Alleged Credit Mobilier Bribery: Report of the Select Committee to Investigate ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1873 - 523 halaman |
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... of the second part , witnesseth : That the party of the first part agrees to let and contract , and the party of the second part agrees to contract as follows , to wit : First . The party of the second part agrees and binds himself ...
... of the second part , witnesseth : That the party of the first part agrees to let and contract , and the party of the second part agrees to contract as follows , to wit : First . The party of the second part agrees and binds himself ...
Halaman 397
... of the second part , witnesseth : That the party of the first part agrees to let and contract , and the party of the second part agrees to contract , as follows , to wit : First . The party of the second part agrees and binds himself ...
... of the second part , witnesseth : That the party of the first part agrees to let and contract , and the party of the second part agrees to contract , as follows , to wit : First . The party of the second part agrees and binds himself ...
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agreed Alley amount answer appear asked assigned believe bonds Brooks building called cent certificate CHAIRMAN charged claim Colfax committee connection construction contract conversation Credit Mobilier stock December desire Dillon director dividends dollars entitled entry examined executive fact fifty shares gave give given Government hands held hold House hundred shares impression interest investment issued January June knew knowledge letter loan March matter McComb mean member of Congress miles Neilson never Oakes Ames original Pacific Railroad Company paid parties payment persons present president profits purchase question reason received recollection reference regard relation remember road securities sold statement stockholders suppose taken tell testimony thing thought thousand tion told took transaction transferred trustees understand understood Union Pacific Railroad WASHINGTON witness York
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Halaman viii - Congress has, to some extent, been brought within similar influences, and the knowledge of the public on that subject has brought great discredit upon the body, far more, we believe, than there were facts to justify. But such is the tendency of the time, and the belief is far too general that all men can be ruled with money, and that the use of such means to carry public measures is legitimate and proper. No member of Congress ought to place himself in circumstances of suspicion, so that any discredit...
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Halaman vi - They have not been able to find that any of these members of Congress have been affected in their official action in consequence of interest in the Credit Mobilier stock. . . . They do not find that either of the above-named gentlemen, in contracting with Mr. Ames, had any corrupt motive or purpose himself, or was.
Halaman 74 - ... the conversations I ever had with him had any reference to such legislation. By Mr. Merrick: Q. Have you any knowledge of any other member of Congress being concerned in the Credit Mobilier stock? — A. No, sir; I have not. Q. Or any stock in the Union Pacific Railroad? — A. I have not. I can say to the committee that I never saw, I believe, in my life a certificate of stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and I never saw any certificate of stock of the Credit Mobilier, until Mr. Brooks...
Halaman 289 - I supposed it was like all the rest, but when Mr. Garfield says he mistook it for a loan ; that he always understood it to be a loan ; that I did not make any explanation to him, and did not make any statement to him ; I may be mistaken. I am a man of few words, and I may not have made myself understood to him.
Halaman 74 - Ames' right to sell the stock was denied. When I next saw Mr. Ames, I told him I had concluded not to take the stock. There the matter ended, so far as I was concerned, and I had no further knowledge of the company's operations until the subject began to be discussed in the newspapers last fall.