Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-18


tional Road fund 10 buy that sam,
bridge? Answer that question, .swil
you?
The att ack of the Gazette on Doctor
West is as contemplate as his attempt
by misrepresentation to dodge the main
question i'm this bridge Controversy
We happen TO know that the Doctor
was entitled to the credit of defeating
the bill for the purchase of the wooden
bridge in 1866, whatever the Gazette
man may either think or say upon that
subject. He fought the bill in every
form it assumed, and few days before
its final defeat, he furnished to us the
adverse report Of the sBoardzof Public
Works, and other information which
we printed in the shape OF an extra, and
he laid copy Of this upon the desk Of
every member ,of the Legislature, the
day before the bill came up This, with
other influences secured the defeat of
the bill.
The little trick by which the editor
gets out of his reference to the House
Journal instead of the Senate journal,
is about as creditable as some of his
other performances. In his issue OF
Feb. 25, he says, Look at House Jour-
nal, 1857, page 542 and you will find that
DR.. West not only recommended, but
voted to pay for the iron bridge at
GAINESVILLE out of the National Road
Fund" o. -
The editor Of course meant the Senate
Journal as on that page it gives the vote
of DR.. West On the final passage of the
general appropriation bill, but being.
muddled, as he generally is on all ques-
tions Of fact, he made mistake. He
might have said so and:ended the mat
ter but being anxious to appear smart,
In his last issue he says: fa5-'
1.-THE Chrenicle and the Doctor both
endeAvor to make point on us for re-
ferring to the House Journal, to see
what the Doctor did, IS he was a Sena-
tor. Why the Report we referred TO is
not in the Senate Journal we don't
know. 1t may be the Doctor had it sup
pressed there to enable him to make the
showing for himself that he now at |
tempts. But in House Journal, page 200,
will be found the following, &C." "a |
Here he gives the report of the House
joint committee of conferences on the4
appropriation bill, which shows just 1
what the Doctor in his article of two
weeks ago said took place. He does it, |
however, to show he was right when he
referred to the House Journal page SAP
to proove the Doctor voted for tae ap- |
when this report only
the House to agree to the !
Senate's amendment to that bill. We
pity the weakness that cannot see the
of such contemptibly silly
subterfuges. ,..,..~.se.,-r 4
We reiterate our.charges and dare the
Gazette to deny them. g3'1a 7s7at s1a
In 1867 the Republican party had a /
majority in the Legislature and by a
decisive vote defeated the bill for pur-
chasing the GAINESVILLE bridge out of the |
National Road Fund. In 1859 the |
Democratic Party had majority in the
Legislature and passed a bill to purchase
that same bridge out of the National
Road Fund. Now we ask, Mr., Gazette,
which party is responsible? s-sfh |
one of the first acts of Secretary
Borie, of the Navy Department, was to
relieve Messrs. Isherwood, Henderson,
Wood, johnson and Boot, Of the Engi-
neer Corps, and order Court ofInquiry
to investigate their acts. 1t is known
that there has been gross mismanage-
ment in that branch of the Government, |
and this prompt action of the new Sec
retary shows that he knows where. and
hsw to commence business. -. |
THE New York Herald considers the