Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-04-04

hou lnlleo 10 suspend the rules so the OIL
could be read the third time, BY address.
sing letter TO Messrs. Layne and Ward,
members Of the Senate. Here it is, sir;
read it, and ponder on your veracity-
your deprayi.y: ,@.c* r. Il. /
y ''SESArr CHAMBER, Feb. 90, 1854.
s"CoL HARvsY-We received your note
this day. and respond that, when the bill
constructing road from Seary creek. on
State account, was FIRST proposed, the ques.
ton Of the terminus seemed likely to pro.
duce some want of harmony and concert,
and perhaps endanger the bill. Consul
tation was bad between the friends Of the
Point Pleasant terminus and the terminus
at point below the mouth Of the Kama.
wha. The Senator from Mason had in
trodueed a bill in the Senate for the con.
struction Of said road, to terminate atPt.
Pleasant, but on consultation he agreed to
leave the question Of terminus to the Board
Of Public Works, and so prepared his bill.
simply requiring the road to be termina.
ted OF the mouth Of Kanawha river, on the
upper or lower side thereof. We then,
considered the question compromised, and
did not dream that it would be disturbed
BY any one. After the bill introduced by
the Senator from Mason had been defeat
ed, the Senator froL1 Southampton moved
re consideration Of the vote; he said that
he did so to enable the Senator from Ma.
son to offer q substitute for the bill-that
the substitute he understood to be sim.
pie authority to a company to construct
said road from Scary to the Ohio, upon
naked charter. Mr.. Dencale moved 70
dispense with the reading Of the bill, and
made some remarks. Mr.. Hall. followed
"He hoped the bill would bae~read by its
title-it was simply naked charter to
construct Iroaato the mouth Of Kama
wha." Knowing there would be no OPP
position to the bill, and understanding
from the remarks of the Senator from Ma
son, that the compromise had not been
broken in upon. we never gave ourselves
any further concern about it. Whatever
may have been our private feelings in re-
lation to the matter our public duty would
have forced us to have insisted upon leay-
ing the question Of terminus open, had
we have know that different point had
+ been fixed u pom. :. rs - II. +,
"ReSpectfullv,, your o'bt v'ts, +
...- DOUGLAS B. LAYNE.
. m.r "E. WARD" a. +:
Now, sir, where, then, is the charge
that M 1tion was made to dispense with
the reading Of the billy" Is it not pro-
ven? The compromise you deny, and
also that the bill was not read. Is not the
Ieyidepce of Gen. Layne and E. Ward,
Esq, conclusive? Will you now thank
me for putting this in "tangible. fornr?'
Is it not in form tangible" enoughnoW,
sir, to satisfy all honorable men? Had
you ever been suspected of falsebsod OF
misrepresentation, would not this evidence
I be sufficient to convict you of/wilful and
malicious falsehood and slander?" | have
nothing more to say. ,sir;/ on this point,
/ but to add three numbers more TO the list
of misrepresen nations, increasing the num-
Der from 8 10 IL. ~
| You accuse me of saying that "tke Ma
son and Cabell Railroad bill was dis
guised attempt to. secure the wight OF way
for tic: city If Baltimore 70 make road
/ from the n. W. v. Railroad to Guyah-
d0:te or. SanIy, and tie bridge at Point
Pleasant disguised effort to secure the
taking Of the stock in said road" Had i
said So'in the language quoted above, i
soul! Prove i true by your own words,
but as you are not a very creditable. wit
ness, | dislike toy introduee your testim3'
ny But as you say 'the ,falseuess OF this
| charge, 50 faras secret and disguised ef.
forts are concerned, are susceptible of tile
most positive proof" but you add, that
! I shall not for the present offer testimony
on the subject But in the next para.
graph you admit what you accuse me d
asserting, when You unwittingly say-"1t
is true we were pressing two bills instead
of one to effect our object, but that was
not our fault "Ob! Shame, where is
thy blush!'' Another base coin nailed
ito the counter, which gives us the round
number of twelve. A dozen misrepresen.
tations glaring you in the face! rel !
:; In trying to shield yourself from the
odium and disgrace Of working secretly
to injure the great Central improvement
the Covington and Ohio Railroad
and to destroy the influence of the pat
ron Of the bill making an appropriation 70
that road, with the members Of the Legiss
lature last winter. after referring to the
Monongahela and Rayenswood road, with
a view Of trying TO conciliate your cons
stituents, and cover up your '.secret and
disguised efforts" against the State and
the Covington and Ohio Railroad, you say
\ that with the view to procure the entire
| right of way, I took the subject up in the
Senate and procured the report and pas
saye Of a Bill through the Senate, with the
tile Of Mason and Cabell Railroad Com
pany, which BILL taken inconneetion with
| the former, gave tie complete right OF way
! to Guyandotte.'' Asst was 4 Secret and
disguised effort to accomplish the pur-
p5Se wfscA IsapPose Was your object, in
tneeElk 70 tiefst he Gown ton and Ohio
Ra,i;oalbi!l, i: H1fp5vef naattess not which
way YOU accomplish It, whether through
the Mason and Cabell Railroad and the
bMon6ngahe,a and Ravehswood Railroad,
or the Mason aid Cabell Railroad and ire
| Kaaa8ha. Valley Branch Railroad and
I 0Ezo RIVER Btiage Company, tie effect
was. the same. The destruction OF the