The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-13

Fay per annum 1921, Ill
1t will impress anybody who reads tn,
foregoing that Mr. Luttrell or the partie,
behind him, intended, like lawyers in max
ing writs, to charge enough to hold some
Where, for his drag net reaches from Puge
Sound to the Gulf of Mexico We know
nothing as to his motives, and care less, 70,
it is not what actuates Il man to charge. SC
much as it is the charges themselves, tina
interests the public. A local interest at
taches to the matter in this vicinity, because
Hon Bradley Barlow and Mr. j /. Sandersor
are well known hero, and are entitled tC
have the matter discussed with something
of a personal reference. We regret tina
in hasty interview just previous to his de-
/ parture for Washington we were unable t.
hear Mr. Bar0w's answer in detail to eacl
one Of the specific charges, but few gen
cral statements will suffice to dispose of tht
whole case so far as he is concerned, amona
those who have known him from his you'll
up and who know that his word is implicit,
reliable In the first place. then, he say,
that he has no interest whatever in clever
OF the twenty routes ascrbcd to him; sec
ond. that it is wholly untrue thathe belong,
TO a combination for causing straw, bids tt
7 be put in, or that he or his partners have
/ ever paid any man or set of men for refus
/ ing or failing to perform in order that he OF
| they might get the route at n higher price
| third, that he has no knowledge of the trutl
/ or falsity of the charges concerning Hunt
ley, Peterson aud others, not his partners
! fourth, that all these charges relating tt
! him and his routes were investigated by the
/ Committee Of the f2nd Congress. and him.
/ self, partners and the Government were cx-
/ oneratcd fifth, that since that time he ha:
I made no new contracts and during this las
letting has put in no bids, being anxious tc
retire from the business and sell his proper.
/ ty to contractors who will paw for it sixth
/ and finally, that all his transactions with the
/ Government are matters of record in the
post office and treasury departments ant
/ ever have been and are now open to exam.
nation by any citizen of the United States
He says it is true that there have beer
cXceptonal instances of a temporary vara
ton of routes ard occasional protractet
failures to deliver the mail Mt certain sta
tons, owing to ilnpassablc roads and othe1
causes beyond the control of the stage com
panv. The same thing occurs all over tho
United States. but is doubtless worse in Tho
Rocky Mountains covered with snow or OF
the Plains infested by Indians, than it i
here in New England The fact. however
I Pacific coast, SAYS Mr. Luttrel, has expressed
approval of the efficiency Of their service
would seem to indicate that it has been a
satisfactory as it was possible to make it.
1t is possible that the government ha
paid for Irregular service when it has beer
thus occasionally interrupted, but such
we believe, has always been the policy o
the government except in hagrant and un
lustlhablc cases. we take 1t that when
by reason OF SHOWS, or wash-outs or rail
ROAD accldehts. the mais contractors on thu
0entral vermont are unable to bring us
boston man until II Is two or three day:
olu' no one would be small and mean enough
10 INSIST that their pay ought to be abated
IN regard to sub.letting, we understand
II 10 oe true, not only that Barlow, Sander
son 20, hoid contracts which were Sc
c''reu ny others; anu allow others to per
FORM contracts wnich are held by them
selves out mat TINS Is Il practice which pre-
vans All over tue country. There is hardly
stage route IN vermont, Tor instance
over winch the driver himself, or the stage
Pror rector, Is the owner Of the mail con