Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29
Letter From Washington.
Special Correspondence Of Independent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25th.

1
diarrhea, in the House, Of resolu-
tions offered and referred. The
greater part of them were of the
Buncombe order--that is, designed
to make
] POLITICAL CAPITAL
for the Democrats, to be used in
the Presidential campaign. Most
Iy they looked to the appointment
of committees of inquiry, so called,
into the alleged corruptions in this,
that and the other department of
the Government during the man
agement of the Republicans.
Doubtless there are
CoRRUPTIoNs ENOUGH.
/ never remember an administra-
ton of whatever party, which was
not more or less charged, and
chargeable in fact, with fostering
corruption. To the less experienced
all this, though ''sound and fury
signifying nothing to older Gb-
servers, as Shakespeare has ia
his familiar line-at least .he
greater part of 1.-THE less exper-
fenced / say will no doubt inn
agine the Introduces of these pa
triotic resolutions are in dead ar
| nest.
| There was only one joint res -
| ton considered. 1t was the one
directing the Commissioners, who
play the role of god fathers for the
denizens of the poor,
BEDEvILED DISTRICT,
| to turn into the t: easury whatever
money on hand, or to be filched
from the pockets of the property
| holders here as taxes hereaftc -
| except what is known as school
fund-and to issue no 10 ore of the
| $50 bonds.
Now, as a number Of persons
hold certificates, emitting them ,on
their face, to exchange them for
bonds-said certificates to bear in
ter The same as the bonds them
| selves are cOnverted-there i no
little fear of a
| MAMMAL oN In DllE
| portending. If this be so the hold
e's of certificates calling Tor b0..Gs
to return the notorious sewer tax,
will have right to complain of
the most fragrant injustice ever at
'1mpted upon long suffering
| people by the very Government
under whose authority the late
Board of Public Works levied that
OUTRAGEOUS SEWER TAX.
T. r,0-- be recalled that in one of
my earlier letters during the pre-
sent session of Congress, i express
ed my preference for the
HON. CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER
as Chairman of the Houses Dis
tfIct Committee. / was not aware
when / did so, that many others
were of the same mind, and that
he had been urged by the control
ling men one or both of the
LOCAL DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZA-
TIoNs,
to take the place Upon his de-
Ginning to do so, as he has since
informed me he did, it was limited
perhaps by John e. Norris, the
President of the jackson Demo-
cratic Asseciation,") that those
who sought this service of Mr.. F.,
felt confident that "if they once got
him in harness, it would be all
right" 1t was quite
CHARACTERISTIC ANSWER
they received,in these words: "Of
course, gentlemen, / should faith
fully do the work, if | consented
to the arrangement you propose.
1t is not my habit to do otherwise.
But | have taken care that you
get not 'the harness you speak of,
on me-"
There is a fact explanatory of
this answer, which has never had
the publicity which here take the
liberty of giving to it, viz: that
Mr.. Faulkner had written a note
to the new speaker while the COM
mittees were being fixed up, say
ing that he had only one favor to
ask of him, which was that he
would put him on neither the In
dian nor the District Committee.
He having done such
GOOD SERVICE IN INDIAN AFFAIRS
one of the first suggestions of Mr..
Kerr's own mind, and that of 9TH
ers, was his special fitness for the
former position. But Mr.. Faux
ner would not listen to the idea for
single moment. j. E. Sc