The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-09
A Subsidy Dob A Great Lobby working
$50 for ahe Texas Pacific asIil.


: WAsHINaToS, February 15..JThe great
lobby which have forltw0 months past been
laboring with unfagging zeal for Tom
Scott's big subsidy job have been during 4
the past few days very much elated over
what they consider fair prospect for the
-passaGelof the dill guaranteeing the bonds
of the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company.
They have one majority in favor of the bill
in the Committee on Pacific Railroads, and
they claim q majority OF a square vote in the
House itself. The leading Democrats, how-e
everetdeny this claim, and they are not
without hope of preventing favorable re-
port from the committee. They say It will
be very inimical to their party TO have even
. favorable report from the COMMITTEES, be-
cause Of The seven members voting for IL
only two are Republicans, while only two
Democrats oppose IT absolutely on princi-
ple.i This places the party in an ugly situa-
ltiong because, with all It's ontcry against
subsidies, and Credit Mobilier eorruptions,
II Is by this action put on record in favor Of q
one Of the worst of all these jobs. More
over, It is now pretty well understood that
II the House should pass the bill, it will be
Echoged in the Senate. - ~ nn
L The Republican majority in the last Con-
gress, although their leaders were only too
well affected toward such an unscrupulous
and energetic partisan ally as Scott, were
vet afraid to pass his bill and so TO the peo-
pie on, the issue. II the DemOcratlc House
should now commit itself to this most stu
pchd ous and most scandalous Of ali subsidy
schemes, the Republicans will be tempted
70 lay Il over in the Senate until another
year, and thus go into the presidential can,
vass With the inestimable advantage Of OPP
position to this undemocratiC, unconstitu-
tionai, corrupt and odious measure. There
A.. 1a.<ua
and would not, resist that Temptation, and
the bill Is now regarded by well-informed
members as simply an open trap for the
Democratic majority Of the HJuse.
I The biusteF Of Scott and bis strikers about
the alleged unanimIty of the South in favor
of his scheme is pretty thoroughly ex-
ploded. II is not even certain that ma
l1ority Of the Southern members are for II.
Georgia, for instance, is solid against II,
and so 10 Kentacky. The gauge of the
road, and the direction OF the arms, pro-,
vided for in the original bill, and many
other circumstances, prove conclussyeiy
thasiE ID is intended 20 draw all its
| tIsfic, not TO Southern ports, but up 70
the PspnsylvAnia system now controlled
| by Scott. Southern members, therefore,
begin TO perceive that this scheme is IN
double sense q monstrous swindie. which
may kill the Democratic party without do
ing she South any appreclabie good.
Il The investigation Of Menphis-Ei-Paso-
Texas Pacific eorruptions, before the judi
ciary. will be prosecuted 70 some purpose
I II Is one Of the few investigations commit
/ Ted 70 competent and determined hands.
The committee will 90 on TO morrow. with
i Morton, whose testimony will be important
II be tells the half be knows. Fremont has
returned from New York, and is supposed
70 be- ready with crushing exposure, II
the House pAszes scou's biil, the Republi-
cans promise themselves immense advants-
i ges from the unsavoTy scandals 20 be IN
Z eaFthed, m this inquiry. Althonah indl-
Ividual Christian statesmen and Repabli-
j can politicians will be ruined by the scofe,
j after the manner Of Credit NObiiieT, tho
party viii cldm the virtue Of having resist
4 ed fke job 20 the end. while the hrlt Demo
cratic House Ior eighteen years yielded
bAsely and promptly 20 tbe Appliances OF
The great king Of the Republican iDDoy -
Ns1 York Sun, Fla5rHary 10.