, 1875-03-06
VI ashington Correspondence.
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AsRISGIOS, D. Z, tco. -, $50
EpIToR STATESMAN :-Etrly in youth l
was taught that the trie secret Of success
was concentration In blissful ignorance !
chung 70 thst maxim Until st length really
believed IL IN fact, 80 confirmed was OF
It's truthfulnoSs anu reliability that ! hsd
fully determined 10 concentrate; for bad
arrived al hat period OF life when success
had become an actual necessity 10 my exist
ouoe. Cruel delusion, just a. | was about
to throw the net OF concentration about the
tee,Iug form OF success, my hopes and anbI-
ton wrrr dashed 10 the ground, and smother
ilol at whose shrine / had wUrhiPpcd was
broken iato q thousand fragments CNnoen-
tration does not pay. My authority Tor this
asSgTtiUn is
JCDGE MCFADDES,
4 gentleman who represents Washington
Territory III Congress. For two years he has
concentrated his energies and abilities upon
one object, and that object the passage OF the
Seattle and Walla WaIla railroad bill If
the passage Of the hill could be secured by
concentration be was determined 10 serure II
Thus It was that he concentrated all ne pos
sessed, and what he did not possess he bor-
rGwet- There was enough concentration
brought 10 bear upon this one bull to have
secured the passage of forty 1t failed TO
pass, however, and thus Il comes about that
my faith IL the power of coacentratiOn Is
shaken The bill was called up IN the Senate
on Thursday, and the manner IN which 1t
was handled struck terror 10 the souls OF
thOoe who had watched its course froa the
time it LETT
GEN. TILTON's POCKETs
until reported back by the Senate Committee
on Railroads. After Wright, of Iowa, FIRE.
liughuyseu, Of New jersey, and Ingalls,, Of
Kansas, had each taken rurn ., it none OF
Its friends would have sworn TO It's identity.
The cruelty displayed in disposing of this
bill was heart-reuding. The more lis friends
appealed for mercy the harder and more per-
sistent were the blows It received from lis ene-
mics Finally, having been battered ont of
all recognition,
IT WAS KILLED,
being the only act Of kindness il received
duling Its brief but eYentful career. The
funeral services were conducted by 4 4.
Denny, Judge McFaddeu being chief mourn
er. The building Of the Seattle rad, so far
as Congress Is concerned, Is, therefore, indef-
nitely postponed. Judge JIcobs, who " will
be in harmony with the next Congress,
may possibly be able to get the bill through.
BY the bye, NesInith suggests that Judge
Sharpstein
CONTEST JACOBS ELECTION
On the ground Of fraud He says that jacobs
insisted that il would be folly TO send u man
to Congress who was not III harmony with
the dominant party 1t appears, however,
that III selecting Jacobs mistake was made
for that gentleman Is far from being in har-
rnoEy with the dominant party Upon this
showing il is maintained that the next House
will declare SharpSteiu entitled TO tie seat.
1t is thought, however, that under the cir
cumstances Jacobs will resign. Two weeks
age II was regarded as foregone conclusion
that the Dalles and Salt Lake bill would pass
the Senate. Since that time the Pacific Mail
investigation has created suspicion in the
minds of most people that Somewhere IN all
subsidy bills there Is
4 FOUNTAIN OF CoRUPuON,
and that all who vote for such measures are
influenced by monetary considerations or,
in other words, haye been bought up. If
there Is one thing IN which the New York
press has been consistent it has been Its war
fare against all subsidies; aud the influence
Of the New York daIll,s l. all powerful. They
give direction to the provincial press, and
thus they are the agents by which public sem
timent Is nodded. In the Senate, on Friday,
after the expiration of the morning hour,
the Ddlles and Salt Lake bill va. called up.
The Clerk had not finished reading the sub
stilute reported by the Committee on Rnl-
roads, WI Sherman, OF Ohio, in n very die
ia orial manner, stated that as the bill called
for subsidy he would move the further
reading Of the bill br discontinued, and that
the bill and substitute be laid On the table
This brought Mitchell 10 his feet, aud the
way he
MADE TIE EUE FLY
WIS a caution SherIJna looked surrri-cd