Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-16
RICHMOND FEB, 10Th 1872.

| RICHMOND FEB, lUln 1917.
DIR. EDITOR:
The House to day voted down
very largely the minority report of the
joint committee, on the question of
the public debt. You have already
been apprised of the divergent chan
nels in which your two de 'egates re-
spectively move. Col. Fulkerson,
who by the way is one of the most IN
termiEably active workers in the
House, has from the first deemed the
| Funding Bill, both distasteful and I'M
/ just to the people of the State. He has
Of course been by speaker Hanger,
studiOusly kept off tie joint commit
tee. Nevertheless he has not lacked
for efficient meaus by which to assert
the right of the people to be consulted
upon the great question, whether they
shall be taxed 70, death, to preserve
upimpared the investment of the bond
holders, when the investments of the
tax paying, hard working people have
all been ruined, OF course he went
for those "heathen chinee" funders
who had their sleeves stuffed with
right bowers in the shape of green
backs for certain members of the last
Legislature. Your other delegate
Gen. Cummings. has supported the
effort of the funders TO pass the minor
ity report. There is no more upright
or scrupulous gentleman than be in
the House, but l certainly think he
will find himself in that future minor
ity report, which the people of your
county viii make at your next cleo
ton for delegates to the Legislature.
A, bill has been introduced in the
Senate to-day TO condemn the out
standing stock in the various links of
the A. NJ. & o. r. r. 1t has OCCASION
ed less CONSERVATION than might have
been expected. The truth is. the con-
solidated line is now regarded the on
ly Ttsginia improvement we have
and its great usefulness must be held
as paramount to minor considerations.
TO perfect its usefulness implies the
perfection of its unity and the few re-
calcitrant stockholders who are seek
ing to impair its designs and obstruct
its progress must be treated exactly as
were those landholders' who vainly
vowed that its separate links should
never be made across their farms.
Railroads are built upon the great
principle that private property must
necessarily give way to the accom-
plishment of great public good. L
suppose the measure will pass and be-
come a-law as itshould The Court
bill was to-day passed in the Senate
by handsome majority, and will
probably pass the House. Some of
the county Judges are here lobbying
against it, but they can hardly effect
the result, The county Judges are not
needed, especially at such an expense
and they must be content to give way
to the spirit of retrenchment. -
The smelling COMMITTEES, as you
have termed, 1t seems to have struck
ile.nA Tbliber of the last legislature
has Acknowledged that he was en-
ployeds to, lobby, but refuses to state
how much he paid and to what MEM
bers his snug little sums were paid.
An effort will be made to get him"
and OF the result you viii Certainly
near more.CgTqoc1 F.1TlE.sg
What will be. done, with the land
scrip. the mischief only knows. 1t
ought to go 20 some Independent in
stitution on the south-side, and why
Goodson does not donate a fund to
secure it, /