| Show credit ito bilier TIIE WRETCHED Mm conclusion LUSION when the tile poland loland credit Mo bilier biller report rt was published it was received raby by the country with digap disappointment p and dissatisfaction because it provided presided for no censure and no punishment for any of the guilty congressmen except the tho for the expulsion of ames ambs and brooks the country protest ed scandalous corruptions corrupt ions and enormous frauds upon the country developed in that report by the sacrifice of two scapegoats goats P this ex pies ples sion slon sprang impulsively to the linsor lips of every honorable ilono liono rable rabie man who had followed the evidence through the long catalogue of evasion subterfuge ter fuge falsehoods false hoody and worse to which the implicated parties were driven in the vain effort to hide their guilt but the action of the house of representatives yesterday falls short even of the disa disappointing eluting 11 ven report of the committee even the f carpe boata were not sacrificed weak and inoperative reso eions of censure were passed and this wai was the lamo lame amo and impotent conclusion ofa of a long inquiry which disclosed every day how the government had been plundered of scores of millions of dollars through the direct agency of some members of congress and the guilty conni vance vanee and participation of others it is a vain tiling thing for congress or anyone else to attempt to conceal tiie tile conspicuous of thedor the cor eor erupting transactions transacts ons in which every one of the members who bought the credit Mo bilier biller stock in the first place congress had llad voted twenty seven millions of dollars to the union pacific railroad together with a whole principality of land then this thia company was constantly and conn corm corn o tenuously interested in legisla legislation timi before congress either to get favors to free itself from its obligations cr to prevent other legislation compelling it to do its duty and holding it to accountability there has been no congress since 1667 1867 where it was not interested in this way the corrupting agent of this railroad company was the credit Mo bilier biller it was the company under another name a cunning device by which the managers of the railroad company could plunder tho the stockholders and rob the government at the same time the managers and manipulators of the two concerns are the same persons throughout although they sometimes appear as railroad directors and at others as contractors this company composed of men pien who were then and some of them now members of congress appeared on the floor of the national house houle of representatives in december 1867 wi with budgets of credit Mo Mob biller iJler stock to sell to the leading members no money was needed to pay for this stock the rich dividends dividen cig eig of sixty and eighty per cent paid for it in advance e there were two such dividends within a few lew months this in itself was sufficient to warn off any honorable man no man certainly no corporation po ration goes about seeking buyers for a stock paying suell such princely profits unless there is some sinister purpose I 1 in n view but there were two other reasons why the members approached by ames and durant should have repelled their advances these profits were derived from a company that had been tile the recipients or of millions of the public money an and d there was legislation then pending in that month ot of dei 4 ember comber 1867 in which that company was deeply interested but notwithstanding ti these lese iese suspicious overtures of ames in virtually giving away thousands thousands of dollars ot profitable stock and in pite spite of the knowledge of the iela eions of the union x to tho the government and also in spite of the pending legislation which should have aroused the dormant sense of honor in every one of i them they took the stock and availed themselves of the profits then came their mean trickery false denials shifts evasions and ana last following explanations ol 01 their explanations every change in which showed more and more their own sense of their own culpability thele there never was an instance in which men holding a public trust were more moie thoroughly covered with proof of malfeasance in office the guilty knowledge of all these men was wag as visible aa as the plunder of the government money was rt stupendous and congress punishes all this by passing its partial resola resolutions of censure letting the guilty go free upon the false pretense 0 of having no jurisdiction this is io fo transparent a sham that it will command the belief of no one possessing the he commonest intelligence the majority of the house ot of representatives evading their plain duty in trying to wipe away the stain from their dishonored members have fixed that stain upon tile the house itself without removing it from the guilty they have tried to shield ishield philadelphia ledger some writers have asserted that thao the real new england is out west ireland having taken possession of massachusetts westward the bird of empire takes its olgat night 11 i f MR ste str stewart VART the contumacious C witness has commenced to not rot in a bastile 11 according to his desire but there is so much of him and the weather is so cold and favorable to keeping ineat that it is doubtful if he decomposes thoroughly before spring washington st star ar |
