Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1873 — The Credit Mobilier Investigation. [ARTICLE]

The Credit Mobilier Investigation.

As the result Of the resolution to open the Credit-Mobilier investigation committeeroom, part of the testimony waa placed at the control of the press on the 6th. It shows the following in regard to those named on the examination of Oakes Ames. Mr. Colfax took ten or twenty shares, and paid for them, though the Stock was never transferred to him, nor had he received any dividends. Mrs. Senator Henry Wilson was induced to take twenty shares, but afterwards objected tb the investment, and it was taken off her hands. Senator Patterson paid for twenty shaies and received his dividends. Mr. Bingham requested Oakes Ames to make some investments for him where they would pay, and the latter invested in twenty-five shares of Credit Mobilier. Mr. Dawes had ten shares, aud a guaranty that they should be worth ten per cent.; he afterward said he would rather not take the stock, and the contract was rescinded. Mr. Wilson had the same guaranty; Mr. Garfield was to receive ten shares,-but he did not pay for or receive them. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, got tho amount of ten shares ($1,000) as a loan. Mr. Scofield bought ten shares and afterward declined them, because he did not like the liability clause in the charter or contract of the Credit Mobilier. Mr. Fowler, of Tennessee, never had any interest In thp stock. Wilson and Allison, of lowa, each bought ten shares and paid for them.. Speaker Blaine was offered some of the stock, but at once refused. Secretary Boutwell agreed to take ten shares, and subsequently declined to consummate the purchase. Senator Conkling had received a share, and was never interested in the Company. Mr. McComb testified that Mr. Brooks is the only member Of Congress whois known to have received any of this stock without a fair consideration; the witness gave In detail, as proof of the charge, an alleged conversation which he heard between Messrs. Brooks and Ailey, relating to fifty shares of the stock whieh was transferred to Brooks or his son-in-law Neilson. John B. Alley testified that he never had any conversation with Brooks relative to shares, and never gave or sold a share of the stock of Credit-Mobilier to Brooks »to any member; and that the statement of McComb is a fabrication. Vice-President Colfax made a written statement to the Credit-Mobilier Committee, on the 7th, to the effect that he had never received, nor had tendered him, any dividends in cash, stock, or bonds accruing upon any stock in either of said organizations, and neither Mr. Ames nor any other person connected with either of said organizations, ever asked him to vote for or against any measures affecting the interests of either, - directly or remotely, or to use any personal or official influence in their favor. He had, however, five years ago, upon the representations of Mr. Ames, contracted to buy twenty shares of stock, on which he made a partial payment of SSOO. He never received any dividends, cash or scrip, from this stock. In the same year he bought it he threw it back on Ame* bands in order to escape the litigation which had arisen between the members of the Company. The net result of his speculation has been a io** to him of SSOO. A dispatch was received from Mr. Allison on the 7th, disclaiming any share-holding on his part of the Credit-Mobilier or Union Pacific stocks. Share* had been sent him, but he promptly returned them. John B. Alley was further cross-examined before the Investigating Committee on th e Bth. He had no personal knowledge as to who was the original owner of the one hundred shares standing in the name of Neilson, son-in-law of James Brooks; he presumed Neilson paid for them. He did not know that any share* were sold after January L 1868; he did not know that the success or .failure of the road wouldtfcpend on friendly or unfriendly legislation. When asked whether SIOO,OOO had not been put in hl* hands to Influence Congress to annul Secretary Boutwell’s ruling concerning the interest on Pacific Railway bonds, Alley asserted that he had never had a dollar for such use, direct or indirect. He believed that Ames bad no intention of corrupting Congress by bis distribution of stock, and thought that if there had been the fullest investigation from the first much public misapprehension would have been avoided.

Doubtful Stoky.—The London Globe publishes a story from Paris of a very remarkable character. It is related that a German professor begged two Communist prisoners to experiment on scientifically. He administered chloroform to each, injected a solution of calx into their .systems, and then bled them to death. The corpses were dessicated by furnace heat until the flesh shrivelled and the skin became like leather. In this state they remained three months, when the process of revivication began by injecting into the bodies the blood of two healthy laborers, and applying a galvanic battery. One of the bodies remained lifeless, but in the other the muscles twitched, the eyes rolled, the heart began to beat, and finally the man arose, complained of hunger and soreness of limb, out speedily recovered all his faculties, and is still living to attest the success of the experiment. The tale is remarkable, but still more so the fact that the London papers appear to believe it. - Vekt early yesterday morning an elegantly dressed female was found leaning against the doorway of a store on Washington street, near Avon. She was insensible, for the chill of the intense cold was on her. The humane policeman who froze his hands while attempting to resuscitate her spoke harshly when he discovered that he had rubbed the paint off the cheeks of the wax beauty, Who, before she was burned out, was wont to smile from the window of the hair store opposite.— Boston Adverlieer. A Fiat originated in the kitchen of "05 Pine streel last evening about 7 octock. It caught from the stove, and rapidly making its way. through the dining-room and hall-way issued from the front door, I where it was first discovered. It-was on | the end of a cigar. Damage ten cents.— I St. Louie RepiMiean.