Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-10-25

property. In Olnef words IL cut uoNl
the amount of revenue derived from per
sonal property and from Southwestern
lands, and left it unreduced on Eastern
lands. Yet the Constitution expressly
says that no species of property shall b,
taxed above or below its value. Ye
this comes from the Attorney General o
Va, who boasts that he is q member o
the State Board ofNEducation. Com
ment would be trifiing with time anC
public patience. We forJer, with thi
one request-that the reader indulge III
in the privilege of saying that, so help
us God, this caps the climax of Fundel
Craftsmanship.
He next tried to wash from Democrat
ic(?) hands THAT is Funder hands the
blame for the Funding Bill of '7l-tha
mad act which has since served to braiI
the whole Funder party. He said the
Democrats killed it, but so late in the
evening they had not time to bury it
and that during that night "the faithful
allies" sac vision, so that next day
they passed it. lie slid beautifully over
the fact that over 80 of his democrats
aided them at the job.
Speaking of the Barbour bill, he sale
Fulkerson and Fowler stood side by side
with him in '7S-'79. But he failed tC
say that he and Barbour were now in
bed with Holiday, who vetoed it, ant
with Daniel, who voted to sustain tina
veto, and the whole Funder pack who
opposed it, and clapped their glad hand,
over its grave are now in bed with him
and quite number Of them were ther
clapping and applauding his speech.
He said he had heard Massey yester.
day Friday in Abingdon, and meant
then to answer him in Bristol. In thi;
he had doubtless taken lessons under
Alex Whaling, who when he wished t
curse Supt. Z. II. Gill, always managed
to do the cursing when he was in Brlsto
and Gill in Lynchburg.
He denied that Massey deserved any
credit for replenshed treasury and q
restored school system, because he, Field
had in us directed that the delinquent
Treasures be vedagalnst. But he fail.
G | to tell that Auditor Massey was the
first Auditor who did it. The fact that
the Funder Auditor, Taylor, paid no at
tention to such direction, he seemed to
consider a matter not to be mentioned to
the Daniel Club.
lie claimed that the Readjustcrs had
only the financial legislation which
the Flinders had, and therefore, they
were entitled to no credit for Il revived
Free School System. 1t was convenient
for him not to mention that under one OF
Massey's Bills, passed by Readjustel
Legislature, and resisted by certain
Funders before Rcadjustcr Finance
Committee, it became impossible after
February s, 70 for county Treasures
to convert their cash collections into
coupons, to their own profit and the
ruin Of the School Fund. He neglected
to mention that under Mnssey's admin :
istratlon there was no further diversion
of the school fund to the Bondholdcr,
and that for the first time he commenced
and has continued the payment Of ar
rearagcs due the school fund at The rate
Of 20 thousand dollars per quarter
These things orr Attorney General for
got or chose not to mention to the d. &.
Lewis bad written n letter to General
Garfield in which he stuffed that the Re-
adiustcr movement would iniurc the
Bourbon Democracy. Wickham had
since that written another letter In
which he said the Rcadjustor movement
would ruin the Republican party. Mr..
Field read Lewis letter, but said never
a word about Wlckham's. The Attorney
General Of Va. did that thing.
Judge Hughes, he said, who was one
Of the - last dollarmcn, had told Simon
Cameron that he did not care for Read
justmont, but only to beat the Bourbons.
Therefore we did not want to ReacyuSt
But he failed to remind the d, Club that
he, Gen, Field and Daniel were now In
bed with the other 80 Of that 80, lnclud-
ing Wickham.
He was very severe on Gen. Malone
for addressing the Union League Club
of New York City, and said "duy man
who would try to have the President
Of the United States to interfere with the
politics of Virginia ought to be be PIT
oW Of tho State" He failed 10 say that
the "suberb" Hancock X II member of
the Unlon League club Of n. Y, and
he further forgot that his own party,
the Funders, had In 1870 procured the
down right interference Of President
Hayes In behalf Of FundCrism IN Va
aud that the Fundcrs are now getting
money from Northern brokers to aid
them in Va, and further that they In
20 through Gov. Holiday got Hugh
McCuloCh to come down aud aid them,
He was very superb over the faCt
that Reodjuster Legislature had reduce
cd for r. G, Butler, Of Isle Of Wight
n fine Of $500 to $3.50, because that all
fines like that go TO tho School Fund