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TOM SCOTT'S SUBSIDY JOB.
A GREAT LOBBT WORKTNG FOR TIM
TEX1S-PACIFIC hill.
A Smiling Majority on n square Vote In the
House. but no Hope for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Kings scheme In tho senate.

A Smiling Majority on n squa ro Vote IN the
House. but no Hope for the PennsyIvanis
Railroad Kings scheme In tho senate.
WAsHINGToN. Feb. 15.-The great lobby
which have for two months past been laborng
with unfagQ ing zeal for Tom Scotts big subsidy
job, have been during the past few days very
much elated over what they consider fair
prospect for tho passage OF the bill 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 a majority Of n square vote In
the House itself. The leading Demo-
crats, however, deny this last claim. and
they are not without hope OF preventing
favorable report from the committee.
They say II will be very lnimlcal to their
party to have even favorable report from tho
committee, because, OF the seven members vot-
Ing for II, only two are Republicans, while only
Two Democrats opposed II absolutely on princi-
pie. lhis places the party In an ugly situation,
because with all Its outcry against subsidies and
Crcdit Mobilter corruDtions, 10 Ia by this action
put on record In favor OF one OF the worst OF
all these Jobs. Moreover. 1t Ia now pretty well
understood that II tho House should pass tho
bill, 1t Will be choked in the Senate.
The Republican majority in the last Congress,
although their leaders were only too we'll
affected toward such an INSCRIPTIONS and en-
efgetlc partisan ally es Scott, were yet afraid to
pass his bill and go 20 the people on he issue.
III the Democratic House should now commit
itself to this most stupendous and most sosn-
dalOus OF all subsidy schemes, the Republicans
Will be tempted To lay II over In the Senate until
another year, and thus 60 into the Presidential
canvass with the inestlmable advantage Of op-
position to this undemocratic uncor atitutionai,
corrupt, and odiOus measure. There rs abundant
evidence that they could not ana would not re-
sst that temptation, and the bill Ia now re-
Y arded by well-infurmed members rs simply an
open trap for the Democratic majority OF the
House.
The buster OF Scott and his strikers about the
alleged unaniinity Of the South In favor OF his
scheme is pretty thoroughly exploded. IL is not
even certain that a majority OF Southern mem
bers are for II. Georgia, for instance, Is solid
against II, aud so is Kentucky. TIE gauge OF
the road, and tho direction OF the arms, pro-
vided for In the original bill. aud many other
circumstance, prove COnclusivcly that IL Ia In
tended to draw all its trlnic, not to Southern
pCGts, but up to the Pennsylvania system now
controlled by Scott. Southern members. there
double sense monstrOus swndle, which may
kill the Democratic party without doing the
South any appreciate good.
The iuyestisatiOn Of Memphs-El Paso-Texas-
pucinc corruptions before the judiciary will be
prosecuted To some purpose. IL IL one OF tho
few investigations committed to competent
and determined hands. Ine committee will 20
on Tomorrow with Morton, whose testimony
will be important II he tells the half he knows.
Fremont has returned from New York and is
supposed to bo ready with crushing exposure.
Ii the House passes SCOTS bill the Republicans
promise themselves immense advantages from
the unsuyOry scandals to be unearthed in thts
inquiry. Although individual Christian states
men aud Republican politicians viii be ruined
by the score after the manner Of Cr sdlt MODier,
sisted the JOB to the end, wnilc the urst Demo-
cratic House for eighteen years yielded basely
and promptly TO the appliances Of the greaS
king of the hepublican lobby.