Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-09-25

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5"Well, what kind of security will
they give me for this money!
al will tell you how they propose to
arrange that. Don Cameron will give
you check on the Middletown bank,
ard mark it good as cashier You
know he is cashier Of the Middletown
bank, and the arrangements are all
made with Mackcy, and he will take
this check as cash and carry il during
his term, until arrangements can be
made to take IL up.
eater he lad shown his hand, ]
said Let Don Cameron come and
sec me about this.' i9r bll aaVaH
"'Now, replied Quay, you know
he don't like to do this after his fight
with you am authorized to fix up
this arrangement tell youyou had
better como into it,. lil IA
"'Well,' said |, det Cameron come
and see me himself | won't do any
thing until | see him.
"'Wcll,' said Quay, Il am going
away at twelve O'Clock to Philadel-
phia, and won't see him. You had
better let me fix this matter have
got his check here, and il can be ar
ranged,
"'No, said |, Il won't have that at
all. 1t doesn't matter if YOU can't see
Cameron Sam Barr, his man Friday,
is here and you can tell him. He will
see Cameron in the morning. Very
WE'LL said Quay, a little chagrined, j
will do that, and left. / didn't see
him again until Thursday morning,
and Cameron never came near. On
Thursday morning Quay came into
my room and asked me If | was will
ling TO do that-to furnish the money.
NO. | replied, Cameron didn't come
to see me- well, said Quay, you
ought 10 have done that. tell you it
was great mistake -u sIate
The Legislature adjourned and the
members didn't get their money, and
| heard nothing more Of it for some
time. There was
ANOTHER LITTLE ARRANGMENT
which Don Cameron and Quay bad
fixed up which if it had worked all
righ. would have afforded them The
means of getting out OF this scrape.
1t was this; A bill had been prepared
in room AZ, Girard house, Philadelphia,
by Bob Mackey, NJ. S. Quay, Don
Cameron and Sam Moon. IL was to
place State tax of one cent per gal
Ion on every gallon of oil produced in
the State of Pennsylvania, aud author
ize the State Treasurer and Auditor
General to appoint inspectors and col
leotors, and thus get the control Of
the revenue TO be derived from this
source in the bands of two of Gamer
on's creatures The snake in this
Uill came IN certain clause wnIcn
allowed drawback Of threc-quarters
OF cent on all oil shipped from Phil
adeIphia. The ring intended to buy
up all the oil in the State aud ship il
to Philadelphia frst, and thence ship
IL to any point whore it could be sold
This would allow them, of course,
three-quarters of cent margin on
on every gallon, andwould have raised
them million aud three-ouarters
every year. Sam Moon was engineer
ing the thing through, and Tom Scott,
who was then 10 the west, was but
specifically advised Of the nature Of
the bill, and was Of course 10 favor Of
it, as the Pennsylvania Central mon
opolizes the oil carrying tradeg A
friend of Tom Scotts, who was ad-
vised of the nature OF the bill, and
thought it was hardly possible that
that shrewd, far seeing man knew its
nature exactly, determined to wait
upon him and advise him. He accord
ingly went to Philadelphia on Satur-
day night, and had long converse
tion with the great railroad magnatc,
and told him that this bill had already
passed the House, and that Moon had
everything set up in the Senate to
put il through on Tuesday. He also
told him that if this bill passed the in
ference would be that it originated
with Scott himself. II was so trans
parent Q fraud on the people that it
would raise n cry of Indignation
throughout the oil regions, and he
couldn't afford to be made n party to
any such transaction Scott readily
admitted that he knew but little about
the thing; he had no idea il was such
fraud, and said the thing must be
stopped at once. llo therefore gave
the gentleman note TO Sam Moon,
ordering him to hold up. The eea-
tleman came to Harrisburg on aonday
morning and gave Mr.. Moon Colonel
Scotts note. Samuel at once saw his
men and told them tho jig was up
they could vote as they pleased. So
that night there was grief in the Cam
cron camp. Their only hope was to
make compromise with me, and so
Quay tried his powers of persuasion
as already described, but in vain, /
told him that | had found out all |
wished to know, and Don Cameron
and his friends might 90 to n warmer
climate for all cared. Being disap-
pointed in both Of these little games,
the Camorons bcthought themselves
Of how they might fix
A LITTLE pINonER,
as Sam Moon would term il, for Col
onol Thomas A. Scott. An act had
been passed during the last session
known as the low grade bill, which
authorized the Allegheny Valley rail-
road company TO take out Of the treas
ury the bonds Of The Philadelphia and
Erie railroad company ndrcplace them
with the bonds Of their own company,
guaranteed by the Pennsylvania and
Northern Central railroad companies.
Tho object was TO use the Phiadel-
phia and Erie bonds TO extend aud
improve the Allegheny Valley road -
The bonds had not yot been prepared,
and IL was claimed by some that tho
act was unconstitutional, aud as
would 90 out Of tho office and Mr..
Mackey como in on the frst day of
May, but short time remained in