The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-23

way obtained possession or control of gI5,-
600 Of stock in that road formerly owned by
! the city Of Norfolk If so, state when, how,
by whom. sed upon what terms, and what
| amount of ths ttofits Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad ttthFanr we're used:
leaned, or expended thereof? .o. !.
Nora BESE.--The facts sought by tiIis
question are apparent, and we produce doc
umcnts to establish them primo Jocte.
Y. Show the committee how you as
President Of the Baltimore Steam-Packet
Company account to the Seaboard and Roa-
noke Railroad Company for lis dividends
un0t! orcstbird Of the capital stock of the
Baltimore Sie$th Picket, Company, and
especially whether you aifos 70 the city of
Norfolk. rs holder Of $4,000 of tle stock
OF your Seaboard Company, any share OF
! the profits made upon and by the Balti-
more Stcam-Packet Company.
VI. What interest in or connection with
the Potomac Steamboat Company has the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad Company!
VII. What interest in or connection with
the Potomac Railroad Company has the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad CompsAy
VIII. By what authority Of law, or by
what authorization Of your stockholders,
have Won used S1e9740.5 of money belong
| inc t,; the Richmond. Fredericksburg aud
Potomac iiajroud Company to buy or other
wise acquire an Interest in what Is called the
Potomac Railroad Company-of the Flick
lin charter p
Nora BtNE.--We refer to reports of Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-
road Company and acts Of 1867, PIP. COL
300. aS pertinent to the three foregoing ques.
tions.
IX, What value in kind, quantity, and
n,a,tv has the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad Company ever re-
cciycd for the money reported as thus eX-
pended?
X. In what proportion do you assirnlate
the water distance from Quantico to ash-
ington? And in what proportions 40 you
divide fares between the Richmond, Frede-
rick>bury and Potomac Railroad Co!npah!
and the Potomac Steamboat Company!
N. Has not the Richmond. Fredericks.
| hurg and Potomac Railroad Company, or its
| officers or controllers. or some Of them, ac-
| qIircd with the "Ficklin charter" as it is
called. for the Potomac Railroad Company
the rirht to build a railroad from QuaDtico
70 Alexandria parallel to the line of the
| Alexandria and Fredericksburg railroad?
XlI. Ry what authority and upon what
prrtcnrcs has your Richmond, FredericEs-
hur.. and Potomac Railroad Company in
vested in such enterprises as the foregoing
| profits which should have been divided in
| money among the stockholders, including
The state Of Virginia.!
XIII. WHY Is it that since the 1st May, 1854,
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
| Railroad Company has not PAID any olYl-
| ~, rF t,iiu 4,
board and Roanoke Railroad Company and
the Baltimore Stcam-Parkct Company were
in unob>tru,tcd operation -
At tho CONFUSION of the reading Mr.. Lyon
said: Now, Mr.. Chairman, l will be able 10
crafty your eager curiosity rs to Mr.. Robln-
sous disposition to reply. Take the paper,
>ir, and put these thirteen questions to Mt.
Robinson, and note to how many lie replies
and how he replies.
Mr. Peter V. Daniel, Jr.: hIr. Chairman,
YOU have heard read the thirteen Questions
so formally propoulnded by Mr.. Lyon. and
Won have observed their scope and cnarac-
ter. Surely we cannot kc expected to an
,wcr them at once. These artful and all
cmllacn. questions are the product Of the
earnest iucilhrations Of forty-ciGht hours on
the part of counsel on the other side, and
certainly VIC should bayc time and not be
called to answer on the instant. | could an-
swcr some Of these questions now, but do
not choose TO do so at present
Mr.. Lyon: You are not on the stand, sir,
and the questions are not put to you, but
your principal, who can answer them. ]
will call YOU to the stand when get through
with him.
! Mr.. Daniel Some Of these questions Mr..
Robinson cG,no: answer, but | eau, because
was for 4 long time president of the Rich
mond. Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-
road Company. and 1 propose to answer
them hereafter. But, sir. we are arraigneG
here by Mr.. Ragland and his party rs alien
cucmics, while he claims fer himself and his
associates the highest motives of patriotism
and the public good. How has he shown
this yauntcd patriotism? When he got con.
troll of the Petersburg railroad he offered to sell
his shares in that road TO various persons
outside Of the State, 10 Mr.. John Robinson
, whom he now denounccs, ilr. Tom Scott,
commodore McCrcady, and others. In this
consists the evidence Of his patriotic mo.
tiycs. On the other hand we claim that we
can show that the Richmond, FrCdericks.
bur. and Potomac Railroad Company has
not been obstructive, as charged that it has
furnished all the facilities for through travel
|
supplied the money to build these other
roads in the State, by which through con.
nection has become possible. We call attcn
ton to these facts to rebut the fancltul theo
ricS of the other side as to motives. We
have done the reverse OF what Is charged
against us. In the face OF this welI-attcstcd
record | protest against these thirteen queS
tions, and if we are to answer them request
. written copies of them.
Mr.. Lyon: These are questions that arc
merely written down for convenience, and
which | propose to put, one at q time, to q
reluctant witness, who will tell the truth il
he answers at all, or will refuse to answer
On nv question of last Friday we gave hiu
seventv-seyen hours to consider whether he
wouil answer or not and the result was tho
cooked response which was rendered OF
Monday evening. We do not desire an,
more cooked replies. and therefore desire
the first question TO be put to MIR. Robicsol
now for. him to answer now.
Nj. Daniel: protest against the putting
of this question now. The question OF Fri
day in regard TO the Old Bay Line Of steam
ers, 10 which the gentleman refers, was an
swered as soon lis Ar. Robinson could obtain
the necessary information by mail and tele
graph. Sunday is counted in this estimate
| of seventy-sevcn hours, and while it is true
that the mails and telegraph on that day were
in oncration to bring us information, it surely
is not supposed that we devoted the day o
rest TO preparing our answer. We asked fol
no DELAY. As for these questions now pro
pounded, we have sent already for the book:
and papers to enable us to answer them. anC
when we get this information we can ant
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