tell upon individuals, myself among others, The assump- & speech, recitiny the tacts and teat the report of | and importance of such @ measgre had jong been urge as arose out of exigencies presented by the action ot the | tion of the targe portion of this liability the select committee. Aiter showing, the testimony, vahiliigs joel public men, but it tailed torece governmentin reversing & long-continued and uniform | allotted me, lowed by others necessary at at the time of the transactions the stock of the netion of the goverument until a great civil war previous policy, which (ree not, by any possibility, have | to keep the road in operation until there should be de Credit Mobilier was worth from 200 to 300 per cent, he | threatened to result in the withdrawal of the States and | been foreseen dr anticipated. ‘the stock depended for | veloped in the inhospitable region through which it runs asked whether Mr. Ames was so utterly insensible to the | Territories of the Pacific coast irom the authority of the | its value upon the connection of the Credit Mobilier | a busine: profit which he could have derived from that stock, had e EoverAmnene. For @ variety of reasons then tong | with the Oakes Ames contract, which, was simply in the and interest, final culninated in events e chosen to sell it, that he preferred to let members of | before the public, but chiefly to Avert the calamity dk | capacity of a guarantor. of its execution, whereby a cen to the public, whereby losses were incurred Congress have it without any profit to himselt. How t was passed. ‘It was universally esteemed | tain class of its stockholders bee eniitied to particl- | greatly in excess of all profit derived by me from the came his charitable disposition all at once to be so ex- Has edad ti ‘of sound policy, but a scheme appeal. | pate in the profits of that contr: in money, ‘There is | construction of the road. nied in favor of members of Congress? His ostensible | Ing to the patriotism and loyalty of the capitalists of the | no provision of the Oakes Ames contract, ‘the Ass itis WHAT OF UNCLE S4M’s PROFITS? usinesg in Washington that Winter was his position asa | United States, as the instrument whereby a future sepa- | ment thereof, or of the triplicate agieement, whereby a What, then, has the government received as the fruits mémber of the House, but his a business was the | ration of He Pacific from the Atlantic States Would be | stockholder becaiie entitied to any of the securities of | of the connection of the Credit Mobiller with the Union peddling of ten shares of stock in a place tomembers of | rendered fo ir impossible. the Union Pacific Railroad Company, or in any way in- | Pacific Railroad Company and the transactions now longress. Th ing ot commissioners named in the act to | terested in their value. The profits derived, if any, | under consideration? By the terms of its charter it Mr, Bicas, dem.) of Del., interrupting the argument of e into effect by the organization of the cor. | were to be, and were, in cash. When the Oakes Ames | agreed, among other thjags, to loan the company for Mr. Poland, asked him to state whether or not the evi- ‘tion was held pursuant to act ot Congress on the first | contract was completed, and the consideration thereot | tf uirty yearsits bonds to-certain amounts per mile, and dence showed that these leading members, to whom Mr. | Tuesday of September, 1862, Though composed of a great | divided in cash to the several parties entitled, in | that unul their matarily one-half the earnings on account Ames was peddling this stock, Knew it to ‘be worth from | number of the leading oar alists of the Co eoate andin | due proportion, the interest of a holder’ of | of government transportation should be retained, to 200 inducements of pecuniary ad- | Credit Mobilier stock in the Union Pacific Rail- | be applied in repayment to the government of affording revenue sufficient to meet running S to 300 per cent. addition to the Tey, Mr. Potanp ieee! to hts friend from Delaware that | vantage, acting under the stimulus of patriotic order, the | road Company, andeverything pertaining to it, wasatan | whatever interest mi in the meantime be paid on the if he would wait he (Mr. Poland) would get along to that | meeting failed to accomplish one beyond the open- | end. In other words, the stipulations of thatcontract and | bonds by the United States, The company in turn, b: point. (Laughter.) ing of books of subscription. | Nota dollar of stock was | the cash profits derivable theretrom were the end and | acceptance ot the charter, agreed to pay’ the United Mr, Bieas—We will wait patiently. Subscribed or promised, and it was not until about the | the beginning—the centre and circumference—the abso- | States the amount due on the bonds at their maturity aud Mr. Potayp went on with his argument and said that | 27(h of October, 1863—and then only with the explicit | lute measure of the pecuniary interest of a holder of Cre- | to perform: in rtain services. Without asking additional there was some balancing motive in the mind of Mr, | understanding on the part of the subscribers that | dit Moblller stock ¥ it pel . To say that the Washburne | islation or being called upon to resist obnoxious legisla. Ames which induced him to let certain men have this | in case of fuilure to. secure future legislation the | bill, which professed to deal exclusively with the opel tion, excevt wherein this rontract had been disregard stock pty he | he could have got two or three or four | Project must be abandoned—that a sufficient sub- | tion of the road in the hands of the company, atter it had | and jored by the govermment, the road has been coin- times as much for it as there any possible doubt | scription was obtained to Apihorize the election | been built and turned over by the contractors, was a leted and successfully operated throughout its entire about of & board of directors. On this subscription was | measuro feared, and to protect the railroad company | line now nearly four years, THE MOTIVE OF WR. AMES? the name of no recognized capitalist Parties | against which the stock in question was sold to members TRE GOVERNMENT WILL BE $6,187,053 IN POCKET. He had designed to get this stock into the hands of | Known to the country ag wielding large capital in ri of Congress, seems tome toinvoke the last extreme of No complaint has ever come up from any quarter of members, hot merely to rely on & feeling of gratitude Toad enterprises had studiously avoided all apparent credulity. any failure to faithfully perform its obligations to hich they might Nave to |, because had given | sociation with the enteyerre and in their place appeares DID I CORRUPTLY INFLUENCE CONGRESSMEN? the government, both in respect to transportation them something worth twé or’ three or four times.as | @ class of comparatively unknown men, whose “ham It is impossible to impute to me the purpose to cor- | servic its pecuniary obligations, In the ont much as they paid for it; but he relied on something | When rising to the suriuce, had been chiefly connected | rnptly influence members of Congress by conierring upon | instance which it has differed from any depart- stronger thai that, Mr. Ames had lived long enough in the world to know that a man sometimes forgets kind. Lamy} that a man’s gratitude for a kindly act does not ry with enterprises involving speculative and extra hazard- | them pecuniary benefit without adequate considera: mn, | ment of re. Rovernanans the variance has been upon ous risks. Until the passaye of the law heretofore men- | unless the benefit conferred {8 of such a character as to | a purely judicial question, upon which the Courts tioned, nothing was done under ths organization beyond | necessarily create an inclination to aid the donor to the | have been ‘open to the United States, but closed to us. lways. ife had read enough of Scripture to know | such acts as were necessary to preserve the existence of | detriment of the public. There {s but one escape from | The omens made itself the creditor of the Union “Where a ioan’s treasure there will be his heart | the corporation. this position, and that leads to a lower depth. It may be | Pacific company. tieing its debtor hand and foot with . etgulel of applause). Mr. Ames had avowed THEN CAME THE ACT OF JULY 2, 1964, said that the Figing by a5y person and the receiving by | a multiplicity of stipulations, and then refused to submit his whole philosophy on that subject. He had said that | Its principal features were as follows :—It authorized a | a member of Congress of ant, 8 iy whatever, or, | their interpretation to its own Courts, That it has so far the alfficulty is that you cannot get a man to give atten- | reduction of the par value of the shares from $1,000 {9 hat i ntical therewith, selfing and eying of anin | reaped the principal benefit of the bargain cannot be tion to # thing uriless he has an interest to do | $1.0, witha corresponding increase in number; it enlarge aq price, imports corruption in th the 5 cial statenents of the Postmaster General $0. He had, theretore, to contrive some means or other he land graut from a ten to a Copel mile limit; | giver and receiver, the buyer and seller. Whoever | are before the House, which show thattor the six years by which he could make the Interest of those leading | it authorized the company to issue first mortgaj rociaims this doctrine should ‘reek set on foot | ending June 30, 1872, the saving to the government upon jen in Congress identified with his own, so that the: nds on its railroad "and telegraph, to an ¢ inquiry how many railroad prestdents and su- | the transportation of postal matter alone by reason of the should be as watchful in relationto this matter as amount per mile equal to the amount of United | perintendents haye presented to members ot Con- | construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, assum! ing himself, Ames knew that himself and his friends had | States bonds anthorized to be issued to the company in | gress the value of transportation over thelr respect- | the amount carrie to be to that transport started on a voyage which sooner or later he knew would | sid of the construction of the road, und made the mort- | {ve railr ines, and by whom the same have Deon revious to its construction, ‘has been 079. But be exposed. He knew that the nation had been, by thei gage eet the same @ lien prior to that of the United | received, to the end that justice may be done, and the e amount of postal matter has been over six times Performanoes, detrauded of millions, and he understos States; it declared that only one-haif of the compensa- | one presented for indictment and the other tor expul- preater by rail than by stage, so that the real saving Rwaald be 8 good thing when that time came, that he | tion for services rendered for the government should ue sion. The dimensions and value of the gratuity have | is not less than sacl ar Even this result tails should have, if possible, some strong backers, and he had | required to be applied to the payment ‘of the bonds issue nothing todo with the question, There isno middle | to represent the increased speed of intended by his course of conduct to provide himself with | by the government im aid of construction. hile thug | ground on which to stand. ringe and convenience of handling and aistribution them, He'had done so for the very purpose and with the | strengthening the company by these changes, Congress at AN OFFENDER WITHOUT AN OFFENCE, afforded by postal cars to the employes of the department intent to influence their action as members of Congress | the same time and in game act dealt it two well nigh For the first time in the history of any tribunal this fiocompanying the mails, thus insuring sat and regu- on matters to come before them. That was fatal blows, from the effect of which complete recover body has betore it an alleged offender withoutan offence, | larity in delivery. A like statement from the War De- AN ACT OF BRIBERY is impossible. Itauthorized the Kansas Pacific, whic Any person accused in the Courts of the country, under partment shows the saving So military transportation pre. Ames, for which he might have been sent to the required to effect a junction with the Unio like circumstances, might a, when called ‘upon to | for the same time to have nm $6,007,282. 0 official ‘enitentiary, even although every member had received fic not farther west ihan the one hundredtl plead to the indictment, insist that it failea to charge a | estimat fore the House for the saving upon the stock from him in entire innocence. The law did not | Meridian of longitude—a distance of about two hundre crime. I am charged by the committee with the purpose | transportation of Indian goods, for the Navy Department, require the intent to be known to the person to whom | @d forty-seven miles west of the Missouri River—to corrupting certain members of Congress, while it, at | or of coin or currency, but they may be sately aggregated the present was made. It was the insidious attempt to | Make | such connection at any point westwardly of | the same time, declares said members to have at not less than Hen This gives a total saving for undertake to bind a man over by gratitude that constl- uch initial point deemed practicable or desirable, | conscious of my parp and fails to indicate th the six years ending June 30, 1372, of the sum of $12,868,760, tuted bribery. It would not do for Mr. Ames to plead he result ig @ rival parallel road connecting with thé | of the corruption. In other cine os Purpose to The Secretary of the peneety, in a communication to the ignorance oi the law. That plea was not permitted to the | Union Pacific, at rans 518 miles west of the Missouri | is inferred, where the effect of brakes ng coul House, bearing date May 20, i872, in answer to a resolution Most debased and ignorant crimin: nd was the House | River—being one-half the length of that road—and claim- by posaibility be produced, where no subject tor corru calling for such information, estimates the amount 0 to liberalize that ruie of law for the benefit of a million. | ing equal advantages and tacilities in all running con. eae erent ee rates is reputation will | of interest and principal which will be duc from the haire and ot. ten-year member of Congress? Was that | Rections and interchange of business It likewise pro- | assert that an indictment for bribery could stand ior an | Union Pacific Railroad Company atthe maturity of the man to stand up in such a presence, or anybody for him, | Vided that in case the Central Paciilc should reach the | instant in @ common law Court without specifically al. | goverament bonds at the present rate of payiment, at and say that he did not know what the law was, and did | eastern boundary Uornia beiore the Union Pacific | leging who was the briber, who was bribed, and what 156746, Assuming that the saving to the government not know that he was violating itt [1 @ man’s moral | should be built to that point the torme Ficgupauy should | precise measure, matter of thing was the subject of | of all the different classes of transportation in the future sense saw no wrong in that which their predecessors had ve the right to extend its road 150 miles eastward, and ribery. There can be no Oe to bribe without the | will be the same as in the past (a supposition entirely on declared this power was afterwards enlarged by Congress by act | hope and purpose of corruptly iuduencing some person | the side of the United States, for it wilt, in fact, increase Ce RY oFrenct of July 2, $0 ag to authorize such extension inded- | or persons ig respect to some particular act. Until, | in almost geometrical progression), and the result is a 4 which shouit f oy Mali OB, n from holdt nitely until the two roads should meet. Thus by act of | theretore, itis alleged and shown not only who tendered | total saving at the date of the maturity of the bonds of on hich 8! The lorever vy ne hey tN or “04 Congress these two corporations were sent forth upon a | abribe, but who accepted or refused it and what was 64,343,800, a sum in excess of the principal and interest the ye ite er) ae a font. at ty Ah dy] S ora race across the Continent, which finally culminated in | the specefic subject-matter of the bribery, any convic- jue at that time to the amount of $6.147,083, In other Sehathes, fering ‘the Smtadine Hable eee tar Mr bye ma the construction of 500 miles of road by cack company In | tion which may follow the alleged offence must rest upon | words, if, at the maturity of the bonds, not one cent of in- $ a single season, through a desert country, upona route | the shitting amd unstable foundation ot individual | terest or principal was paid, buon, the other hand, was eae ecott dua (vas one who ought to be tolerated a8 | beset by unparalieled obstacles and at unecessary cost | eaprice, and not upon the solid rock of justice admin. | etiroig Inet ihe gece ee would be the gainer in hemor ofthe House fhe 0 Oe largely in exoess of the most extravagant cotimates’ °O* | fatbred under the reuiralate of the laws sroney’te amount 187,088, : Passing then to the case of Mr James Brooks, of New al CONGRESS. LET INNOCENTS THROW THE FIRST STONR. GLORIOUS! PATRIOTS CRASR BABBLING. York Mi Volund stated the facts Imevidence whISK MAN. | act itt (pstimony heture A committoe of the House that | Ishall not enter upon a discussion of the jurisdiction of | _ All this is solid gain, involving no conscquemtial cle. \ ihe road under the | this body over offences alleged toh fled the Fesolution reported for fe, O21 aision of Mr. | tirst act had been demonstrated, when it had becom during a previous Congress le hates ares some whaton the Lop at the time P rent that-additional aid was necessary to induce care such additional comment as akes Anes Sonteact ir. Brooks was thoroughly | falists to embark in the enterprise, the Inte President | ehoose to mal he position, howe: fernil “rt sr ae ole sahlect first, % at, “gent of | Lincola was urgent gress should not withhold | if such exists—is a continuing offenc , is 90 extraordinary 8 the most vivid imagination. When the rails’ were ack among ie Capiabiie eG Sew for eaiseegtaas | advted heomcersat Se sompany tonche ularreean, | Rumcutu ctugh sl gonmegurtsee dio ycctanes co | lotd on Rremgnoy suman 1, 0h de asic s ~ ‘ g sed the officers of the cor 0. go to Congress fol ar a reference . ce the Cre r sn urope ant » the East at Government Director of the Union Pacife Railroad Com- | Suen legislation as would. assure the cuccess of the enter | gold by ms passed Into. the hands of goreral eebe ee | Myth Atlante, Europe and perpetual ry e been committed | ment, and susceptible of exact computation. To attempt ing that question for | to grasp the national benefits whi lawyers of the Mouse | main of figures, but are embodied ver, utside the do- the increased pros- that the fault— penity, wealth, popuiaton and power of the nation, over- oy ity out of pany. rise, deck ita national necessity, and recommend. | Congress referred to in the report, I have been, in the judg- | which should spring an interch: of the most precio A CORRECTION. ng them to a) ply tor adaiti concessions ample to | ment of the committee, a perpetual and chronic. offender and costly ‘commod tie is known to trate thus gen ‘. Mr. Brooxs (C, M.), interrupting, corrected Mr. P place the construction ot beyond a peradven- | against the dignity and honor of the House, and so tar ae commerce whose tide should ebb nd tro across ‘he statementas to his being @ government director at the | ture. Notwithstanding this favorable segislation no capi- own volition is concerned, must so continue to the Continent by this route for ages to come. Utah was then time of the Oakes Ames contract. That contract wi tal was attracted, no additional stock subscribed, the world. So long as a single share o1 this stock shall | an rex community, with no industry but agricul- dated in August, 1867, was ned in October, 136i, and THK HOXIX CONTRACT. not be restored, but shall remain in the hands of the seve- | ture an manufactures necessary to & poor and frt- 1867, a he (Brooks) was not nominated till Octaber, offence goes on | gal pe: In 1872 It shipped ten millions of silver to the On the 8th of August, 1864, a contract for building 100 | ral receivers, of either or @ M. Woxi and ba accepted the office till January, 1368, miles west trom the Missouri River was let to HI. Tam bereft of thi money centres of the world, and is now demon- r, PoLaNn protested that would not for his right | the only contractor offering to undertake so hazardous withstanding the wot now apprised of all strated to be the rich ineral mtl- hand misrepresent the pnallest fact in reference to the | venture. Six months dems trated his inu bility eat corrupt fatendosscand member of Congress can be | nent. An institution repu nt fore ‘aos sees the case. All that Mr, Brooks had said was notin the slightest | form his contract, and with the experience of the com- | ignorant of them—the parties who aloe have the Christian world Ht to the contact degree in conflict with what he (Poland) had said, je | pany in dealing with individual contractors, no cou but fail to release m Oy necessity of continuli of the F travel je ion of Oakes Ames contract had been exec in August, 1867, med open except to seek a consolidation of persoi my offences by, return of the stock, are themselv the railway, Many belleve it y substan- but it had been found that the trap was not properly set, int ‘orporate body, whereby the pecuniary abil- | out blame, and in no way obnoxious to the sing laid upon | tially solved the perplex! f y. & and under of a large number of persons might be made ‘avail me The committee declare that want of knowledge | vast foreign immigration, ing jurOpS TRE ADVICE OF CUNNING COUNSEL able to the task of constructing the road, while at the | alone of the corrupt intention of the seller excused an immense aggregate sum ry, hi ly been new machinery had to be devised in order to ran it suc- | same time cHleying the shelter of corporate liability only. | buyer, while holding and owning the proceeds of the | distributed far out on the line of and its mean: Coastully, so as to cheat the United Stat ernment to | Accordingly, by & contract made Marc the | sale.” Now that such, know everywhere and muscle are fast subject reely peopl # at the State of Fenneyivans and to cheat the Unioh | Credit M her of America, a corporation created by’ among all men, how can this, ta absence of a restora- Territories of Colorad ont 10 to ‘acific Railroad Steen matter not com- | organized under the laws of Pennsyivania, in. sub- | tion of the stoc £ (onda aa bes living, continuing, | the uses o! enterprising reasing us leted until about the mii of October and Brooks | stance assumed the obligations of the’ Hoxie con- | perpetual crime in the seller and not in the buyer? lation. A steady and c is id become & government director on the Ist ot October. | tract and caperes upon its P rf Tt was UBT, PARTIAL, UNSOUND, INCONSISTENT, INCONCLUSIVE. pouring into the mines of ere was not 8, slightest evidence that Mr, soon manifest it even ti re ion, as pes te. be correctly unde! iT allege K'INDIANS HAVE BEEN PACTI ever considered himself as anything but a full i~ constituted, would be unable to accom the work | against those members of louse who fruitles c jt fre- jovernment director. There was no evidence that he r which it was created. The state of the country and | Oredit Mobilier stock, | am simply following quent elsewhere, have ceased in the vicinity of its ‘line, erformed any official act before January, 1868, but it | the peculiar local conditions surrounding the enterprise ,| ing of the committee to its logical results. I'make no as. | and the facility and speed of connection at led by the ad never snpsegted. that he had not accepted the | were exce Ase een ies to @ successful prosecution | sault upon any man or class of men, but I most earnestly | railroad enables the government to offer adequate pro- office and that all its duties were incumbent on Rim, of wi id was 150, there was no market ‘propest jainst being chosen the victim of a line of rea. | tection to the frontier with @ bi of troops, and ai , Mr. Expemer, dem.) of Wis, asl Mr. Poland | for the first me: nds, and the government bond! soning assertion, in my judgment, umjust, partial, | the same time dispense with la risons and fortifie: whether he meant that Mr. arent! ald be treated dif- pa ‘able in ie were of uncertain value and inconsistent and inconclusive—calculated, it hitherto maintained at fabulous cost The count- ferently from any other wember, because he had been a ioult sale. No Eastern railroad connection existed | et |, to bring this Into disrepute, and repug-, | less herds of Texas mt up to occupy the grazing f the in the valleys and canyons Shadowed | by the Roe Mountains, A Fegion of bound. mmmittee to the act of Peb- | untahatited, dominated hy xavages hs hoon eiclatune A a ruary 26, 1863, and, after setting out the same, foll hundreds of millions added to the wealth of the nation ly ht ernment director? whereby the vast amount ot material tial t nant to the sense ot justice and f lay embedded 11 abiprtenment hear estan tac Me Rivets | Hone cop tneesnnee toa tha GaNBRINRE | Sear ARE To yn ay as ernment direc! rnish cause for hisex- | to ne ‘ compelled, } to fole isfon as a member of the House. Mr. Brooks must | low the longand tedious route of the iMlisourt River at Reference is made by the witl a Rave been perfectly familiar with the whole scheme of | an extraordinary cost for transportation, ud from his Inuimate acquaintance with Dr. Durant | insurance against the perils of a hazardous navigation | ing language is used in the ju the bonds of rnal ai commercial union be- aad from his oficial relations as Byermem director..It | of that treacherous stream. All materials’ were ee the facts poporeet in regi a {ween the Rant and West strengthened beyond the power coul tbe supposed that while he was employed by | high, aed all classes jrooks would ve justified the! of civil discord to sever. . Durant to place his Credit Mobilier stock among the be the above-recited statu and subjected them to the pen- CONGRESS CAN NOW MAKE OR BREAK, New York capltalists he was not weil informed as to th alties therein provide f gentlemen to note the Does any ono, Peete bed solicitude lest the Unite: reasons why that stock was valuable or not valuable. entire section carefully and cri cally, and verify the as- | States, which has made this fortunate bargain, should fal At the expiration of the hour allowed for each inember sertion I uow make, that every peualty denounced upon | to receive each cent duc at the Paps Moment it may be fob, ir, Forcen def oh,t Wove dat wr, | it ou, eo pieve gemmnerstne gr Pocuiy fehioweds | cure to be. prombseds onered of given Sosa any | gemanien gy ag omotr count ihe ability of tke company y h nded for hal JOU, easy to anticipat 8 ic! 10 e4 a ,, off o " I: ng areek £2 a ly, and he proceeded with his arcu- | viz tne practical failure of the new organteatio val maple thing” * © # “to Gone iw fore the mere a the bon ¢? Four years crying ress" any member of he testimony, referring to Mr. Brooks | forward work until reinforced by a new cl * * “with intent to Tinaence is Vote on | road was opened, without local business, with no consid: ind: ihe welatiens of his som-in-law, Mr. Neilson, with | italist: bringing with them Jarger means a rable through trafti Spe fa, the ‘dawn of the iriendur ree Credit Mobilier As its ostensible Cag? He de. | powerful influence in the financial world. alike gainst tions between the United States amd those Asiatic ha- clared that Mr. Brooka, kmowing the whole fraud, had HOW THE AMES CONTRACT FLOURISH ED, any member, officer or person who all in any | tlons wh an now bid fair to prove the source of its largest deliberately put himself in the position to share in the Early in September, 1365, it became manifest that the wie, ‘accept or receive the same, not knowingly, wiliully | and most lucrative business, Tho conservative capitalists spoils. ‘Tne columittee held that the facts proved abun- | contrict could wot be pertormed, and that the work must | oF feloniously receive the samé, but in any wise accept | of the country believed it woul pankrapt any organiza- or Stop unless additional strength could be imparted to th ceive the samo, Mark the language :—"And tho | tion which undertook to operat ur years re- sO OPICIAL MISCONDUCE ON TUR PART OF MR. E2OORR, | Corpormtion, Accordingly, After Urgeat solicitation ‘and | member, officer oF person who shall fi any wise accept or | versed that opinion, and how the same. ten a putting and the committee also held that asa matter of law that | lo: consideration, myselt ai others asvocteted receive the same, be liable forth their best etfos secure the hemes of ed w or an: rt thereof, s] or sion asa | with me for the first time took an {i an Fofctment as fora high er (S lemeanor, and | traMiec connection, 3 incinber‘at Congvene Henge been argued pemierday™ in | the ‘otvantzaion. His cautal ‘rk "was cteuate | Shalirupen conviction idee pot exceeding | \Bwentyiour vents Bese ae oc n +, ome th: " ‘Committee, money was raised, and the * t for times amount so ‘omised or given, an Tailroad west of Lak , ti that Coudreoe had’ bo tuthatie ree, itor of tala | Ward, Vader Wis arranxguat Af ues ot syed wire | Assptlagued iat genie ceeding ton years.” | of Bullalo, ee woud” pguuly "he banyan cre eae oe" de wapany ‘wouten, oF imake the loan of the gavornmont so ttrs torat hoes “ tom ayy Dt ‘These, thes my offences: That tation, 'ortune, everything, in an enterprise of incalcula- bie beheflt to the goverument, from. wl the world shrank; that I have sought to stren: a the a Guns realty eens ed invoking pee! aritable meni Public upon itso! mbar. ents; that | have had ibd 3 some La Jive, with whom I have been willing to share advantazeous opportunities of investinent; that I have kept to truth through good and evil report, denying nothing, con: nothing, reserving nothing. Who will say that I alone am to be offered up a sacrifice to appeasé a public clamor yr expiate the sins ot others? Net until such ap omering fs maiorwiil T believe ‘it possible. But if this body so order that {t can best be purified by the choice of a single victim, I shall accept its mandate, appealing, with tinfaltering confidence, to the finpartial verdict of tory for that vin lteation which itis proposed to deny me ke. The pororetion. was epianniaty read, so that even sensi tities 01 Sr. Ames bimsel! could not be restr suTicieatly to keep tears trom sutusing Mis eyes, and it ‘was received with half suppressed murmurs of approba- ticn all over the House, The reading clowed af half-past two o'clock. | rv. Porrer, lew York, r rting to 1c POCe> Penis cited by Mr. Poland to-day, remarked that thouge he persona who were referred to were expolled tor acts committed before their election, yet they bad been in- @ictea for them Tunas he siti tf the Parliament. Mr. Farnsworrs, (rep.) of Ll., then rose and pro- ceeded to make an'argument in favor ofthe accused and ely conclusions ot She soles: coli alia What, . he om Oukee nate Brats hat be belied eee {hat they did not know that they were bribed: th hey were Doe Me 1e rs, and 101 aotber ae. mes Hor the persons bribed knew w! ere 10 or abstain from a ; ‘this feo had concluded. its report papa f that Me aime fae gully of bribery because nevmade those Falos of so unders ey ak pases one mun could not totamnit pivery” any more ‘than one mam could gommlt A conspiracy, or any more than ue peson could commit matrimony. (Laughter, it Lg 9d ares, a i there cor no! ted regn bribed was to do or to setae ‘fom coiug something: -Bosides,"a man did not ‘heed ie irlends, ye’ man pera went Oy Bis, ist ready com 1s ocase and in fav edz complet spa siibasonand Petre a convert them. They were oflered to those who were dis- inclined, to prevail upom them todo what the briver de- red them to do. Passing to the case of Mr. Brooks, Mr. ‘arnsworth called attention to the fact that the mat ei id against hin took place during the time when r. Brooks was not a member of Congress, and when he Was under no greater obligation of duty in regard to the matter than were Dr, Durant, Mr, Dillon ABY,ODe those gentlemen who werg engage fa ane ok a Se was then that Mr. Brooke tro inade 5 TA BOR { FOR OREDIT MOBILIER STOCK. 5 ot SULSEQU fer of the stock by Mr, Brooks to his son-in-law, Mr, :80N, Was only @ proof of his extreme dejieacy in not wishing to be connected personally with the matter while he was a government director, Besides it was the most natural thing in the world for a man to look atter the interests of his own kith and kin. The wople had been told so very often within the past year Fiano to persons higher in office than Mr. Brooks. {hang ter.) If this transfer to Neilson bad been an at- mypton the part of Mr. Brooks to cover up a bad trans- action, he never would have selected his son-in-law. No mun, he was going to say with the sense necessary to bea member of Congress—that was not puiting it very high— Gauehter) but with sense enough to be a county Justice of the Peace—that was better—(laughter)—would evem have resorted to so timsy a dodge as to select his son-in- law in order to cover np a bad transaction. To his mind, on the face of it, it wa: 23 nadge off tea ee Peete a 3 0 of fal ng, a wort he 40 regarde: rye am Pus sary neneible, judicl=t’ sctnonai’ imthe eect tae wie not wish tobe understood a: proving of this matter im ‘aij ite length and breadth, ought that the purchase or Oreciit Mobilier, stock “by members of Congress waa & very impi dent thing, but he did not propose himself to cast a stone ay those who did it, He did not think it was wecisely the righ: {hing to continue that sort of machine. Thatmiznt have been Aniquitous, but if so the House should go back and punish tue Men, Who made the con- trivance, Let the men who contri, 4 ro peda taken up and expelled, if there were sich ens 4 Instead of expelling ove man because he ‘the and another because he bought it, After passing =a RULOGIES ON THE CHARACTHRS OF MK, AMES AND MR. BROO! he remarked that it had Deen sald that “slander loves shining mark.” It was so in this case. Men whi een . but the sharp words which, had been uttered on either side had been forgotten and forgiven. He was not, as he was about to leave the pall Kol ne to throw stones at these men. It was most deplorable“that such men should be singled out for these shatts, He reminded the House that some men : “Compound the sins they are inclined to By damning those they have uo mind to.’ And so the vicious people (men not halt as geod as those they condemn) would compound for sins ten times worse and would justity in their consclence he mit, it thev could but drag down to their La bright fae ining mark. This question after all re- solved itself into the single question whether the stock of the Credit Mobilier was contraband property. Was itin and of itself uitous, $0 to corrupt the man who held it?’ The committee did not anywhere pretend to the affirmative of that proposition. On the con- trary, Mr, Ames was one of the largest stock- hoklers of Cr.dit Mobiller stock, and yet it ‘was not proposed to punish him because of that fact. The House was permitted to take it for granted that that property, as property, did not corrupt or taint the holder, and they'were then driven to examine the conclusion the comunittee, to wit, Whether there was bribery on thas question. He would say no more. Atter a few further remarks the hammer fell, and Mr Merriok, (dem.) of Md., one of (he democratic members Of th6 selogtoommittes, took the floor, . ir, MERRICK ¢ nee remarks in so low a tone as 10 be hardly ahd fog ‘at the Eeporlra desk.” Ho exe ressed his regret at finding bi it in the painful on of defen the report the committee, particu- Bey that part of it in which the committee was supposed ve WHITRWASHED OTHER MEMBERS, who had received Credit Mobilier stock. He who so read that report totaily misunderstood its scope and purpose. ‘The committee had not, in the language reterred to, at- tempted to cxeuipate those gentlemen. On the contrary, the committee had pointed out as a lesson for them course of Senator Bayard, of Delaware, in refusing to touch that stock. It had been the object ‘or the commit- tee, so tar as it could do go within the limits of its power, to strike @ blow and to cast a censure on all of them. If jhese members knew it there was no evidence of the fact before the commitice, If they had been aware of the enormous dividends that were to grow out of the con- tract which they nade with Ames, the committee could not have acquitted them ; but there was no evidence that they did know it, r. ELpuIDGE remarked that they must have known it ‘when they received the large dividends. Mr, Mernick asked whether the gentleman from Wis- gonsin had read the testimony at all, and it so, did he not know well that the contract with each of those mem was made in the months of December and January and that the dividends spoken of were not made till the 17th June following ? How, then, could they know that which did not take piace till six months afterwards? He clared it to be one of the proudest considerations of his lite that every member ot the committee it it wi as solemn a duty to find a verdict of ‘not gi reference to those whose guilt had not been estal l, asit was to render the painful verdict of “guilty,” im Teference to those whose guilt was proved beyoud the Possibility of a reasonable doubt. ‘THR ACTS AND CONDUCT OF OAKES AMES with reference to those members not included in the condemnatory action ot the committee in Invelgiing those gentlemen into the unfortunate position in w they were placed could be regarded and characterized only as acts of Satanic skill. es Ames knew and nn- derstood the was doing. | He knew and understood what the relations of tho Credit Mobiller were to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He knew and under- stood that complications would grow out of the predica- ment in which he was placing them. After reply to several other questions from members on his own side Mr. Menntcx said he would come to consider the questions affecting the gentiemen as to Whom the committee had made @ specific report. He Was pained to mention the name of James Brooks, who had heretofore been honored in the country and in the party of which he (Merrick) was a member. In respect ‘0 his case the committee could not shut its eyes to the fact that he must have known from the beginning all the relations between those two corporations. re Brooks had claimed an_ interest in the Credit Mobilier = stock, and when his claim was conceded (not as a right), then, he reveals his guilty knowledge, which is too patent tor any eye to fail to see it. The very moment of its concession to him he sare 2 that he, being a government director, cannot take in his own name. Mr SHeLLABARGER, (rep.) of Ohio, allniding to the state. ment that Oakes Ames had contrived this thing with ss nd kept back from the parties with whom he dealt the Iniormation which would have repelled them if they knew what he did, asked whether the Com- mittee had had any, proof befor < ow statement contained in Oakes Ames’ letter of January 25, 1863, was not true, namely. “Partof the purchasers here are In and want their bonds to sell toenable them to meet their Peart on the stock of the Credit Mobilier. Thave told them what they would get as dividends and they expect it.” Mr. Me nicK replied that there was no evidence before the committee that Mr. Anes had made any such state- ment tothem. There was no evidence as to what com- wunications had taken place between them, except the statement of Mr. Ames and themselves. Raph itis conceded to him does he transfer it his son- A rational being can “ this Age 4 ee i oh ah ha sontilaw che herany pared Rinse and rdcehyed the tite Yo jem: himself, Mr. Merrick went on Posy the evidence bearing on the point of the guil Eeiciae aa pear as Gee opr Between Brooke and Neilson was) bit A and that, in point of fact, Neilson was but the figure-head of the ownership, and Brooks the man who derived the Hiroughout, and enjoved ther to the presen Sey. He ‘was sorry from the depths of his heart to be ble to ex? the wi Make this statement and this exposition of the testim: but where duty called ne hee F friend or foe must 8 ve of Sisstoning. ioe t ere Shag sri cagreais ween os Balomer ‘The Svmaxen laid before the House the President's mea- ‘hitctemage having boon Toad, Mr. Monty, cep) ot Ln. moved fo refer the message to the Judiciary Soke. the tables’ or eT ‘at an: oer OF bat vag wag 80 ie Mr. Porren, of New Yorks meinber of the Judiciary Committee, said that that committee bad four cases ot impeachment berore it, one of them involving this very uestion ‘and he assured the House his conviction that it the message was vent to that committeo there would be no action on it during having tne message favored ‘on the table, to a Makeh up at any time alter acuon te was hi ‘motion to lay the message on the table was en referred to the Judiciary Com- meme veteran during the session of thé House ang LOYSPOTE AL ALY Lea recess till half-past se ir. POLAND even jtatement that he would not call fora Sete aight, be that ane non should be for debate atte re. Rosunts, (rep.) of N. ¥,, moved an adjourn deal of confusion and 4 variety ot propo sidoan abd mages she House, at five o'clock, Look w past sever o'clock. wee, session is to be for debate only, transacted. ‘clock P. ‘ila, in the shaly ad