Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-22
Omuille UlllQ B lite ReturG.
The pluuderers OF the County AeknowI-
edge sheir Chicanery and Fraud!

The pi,."derers OF the Coanty AeknowI-
edge sheir Chieanery and Fraud!
One of the mos. false and at the same time
humiiatiug explanations that was ever
wrung from an unprincipled crew Of schem-
ing and pluudering tricksters, appeared on
yesterday. The crowd of public plunder-
ers headed by Jos. E. n. Lewis, and WHO
have invoked the Legislature year after
year, to aid them in appropriating the reve-
nue. of the county, and to tax the citizens OF
Butte county for their own beneft-men
the attention of the 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 and influence that they may continue
their thciving assaults upon our sources Of
revenue and opprsss tho people with taxa
ton, for their own ngraBdzement-thes
men, forced to tho wall by the exposition Of
the plundering measures they have sought
TO fasten upon the county, have deemed 1t
advisable to offer explanations of their un-
scrupulous measures. The organ and ad
vocate Of the plunderers and their thieving
bills, acknowledges the chicanery and fraud
adopted by Judge Lewis. TO secure the pas
sage of his wagon road bill, which proposes
to issue bonds, bearing interest. to tic
amount Of forty thousand doi'ars, % con-
struct road leading to Lewis toll bridge,
as follows:
''Thc bill was passed through the Senate inten-
vonally in the shape that it for the purpose Of
allowing the Hon Mr.. Long the opportunity to in
sst upen Its being amended in the House by provid-
ing for its Submission to the people, 1t necessn-
ry that Mr.. Long should perform some original act
in the matter and that that act should appear to he
contrary to the wishes "f Judge Lewis in order to
secure the passage of tue bill itself or rather to
cure the support the Members of the liou e from
this county"
Judge Lewis was Mt the capitol lobhyir G
the bill through, and If such confession is
not humilin,ing coming from him, that we
do not understand Webster's definition Of
the word, l, proves him to be an expert in
procuring the passage of ih,eving bills, Ivy
his own admission. The Mia e tenor Of the
extract s ows that Lewis did MT consider
the bill of ,uff cient public importance to
merit the support of our Members, and
hence his resort to chic,nery to secure it,
passage. Won il been deemed necessary
co pursue such course if Lewis himself had
mot considered the bill an " just nnd plum
,dering aff .ir? Like culpritr upon the scat
fold, these professional plunderers OF the
tax paving 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 hy the
humuiliating admission Of the trickery prnc-
tised upon our members. and is absolutely
false. His thermometer and tool IN the
Senate, the Hon John Il McGee, inveighed
loudly against the proposed amendment nnd
swore that our Members should assume the
responsibility of its defeat. The same gen
t,emen afterwards declared that the bill
might as we'll have been vetoed, AS submit
eed to the people.
The tricksters' confession is also false in
Its allnsion to Mr. Long MIR. l. is an aged
and honorable man. aud their sp!enetic and
pitiful nllusions were tccasioned btcIuse
,hev could not use him 10 advance their
plundering schemes and purposes MI.
Morrison was the author Of the amendment
submitting the bill to the people. and is,
doubtless. prepared to receive tho anathe-
mas OF the pundering tricksters, or their
toadying tools and apoogists.
piuLias Argus.
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