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 (hi (Ite charge of corrvp'ioti made in f/tr llir/imrmd 
 Examiner, Jan. 7, 1SG L 
 
 The coniniittee appointed to investigate the eliargc of corruption 
 made in tlic Richmond Evaniincr of the seventh day of January, 1864, 
 uave, according to order, per^rtned that du y, and now respectfully 
 report: That they have carefully examined every witness and source 
 ' f information indicated to them, or which suggested itself, and -was 
 vithin their control, and have found nothing to sustain the charge. 
 Members of Congress are frequently called upon to vouch for the per- 
 (jonal respectability of their constituents and acquaintances, who are 
 unknown to the passport officer, and they cannot with propriety de- 
 cline ; it would be unkind as well as discourteous to do so, and -when 
 i:ruthfully and honestly performed, the act imports no wrong. 
 
 It is due to the editor of the Examiner, J. M. Daniel, to state, that 
 when called on for the author of the article in his paper, ho promptly 
 t^ave up the name of one of his local reporters, and declared tha't 
 vhen he saw the article in type, ho forbade its publication, because 
 '.e knew nothing of the trutli of it, and it was subsequently published 
 •ccidentally. 
 
 The committee ask to bo discharged from the further consideration 
 cf the subject. 
 
 JAMES LYONS, Chairman, 
 
 JNO. McQueen, 
 
 JNO. D. C. ATKINS. 
 
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