Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-03-18
our RICHMOND LETTER.
The Court BiIl--The SOuthwes-
tern DelegatiOn--The Free
Il. Il. Bill and the Cumber-
land Gap Railroad.
RICHMOND, March II, '73.

/
DEAR NEWS:
Judging from the very few copies
of your interesting paper that acct
dentally see, suppose you will be re.
! joiced TO learn that the Court Bill
as it is generally called, has been pass.
ed by both, Houses and has gone to the
! Governor. [ have not the bill before
ne but.in general termsit reduces that
| court TO one of probate, with the same
! political powers it had before. The
/ pay is reduced to rOminal salary OF
some two hundred dollars a year to be
| paid by the county, BY this measure,
by no means agreeable to ME, it is said
some seventy or eighty thousand dol
lars year will be saved to the State.
No proposition before the present
General Assembly, not excepting the
debt question has created more inte-
rest or invoked more sturdy Opposi-
ton. If any credit can be deduced
/ from this movement, it is due to one
of your delegates, (Fulkerson) who
Initiated IL and pertinaciOusIy follow
ed it up, through all its ups and downs
until triumph rewarded his Efforts
Naturally do not feel much inclined
to give him my congratulations, but /
am bound To say that he never bated
breath during the whole strife, bat
like a hungry confederate after the
commissary stores of the enemy, he
pitched in and waded through until
he not only manned the works but oc-
cupied The camp of his enemy. We in
eastern Virginia do not precisely like
the thing, hut when Fulkerson and
Cummings, and Greever, and Jack
Carter, and Joe Graham, and the
whole Southwestern delegation as q
unit-with the exception of Allen of
BotetouTt-said come down, we
had TO cave. SO whatever of good may
come of it, or whatever of evil attach
es to the result, the members from
Southwest Virginia must bear the res
possibility,
In late /" Nc,cS" observed an in
justice to one of the members from
Richmond, and the member from
Roanoke which it VIII be just as well
TO correct. Both of these gentlemen
were the friends of the Court Bill and
proved the sincerity of their purpose
by voting for il on its final passage.
allude 10 Lovenstein AMI Fitzgerald.
The Free Railroad Law has been I'M
der discussion for two or three days.
and the likelihood is that it will con-
tinue Tor days TO come. Walker of
Pulaski in speech of several hours
has illustrated his claim upon the
State for past and future honors and
showed up MIR. Southern Security
Agent Sutherlin in his true colOrs. /
never witnessed such a castigatiun and
telt deep sorrow for the member from
PlttsYlvania as he squirmed under the
overwhelming Testimony adduced to
connect him with 1hoS. a. Scott, the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, who
seems to have wOrmed himself into
the confidence of some of your neigh
bors. Poor Sutherlin made a feeble eff
fort 10 reply, but it was too apparent
for concealment that the tarbed arrows
of the member from Pulaski ranked
his bosom, because they were feather
Ell with TRUTH,
What will be the fate of the bin /
cannot tell. but it is to be hoped that
such q nefarous law will not Ice sad
died upon Virginia, at least by the all
of Southwestern men.
/ don't think your brother Kane of
Scott will gain much by the outpOur
ing of his large and enthusiastic
meeting" | rather think HE will
come to grief and &C the same time do
little TO advance tue wishes of his peo-
pie, He has been or will be sent for, to
appear before the Committee and if |
am a judge of anything. he will rue the
day in which he undertook the dam
age of the only Virginia interest in
which the Southwest is interested.
This letter is already too long. /
may write you again shortly, Good
bye. Good health TO you and all
your family. May you live long aud
prosper"
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