, 1878-06-15
Washington correspondence.
The writer of the following

Washington Correspondence.
The writer of the following is
as familiarly acquainted with
the facts whereof he writes as
any man in Washington. We
omit a large portion Of his let
ter which relates to matters
treated Of by telegraph and
gone out OF date:
wAsuNGroS. II 90. 1S..s.
To THE Enron OF THE pIsPATcn:
The River and Harbor bill has
passed the House and is now being
considered in the Senate Committee
on Commerce. The items in it Of
interest to the people of Washing
ton Territory are the following: For
improving the Upper Columbia, in
Guiding Snake river, $40, 900; fer
constructing a canal around the
Cascades Of the Columbia river,
S75, 900. Judge Jacobs got the first
item inserted. The whole amount
of the bill is six millions, SO that
your Delegate got for his constitu-
ents their full proportion. The Or
egon Senators hope to set the ap-
preparations for the Cascades raised
to $l25, 900. But there is many a
slip.
Is Jacobs Judas? From an oc
casional Portland paper that comes
here l observe Judge Jacobs course
on the railroad question has been
criticised. He is blamed with
working SO as to compel tte North
ern Pacific Railroad Company to
abandon its grant OF lands for its
branch road across the Cascade
mountains. This is true, but it WAS
clear from what came out before the
House committee that the company
never intended to build that branch.
In answer to a question from Abram
s. Hewitt, a member of the com
mittee, Col. W. NJ. Roberts. the
chief engineer OF the n. 2. r. r.
Co., told the committee that it was
his opinion sit was financial in
possibility to build the road across
the mountains. He said it was en-
gineeriug but not Q financial posi-
bility. The company appeared to ac-
accept this statement, aud if this SO
it would have been great wrong to
keep the lands in eastern and west
ern Washington tied up for ten
years loprcr. In this Judge Jacobs
ap;,....., 3 have acted the part ef u
faithful and vigilant representative.
All that land is to be restored to the
public domain.
He is further charged by some of
over Jealous pretended champions
of the Northern Pacific, with oppos-
ing its completion at all. l venture
70 say the president of the company
will not endorse this statement.
President Wright is i'll daily commu-
nication with Judge Jacobs, asking
him to assist in putting the Senate
extension bill through the house,
and this your delegate has promised
to do, now that the bill is III shape
to protect the rights of the people.
All the officers of the company who
have been in Washington are salts
fed with the provisions of the Senate
bill and believe they can complete
the road within the time fixed by the
extension. The noise raised by a
certain director against the bill, de-
claring that under it the road cannot
be built, and that the board of mana
gers will refuse to accept it if passed,
is not shared in by President Wright,
and is mainly dust raised by a di sap
pointed steamboat monopoly. To
break the yoke of this privileged
party, whose actions have rested
like blight upon the eastern half
of Washington, Judge Jacobs has
lent a powerful and willing hand.
and that he will be denounced and
his motives questioned, is to be ex-
pected. But the intelligence of the
people can be depended upon for
his vindiction. No man ever opposed
powerful corporation in its efforts
to maintain Its exclusive grasp upon
an immense trade, such as is possess
ed by the Upper Columbia steamboat
monopoly, but was traauced and
misrepresented. Your delegate can
not expecs to be an exception, but
while he will not escape calumny he
is sure to receive the vindicution
that all fearless and honest men de-
serve. L. &.
AN Ex-C.d Ma!d's Advice 20 Girls.
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