The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-08
Can not a lawyer be honest and
yet differ with Senator Vance upon this

- - a. iDllOhS.
As one Of the commissioners, agree
to extend the time asked for III this
application, four months, upon the con
dltlon, reserving to myself the right to
withdraw this assent If the applicants
fail to perform the conditions set ont in
their application"
Signed THos. j. JARVIS,
May Is, 1881. Commissioner
think | have establi he'd these facts
!. That Commissioners Vance. Jar
Wis anI Worth agreed TO sign an extcu
~ien OF four months On a written cJudi-
ton prepared By themselves.
; That the ~asslgnees accepted the
conditions and complied with them.
). That Commissioners Jarvis and
Worth -reorganlZ!ng the Obligation
upoL them, did sign the grant Of cxten-
sion.
4. That Commissioner Vance with
ont any sufficient cause refused to fulfil
his promise.
There l. one other charge made 10y
Senator Vance, viz:
That the grantees did not place On
the road "a sufficient number Of hands
to complete the lines to the proposed
points pigeon River and Paint Rock
in S,c treeks after the siguing Of the
grant of extension
If Senator Vance had given the pc
tition Of grant Of extension even a cas-
ual examination before making this
charge he could have ascertained that
SIR tceeks" is no where mentioned in
either paper; it is as great a mistake
as he made in asserting that the wo:d
continually was in the grant Of ex-
tension. Both assertions are reckless
~ incorrect. "As soon as the labor
could be employed at q reasonable com
pcnsation, more than three hundred
hands were put to work upon the
Ducktown line, and the number has
been Increased from time to time until
there are now over seven hundred
hands at work upon that line.
| ais call the attention of the public
to the fact that the commissioners did
not deny or contravert any facts stated
IN the petition as to the causes Of hind
rance and delay" nor did Senator
Varce deny them in his interview. and
that they are therefore taken to be true.
But if it is necessary, it can be easily
demonstrated that the average number
Of ''able-bodied convicts" furnished
by the State has been less than .tour
htBidred, or at least one-ffth less than
they stipulated to furnish.
II the Senator is not satisfied, we
may give the public a mora interesting
document, but in his own language
this is all | can tell you for publica
ton now" Respectfully,
A. b. ANDREWS.
EXHIBIT "a
To tie HouOraJte Thos. j. .Turris, Zebu-
lon b. Vance and u. H. Worth, Cone
ntiSSionerS:
This petition of 4. B. Andrews. pres
ident of the Western North Carolina
Railroad Company, respectfully repre-
sent. that in pursuance Of the act of
the General Assembly. ratified March
10th, 1880, entitled "An act to provide
for the sale of the States interest in
the Western North. Carolina Railroad
Company and for other purposes" the
Western North Carolina Railroad has
been reorganized, and the work of
completion of said road has been begun
and the same VIII be prosecuted with
the utmost diligence and energy, and
as an indication of its earnestness the
company has already advertised for one
hundred hired laborers. who are being
daily employed and placed upon the
work, and advertisements are be posted
Immediately for five hundred addition
al hired laborers, making six hundred
in the aggregate, which, joined to its
force of five hundred convicts furnish
ell by the State, will soon give the
company a total working force ofslever
hundred hands, and ii is it's purpose and
intention to keep all of this force or al
many rs it can place OH the road em-
ployed during the whole working sea
son just now opening. But it is res
p~ectfully submitted to IOul Honorable
Board that, Notwithstanding the EN-
ployment Of this large force and The
costly expenditures which will thereby
be necessarily incurred that the compa
nv ha. serious apprehenSionS that they
will not be able to reach the points III
dicated i'll the short time left them I'm
der the provisions OF the Act OF tn,
29th Of March, 1880. The petitionel
respectfully shows to your honorable,
board what Is well known through tn,
public documents of the Senate ofN6rt
Carolina, that the original grantees los
four months OF the most valuable anc
suitable time given them by the Legis
%laturs, to-wit: from the 29th March
TO the 3Ist Gay of July, 1880, anC
and which was the basis Of estimst,
when the Legislature prescribed TIL
lst July, 1881, as the time when th'
road should be COMPLETED to Paint Roci
. and Pigeon River, and it was at this stag
] of the contract on which North CAROLYN
hadbased go many bright hopes that tn
/ assignees were urged to assume tn
D burden Of the contract and complet
D the road and that they did at tha
late day, after four months had bee
f lost without any fault of theirs, assum
+ the responsibilities of the contract un
. der the assurance that a liberal polio
would be pursued towards them by you
honorable board in the exercise of tn
large discretionary powers granite
b in said Act.
And your petitioner further show tia
4 the work on the road which was begu
! in the early autumn was INSTRUCTED an
at times almost forced to cease by auin
ter season unparalleled in its coldn.s
f in the history of this State; the sno'
# and frosts were so evere and continu
O GUS that it would have been cruel an
inhuman at times to compel the con
D victs furnished by the State to be Ell
posed In them. And your p~etitionc
further shows as a further reason fo
asking an extension, that it has nc