Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-21
Tom ochiltree.


withheld because Of debt he may
owe the government He can't be ar
rested for debt while in discharge of
his duty or going TO or from Washing
ton. Can the presidents salary be
stopped because he is on the bond of
government defaulter? Suppose the
amount be for $4,000 and the presi-
dent could therefore draw no pay.
Must he resign or close the White-house
and live mt an ordinary hash-house?
The supposition is absurd. 1t would
have been the death of poor Hayes.
Oh! no, Ton OcH1LrREE
all safe. The government
can't stop Toms pay and should not
ii it could He never stole anything
and since he lost the money due the
government without fault Of his own,
the government should lose It. Tom
was agent and fairly and squarely lost
the funds Of his principal. If this hap
pened at poker 1t was the governments
little game. II knew that he was
crack player and staked him, OF course
1t is the governments loss.
But he lost the money rs RUSSELL
did through the ioches of deputies
and since there IL no allegation of
moral delinquency he is fit for his po-
sition in the house and should not
have his district unreprcsented simply
because he is In debt. ! am persuaded
that the treasury department, Attor-
ney-General BREWSTER tothe contrary
Notwithstanding, will do nothing to
AIRY. He thinks many newspapers
have served him badly and most un-
generously, but that he will come out
of his troubles unframed. The presi-
dent is Toms devoted friend and with
all the heads of departments, except
Observation-Disclosures, of which
another BREWSTER is nominally chief.
The railway rings have eupplanted
the tariff lobby, and Washington is
full of them, Congress adjourned
without acting upon the perfected
railway land grants. 1t is said that
the secretary Of the Interior, TELLER,
ways require, constituting the monaco
ton of congress To mean that the cor
porations may have their own way.
HUNTINGTON wants several million
acres grantei to n company that was
chartered in Mississippi, Louis
lana and Arkansas, and
that was all. 1t never had
any existence save on paper and its
land grant never lapsed because it
never was in possession. II was n
mythical concern. But finding that
HuNrlNGroN might want its fran
chises, il begat president directors
and secretary and sold out. | suppose
the people will loose the land and that
HUNTINGTON, who is not as wretch
edly poor rs the cotton-growers OF
Mississippi, will get 1t. Kansas peo-
| pie have representatives here to pre-
vent the concession of forfeited land
grants in that state falling into
the hands of railway spectators
Our Washington correspondent
writes further. You remember how
pititul was the death of the illustrious
JNo. G. BRECKENRIpoE II Drawer, wor
thicr, truer spirit never went up {,
God who gave 1t. He fell n victim t,
HuNrGNdroEs wiles. BRECKENRiDuE,
deeming HUNTINGTON the best ofmen
and frankost; entered his service nnC
induced many counties of Kentucky
to invest largely, through the inter
vention of county courts, in Il railway
which HuNrINGToN was to build
Having limitless faith In BRECKEN.
RIDGE the counties taxed themselve.
.as he advised, HUNTINGTON secured
the bonds, the road was never built
and poor BRECKENRIDGE died ii have
often heard the story, of chagrin. III,
had been hired by HUNTINGTON ant
would have refunded the sums lost
ms the people knew, ir he could No
body blamed him openly. Press ana
people were silent, and he felt tn,
more kccnly the griels OF III,
positi N into which he was BETRAYED
" the willy, selfish all-grasping Cali
tornnn railway king. BRECKENRlpGr
was never himself again. He lived
and died only TO curse the man and
the hour they met, BRECKENRIpGt
Was no drunlVard hut sought Oblivion OF
acts honestly done and for the best in.
terests of his people in that nepenthe
which matldeus at first and soothes nj
Last to painless repose Ii this story
be well founded as of;ap narrated
4 HuNFlNaroN's name and memory
should be forever cNecrated. Ger
tainly no southern congressman will
ever bo found voting to annul the con,
stitution of Texas in order 10 give om.
! nipptence 10 him who duped and DIES.
troyed the brightest intellect, the
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