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Show By W.TJ.Teleeraph.l THK UNION PACIFIC KOAD. In the testimony before tho Wilson committee jesterday, C. S. Bushnell, after detailing circumstances under which he paid Dodge $:M,500 for his services in getting the bridge bill through congress, stated that he paid Thos. A. Scott $19,0J0 on account of money advanced "to the company by Scott and a balance of $12 6U0 he handed to the secretary of the company com-pany in payment for land grant bonds, which he, the wit acre, had purchased from it. The only return tho Union Pacific company got for this money was that it enabled the witness to Scarry out his contract by taking one I half of thfir securities ebove tbs mar-I mar-I kot price. Dody:e wasa director of the road at the time, though he wis not then chief engineer. Checks for the amounts mentioned were handed by the witness to Dodge.and Scott's clerk, Snence. Bushoell was then questioned relative to general Dix's stock in tho fjuion Pacific road. From hia testimony testi-mony it appears that Dii had 500 shares, that he, the witness, thought was paid for by Durant. It was barely possible it was given Dix by the company com-pany as an extra compensation. His impression was that tho stock was given to Dix. The Credit Mobilier afterwards bought Dix's shares at par. The stock at that time was worth not over a third of its face. There was a variety of reasons for buying the stock. I Dix was represented to bo dissatisfied with being turned out of the presidency, presi-dency, and said he had rather remain I than be minister to France. Dix wrote a letter from Paris to S. L. M. Barlow, his counsel, whu-h Barlow read to the directors of the U. P. road, and tl ey thought by the letter and the remarks of Barlow that it would be advisable to take the stock. Slocum asked tho witness whether tho letter was not threatening, as to the success of the bonds in Kurope, unless Dis s stock was taken at par. Witness Wit-ness was not prepared to say, but to the best of his rceo le:tion something like that was in the letter. At least so Barlow stated. Barlow did not L ...k tho lptlPr trt clr-n full understanding of its contents, but it was not thought advisable or to the interest of the company, to quarrel with Dix's counsel. Bushnftll further said that the company had now determined deter-mined to pay no more or to lobby to protect themselves but to give congress con-gress all necessary information relative to the management and to trust to contTcas to protect it. Witness never heard that $10,000 was raid as a retainer re-tainer to Carpenter of is., when 1 candidate for senator, nor that any um was paid as a retainer to aoy mem- |
