Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the Alleged Credit Mobiler Bribery: Made to the House of Representatives, Feb. 18, 1873U.S. Government Printing Office, 1873 - 523 páginas |
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Alley Ames's amount asked Benjamin E Brooks cash cent certificate CHAIRMAN Colfax committee connection conversation Credit Mobilier stock December Dillon dividends entitled entry examined fifty shares gave gentlemen give Government director Hoxie hundred shares interest investment James Brooks January January 22 June knew knowledge letter loan matter McComb MCCRARY members of Congress memorandum memorandum-book MERRICK miles Mobilier of America Neilson never NIBLACK Oakes Ames contract Oliver Ames Pacific Railroad Company Pacific Railroad stock paid paper par value parties payment persons president profits purchase question receipt received recollection reference regard relation remember road SCHUYLER COLFAX securities Senator Sergeant-at-Arms shares of Credit shares of stock Sidney Dillon sold statement stock?-A stockholders subscription suppose tell testified testimony that?-A thing thousand dollars time?-A tion told transaction transferred trustees understand understood Union Pacific Railroad WASHINGTON witness York
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Página xviii - Houses thereof, with intent to influence his decision or action on any question,, matter, cause, or proceeding which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before him in his official capacity, or in his place of trust or profit...
Página 62 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Página xvi - On the 17th, it was resolved, that John Wilkes, Esq. having been in this session of parliament expelled the House, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
Página xv - The power of expelling a member for misconduct results, on the principles of common sense, from the interests of the nation, that the high trust of legislation should be invested in pure hands. When the trust is elective, it is not to be presumed that the constituent body will commit the deposit to the keeping of worthless characters. But when a man, whom his...
Página 129 - Nothing was ever said to me by Mr. Train or Mr. Ames to indicate or imply that the Credit Mobilier was or could be in any way connected with the legislation of Congress for the Pacific railroad or for any other purpose. Mr. Ames never gave nor offered to give me any stock or other valuable thing as a gift.
Página xviii - Whoever, being an officer of the United States, or a person holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under, or in connection with, any executive department of the Government of the United States...
Página ii - Mobilier complied with the conditions named in the transfer, and thus became entitled to share in any profits said trustees might make in executing the contract. "All the large stockholders in the Union Pacific were also stockholders in the Credit Mobilier, and the Ames contract and its transfer to trustees' were ratified by the Union Pacific, and received the assent of the great body of stockholders, but not of all. "After the Ames contract had been executed, it was expected by those interested...
Página vii - ... 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-Arms, 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. Garfield on the subject until this investigation...
Página 402 - ... assent of four of their number, expressed in writing, or by yea and nay vote, at a meeting of said trustees, either or both of which shall be recorded in a book of proceedings of said trustees, kept for the purpose by their secretary, and not otherwise.
Página 128 - The first I ever heard of the Credit Mobilier was some time in 1866 or 1867 — I cannot fix the date — when George Francis Train called on me and said he was organizing a company to be known as the Credit Mobilier of America, to be formed on the model of the Credit Mobilier of France ; that the object of the company was to purchase lands and build houses along the...