| Record ID | marc_records_scriblio_net/part01.dat:140181035:1355 |
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051 $aE668$b.S8486 1873
100 1 $aStewart, Joseph B.
245 10 $aTestimony of Joseph B. Stewart before a "select committee," given on the 18th and 29th of January, 1873, with remarks about his "contempt."
246 1 $iAt head of title:$aBastile
260 $aWashington :$bGibson Brothers, printers,$c1873.
300 $a80 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aConcerns Stewart's involvement in a Reconstruction-era scandal concerning the illegal manipulation of contracts by Credit Mobilier of America, a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad (1865-1869).
500 $a"Having been denied the printing of my testimony by the House of Representatives ... I am compelled in self-defence to print it myself": p. [3].
650 0 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
610 20 $aCredit Mobilier of America$xCorrupt practices.
610 20 $aUnion Pacific Railroad Company.
650 0 $aGovernmental investigations$zUnited States.
710 2 $aJoseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC