Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 3, Number 85, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 September 1872 — Page 2
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OFFICE: XOKTII FIFTH ST., near Main.
Liberal Republican and Democratic lleforin Ticket.
For President in 1872^
HORACE 6BEIXEY
OF NEW YORK.
For Vice President,
IS. fiBATZ BROWST, 07
MISSOURI,
For Governor,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. For Lieuteuant Governor, JOHN R. CRAVENS.
Km 'ongrcssman-at-Large—two to be clccted, JOHN S. WILLIAMS, MICHAEL C. K?:RR.
For Secretary of State, OWEN M. EDDY. For Treasurer of State,
JAMES B. RYAN. For Auditor of State, JOHN B. STOLL.
For Attorney General, BAYLESS W. HANNA. For Clerk of the Supreme Court,
EDWARD PRICE.
For Reporter of the Supreme Court, JOHN C. ROBINSON. F:iector, Sixth District,
WILLIAM E. MCLEAN, of Vigo.
For Con
ess, UEES.
DANIEL W.V'
For Judge of the Circuit Court. CHAMBERS Y. PATTERSCfcJ, of Vigo. For Prosecutor of the Circuit Court,
JOHN C. BRIGGS, of Vigo.
For Judge of the Common. Pleas Court, JOHN T. SCOTT, of Vigo. For Prosecutor of the Common Pleas Court,
GEORGE W. COLLINGS, of Parke.
For State Senator, RICHARD DUNNIGAN. For Representatives, RA l'TON F. COOK F.RLY,
ISAIAH DONHAM. For County Clerk, MARTIN HOLLINGER.
For Sheriff,
JOHN C. KESTER. For Treasurer, JAMES M. SANKEY. For Real Estate Appraiser,
GEORGE W. CARICO. For County Commissioners, First District—JAMES H. KELLY, Second District—LOUIS SEEBURGER.
For Criminal Court Prosecutor, SANT. C. DAVIS. For Coroner,
CHARLES GJKRSTMEYER. For Surveyor. ROBERT ALLEN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1872.
The sworn testimony of Col. McComb discloses, first: That a few capitalists, in order to obtain control of the vast sum of money which was to be realized from the government bonds, purchased the franchises of a Pennsylvania corporation, known as the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency, and changed its name to the Credit Mobilier of America. Like many other concerns chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature, this corporation seems to have had authority to dojmything it choose. Dr. Thomas C. Durant, of this city, seems to have been the originator of this scheme, and to have organized the "inside ring" as McComb termsi it. Durant, Cornelius S. Bushnell, Charles L.Lambert and McQomb took all the stock of this Credit Mobilier, or lie great majority of it, and Durant was made President. This was in October, 1S64.
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From the New York Sun.
The McComb Revelations. The full import of the revelations contained in the letter from our Philadelphia correspondent, published in yesterday's Sun, can onl,y be appreciated by a careful reading of the testimony of Col. McComb. The main points of this expose are as follows:
The Union Pacific Railroad, of which McComb was one of the corporators, was incorporated in 1862 by an act of Congress. From time to time this act was amended, until the subsidies bestowed on the company in Government bonds amounted to far more than the cost of the enterprise, while there was in addition a grant of more than thirteen million acres of the public lands.
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Durant was also Vice-
President of the TJpion Pacific Railroad Company, and the other gentlemen were its principal managers. A contract had previously been made by Grant with a man named iloxie to build the first one hundred miles of the road. Hoxie was, as McComb'testifies, a mere figure-head to represent the "inside ring" of the stockholders, to whom all the profit realizedfrom the contract were to go. There was danger from incurring personal liability uader this arrangement. Hence the ring organized the Credit Mobilier of America. The Hoxie contract was transferred to the Credit Mobilier, and thus the officers and managers of the railroad were enabled to make a contract with themselves, as the officers of the Credit Mobilier, to build and equip the road. Under this management the stockholders of the Credit Mobilier realized millions of dollars. The dividends duriug 1866, amounted to 220 per cent.
Sometime after the organization of the Credit Mobilier, Oakes Ames and a few more Boston capitalists were taken in. They were not willing to allow Durant and his friend to manage the concern. They made a fight against Durant, and fiually succeeded ih ousting him. McComb seems to have been a friend of Durant, and he was marked for prey also.
Oakes and Oliver Ames, who are brothers, were the leading spirits in the Credit Mobilier in 1867. With tljeir friends they did pretty much as they pleased for a while. About this time some additional legislation was wanted trorn Congress. Oakes Ames was a member of Congress, and managed this business. The ring was not making enough to satisfy them out of the bonds received from the Government. They wanted an act passed allowing the Union Pacific Railroad Company to issue first
bonds, with the interest guar-
ranteed by the Government, to an t) mount equal to those issued by the Government. But the Government held a first mortgage on the road bed and franchises of the company, and this must be retired and the Government made to accept a second mortgage. This Ames managed but it required a liberal distribution of Credit Mobilier stock to the leading Senators and Representatives in Congress.
The following letter from Ames to McComb shows how he made the distribution
WASHINGTON, January 30, 1866.
"H. S. MCCOMBS "Dear Sir:—Yours
of the 28th is at
hand inclosing copy of letter from or rather to Mr. King. I dou't fear any investigation here. What some of Durant's friends may do iu New York can't be counted on with any certainty. You do uot understand by your letter what I have done and am to do with my sales of stock. You say more to New -York. I have placed some with New York, or have agreed to. You must remember that it was nearly all placed as you saw on the lint in New York, and there was but 6 or S for me to place. I could not give all they wanted or they might want out of that. You would not waftt me to offer less than one thousand (M) to any
We allowed Durant to place $58,000
to some
three
or four of his friends or
keep..it"himself. I have used this where I thin^ will produce most good to us I,
^"In^'ew of King's letter aud Wash-1 biuu'ti-move here, I go for making one'reached by the Credit Mobilier stock
bond div'deud in full. We can do it' A.—J was offered $600 per share for mine with perfect satety. I understand the This^as in 1868,_long before thissuit be opposition to it conies from Alley. Ijte 1 is on the Finance Committee, ancLcan raise money easy if we come short, which I don't believe we shall, and if we do can
our bonds to the company*^
loan them the money we get for the bonds. The contract calls for the division, and I say have it. When shall I see you
Washington Yours truly. OAKES AMES.
"P. g.—We stand a'bout like this:
Bonds, first mortgage, received on 525 miles, at 316,000 per mile $8,400,000 Bonds, first mortgage, received on 15 miles, at 518,000 per mile 720,009 Bonds, first mortgage, received on 100 miles, at $18,000 per mile 4,800,000
813,920,000
$10,000,000 sold and to sell to pay our debts 10,000,000
83,920,000 3,000,000
per cent, dividend on 53,760,000
credit Mobilier
Government bonds received this day... Due tor transportation 8100,000 one-half
8920,100 960,000
200,000
82,080,000
"In addition to this, we can draw Government bonds for two-thirds of the work done in advance of the track if we^esire
The following is in pencil on the Ames letter: Oakes Ames'list of names, as shown to-day to me for Credit Mobilier, is
Shares.
Blaine, of Maine 3,000 Patterson.of New Hampshire 3,000 Wilson, of Massachusetts 2,000 Painter (Rep.) for QuisHey 3 000 Colfay, Speaker 2,8"*0 Seofleld and Kelley, Pennsylvania, each..,..2,000 Eliot, Massachusetts 3,000 Dawes, Massachusetts 2,000 Fowler, Tennessee .2,000 Boutwell, Massachusetts ..2,000 Bingham and Garfield, Ohio, each .... 2,000
"Indorsed OAKES AMES, Jan. 30, '68." On January 25,1868, Ames had written fo McComb as follows about bribing members of Congress:
11II.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25,1868.
S. Me Combs, Esq.: "DEAR SIR—Yours of the 23d is at hand, in which you say Senators Bayard and Fowler have written you in relation to their stock. I have spoken to Fowler, but not to Bayard. I have never been introduced to Bayard, but will see him soon. You say I must not put too much in one locality. I have assigned as far as I have given to—four from Massachusetts one from New Hampshire one, Delaware one, Tennessee one-half, Ohio two, Pennsylvania one, Indiana one, Maine and I have three to place, which I shall put where they will do the most good to us. I am here on the spot, and can better judge where they sh'omd go. I think after this dividend la paid we should make our capital 154,000,000, and distribute the new stock where i,t will protect us. Let them have the stock at par and profits made iu the future. The 20 per cent, increase on the old stock I want for distribution here, and soon Alley is opposed to the division of the bonds says we will need them, &c. should think we ought to be able to spare them with Alley and Cisco on the'Finance Committee. We used to be able to borrow when we had no credit and debts pressing we are now out of debt, and in good credit. What say you about the bond dividend A part of the purchasers here are poor, and want, their bonds to sell to enable them to meet their payment on (he stock in the C. M. I have told ithem what they would get as dividends, and they expect. I think -when the bonds the parties received as the "eighty per cent, dividend, we better give'them the bonds. It will not amount to anything with us. Some of the/ISrge holders will uot care whetherjthey have the bonds or certificates, or they will lend their bonds to the company, as they have done be fore, or lend tneir money. Quigley has been here, and we have got one-tenth that was Underwood's. I have taken a half, Quigley a quarter, and you a quarter.
Judge Carter wants a part of it. At spme future day we are to surrender a part to him. Yours truly,
OAKES AMES."
The act so much desired by the "inside ring" was passed by Congress, as every body very well knows. An act twice as iniquitous could have been pulled through when Wilson and Patterson in the Senate and the Speaker of the House, Mr. Col fax, and Messrs. Blaine, Scofield, Kelley Dawes, Elliot, Boutwell, Bingham, and Garfield had been bribed, as Ames de clares they were. They were the most prominent and influential men on the Republican side of the House, Dawes being then Chairman of the Committee 'on
Elections, and Scofield Chairman the Committee on Revised and Unfin ished business. Boutwell was on the Judiciary Committee, Bingham and Blaine prominent members of the Com mittee on Military Affairs, and Kelley and Garfield held equally important po' sitions.
As bad a showing as Ames' list makes for the great lights of the Grant party, it is not as bad as it will be when the whole truth is known. The Ames list is not complete. It will be observed that does not include the name of James Brooks of New York, yet Col. McComb swears that he received fifty shares.
But Brooks was not the only one omit ted. We have been informed by one of the legal gentlemen employed in the case of McComb vs. The Credit Mobilier that Robert C. Schenck of Ohio, Benja min M. Boyer of Pennsylvania, in the House, and Pomeroy, Chandler, Cameron, Nye, Stewart, Sherman, and Morton in the Senate, also received a number of shares, McComb has the proof and will produce it or compel Mr. Ames, who all along refused to appear before the examiner and testify to produce it.
From the same source we also learn that Ames pursued the following novel course in bribing some of these men He would first hand the member or Sen ator a certificate of stock, and tell him it was a good thing. If asked how much money was required, he would say, "Not a cent at present." Then in a few weeks he would again pay a visit and hand the gentleman a check drawn by thS Treas urer of the Credit Mobilier, and "Here is your first dividend." This first dividend was sufficient to pay for the stock at its nominal value. That the dividends were sufficient to do this is shown by the following extract from Col. McComb's testimony: "Q.—What divideud was declared on the Credit Mobilier stock after the deliv ery of the Ames contract? A.—My books show that I received January
4,
1868, 60
per cent. Union Pacific Railroad stock, 33£ per cent. Uuion Pacific Railroad stock, 80 per cent. Union Pacific Railroad bonds. Above divideud was on 750 shares. February 8th I got from it in dividends SO shares of stock of the Credit Mobilier. June 17th I received 40 per cent, iu Union Pacific Railroad stock, with HOper cent, in cash, on 850 shares. July 3, 1S6S, 75 per cent, in stock aud 75 per cent, in Union Pacific Railroad bonds on SoO shares. September 3d, 75 percent, in bonds and 100 per cent, in stock. December 19th, 200 per cent, in stock. Iu addition to this there was 14£ per cent, in gold paid in January, 1868, Credit Mobilier stock, and 12 per cent, in gold for cash dividends."
The above extract also gives some idea of the real value of the stock Senator Wilson, Speaker Blaine, and their associates received.^ 'Bht^e do not need, to (•Miter into any"calculati6ns to arrive at its value. Col. McComb on this poiut jswears as follows: "Q.—What was^heX5asti-?alujfe of this stock at the time it was issued A.—It would sell in the market at $250 per share, cash value, and very littie'cbuld be had at that—moreJjuyers than sellers a good deal for mine shortly after that tinre.' "Q,.—What has been the highest value
I Was^ofSSrt «sS&an
I
Sei
was offered
$500
per share
ytiii
gan. I refused to sell at that time, considered it worth $1',000 per share, and it would have been readily worth that, houefetly and fairly managed, at that time."
The pertinent question which these facts must suggest to all honest and intelligent men is, Shall these meu be continued in office
From the Journal.
The Presidential Question. The failure of the Louisville Convention to do anything in a practical vf&y for the benefit of that large class of Democrats who have opposed both Grant and Greeley, leaves the Presidential contest narrowed down to the two candidates mentioned, and for one or the other, or for neither, the people will have to vote.
No one can suppose, for a moment, that the Journal will, in any event, be an advocate of the re-election of President Grant. For two years past this paper has taken especial pains to impress upou the people the danger of re-electing the present occupant of the White House, and nothing has occurred, recently, to change our views on that subject. The great Radical party is mainly composed of honest men, but the Administration of that party is surrounded by the worst and most corrupt set of politicians and officeholders that ever afflicted any Government. We shall not cease our warfare on Grant and his advisers.
As to Greeley, our opinion is unchanged as to his fitness for the position of President. If he is to be surrounded by Democratic influences and the policy of bur party, well and good. That much understood will be a saving clause to the great party upon which he must depend for success.
We shall make no further warfare on the Greeley ticket. If he can be elected, and the good of the country is tc be subserved thereby, we shall hail the event as earnestly as any other person who desires good government and the safety and glory of the country, and who has no selfish or office-seeking interest in the result.
Democrats who read the Journal will readily understand our meaning. We are,all left adrift by the failure to have a Democratic Presidential ticket. None of us can or will support Grant. Whether or not to vote for Greeley every man must determine for himself, but our judgment should be taken carefully and considerately in view of surrounding circumstances.
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BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTM'T
O S I E O E S
Great New York Dry (J oods Store,
NORTH SIDK Olfr MAIN STREET. TKRKK HATTTE. INF.
CARPETS.
S A O I S
Keep things lively. Big profits strangle business. FOSTER BROTHERS.
No credit! No failure! We only sell for cash. FOSTER BROTHERS.
To do a large business, goods must be sold at low prices. FOSTER BROTHERS.
A credit business necessitates big profits. We do not sail in that boat. FOSTER BROTHERS.
The largest merchants of the country are those who make the lowest prices. FOSTER BROTHERS.
Our annual retail sales of one million a year is based on the theory of keeping always the best: goods and retailing them at wholesale prices. FOSTER BROTHERS.
There is often as much ecoidomy in a judicious expenditure of money as there is in absolute self-denial. Therefore buy all your dry goods of
Cash buyers justly deftiatid low prices. FOSTER BROTHERS.
At THE HEAD OF THE CARPET TRADE!
WE PROPOSE TO KEEP THE LEAD!
We shall do it by offering to the public only well known brands of Carpets, add by always representing our goods to be just what they are. As we shall keep no makes of Carpets to which the manufacturers are ashamed to put their names, it will never become necessary for us to dub any of them "Finger Looms" or "Family Frauds."
A W I O E S
Common yard wide Carpets, 18c. Gobd yard Wide Cafpests, 22 and 25c. Better and heavier Carpets, 25 and 30c. Still better and heavier, 85c, 40c and 45c. Ingrain Carpets, yard wide, 50c, 60c and 65c. Betterliigrain Carpets, 70c, 75c and 80c. Extra heavy Ingraita Carpets, 80c, 90c and $1.00. Finer qualities of all wooUugrains, at 90c, $1.00 and $1.15. Celebrated makes of "Extra-Super" Ingrains, at $1.20,1.25 aud 1.30. Best qualities of "Super-Extra-Supers," at $1.25 and 1.30. Imperial three-ply Tapestry Ingrains, at $1.35. Best English Brussels Carpets, from $1.20 up. Heavy yard wide Oil Cloth, 50 worth 65e. Mattings, Rugs, &c., at equally low rates.
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FOSTER BROTHERS.
Bit & TIE Kit it
6RE1T S. Y. CITY BEY GOODS A&D CARPET STORE,
North Side of Main Street, Terre Hawte, Indinim.
CARDS.
PROFESSIONAL.
STEPHEN J. YOUNG, M.
Office at No. 12 South Fifth St.,
Opposite St. Joseph's Catholic Church,
TERRE HAUTE, IXI).
Prompt attention paid to aL professional calls day or night. febin
JO AH & HARPER,
Attorneys and Collecting Agents,
Tcrr*
Mantc, Indiana.
°fflce'
No-
Ohlostreet. south side.
J.
II. BLAKE,
1TTORNEY AT LAW
Ami 3V«(iir} Publi,..
0(/icc, on Ohio Street, bet. Third & Fourth
T«rr«
H»n(«, liuliaim.
HOTELS,
4 1 O S E
Foot of Main Street,
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.
s®" Free Buss to and from all trains. J. M. DAVIS, Proprietor.
LEATHER.
Oil* II. ©'BOYLE,
Dealer in
Leather, Hides, Oil and Findings.
NO.
178
MAIN STREET
Terre Hante, Intliiinn.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A. O. BALCH
Ladies' & Gents' Fashionable
BOOTS «& SMOKS,
MADEShoeStore,
to order. Shop at O'Boyle Bros. Bool and Main street, Terre Haute nOiana.
CHANGE.
A €HAM£!
O. F. FROEB
Successor to
W E I S S
au(kl3m.~
LIQUORS.
A. H'DO^ALD,
Dealer in
Copper Distilled Whisky,
AND PURE WINES,
No. 9 Fourth Street, bet. Slain and Ohio B®* Pure French Brandies for Medical pur poses.
PAINTING.
IVM. S. MELTON,
PAINTER,
Cor. 6th, La Fayette and Locust sts.,
TERRE HAUTE, IND.
THE
OLD RELIABLE
BARS & YEAK1E
Hoiise and Sign Painters,
CORY'S NEW BUILDING,
Fifth Street, between Main and Ohio
GUNSMITH.
JOSCST
ARMSTKOx\is
Gunsmith,:Stencil Cutter,
Saw Filer and Locksmith, THIRD STREET, NORTH OF MAIN,
Terre Hante, Indiana.
GROCERIES.
WHOLESALE
Grocers and Liquor Dealers,
Cor. of Main and Fiftlk Sts., Terre Hante, Ind
It. W. R1PPETOE,
Groceries and Provisions,
KTo. 155 Main Street,
Terre Hante, Indiana.
WEST & ALLEN,
DEALERS IN
Groceries, Queensware, Provisions,
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
No. 75 Main Street, bet. Eighth and Ninth Terre Hante, Indiana.
CL0TEINQ.
J. ERLANGER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
MENS', YOUTHS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING, And Gents' Furnishing Goods,
OPERA HOUSE,
J. A
Terre Haute, Indiana.
FEED STORE.
BURGAN,
Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Baled Hay, Corn Oats, and all kinds of Seeds, NORTH THIRD ST., NEAR MAIN
TSRRE HAJJTE, IND.
FEED
delivered in all parts of the city tree charge ldflnn
GAS FITTER.
A.BI£Fd€0.,
GAS AND STEAM FITTER,
OHIO STREET,
Bet. nth and 6t.h, -Terre Hante. Ind.
TOBACCOS, ETC.
BKASIIEARS, BROWN & TITUS,
COMMISSIOJir MERCHANTS Wholesale Dealers in Groceries and Manufactured Tobaccos
AGENTS
for R. J. Christian & Co.'s celebrated
brands of "Christian Comfort," Bright May Piae Apple Black Navy and Cherry Brand lack Navy and other fine brands,
'62
AND 34 MAIN STREET
dliC Worcester, Mass.