The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-16
r., +. d PoToMAc RAILROAD Co..
PRESInENr's Orr1nr
HEoIUENT s UFF1CE,
Richmond, VA. Jan ID 1871


Editors Dispatch In the discussion last
night before the Committee of Roads. &c,
of the House of Delegates, misstatemenf
of facts was made by Judge Marshall
counsel for the Alexandria and Fredericks.
burg Railroad Company-I will hone
inadvertently from the heat of discussion
which, however unintentionally on his part.
did me the grossest injustice; and, as I
was denied the opportunity of correcting
this miSstatement at that time-or until
amid the confusion resulting from q mo-
ton for the adjournment of the committee
my correction was imperfectly heard and
less needed, [ am constrained to make it
through the columns of your paper.
Judge Marshall said that in giving evil
dence before the committee l had at first
stated that the preliminary and conditional
arrangement with Joseph B. Stewart and
his Alexandria and Fredericksburg Rail
road Company, which was made by the re-
solutions adopted by the directory of this
(Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, }
company in March, 1866, had in the follow
ing June been revoked and declared void
by that directory, because they had mean
while learned that the directory of the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg railroad
Company was Illegally constituted, although
on my cross.eXamination l had stated that
was not aware of the ilegality Of the Or
ganization Of the Alexandria and Frede-
ricksburg Company until the 30th Of No
vember last, 1870.
Now, this statement Of Judge Mar
shall is contradicted, not only, l am
sure, by the recollection of every one
who listened attentively to my evidence,
and by the report CT it heretofore published
in the Dispatch, but also by the very manu-
script report Of it made by the stenographcr
employed by the Alexandria and Frede-
rick>burg Company and Mr.. Roberts, from
which Judge Marshall at the time read !;
for the concurrent testimony of all these
shows that Judge Marshall applied what
L said of the action Of an entirely differ
ent company. the Washington and .AleIdn-
dr3a Railroad Company, (in which, in 1866
J. b. Stewart claimed to be also a directory
to the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Rail-
road Company. and that it was of the for
nner and not of the latter company that
learned in June, 1866, that its direc-
tory was Illegal and spurious, and
had issued spurious stock, and had
no authority to pass the resolution
binding its road to exclusive connections
with the alexandria and Fredericksburg
railroad, and consequently with that of this
company, certified copy of which Mr..
Stewart had showed to me in March, 1866,
as an induccment to this Richmond, Fred
cricksburg and Potomac Company to enter
into the preliminary and conditional ar
rangement above referred to. for leasing or
running through trains over the Alexandria
and Fredericksburg railroad after the COM
pletion of its construction in a manner sub
stantial and satisfactory to this company.
Judge Marshall strangely confoundcd the
names of these two companies, and the ac-
ton Of this company, as well as of myself,
in relation to each Of them. [ emphaticully
repeat the statement that whatever
charges l had previously heard against the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad
Company of having detrauded It's engineers,
contractors, and other creditors, / had
never, untu the Both Norem6cr last, heard
Of the charge, and still less Of its spccitica-
tions, that its original organization was
Illegal; and that was never, as is stated
in the printed report of my crosS-eXamina-
ton published by the Alexandria and
Fredericksburg Railroad Company, present
at any meeting of the House committee at
the Exchange Hotel or elsewhere at which
the charter of this company was considered,
or evidence in relation to its organization
given, nor at any meeting Of the Senate
committee deliberating on the same charter
except one, at tchich no eridence Of any
Kind 1cds offered, and at which nothing was
said, that heard, in relation to the Legality
of THAT CoMPANY's organization, however
much it was denounced for its fraudulent
transactions with its creditors.
Very respectfully, &c,
P.V. DANIEL, Jr.