Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-19
The Piunderers OF the County AcknOwi-
edge their ChIeaneIy and Fraud!

Ihe fiuhderers of the County AcknOwi-
tuse their ehieaneIy and Fraud!
one OF the most false and at the same time
humiiiating explanations that was ever
wrung from an unprincipled crew of schem-
ing and plundering tricksters, appeared on
yesterday. The crowd of public plunder-
ers headed by Jos. N Lewis, and who
have invoked the Legislature year after
year, to aid them n appropriating the reve-
nue. of the county, and TO tax the citizens of
Butte c'upty for their own bene6t-men
who have crowded their theiving bills upon
the attention Of tho Legislature, until that
body could not rid themselves of their i'm.
portunities-these men, who are still asking
the people to continue them in places of
power aud Influence that they may continue
their tbciving assaults upon our sources of
revenue and opprsss the people with taxa
ton, for their own agrandizement-thes
men, forced to tho wall by the exposition of
the plunderiDg measures they have sought
to fasten upon the county, have deemed it
advisable to offer explanations of their un-
scrupulous measures. Tho organ and ad-
vocate Of the plunderers and their thieving
bills. acknowledges the chcanery and fraud
adopted by Judge Lewis. to secure the pas
sage Of his wagon road bill, which proposes
to issue bonds, bearing interest, to the
amount Of forty thousand dollars, 20 con-
struct n road leading to Lewis toll bridge,
as follows;
The bill was passed through the Senate inten-
tioEaly in the shape that it for the purpose of
allowing the Hon. Mr.. Long the opportunity to n-
sst upen Its being amended in the House by provd-
ing for its submission to the people 1t was necessa
ry that Mr.. Long should perform original act
in the matter and that that should appear to be
contrary to the wishes Of Judge Lewis in order to
secure the passage of the bill ITSELF rather to
the support the Members of the House from
this cohnty"
Judge Lewis was Mt the capitol lobbying
the bill through, and if such confession is
not humiialing coming from him. that we
do not understand Websters definition of
the word. Il proves him to be an expert in
procuring the passage of thieving bills, by
his own admission. The shae tenor of the
extract Ows that Lewis did net consider
the bill Of sutfi cient public Importance to
merit the support of our Members, aud
hence his resort to chicanery to secure its
passage. Won d il been deemed necessary
IA nnt, a I.au srlF b,I
not considered the bill an uijust and plum
dering aft ,ir' Like culprits upon the scat
fold, these professional plunderers of the
tax paying public stand convicted by their
own confessions.
The idea conveyed in the extract, that
Lewis favored the proposition TO submit the
bill to the people is not sustained 10y the
humuiliating admission Of the trckery prac.
tised upon our members, aud is absolutely
false. His Thermometer aud tonl in the
Senate, the Hon John Il MCGEE, inveighcd
loudly against the proposed mendmcnt, and
swore that our Members should assume the
responsibility of its defeat. The same gen
tetheh afterwards ueciafed that the OH
might as we'll have been vetoed, us submit
ted to the people.
The rricksters' confession is also false in
Its alnsion to MIR ing Mr.. l. is an age /
and honorable man, aud their sp enetic and
pititul illusions were ,ccasiuned b,ciuse
they could not use him to advances their
plumde,ing schemes and purposes Mr.
Morrison was the author Of the amendment
submitting the bill to the people, aud is,
doubtless, prepared to receive the ann,hc-
mas OF The piundering ,ricksters, or their
toadyng tools and npoogi>ts
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