Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1880 — Page 12

I told him he k new __ out a statement and showed it to him' ‘"at the versation he admitted it, and said, as near as Fean that there was $2,400 due him in stock and bonds. lie made a’ little memorandum of SI,OOO and $1,400, and, as I recollect, said there was SI,OOO of Union Pacific Railroad stock, SI,OOO of Credit Mobilier stock, and S4OO of stock or bonds, I do not recollect what. My impression is that he wanted to say as little about it as he could, and to get off as easily as he could. That was about the conversation I had with him —about the long and short of it. Q. Have you the memorandum Mr. Garfield made? A. I have the figures that he made. Paper shown to the Committee containing figures as follows: SI,OOO ‘51,400 $2,400' Q. You say this figures were made by Mr. Garfield ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What do these sums represent ? How did he put them down? A. SI,OOO Union Pacific Railroad stock, SI,OOO Credit Mobilier stock, and S4OO which he could not remember whether it was to be in cash or stocks or bonds. Garfield swore before the Committee that he simply borrowed S3OO from Ames, and afterward repaid him the money. The Committee did not believe him, and did believe Oakes Ames; and its report to the Forty-second Congress contains the following: “ The facts in regard to Mr. Garfield, as found by the Com mittee, are identical with the case of Mr. Kelley to the point of the reception of the check of $329. He agreed with Mr. Amestotake ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received the 80 per cent, dividend bonds and sold them sor 97 per cent., and also received the 60 per cent, cash dividend, which, together, paid the price of the stock and interest and left a balance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the Sergeant-at- A.rms, and Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after paying for the stock. Mr. Ames received all the subsequent dividends; and the Committee do not find that, since the payment of the $329, there has been any communication between Mr. Ames and Mr. Gar field on the subject until the investigation began.” He voted for the railroad charter, received the proceeds of the stock, tried to treat the transaction as a loan, swore that he received no dividend, and his judges, the Committee, disbelieved him. (New York Times, February 19th, 1873.) Kelley and Garfield present a most distressing figure. *'on in the Credit Mobilier affair is complicated by '■■Hiadictions of testimony. February 19th, 1873.) never paid a dollar; ~~ 'n. he was anxious ’■ nuelf.

pH 6 he poheyfi* lhe report of the ■ conclusive proofs of the facts here stated. °” y HIS OPPOSITION TO On the Bth of March, 1867, at the first session of the Fortieth Congress, Mr. Fernando Wood asked unanimous consent to offer the following resolution: Resolved, That this House, extends its sympathy to the people of Ireland in their pending struggle for constitutional liberty. If I the despotic governments of Europe shall be allowed to establish 1 monarchial institutions in America, so should the United States foster and promote the extention of republican institutions in Europe. 1 Mr. Broomall (Rep.) objected. The motion was then to sus- 1 pend the rules to enable the resolution to pass. The question was taken, and there were 104 yeas and 14 nays. Thirteen of those who voted nay were Republicans, and James A. Garfield was one. 1 Perhaps this affords a reason why Irishmen should rally to the support of Garfield. 1 In the Congressional Globe, April 17, 1871, First Session part 2, page 735, will be found the following: 1 Mr. Kinsella. I move a suspension of the rules and the adop- 1 tion of the following resolution, which I send to the desk: Whereas, The prolonged incarceration in the prisons of the Dominion of Canada of persons accused of violating the neutrality laws is a source of irritation to a large number of American citizens; therefore, Resolved, That the President of the United States is respectfully requested to have the case of such persons presented before such ' Joint High Commission, to the end that their release may be ( 1 effected. ’ James A. Garfield objected, and voted against the passage of 1 ■ the strictly just resolution, showing thereby his hatred not alone of 1 the unfortunate Fenian prisoners referred to in the resolution, who were then confined in Canadian dungeons for more than five years, 1 ’ but of the whole Celtic race. 1 i VOTES TO TAX TEA, COFFEE, SALT, AND , PRINTING PAPER. , As early as February 12, 1872, Mr. Mercur, of Pennsylvania, : moved a resolution directing the Committee of Ways and Means : to report a bill repealing the import duties on tea and coffee. The 1 - motion was agreed to without debate, for it was made under a sus pension of the rules. Mr. Garfield is recorded in the negative. I [Globe, part 2, Second Session Forty-second Congress, page 974.] < On the following Monday, February 19, Mr. Mercur made > I another motion of like import by moving to discharge the Committee of the Whole from the further consideration of a bill to re- I peal existing duties on tea and coffee. This was adopted also t ; 1 under a suspension of the rules. Mr. Garfield is again recorded I si against it. [lbid, page 1 118.] , On lhe same day a resolution was offered directing the Ways 1

and clear as to be so f<,,. petent couit upon an issue solemnly tried In their address Sept. 10, 1876, they say: The Republican party has done much to purify itself within itself. Its Whiskey Ring Revenue officers are convicted and im prisoned, Belknap is deposed and impeached and only escaped conviction by a technicality. Its Salary Stealing, Credit-Mobilier, Pavement Jobbing Congressmen are mostly retired. James A. Garfield remains. Richard C. Parsons, his compeer as a great patent pavement lawyer, nominated without opposition in a district Republican last year by 6,500 majority, was buried at the polls by Henry B. Payne, a Democrat, by 2,500 majority. The officeholders nominated him, but the brave, honest people rebuked him. James A. Garfield fell from 10,935 majority in 1872 to 2,526 majority in 1874. “Oh, what a fall there was, my countrymen.” Rebuked, shorn of character for truth and integrity, all that is noble in manhood, almost defeated, he stands a sad and blackened monument of avarice and greed. OFFICIAL RECORD OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR. Republican Candidate for Vice-President. He was Collector of Customs for the port of New York. He was removed by President Hayes in 1879, and the following reasons for the removal were given by the President and Secretary of the Treasury to the United States Senate, in official letters. Upon the strength of these charges of corruption and dishonesty in his administration of the office, the Senate assented to his removal “ With a deep sense of my obligations under the Constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you, in order that the office may be honestly administered.” — R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, January 31, 1879. “ You have made the Custom House a centre of partisan political management.” — R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Jan. “ Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your incumbency.” — John Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31, 1879. “ Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no service; the expenses of your office have increased while the receipts have diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort o correct these abuses. — John She/ man to Collector A, thur.