Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the Alleged Credit Mobiler Bribery; Made to the House of Representatives, Feb. 18, 1873 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1873 Excerpt: ... /' there may have been between Mr. Durant and Mr. Brooks, or Mr. Duran t and Mr. Neilson. There was nothing between Mr. Alley and Mr.Brooks. Q. How long had you the custody of these papers?--A. I had them until December, 1868. Q..Why, among other things ordered to be produced before this committee, did not you produce that paper?--A. I could not produce anything that was not in my hands. Q. Would you not have been bound to produce it if you had had it?--A. 1 would have produced everything in my possession. Q. Why did you not produce these?--A. Becanse I had not possession of it. Q. Did you look and search for it?--A. Yes, sir. Q. Where is it?--A. That I cannot say. Q. Where are the letters and other papers of the company generally?--A. As I have said, many of the papers were lost. At the time of the Fisk suit, some of the books were lost, and I cannot reproduce them. Q. How lost and when?--A. I cannot state how. I surrendered them in December, 1868, to Mr. Dillon, the president of the company. They were removed from the office to the Union Pacific Railroad, at 20 Nassau street, and what became of them I cannot say. Q. Do you know by whose order they were removed 1--A. They were removed by order of Mr. Dillon. Q. Where?--A. That I cannot say. They went traveling. A part of them went to Mr. Barnes, in Pennsylvania. Q. That was becanse others wanted to get a sight of these papers? They went traveling to avoid letting those who were interested in them see what they were?--A. No, sir; they went traveling to avoid letting people who had no interest in them see what they were. Q. Did not a court of justice order them to be produced?--A. No, sir; not while they were in New York. If there was an order, they were out of the jurisdiction of the State when the order wa...

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