The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-24

astute president and anxious stockholders.
They had their money, and offered to let
the bundles be opened and counted. And,
believing they were gentlemen, our friends
did not accept the offer. But, finally, 1t
turned out that Link & Co. were swindlers,
and that their iron-safe contaiued nothing
but paper and shavings.
DON'T DE FOOLED AGAIN.
He warned the Norfolk and Great West.
ern railroad that they had been duped
once, and were likely to be duped again.
The spondulcs must be forthcoming, and
he must see them before they got his vote.
If we suffer ourselves to be bamboozled by
such scheme, we deserve to be the laugh
| ing stock of the country. .. .....
A NORTHERN MANS IDEAS. t
Mr.. CARR, of Dinw,ddie, next spoke in
favor of the bill and the pending amend
| ment. He was In favor of railroads, and
believed the passage Of the bill would be
the salvation of Virginia. Defeat this bill,
and Virginia would be killed as dead as a
nit. ~~
THE WHAT IS 1T. -.-.
Mr.. HERNDoN inquired Of the friends OF
the bill whether the name given in the
amendment to the Pennsylvania Central
! Railroad Company was the corporate name
of the company running from Pittsburg to
Philadelphia?
Mr.. ROLLER said that the proper and corpo-
rate name Of the company was the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, and that Its ternini proper
were the cities named by Mr.. Herndon.
VOICE FOR TIE WHOLE STATE.
Mr.. TAYLOR, of Norfolk, did not propose
to consider so much the bill in its present
stage as the circumstances attending its
reconsideration. He, however, reminded
the Senator from Grayson that some time ago
he felicitated himself that his county, like
Norfolk, had escaped an available subscrip-
tion to the Norfolk and Great Western rail-
road. He then rehearsed the circumstances
ATTENDING the defeat of this bill in the Sem
ate by such remarkable majority. He
impugned the motives of no Senator, but
was surprised at the change that had come
over the dreams Of some. After this bill
had been rejected by such decisive vote,
we find on the floor Of the Senate
FEED COUNSEL NUDGING SENATORS,
who might be approached by local consid.
erations, and offering inducements Of this
kind to secure reconsideration. They
had said: Gentlemen, you want this. We
will give it you if you will vote for our
bill" l assert that the principles involved
in the bill are unchanged, whatever amend
ments have been proposed since its reiec-
ton to
| SECURE CERTAIN VOTES.
AS to himself, he had not, he was glad to
say, been approached by anybody, but
knew that attempts had been made to bring
the Norfolk representatives into the ranks
of the friends of this bill.
HEAVY BID.
A gentleman deeply interested in the
prosperity of that city had been approach
ed, however, and been offered the control
of the road between Richmond and Peters
burg, and even between Richmond and
Fredericksburg, if he would merely lend
his influence to the schemes Of the Penn
syNania Central railroad in Virginia. This
would have protected Norfolk amply, if
local interests alone were to he considered.
But more than this had been offered
| BLANK CHARTER FOR A RAILROAD.
Both had been rejected in manner that
command the attention of all who look to
the welfare Of the whole State. The gen.
tlemen making the propositions were told
promptly that this was no local bill, but a
matter in which Virginia as a State is deep
| ly interested from a commercial point of
view, and that the opponents of the bill
could not be thus seduced.
| HOW NOW?
But what is now the attitude of the Sen.
ate? The vote upon the bill stood "A to Is.
1t was rejected by remarkable majority
Yet, although only three days have elapsed
since that decisive vote, and although no
new matter has been introduced affecting
the merits of the bill, we find that reverse
of the decision is not only possible but
probable. The new proposition was not at
all german. 1t was
| MERE CONSIDERATION FOR VOTES.
1t had been submitted, and avowedly for
| that purpose, and would not be before the
Senate now but for that purpose. Half a
dozen other projected railroads are in en-
bryo, and the friends of several others have
been felt as to their willingness to accept a
| compromise If their bonds were guaranteed.
1t has been thought that breach could be
| more easily made by tempting the Senators
from the country along which the Norfolk
| and Great Western railroad is projected,
and this is the consequence. Defeat stared
the applicants for the charter in the face.
Something must be done, and this scheme
| tatingly that if this consideration was ac-
cepted there would be
| A STAIN ON THE ESCUTCHEoN OF THE SENATE
OF VIRGINIA,
| which had never before existed. The in
! tegrity of the Senate is involved. He en-
deayored to speak calmly, but felt deeply.
A reverse of the decision cannot but be liza
BILE to misconstruction, and does affect the
integrity of this body.
What really has the amendment asked
| for to do with the bill before the Senate? A
railroad is desired from Washington to
Richmond. Does guarantee of these bonds
have anything In the world to do with that
road other than as consideration for
votes? 1t does not affect the original bill
in any respect whatever. The principle
upon which the Senate acted in the rejec-
ton Is entirely unchanged.
THE BILL HAS STILL ITS REpULsIvE