Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1873 — Page 1

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General News Summary.

CONGRESS; SENATE—EXTRA SESSION March 6.—The Senate of the Fortythird Congress met in extra session ... Senators Jones, of Nevada, Ferry, of Connecticut, and WAdleigb, of New Hampshire, were sworn in.... The committee appointed to wait upon the Presi dent reported that he had no communication to make to the Senate except in the form of nominations. .. .'Mr. Morton offered a resolution declaring that Mr. Caldwell was not entitled to a seat as Senator from Kansas, not having been duly and legally elected ■ . A lengthy debate was had on . the question of the admission of Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, whose credentials were presented, and whose claim is contested by Mr. Sykes, whose certificate of election, signed by the officers of the Legislature of that State, were also presented. March 7. —The Rev. Dr. Newman was re-elected Chaplain.. . . After discussion, a motion was adopted to admit Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, and he was sworn lu. The credentials of Wm. T. McMillen, claiming to be the Senator-elect from Louisiana, elected by the McEnery Legislature, were presented and laid on the table to be printed. . ..The credentials of Roscoe Conkling as Senator from New Tork, were presented, read and laid on the table.. ..Executive session and adjournment ■to the loth.—===q= -- —- .-c ■ ■ ' ■ March 10.—The Committee on Elections were directed to examine and report at the next session the best and most practicable method of electing the President and Vice-President of the United States, together with a plan for the organization of a tribunal to determine all con-, tested questions connected therewith, and that the Committee have leave to sit during the recess Of the Senate... Petitions were presented —for the —prohibition of liquor legislation... ..Tim Caldwell bribery case.was taken up, and after arguments by Mr. Morton in favor of expulsion, Mr. Caldwell made a lengthy statement, claiming that it was an absolute fact that the majority of the Kansas Legislature did vote for him, while there was no proof that there was any restraint in.the premises The election of_a Senator is the act of a State in its sovereign capacity, with which the Senate cannot interfere. He quoted numerous precedents in support of this proposition. Before the reading of Mr. Caldwell’s rtatetnehCw'as completed, the Senate went into Executivwsessfon, and afterwards adjourned, March 11.—Mr. John B. Gordon, Senator electffanHleorgia, was sworn in.... Mr. Wright, oftho SpeclalCommitt.ee of last session, introduced a resolution that the charges against the official conduct of Powell Clayton had not. been sustained, and that the Committee be discliargcd from further consideration of the -subject....A resolution was passed—. 37 to 13—authorizing the Secretary of War to consider and report as to the expediency of setting apart a portion of the Island of Mackinac for a public park . .The Secretary of the Treasury was requested-to furnish, at the next session. Information as to the conveniences and general treat ment accorded to immigrants on shipboard.... The case of Senator Caldwell was taken up. and his statement was concluded. He puts his defense upon the jfrounds—first, that, the motives of the members of a State Legislature, in voting, cannot be inquired into for the purpose of invalidating an election; second, in judging of qualifications the Senate cannot add to those prescribed by the Constitution ; third, not a dollar is traced from Caldwell, or by his authority, or from anybody else, to any member of the Legislature as a consideration for his vote. Mr. .Carpenter spoke in reply to Mr, Morton’s arguments of the day before in favor of the resolution declaring Mr. Caidwell’s election illegal, and said the testimony against Mr. Caldwell was not such as would be submitted by a court to a jury. As to Caldwell’s guilt, he should vote against the expulsion of the senator, and asked the Senators, before they cast their votes to disgrace him, at least to read.and study the testimony. March 12.—A resolution was adopted that Mr. Carpenter act as President protein. in the absence of the A-icfrPreßklent....The Standing Committees were chosen....A resolution was adopted “that the Committee on Judiciary be instructed to inquire and report nt the December session of the Senate whether the Union Pacific Railway Company, or any company authorized to build a branch road to connect therewith, or any assignee of such will he entitled to lands or bonds for any road which snc.h company may hereafter construct; and that until said Committee shall report, the executive officers of the Government are requested to issue no bonds or patent certificates rnat may be claimed for roads constructed and reported after this date.”... .The Caldwell case was further considered, Messrs. Conkling, Logan and Stockton arguing that the ’Senate had no control over the question as presented; that the election Caldwell was an act of theJState Legislature, behind which' the Senate, as decided by the courts, could not go. Mr. Morton, in reply, claimed that the power to inquire into an election carried with it the right to inquire into everything connected with THE OLD WORLD. A London telegram of the 6th says President Thiers had recognized the belligerent rights of the Carlists in Spain. The impression was growing in London that Don Carlos would succeed. General Sickles has communicated to Scnor Castelar the congratulations of the United States Senate upon the establishment of the Spanish Republic. The French Government, up to the 7th iust., had paid Germany 3,500,000,000 francs on account of the war indemnity. In the Spanish Assembly, on the Sth, a debate occurred on the bill dissolving the Assembly, convoking the ConstittfCnt Cortes, and providing for elections of the latter. ThePresl.dent.of the Chamber left the chair and made a patriotic speech, declaring that he should not oppose, a dissolution of the, Assembly and a call of the Constituent Cortes. Prime Minister Figueras exhorted the Liberals to pursue a conciliatory coursej and urged the Conservatives to trust in the Republic. The Assembly voted to take the bill into consideration by 186 yeas to 19 nays. A large crowd of people in front of the hall, on hearing the result of the vote, gave repeated cheers for,the Republic. The Federal Republic had been proclaimed in Barcelona, and Prime Minister Figueras, on receiving the nows, immediately left ..for that city. Madrid advices of the 9th say that the reports from officers of the staff of the General commanding the Army of the North represent that the Carlists cannot muster over 10,000 or 19,000 men, chiefly paid partisans. Their tactics are to act in small bands, so as to divide the National Xjoops. They have plenty of money. The peasants are growing Weary of the insurrection. Ex-King Amadeus of Spain arrived at Tufin on the Bth, and was welcomed with extraordinary enthusiasm by the people. - A Berlin dispiatch on the Bth says that the Government of France had officially given Germany financial guarantees for the payment of her war indemnity, and that negotiations for the German evacuation of French territory had commenced. A special dispatch from Berlin to the London Tinwa, however, says Germanv refuses to evacuate Belfort until the payment of the war indemnity is completed by France. A frightful accident occurred at Fort Mpnt Valerian, France, on the 7th. A cartridge factory exploded, injuring one hun- . dred persons, many of them fatally. A Berlin dispatch of the 10th says that Prince Bismarck had made a powerful speech in the Upper House of the Prussian Diet in support of the bill limiting the power - of the Roman Catholic clergy. In the English House of Commons on the 12tb, after a protracted debate, Gladstone’s Irish University bill was rejected by a majority of three votes. Ex-King Amadeus has been appointed Lieutenant-General of the Italian Army. At Rome, on the 11th, a deputation of republicans attempted to -celebrate the birthday of Mazzini by visiting his tomb, but the police refused them admission.

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VOL. V.

Great excitement prevailed for a time, but the troops werp called out and prevented a disturbance. The French communist Farrades has been sentenced by court-martial to be executed. The defeat Of Mr. Gladstone’s Irish University bill in the English House of Commons created the most intense excitement. During the debate the galleries were crowded, among those present being the Prince of Wales, the Princess Louise, and Prince Christian. The bill did not receive the vote of a single conservative member. Fortyseven liberals, of whom thirty were Irishmen, voted against’ it. Fifteen Irish members voted for it. Seventeen members, including Isaac Butt, member for Limerick, were absent. Forty members participated In the debate. John Bright, Jacob Bright, 1 his brother, and the Marquis of Lome supported the Government. After the announcement of the result, Gladstone arose and said: “The vote just given is certainly of a grave character. As the House never wishes to continue its deliberations when the existence'of the Government Is in doubt, I move an adjournment until Thursday.” The motion was carried. At noon on the 12th, Mr. Gladstone waited upon the Queen and tendered his resignation. A dispatch from Dublin says that the students of Trinity College had burned Gladstone in effigy. —The Spanish Assembly, on the 11th, definitely sanctioned the bill introduced by the Government suspending the present sittings and convoking a Constituent Cortes for the Ist of May. Martos, President of the Asscmbly, ami..Lopez, Secretary, had resigned. The German Parliament convened on the. 12th. The Emperor opened the session in person. In his speech from the throne the Emperor said he believed that negotiations now in progress would result in the entire evacuation of France by the German troops at an earlier day than- had been heretofore expected. A company has been organized in England for the purpose of laying ane w~ocettn cable from Plymouth, England, to Rye Beach, N. H. Gold closed in New York on the 13th at 115@115XNew Orleans advices on the evening of the 6th, state that the Kellogg Metropolitan Police, armed as infantry, had taken possession of Odd Fellows’ Hall, where the McEnery Legislature had formerly met. The Speaker of the House and several of the members who were-in the hall at the time, were taken to the Police Station, but were subsequently released. It wasclaimed that Governor McEnery did not authorize the movement made by the militia the previous night. The total number of casualties reported as resulting from the affray was one man killed and eight wounded on the aide of the militia, and one wounded of the police. About fifty citizens, or militia, who participated in the affray, had been arrested, taken before a United States Commissioner, and released on SI,OOO bail each. The Fusion Legislature met in the afternoon at the St. James Hotel, and passed a joint resolution, protesting, “in the name of the people of the State, against the interference of the military of the U. S. Government,” ete., etc. Everything was quiet, and no further trouble apprehended. Early on the morning of the 6th, two Chicago policemen, while endeavoring to arrest a couple of drunken rowdies, were set upon by four others of the gang, and a terrible fight ensued. One of the policemen drew his revolver and fired six shots at the party wlio were beating liis companion, and succeeded in driving them away. One of the policemen was very badly beaten, one of the rowdies killed, and another fatally wounded. The new Postal bill, as it was agreed to in the Conference Committee, and finally passed, cuts off free newspaper circulation entirely, except exchanges, and rejects the proposition to compel newspapers to prepay their postage. The two cent letter postage goes into effect July 1. The Miuuesote-House of Representatives on the sth formally impeached Wm. Beegar, State Treasurer, of corrupt conduct in office. A committee waited upon the Senate, and demanded action. That body appointed a committee of five upon the matter, to consider and report at its convenience.. The Governor was also formally notified. The Arkansas Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of liquors to minors. Senator Sumner resumed his seat in the Senate on the 6th. His health was much Improved. Judge Poland has sent the ten shares of Credit-Mobilier stock, which M r - Ames insisted belonged to Mr. Kelley, but which the latter emphatically disclaimed, to United States Treasurer Spinner, who is to sell them, with accumulated dividends, for the benefit of the conscience tund of J;he Treasury. It is stated from Washington that the Postmaster General insists upon collecting double unpaid rates of postage on newspapers, holding that, as the Attorney-General did not. pass upon that- question, his late decision refers only to letters. A frightful double murder is reported at Mattoon, 111., on the 6th. A widow named Nancy Lanxton, and her adopted daughter, twelve years old, were found dead in bed, with their throats cut from ear to ear. A common case-knife was sticking in the wound in Mrs. Lanxton’s throat, her right hand grasping its handle. The bodies lay in a composed position, evidently having been arranged after death, and nicely covered by the bed-clothes. A son of Mrs. Lanxton was arrested on suspicion of having committed the murders. A dispatch from Fort Benton, 7th, says that a war party of Piegan Indians killed Hiratn Cook and Charles Randolph, a fe’w days since, above Eagle Creek, on the Missouri River, where they had been all winter. The bodies were horribly mutilated. The Kansas Legislature adjourned on the 7th. The Pomeroy Investigating Committee reported on the 6th. The majority report, signed by four members, finds Pomeroy guilty of bribery and attempting to corj-upt members of the ..Legislature by offers of money. The micorTty report/ signed Joy three members of the committee, finds the charges of bribery and corruption not proven. The minority report was adopted by the House, and the majority report by the Senate. Previous to adjournment Senator York addressed the Senate regarding his connection with the- Pomeroy affair, and after his speech the Senate unanimously adopted a resolution expressing ! ‘full i faith

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 20, 1873.

and confidence in the statements made, by Senator York before the Joint Senatorial Convention for the election of a United States Senator, and that Samuel C. Pomeroy, did offer to bribe him by the payment of $7,000 for his vote.” The resolution sloses by thanking Senator York, “in behalf of the people of the State .of Kansas,, for the unmasking of Samuel C. Pomeroy, who has by corrupt practices so long held his position in the United States Senate.” A dispatch from Portsmouth, N. H., says that on the evening of the sth, two girls were murdered near that place by one Lewis Wagner. A third person had a narrow escape. The object was robbery, aud the result sls. The President has authorized the public;] tion of the following letter to Mr. Colfax: Executive Mansion, Washington, March 4. My Deab Mr. Colfax: Allow me to say that I sympathize with you in the recent Congressional investigations; that I have watched them closely and I am as satisfied now as I have ever been of yoar integrity, patriotism and freedom from the charges imputed as if I knew of my own knowledge of your innocence. Our official-relations have been so pleasant that I would like to keep up the personal relations through life. Affectionately yours, U. 8. Grant. A dispatch from Yreka, Cal., Bth, says that the sister of Captain Jack-had visited the headquarters of the Peace Commission, and reported the acceptance by her brother of the terms of surrender offered by the Commissioners. A later dispatch (9th) adds that Ca ptain Jack had requested three wagons to be sent to meet them at Rocky Point, half way between Fairchild’s lava bed. The Modoc war was therefore considered at an end. —JPresideut Grant has contributed SIOO and Viee-x*resident Wilson SSO to the Greeley monumeut fund. An enthusiastic reception was tendered ex-Vice-President Colfax on his return to his home at South Bend, Ind., on the Bth. Mr. Colfax made a lengthy and carefully prepared speech in reply to the congratulatory address on the part of the citizens, in which he reviewed the charges brought against him in connection with the CreditMobilier investigation, and reiterated his entire innocence of all blame. Both branches of the Tennessee Legislature have united in the enactment of a law providing a uniform system of free schools. In accordance with the usual custom, the members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington paid their respects in person to the President on the 10th, and congratulated him on the beginning of his second term of office. An official dispatch received in Washington on the 10th confirms the press statements of the surrender of the Modocs, and expresses the belief that peace will be permanent. Secretary Delano stated that the Department would take steps as soon as possible to procure for the Modocs an acceptable and suitable reservation. Lcb Canman,recently com .cted of robbing the mail while a clerk in the Chicago postoffice, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, has been pardoned by the President. Some doubt was felt as to the young man being actually guilty of the crime, and his pardon was recommended by a very large number of the most prominent citizens of Chicago. In the Senate, on the 10th, Senator Morton made an argument in the Caldwell case, in .which he contended that the Senate had a right to protect itself against a criminal, although the Legislature electing him might be indifferent on the subject. The power to expel a member was necessary to enable the House to perform its high functions, and was incidental to the protection of the State. The Indiana Legislature ad journed sine die on the 10th. The Ohio House of Representatives, on the 10th, adopted a resolution—74 to 6—to censure the Ohio members of Congress who voted for the retroactive salary bill. A motion to amend the resolution so as to ,sensure President Grant for sighing and approving the bill was lost—yeas, 24; nays, 52. The grand jury at Evansville, Ind., on the 11th, indicted Frederick J. Smith, alias Meyer, for killing a woman whose headless body was found buried April 10,1866. The Falls City Tobacco Bank, at Louisville, Ky., was broken into and robbed, on the night of the Bth, of bonds and other securities amounting to over SIOO,OOO. The President has reappointed, as Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, Hiram Price and James F. Wilson, of Iowa; J. C. Harrison, Indiana; J. 11. Millard, Nebraska, and D. S. 8. Ruddock, Connecticut. It has been publicly charged ih New York that Mrs. Putnam received $15;000 in consideration of her appeal to Governor Dix to have the sentence of Foster, the car-hook murderer of Putnam, commuted to a lesser punishment. The New Hampshire State election occurred on the 11th. Returns received up to midnight from 130 towns give Straw (Republican), 24,971; Weston (Democrat), 21,857; Blackman (Temperance)® 826; and Ma-, son (Liberal), 466. Jt was thought the three Democratic Congressmen were elected. The Republicans claimed the Legislature. ' A Virginia, Nevada, dispatch of the 11th, says that the epizootic had reached that place, and was so universally spread that work in the mines had been almost entirely abandoned. Rev. J. F. Clarke, of the Methodist Episcopal Cfiurch South, stationed at White Sulphur Springs, West Va., has been- expelled from the church fdr immorality. At Charlotte, Clinton County, lowa, recently, a party of five, in trying to ford the Maquoketa River with a team, were swept under the ice which had accumulated in large quantities near by, and of the five occupants of the wagon but one, a woman, was saved, and but one body of thte djowned recovered. At Rolling Fork, Miss., ifew days ago, a family of four persons were horribly murdered and an attempt made to destroy their remains by burning the building in which the deed was committed. Robbery was supposed to have been the cause of the crime, and the perpetrators had not been arrested. At Cascade, Michr, a few nights ago, the Jwnae of M* G> Smith was destroyed by fire, caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. Mrs. Smith’s clothing caught fire from the explosion, and"she was badly, and probably fatally, burned. JThe flames spread so rapidly that a son of Mr. Smith, fourteen years old, asleep in another part of ' the building, was burned to death, it being impossible to rescue him. . Mrs. Sally Herndon, of Cairo, 111., attempted recently to kindle a fire by pouring

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“non-explosive” oil on some live coals. An explosion followed, and the foolish woman would probably die of Injuries received. The Illinois House of Representatives, on the 12th, passed a resolution—yeas 103, nays 4—“ emphatically condemning the action of our Representatives in Congress from this State who, by their own votes, increased their own pay to $7,500 per annum.” The Massachusetts Legislature in joint convention on the 12th, elected Hon. George S. Boutwell to the seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the resignation of Hon. Henry Wilson. The vote was as follows: Boutwell, 152; Dawes, 115; Loring, 2; J. R. Tarbox, 2; Wm. Whiting, 2; C. Greene, 2—making 275 votes in all. Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has been chosen President pro tern. of the United States Senate. The Democrats have been allowed two representatives on each of the new standing Senate Committees. Judge Richardson assumed charge of the Treasury Department at Washington, as Acting Secretary, on the 13th. A New York telegram of the 12th says Congressman W. R. Roberts, of that-eity, in a communication addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, directs his back pay as a member of the Forty-second Congress to be paid into the Treasury of the United States. It was said that Merrick (Md.) also refused his extra pay, and that Judge Hoar (Mass.) accepted his, but afterward turned it over to -charities. - An extensive fire occurred at Indianapolis, Ind., on the night of the 11th, involving a loss of about SIOO,OOO. Daniel Glazier, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, was almost instantly killed by a falling wall.

[Republicans In Roman—so. Democrats and Liberal Republicans In Italics—24.l

Term Exp. ALABAMA. 1877 Geo. Goldthwaite. 1879 Geo. E. Spencer. ARKANSAS. 1877 Powell Clayton. 1879S.W.Dorsey. CALIFORNIA. 1875 Eugene Casserley. 1879 Aaron A. Sargent. CONNECTICUT. 1875 W. A.Buckingham. 1879 Orris S. Ferry. dblAwaKl. 1875 Thos. F. Bayard. 1877 Eli Saulsbury. FLORIDA. 1875 Abijah Gilbert. 1879 S. B. Conover. GEORGIA. 1877 Thos. M. Norwood. 1879 John B. Gordon. ILLINOIS. 1877 John A. Logan. 1879 R. J. Oglesby. INDIANA. 1875 Daniel D. Pratt. 1879 Oliver P. Morton. lOWA. 1877 Geo. G. Wright. 1879 Wm. B. Allison. KANSAS. 1877 Alexander Caldwell. 1879 John J. Ingalls. KENTUCKY. 1877 Jokne B r . Stevenson. 1879 Tkos. C. McCreery. LOUISIANA. 1877 J. Rodman West. 1879 P. B. S. Pinchback? MAINE. 1875 Hannibal Hamlin. 1877 Lot M. Morrill. MARYLAND. 1875 Bin. T. Hamilton. 1879 George R. Dennis. MASSACHUSETTS. 1875 Olios. Sumner. 1877 Henry Wilsont. MICHIGAN. 1875 Zach. Chandler. 1877 Thos. W. Ferry. MINNESOTA. 1875 Alex. Ramsay. 1877 Wm. Windom. Mississirri. 1875 Adejbert Ames. 1877 Jas.'L. Alcorn.

•General W. L. McMillan was elected by the McEnery Legislature for the long Senatorial term. I tlteslgned to accept the Vice-Prcsidency. Successor to be chosen.

It is not impossible for one who has been iu State’s prison to succeed in life, and make a virtuous record for himself, in spite of the coldness and suspicion with which society looks upon such people. In most prisons when convicts are released the authorities give them a small setting out, and make efforts to provide them employment. One case is published in the Charlestown Ohronicle? Last year a man, known by the fictitious name of Jack Hunt, who had been confined in the Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, was discharged on account of good behavior five months sooner than his sentence specified. He had been a pickpocket, and while confined in the jail at Springfield, had been induced to turn from wickedness by the influence of the Sunday school of that place. His story after his discharge, as related by himself, is substantially as follows: The State agent paid his fare to Chicago, and from that place he took passage for St. Louis. On the way, notwithstanding his good resolutions, he was tempted to return to his old trade, and pulled “an old woman’s leather,” but his conscience smote him so that he returned the pocket-book to her before she left the, train, first asking her if she had lost anything. He says he felt mean enough when she said, “Well if you ain’t an honest fellow!” He arrived at St. Louis with only $1.20, and at the end of three days paid his last ten cents for something to eat. Tired and discouraged, he felt that there was no way for him but to go back to his old trade. In his distress he prayed most heartily for help, and going out on a street, heard a great noise, and saw a runaway horse dashing toward him. Quick as thought, he grabbed a drygoods box, and, aS the team came along, smashed it over the , horse’s head, and seized the reins. Two children were in the carriage, and when their father came up he gave Hunt a SSO greenback; and when the poor fellow told him he would rather have a good job than the bill, took him into hia employ. Hunt some time after told the man the whole story of his life, and as a reward for his confidence, his employer gave him books, and time to study, and then taught him himself. ■ Syracuse, N. Y., ia to lose 125 families who have located land UKansaa, and will I form a colony there

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Term Exp. MISSOURI. 1875 Carl Schurz. 1879 Louis V. Bogy. NEBRASKA. 1875 Thos. W. Tipton. : UIT-B-W.Hitchcock. NEVADA. 1875 Wm. M. Stewart. 1879 John P. Jones. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1877 Aaron H. Cragin. 1879 B. Wpdleigh. NEW JERSEY. 1875 John P. Stockton. 1877 F.T.Frelinghuysen. NEW YORK. '1875 R. E. Fenton. 1879 Roscoe Conkling. NORTH CAROLINA. 1877 Matt. W. Ransom. 1879 Aug. Merrimon. OHIO. 1875 Allen G. Thurman. 1879 John Sherman. OREGON. 1879 Jas. K. Kelley 1877 John H. Mitchell. PENNSYLVANIA. 1875 John Scott. 1879 Simon Cameron. RHODE ISLAND. . 1875 H’m. Sprague. 1877 H. B. Anthony. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1877 T. J. Robertson. 1879 John J. Patterson. TENNESSEE. 1875 Wm. G. Brownlow. * 1877 Henry Cooper. . 11875 J. W. Flanagan. .1877 M. C. Hamilton. VERMONT. 1875 Geo. F. Edmunds. 1879 Justin S. Moriill. „ YJROINIA. 1875 John F. Lewis. 1877 J. IF. Johnson. WEST VIRGINIA. 1875 Arthur I. Boreman. 1877 Henry G. Davis. WISCONSIN. 1875 M. H, Carpenter. 1879 Timothy O. Howe.

Story of a Released Convict.

SCHUYLER COLFAX AT HOME.

His Speech at South Hend, March 8. A grand ovation was tendered ex-ViCe-President Colfax by his fellow citizens of South Bend, Ind. , and vicinity, on the occasion of his recent return to his home in that city. The demonstration was participated in by a large concourse of people, irrespective of party. The welcoming address was delivered by Mayor Miller, to which Mr. Colfax responded as follows: Mr. Mayor, Neighbors and Friends: My heart would be cold and callous indeed if it did not throb more quickly and happily at such a welcome home as this one with which I am honored and the gratitude for which it would take a lifetime to exhibit.

Here you have known me from childhood—my goings out and comings in have been before your eyes. My character has- been formed in your midst, and you know whether for a paltry Bum of money I could be induced to wreck it. When you come hither, therefore, by the thousands, spontaneously, and, as I am glad to be told and to know, not confined to political friends alone, but participated in by prominent and life-long political opponents, to honor me with such unmistakable manifestations of your unabated confidence and affectionate regard, I feel it due to you, as well as to myself, to expose the utter injustice of the cruel charges on which I have been arraigned during the past winter. If I had been a confessed and wicked criminal I could not have been pursued with more malignity by a portion of tha American press and their Washington correspondents. Day after day every possible circumstance has been exaggerated and telegraphed as absolute proof of guilt; day after day it has been demanded that I should explain this or that or the other point, but when explained the same malicious enemies have tortured and perverted and misrepresented the explanation, determined if possible that the reputation of the man they hated should be destroyed; and as day by day they thus poisoned the public mind they rejoiced almost with shouts of exultation at having effected, as they hoped, their work of ruin. The frank exposure of all my financial affairs did no good; the disclosure of the sacted confidence of the dead only gave them fresh opportunities for cavil and falsification. The testimony of my step-father and sister, unimpeachable as you here so well know them to be, was denounced as unworthy of belief. These enemies were determined on having their victim; but conscious of my entire innocence of this cruel and wieked charge, and eonfidentthat He who knoweth all things will in His own good time make that innocence manifest to all, I have stood unmoved amid this tempest storm of villifleation and injustice, willing to bide my time for the complete vindication I know is so certain to come. . Let me read -from-the Inter-Ocean ofChica-. go, of September 26, 1872, the following ex-’ tract from the speech I delivered here the previous day. It was made, you will remember, in reply to the charge that I was one of the twelve apostles who sold out to the Credit-Mobilier at $20,000 apiece, who had been bribed by gifts of stock on which enormous dividends had been paid, and for which certain legislation has been enacted: “Never having in my life a dollar of stock of any kind that 1 did not pay for, I claim the right to purchase (Stock in the Credit-Mobilier or CredltImmobilier, if {here Isone; nor do I know of any law iirohibiting it. Do I need to add that neither Oakes Ames nor any other person ever gave or offered to jive me one share or twenty shares or 200 shares in the Credit-Mobilier or any other railway stock, and that unfortunately I have never seen or received the value of a farthing out ofthe 270 per cent, dividends or the SOO per cent, dividend in cash, stocks or bonds you have read ahout the past month; nor 100 per cent., nor the tenth of one per cent. I have said that if twenty shares of it could be purchased at par without buying into a prospective lawsuit it would be a good investment if as valuable a stock as represented; but never having been plaintiff or defendant in a court of justice, I want no stock at any price with a lawsuit on top of it.’’ Although I thus publicly claimed tk« right to purchase this very stock, and avowed frankly my willingness to buy andhold twenty shares of it if I could do it without buying into a lawsuit, and thus accepted all the odium there could attach to purchasing it, as I then understood it, I htiye been charged with prevarication because X did not go on and state that I had withdrawn years before from an incomplete contract to buy twenty shares, losing what I had paid on account. If I had supposed that a denial or explanation of an entirely different charge than that Twas answering would be required of me, I should certainly have done so, as it would have strengthened instead of weakening what I was stating—but that I could not foresee. An eminent divine once said, rather irreverently: “If man’s foresight were only as good as his hindsight he would be but a little lower than the angels,” and my polley in speaking has always been to discuss and explain pending issues and not to explain or discuss those that were not pending. But let us test this by an illustration, a method which often brings out a disputed point more vividly than argument. Suppose any one of you had been charged with having been given shares in a woolen factory; that from these shares you had reeeived enormous dividends, and that as a payment for these gifts and dividends you had aided corruptly in carrying through legislation in regard to the duties on wool, would you not regard it as a sufficient answer to such charges to tell the public that you had been all your life publicly advocating the scale of duties alleged to have been carried by corruption? Besides this, their enactment had been a year before these alleged gifts; that you had never owned any stock in woelen factories, or anything else, that you had not paid for; that yous share had never been given you, and that you had never received any such dividends.

Now, while I am on the subject of dividends, I want to say a word about the letter from South Bend in the Chicago Times this morning. The Times has a correspondent here; Il suppose he is down here at the retable. He says he was around yesterday looking at my investments in South Betid. He says lam Vice-President of the Knoblock Furniture Company, and that all the bedsteads made there have got the Colfax coat-of-arms on them. [Laughter.] And he says, furthermore, that no young married couple can be happy without having one Of these bedsteads. [Laughter.] 1 want to tell you that I have got no dividends on that stock, but if I get every young married couple to buy a bedstead of the Knoblock Furniture Company I will make large dividends very soon. [Laughter and applause.] ■ The gentleman from the Chicago Times says that Mr. Birdsell got a patent extended through my influence with the Patent Office, and that I have become a partner in it. I don’t knaw whether Mr. Birdsell got an extension of his patent or not; but this I do know, that he would not apply to me for anything of that kind, for he has forgotten more about the patents and the extension of patents'than I ever knew. [Laughter.] The last thing. Mr. Blfdaell would du would be to get me to get his patent extended. If there Is one thing in this werld that I do not know, it is patent law. I never practiced in the Patent Office, and I have nothing to do with it. But the Birdsall Company did say to me that, as I was coming back to live in South Bend, they would like me to take some stock in that Company, and I am a stockholder in that company and I am not ashamed of it. lam a stockholder in tfi£ Union Chair Cdiffpanv, and if every married couple wants to’lie happy, they will bay their chairs from the Union Chair Company. [Laughter and applause.] ’ -i—■■ I merely firing this forward to show ’ you the inexpressible littleness of b all these things..iXaak youdfff is not the very refinemeat and quintessence Ol littleness? I ask

the man himself if it is not—to come down here to my own town, in whose prosperity I have always felt the liveliest interest, and 3b this thing? [No response from the Times correspondent.] I have never received a farthing of interest upon my investments here. Is it not inexpressibly little to bring Up these things here, in order to see if they cannot make a point against Colfax ? [Laughter, applause and cries of “ Yes! yes! ft is.”]

When I get dividends from these companies, as we shall get soon—and as I expect to get dividends from the clover-hnller as well as the chairs [laughter]—l will invest them right here at home in this, town of which we are all so proud. [ApplaustS.J Now, if you had voluntarily withdrawn, as I had, at a pecuniary loss over four years before from an agreement to buy such stock in a woolen factory, you would regard what I have supposed as a sufflcient refutation of a charge that you had been bribed by gifts of stock and enormous dividends, but if you padded to all this the frank statement that you JjfttLsaid you would be willing to buy this very factory stock at par, and to hold it if it would not involve you in litigation, would you not think that your answer would be full and thorough on every practical point that the wanton calumny required you to state? No one could have been misled by my speeeh on the vital point; though no such stock was ever given to me, I publicly avowed my willingness to bear all the reproach that could attach to an investment of my money at par, as I then understood it* But I do not intend to rest the argument on this point. Here I call mv enemies as my witnesses. The New York Tribune of September* 26 published the telegraphic extract of this speech, with the following heading, showing that.lt.fully understood my denial was to the charge of having had the stock given to me: “He never owned a share in the Credit Mobilier that he did not pay for." It was eminently proper and fitting that this same paper should, on January 24, print literally a quotation from the speech with the essential word “give” left out, and then basely repeat charges of my untruthfulness on the quotation it had thus altered and r ' [Mr. Colfax here exhibited the paper.] The Chicago Tribune, also, which has almost daily assailed me the past winter for alleged prevarication in the speech, did not misunderstand it at the time. It declared editorially, September 27, in commenting on my speech: —“Mr. Colfax claims the right to purchase whatever stock he thinks proper, even when offered him - at par, and when the accrued dividends are more than equal to its par value.” And September 28, the next day, it said (again I quote its insinuation also,‘although my payment of the $534 disproves that part of it) as follows: - “Mr. Colfax claims that he had the right to purchase the stock of the Credit-Mobilier or any other company. Ames got this stock put in hie hands that he might sell it at par and pay the par value of it out of its then accrued dividends, which was, in fact, making a present of it. According to Mr. Colfax, receiving Credit-Mobilier stock at par, with accrued dividends equal to its price. Would be a straight-out purchase.”

When I testified on the 7th of January, after the holiday recess, during which recess Hon. Mr. Ames said he had refreshed his memory, by his memorandum at home, I declared emphatically, as I did here last September, that I had never received a dollar from him for dividends, nor indeed on any account whatever. He was . present in the committee room and did not deny this nor dissent from it, though I asked him to cross-examine me. On that verv afternoon tie told Mr. Crounse, of the New York Times, who swore to it afterward before the committee, that my statement was probably correct. On December 17, in his carefully prepared and written-out original testimony, he swore about me on page 20 of the report as follows: “Nor can I remember having paid him any dividends,” and Mr. Alley, his associate, swore before the committee (see page 311 of the report), that before the holidays Mr, Ames told him that I was substantially correct in my statement as to the transaction. In spite, however, of the original testimony of his which he declared embodied the exact fact, and his expressing his concurrence with my statement to Alley and Crounse, and listening without dissent to my testimony of January 7, he came before the committee on January 22 with a check for $1,200, payable to “8. C. or bearer,” which he claims he paid to me June 20,1868, but which being payable to no one’s name required no Indorsement, and could as well be cashed by Mr. “A.” or Mr. “B.” or Mr. “Z.” or by Mr. “G.,”<or any one else. Never having seen any check of his in my life till I saw this one in the committee room, I asked him if my name was indorsed on it, and he answered “No;” asking him if he remembered where I was when he handed it to me, he answered “No;” asking him if he remembered what he said when he paid it to me, he answered “No;” asking him if he could not remember what I said when so large a check was handed me, he again answered “No;” asking him if he had any receipt for it, he answered “No;” asking him if he ever gave me a certificate for the stock which he insisted I still owned, he answered “No.” Astounded at this attempt on a check payable to initials and not to my name, not indorsed by me, and for which no receipt could be produced, to destroy my testimony, I immediately had ttye Sergeant-at-Arms, on whom it was drawn, summoned, with his cashier and bookkeeper, to testify as to whether they had ever paid me the money for any such cheek, and they all answered that they had no recollection of having done so. But subsequently Mr. Dillon, the Cashier of the Sergeant-at-ArmSi testified that, while he could not swear with positive certainty after

the lapse of years, yet his very strong impression was that he had paid thia very “8. C.” cheek to Ames himself (see page 477 of the report), and that when he had asked Ames only thirty hours before if he had not done it Ames had replied that it was very likely (see page 481 of the report). In regard to one portion of the checks from Ames drawn for this June dividend there is no controversy. Four of them had the names in full of Logan and Allison (both of whom re-, turned their dividends to him), Patterson and James Wilson. Four of them, however, for this very same June dividend, were made out payable to initials, namely; W another “8. C;,” for $600; which he says was intended for Bcotield; “W. D. K.,” $329, claimed by him to be for Kelley; one “O. A.” $330 said by him to be for Garfield; but Kelley;' Garfield and I have declared that neither of us ever saw these ipitial checks. Scofield says he may have received the money and settled it afterward, but he does not remember any such dividend. Kelley and Garfield are positive they never saw the checks, but that Ames loaned each of them S3OO about that time, and I repeat that I never saw the check ana never received a dollar of money from him in my life. It is a very significant fact that there are no indorsements on either of these initial checks and that no receipt has been presented for either of them, as there has been for some of the other checks, all ot which confirms me in the conviction that they, with the entries in the memorandum book about them, related to the controversy between Ames and McComb in the McComb suit, and that Mr. Ames did state “the exact facts” in his earliest testimony confirmatory of mine, rather than in his latest testimony after they had produced these checks. He claimed to be acting as trustee. These memoranda, if made at the time, may have been memoranda of trust. I will now to you the frank letter of Mr. Dillon, the cashier of the Sergeant-at-Anns, a gentleman whose integrity is beyond all question, which letter 1 think explains the whole matter conclusively. Omra Ssbbsant-at-Arus, ) Housa or RzraasKNTATivßs, > . Washington, March 1.1873. 1 D»ar Sir: When Mr. Aines made the deposit of SIO,OOO in June, 1868, in this office, my mind was naturally excited as to the purpose he had tn view, and was ail at sea till the checks were presented.

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Then I surmised that Mr. Ames was the acting chairman of some investigating committee, and that as the contingent fund of the House was ex- . hansted, he wag paying the expanses of the commit tee himself till an appropriation should be made. lam very confident that the checks to initials or bearer were all paid to Mr. Ames himself, and especially the one of $1,200, marked “To 8. C. or bearer. ” I then thought he was himself drawing the “lion’s share” of his own deposit. These thoughts had passed out of my mind till Mr. Ames came into the office this session and demanded that his checks should be shown him. The moment I saw them I recollected all these thoughts of over four years before as vividly as though they had occurred the daybefore.and as soon as Mr. Ames had retired I remarked to Mr. Ord way, the Ser-geant-at-Arms, that I had paid that $1,200 “8. C.” check to Mr. Ames himself, and how I bad paid it, namely: in two SSOO and two SIOO notes. I was remonstrated with, however, and urged not to testify under oath to such belief, as it was Im probable that I should recollect transactions of such a character four years. Being unfamiliar with the laws of evidence, I very naturally did not at first state my strong impressions, but testified as to facts only. At my second examination, however, I freely stated these strong impressions, and if I had had the self-possession of one accustomed to ccr.rts I would have stated the foundation of these decided impressions. This strong impression that I had paid this “8. C. ” check to Ames was confirmed by himself in answer to a question I put to him only the day before my second examination. I asked him: “Did I not pay that check to you. Mr. Ames?” And he replied: “I think it is very likely. ” Indeed, the more I have thought of the whole matter the more firmly I am convinced that Mr. Ames drew the money for the $1,200 "8. C.” check himself. If he had, when writing it, intended it for you, why did he not, as he did with several others who have acknowledged the receipt of the money, write the name in full. All the members who are charged with the initial checks deny ever having seen them, and I repeat, as I testified at my second examination, that my very strong impression is that I paid all the initial checks to Mr. Ames himself. Tendering my congratulation on what I regard as your triumphant vindication from the well arranged plot to injure you in the estimation of the people,l am, very respectfully and truly: Meszs Dillow, Cashier. Mr. Colfax continued: I will also read you the following absolutely conclusive letter from W. Bcott Smith:

Oftiob or Evening Pbbss Association, I Washington, March 5,1873. j On the next evening of the day alluded te (the day Mr. Colfax was first before the Committee), Mr. Ames came into the room of a friend upon whom I was calling at the Arlington House, and after a talk to some extent on various matters, he saidwith much earnestness that he was surprised to see that you had stated before the Poland Committee that he (Ames) still owed you the sum you had originally paid him as subscription to the stock of the Credit-Mobilier. “Colfax astonished me,” said Mr. Ames, “and I have been looking up the matter to see if he is correct I remember well his paying me SSOO, and his coming to me afterward and saying he had concluded to back out of the transaction; but my memory Is clear, and, in fact, I know that I paid him back his money at that time, and the matter was then closed up without his taking the stock or my paying over tohim any dividends," I waa much impressed with what Mr. Ames said, and believed as he stated, that you had never taken the stock or received any of the dividends, and I confess that, as between the public statement made after bis conversation with me, in which he maintained that you took the stock and received the dividends, and his private statement, I felt that I must accept the latter, believing that Mr. Ames, in his former statement,was influenced by some unexplained motive.. In the six years I have represented leading papers East and West at the Capital, among the few men in Congressional llfe whose integrity I never beard Impeached or called in question, you are one. The recent Credit-Mobilier investigation has not shaken my judgment, and I feel that when the public excitement subsides and the facts can be looked at dispassionately, the people will continue to trust you, as they ever have In the past. Sincerely yours, W. Scott Smith. CONCLUSION OK MH. COLFAX’S EXPLANATION. Mr. Colfax then read from the testimony of Mr. Matthews, on page 494 of the report, in regard to the time when he abandoned thia stock, and which testimony on thia point he stated ttie papers had not printed. It was confirmatory of his own statement, Mr. Matthews telling him in the winter or early in the spring of 1868 that he thought the Credit-Mobilier an institution where the big fish ate up the little ones, and that in a couple of months afterward Mr. Colfax told him his investment in it had gone up, that there was a prospect of a lawsuit, and as he had never been in one he had backed out and did not have any interest in it. And, further, that he (Mr. Ames) failed, and Mr. Colfax’s mother expressed great sympathy for Mrs. Ames. Mr. Colfax replied that Ames owed him SSOO but he would never ask him for it until he got able to pay it. He also read from Ames’ testimony of January 22, page 286, that even after Colfax’s conversation about never minding the SSOO he supposed he had to pay the SSOO, which-was-entirely inconsistent with Ames having previously paid him $1,200, which would have been S7OO more than the amount Colfax had paid Ames on account of the stock.

Mr. Colfax then proceeded as follows: When my bank account was brought before the committee and it was shown that I had deposited $1,200 in currency Monday, June 22,1868, two. days after the date of Ames’ check, I was required to explain where I obtained it. My counsel, the very next day, laid before the committee a draft for SI,OOO, purchased by me that very 22d of June with a check out ot this $1,200 deposited and indorsed over to the Chairman of the Indiana State Republican Committee, to whom, as the canceled draft shows, it was paid. My counsel promised to connect this with the subsequent testimony of.. Mr. Matthews, as he has the certificate to substantiate. My sister telegraphed me from Utah that She remembered the Nesbitt letter of the middle of June containing the SI,OOO bill. 1 would not present this testimony behind my accuser's back, he having gone home to MasSa■chusetts. My sister, meanwhile, had made a 3,000 mile winter jdurney, alone, to testify as to what all my family so well remembered. Mr. Matthews, Mrs. Hollister and I, all testified to the receipt of the SI,OOO bill at the breakfast table, with a congratulatory letter. Upon examination, Mr. Matthews fixed the dates as within two or three days after his payment to me of S2OO in bills on the piano debt, which payment of his was on June 16 or 17,1868. This testi-

mony was confirmed by the statement of another sister, in lowa, who remembered that my mother wrote to her in June, 1868, ot my having received a SI,OOO bill, to which she had referred especially. It was further •confirmed by the testimony of Mr. Matthews that in the same conversation it was understood and stated that I would send this Nesbitt remittance to Indiana, and the bank books with the so called draft proved that I did so send it that very day, the 23d of June, out of the $1,200 deposit. This remittance of so large an amount from a stranger was ridiculed by many as impossible, and the fact that he was dead and could not testify as to his own confidential donation was cruelly commented on. The committee, however, after having closed the public f testimony commanded examining privately my bank account during other months than the one in issue. Learning this, I notified them at ence that I had received other remittances at that session from this generous donor, partly for personal use and partly for political, with the distinct understanding that receiving them should create no obligation on my part, that his family did not desire his letters published unless absolutely necessary, and that bv advice of my counsel 1 had not referred’to them in the explanation requested of me as to the precise Source of the currency deposit of June 22. I placed them, however, st the disposal of the committee, and they were subsequently made public. They show that in April, 1868, he sent me SI,OOO for personal uses as a free gift, and that in July, in a letter which did not refer to my nomination at all as the lost letter of June did, he sent another SI,OOO for political uses making in all April, June and July remittances, personally and $2,000 politically. I showed also by another draft [of SI,OOO, indorsed by me, July 18, to the Chairman of the Indiana Republican Committee and returned to the bank paid and canceled, th >t 1 had sent his SIOOO remittance of July to Indiana, as I had the one in June, and thus the two drafts substantially prove both remittances and their dates. 4» (ctmliaiMd en Jbwrf* peps.)