Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-18


oalty that Secretary Schurz was able ito
force this report out of tho company, aud
the fact that he has forced it may serve to
explain tho animus of tho recent bitter
assault on tho Secretary iu tho columns Of
tho Now York Tribune. In tho first place,
thosum Of $12 900 was paid to w. u. Chand.
Ter, ostensibly for counsel fees, but what
Court he appeared in has not trapspirod,
unless it was in and around the Capitol
lobbies. A company employing such emi-
mont lawyers as Stoughton, Bartlett and
Storrs would have no need for Mr.. Chand-
Ter. Tho sum of ten thousand dollars for
professional services was paid to Messrs.
Shcllabarger and Wilson, attorneys, resi-
dent in Washington, aud of counsel gener--
ally for Wells, Anderson and tho carpet bag
persuasion. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Jeremiah M. Wilson and Samuel Shell.
labarger were members of tho Credit No.
bilier Committee number two, which, years
ago, investigated the rascality of thcso two
companies in tho construction of their road, !,
and mado u most soathing report to Con.
gress. Liko Mr.. Chandler, they have a
good doal of influence in Congress.
Another payment is that Of 820,274, made
on tho 9th Of April, 1877, to Dillon, to
reimburse him for moneys paid out for legal
services. No vouchers are exhibited for
tloso payments by Dillon, nor is it known
to whom Dillon paid tho money. TWAS
mado to him just after tho session of 1876.
II closed, aud was probably intended to
cover what he spent hore that winter
Another extraordinary payment bears dato
2lst March, 1877, and consists of $4,000
paid to Mr.. james. T. Wilson, of Iowa, for
legal services in connection with suits in
Illinois and Iowa. According to tho report
of tho Interior Department to Congress
dated October 25, 1877, Mr.. j. +. Wilson
was a Government director of the Union
Pacific Railway for the year ending June
30, 1877, embracing the very timo of the
payment to him for legal services above
stated. His name may be found along with
four others appended to n very mild and
flabby report for the period stated. There
arc no reports of expenditures by the road
for tho present session. This is tho time
when the largest lobby has boon in tho field
Jay Gould and Huntington not daring to
coming to Washington to conduct the cam
paign 10 person. 1t is believed that
report Of their payments for this session
would pan out particularly rich. But
while tho railroad lobbyists uro educated in
tho school that every man has his price, it
is asserted that the policy upon which they
prefer to act is not to pay cash in hand, but
to give what is called 'put" or Scalp on
their own stocks. For instances: if the
Matthew'S bill had passed both houses, ac-
cording to the computation of Treasury
expert it would have yielded bonus to the
of somo fifty-thrce millions of
dollars, and Union Pacifc stock would have
jumped at bound from scventy.nine to
ono hundred. A promise therefore to
deliver certain number of shares at the
current rate to an influential man, in or out
of Congress, would he bonanza that would
greatly stimulate his activity. This is
reported to have been tho way that Gould
carried tho Erie bill through eho New
York Legislature.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Tho House
Electoral Committee displayed it's wisdom
today by adopting the term of six years
for the President, and tho feature of inei-
gibiity. Tho idea is borrowed from the
permanent Confederate Constitution; but
Tho honorable imitators are probably not
lwaro that the ablcst men of the Ccnfcdc-
tate Congress at Richmond were generally
of opinion that this and the other changes |
made by them in the old Constitution wore
unfortunate, and proved tho reverse Of
That this was the view
taken Of these changes, I can state from
personal knowledge. The House committee
also voted down by tic vote Mr.. South
'rd's plan to abolish the electors, and sub
'tituto direct vote for President, with tho |
allowance to cach candidate of his proper.
ion of tho electoral vote. This feature
will come up again. 1t was also voted
to abolish the electors, and to
'oto directly for President, the ma.-
ority candidate to have the total
electoral vote of the State. Tho House
Jowmittec is proceeding on the idea of
the Constitution in this respect.
Tho Senate Committee, on the contrary, is
;oing on the plan of making its changes in
ccordanco with tho present Constitution.
This makes its work much more difficult,
specially in tho matter of providing for tho
ase of double returns, or disputed returns.
'1r. Bayord is contemplating tho Offering of
proposition providing that questions Of
disputed votes from state shall be referred |
0 tho Senators and members of Congress
rom the State in question, and that their
ecsion shall govern, unless ovcrruled by
10Th Houses of Congress. This is in &C.
ordanoe with tho plan of Mr.. Jefferson,
Rhich has only recently como to light.
A BAD MEMoRY.-"Mary, my love, do
'ou remember the text this, morning."
No, pa, never can remember the text; |
ave such bad momory." "By the way,
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