Green-Mountain freeman

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priety in a member of Congrees buying that

stoek than in buying a Sock of sheep, mil

then voting on the tariff on wojI or woolcu

goods."

Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, gave Mr.

Ames ne thousand doll us early iu Decem

ber, 1867, t- py lor ten slimes of Ciciii

Mobiiier stock; received one dividend i.l

thirty tve per cent.; haitieJ the Company

was involved in a law suit, and returned t:.i

divide. .d. receiving from AiucB li is original

payment and interest.

Mr, Binghum, of Ohio, gave Mi". Ames

two thousand dollars in J:i:iuary, ISO, to

pay for twenty shares Creeiis Mobiiier st ck

at par, Mr. Ames returning a receipt ana

agreeing to account lor all div d--ml At

the i-atue time v'r. Bmgl.aiu iuvisted ;G50 in

tcu shares of another Company of Mr. Anus

lie settled ti e t redit Mobiiier matter in

January, 1870. and the other iu the Spring

ol 1872, and thinks he made about 6, 500 on

tbe two operations.

Mr. O" hi field was offered stock, but declin

ed it

Mr. Bingham is tbe only ineui' er of Con

gress who took and kept tbe stock and justi

fies the transaction. Others either declined

the offered good thing at the outset or

got out of it as torn as they beard of the law

suit, and the affur became public. Senator

Wilscn seems to be about the only pcrsjn

who took the stock and afterward gave it up

to escipe criticism. Trie others generalh

insist that, whether they took tbe stoek o:

cot, they had a right to take it.

We trust the people will not endorse this

congressional view of what kind of property

it is proper for members of Congress to deal

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Green-Mountain freeman. (1873). Montpelier, Vt., 1873-01-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84023209/1873-01-22/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Green-Mountain freeman, 1873-01-22.