The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-10
Ohio railroad, the gentleman from Bedfo
desired to have them sworn?

Ohio railroad, the gentleman from Bedford
desired to have them sworn? 81.
NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT.
Mr.. THURMAN, rejoincd that he was not
discussing that question. He then pro-
ceeded vehemently to defend his course in
the committee, incidentally saying that the
gentleman from Richmond and the capital
lists whom he represented opposed an lnves-
tigation.
NOT so.
Mr.. GUY denied 1t. They courtcd any
inquiry, but desired the proceedings to be
regular and legal.
Mr.. MADDOX, of Chesterfield, was the
next speaker. He regarded the proposition
before the House as monstrous. The gen.
tlemen whose names were affixed to the
contract were too well known for their in
tegrity to be questioned for moment. 1t
was .........
NOT ONLY FOOLISH, BUT WASTING TIME,
to 90 into an investigation Of their business
transactions. But If there was to be an in
vestigation, he suggested thata special CON-
mittee be appointed for the purpose; for it
was we'll known that several members of
the Committee on Roads, &c, were parti-
san friends of the Ubiquitous amendment
proposed by the gentleman from Halifax,
which gives away the States interest in the
railroad.
Mr.. PooRE asked if the gentlemen meant
to imply that the members of the commit
tee were not honest, and would not act fair
ly?
Mr.. MADDOX meant nothing of the kind,
but was unwilling that the case should be
submitted for decision to men whose minds
were already so strongly biased. He had
read in the
LEADING NEWSPAPER OF RICHMOND,
the DISPATCH, how the gentlemen who
made the proposition under consideration
was treated, and had read the account with
amazement. Those hiSh.minded and hon.
orable gentlemen had been treated with
gross discourtesy by the committee. The
members of the committee had sought to
do what they had no right to do, and the
gentlemen who they treated so inyldlously
very properly resentedit.
IN ANOTHER FORM.
Mr.. WooD then submitted the following
substitute, which he said was the resolu-
ton unanimously agreed to by the Com
mttee on Roads:
"ReSolced That the Committee on Roads,
&C., be, and they are hereby, empowered
l. send
make thorough examination in reference
to all matters and things connected WIZ
Senate bill No. g."
ANYTHING FOR PEACE.
Mr.. PoPHAM thought the substitute
ought to be adopted, as the motives of the
opposition might be impugned, however
| honest. He then administered a scathlns
rebuke TO the young men who had assumed
the leadership of the House in railroad
affairs, and were attempting to crack the
whip over men who were old enough to be
their fathers and grandfathers. These gen
tlcmen were too partisan, too subserVien'
in their allegiance to certain railroad mon
archs. This matter ought to be given into
other and more discreet hands.
MIR. MCCALL: What committee is the
| gentleman q member Of? We might sent
it to that.
| HIT HIM AGAIN.
| Mr.. P0PHAM was happy to say that ht
was member Of but one Of these in
ve>tigating committees, and that was
very humble one and II the gentleman
from Roanoke MIR. McCaul] had foregone
the pleasure Of his trip to the city O
Drothcrly Love he might have been Oh one
| MR.. WOODS INCONSISTENCIES.
| Mr.. PoPHAM then commented at length
upon the Inconsistency of Mr.. WooD in hi,
railroad politics. An investigation wa;
necessary, he thought, in order to find out
| what that gentleman was driving at. Yes
! terday he commenced 4 speech by rehe.
mently protesting against the recommtta
| of the bin, and wound up by urging that il
be recommtted. In his advocacy of the
Pennsylvania Central bill he had been
loud in his proclamations Of invitation
to foreign capital to come in and
| help us, OH almost any terms, and sneercd
ut the Virginianism of his opponents. Now
| he is loud in his expression of desire that
the railroads Of Virginia should be man.
aged by Firginians. He had been outspo
ken in denunciation of those blighting mo.
nopolies, the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac, and Seaboard and Roanoke
railroads, and now he was lending his aid
to scheme which was popularity believed
| to be In the interests of those monopoies
An investigation is desirable, that the mem
Der from Halifax be set right, and himself
and his constituency enlightened. =,
A LAST WORD. =,
| Before the vote was taken, Mr.. GUY re.
| piled to the repeated assertion of MI. Thur.
man that Mr.. Fhyson and others had re,
fused to answer questions propounded by
| the committee. This was not so. Mr.. Ell
Tyson had ayowed his willingness and anx
icty to answer any question on earth thai
the committee chose to ask. The difficult,
was not that he refused to answer, but sim
| ply that the committee insisted upon the
chairman's administering an oath which
| under the circumstances, it would have
been sacrilsee to take. f.
| The substitute of Mr.. Wood was ther
agreed to, and the resolution, as amended
adopted with few dissenting voices.
| - =
A NOVEL CASE OF COMMERCIAL REsPoN