Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-15
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Last Scenes in the House Mr.. Well.
borns Power His Extraor-
binary Triumph.
A Strange Story How Tennessee is
Robbed Wood Pulp Miller
and His Gang.
A Model Senator is He-The Missis-
sippi River Question How
Railways Plnhder the
Government and the People Per
sonal and Otherwise.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Washington, March IL, lss3.--On,
Of the Republican members OF TN
house from East Tennessee, Saturda,
night, about 8 O'clock mnde II repor
on the contested election case from
South Carolina. He waved wTotl
when the speaker gave him the floor
and the house persistcntly refused Il
give Its attention. He stopped, stood
still, paced back and forth, throwing
his arms wildly about In the air. Fin
ally he was silent and asked the
speaker that the time he was thus con-
Stunning should not be deducted from
that awarded him. He sought e.
read what he had written for the do
location Of the house and galleries. He
stood on tiptoc. He clawed around In
the empty mir above his head. He
howled tin he grew hoarse, and still
nobody listened. Finally he sank cx-
haugted into his seat. Members
laughed, loungcd laZily In their seats,
or eonycrscd or strOllcd about the lob
by. Not one IN twenty eyer learned
that the East Tcnnosseat had occupied
the floor. But his speech, with all IFS
grave charges against the white people
Of South Carolina viii appear as a
solemn fact in the Rcc0rd. 1t viii be
as serious and earnest In type as II It
had really been delivered and heard
For all chat, the subject of ths
speech, involving nothing bat par
tisnn prejudlces and designed
20 strengthen the one and destroy the
rival party before the country begat u
discussion which rendered the last
twelve hours Of the session almost
useless. As this dreary qucrelOus dis
cussion progressed, and as the roll was
called and no quorum was disclosed
ahd no progress could he made, mem
bers constantly interposed with re-
quests that minor bills, IN which each
interlocutor had special interest
might be passed. a single objection
in each Instance WINS fatal. When
the Inst hour had come and was nearly
gone Mr.. Wellborn Of Texas walked
down toward the speakers chair He
held little paper IN his hand, and,
first addressing the chair and then al,-
pealing to the generosity of the Re
publican side of the chamber, asked
that his bill for the regulation OF times
and places OF holding federal courts In
Texas he suffered to pass, There was
M audible murmur Of dissent, and
Then silence rclgned, and Mr.. Welborn,
lowing In gratitude to his partisan
enemies. again addressed the speak
ar, and hishill was enacted. From both
sides Of the chamber friends gathered
about him to extend congratulations
on hls singular good fortune and on
this extraordinary confession of the
high personal regard entertained for
him by political friends and loemen.
Ia, "A a
Senator Coke had already secured the
passage of this bin In the senate, il
was not reached, we are told, by the
president Of that body when ahixing
his signature 10 enrolled bills until
two and II half minutes after - IN.
sunday The pen dropped from his
ncrveless fingers, and Mr. Weliborn's
triumph was In vain. His Texas eoirt
bill did not become II law
A WONDERFUL AnyhNTpRER.
We could name man who lives in
splendor I'm the suburbs of II northern
metropolis, who was two years at.
West Point and was expelled. He re-.
turned 20 the vicinity of his birth
place, and inducing an innocent black
smith To make him skeleton kew, he
entered the apartments of divers law
yers and relieved them while they
slept of watches and money. The
blacksmith told his story, and our
hero was arrested and consigned totho
penltentlary for five wears He served
two, scaled the walls and escaped. lie
was with lopez when Lopez was gar
rotod in Cuba. He was made a leu
tcnant.eoionel in the federal scrv-
lee, and when the govern.
ment was paying slave-owners
800 for each negro fellow converted
into federal soldier, our hero, who
never owned negro In his life, sold
upwards of three hundred to innocent
Uncle Sam, Records OF the war Office
Will attest these facts. We were told
In East Tennessee, lat the time that he
sold ~ Substitutes whole regiment
of loyal blacks 10 Boston people who
had been drafted for 500 pcy ott2,itf.
He disguised himself as negro, on
one occasion, near RogersvilIe, and
presenting u repeater, robbed a gray
haired man OF 5000 In gold. He
took charge OF the Branch Bank
of Tennessee at Rogersvile, and
finding IN Its vaults large quantity
of State Bank notes he tllled and
signed and used them. He did the
same at the Branch Bank of Athens,
Tennessee, Governor Brownlow
cogniyant OF these facts, was ever Oh.
posed To the assumption of liability by
the state on account of the war issueb
of the State Rank, How many MILL
ions or hundred thousand of these
notes were circulated by our Iago.ilke
hero was never known. He certainly
used all he seized at the two places
designated, and the books OF the bank
may give some clue to the ascertain
inent of tamounts, The residence,
grounds, yacht, fancy horses, dia-
nonds, and other visible property of
this redoubtahle forgor and thief are
worth n million, aud Tennessee State
Bank money paid for them and yet
the supreme court of the United States
has declared that the state of Tennes-
see must foot the bills, and the bond.
holdersptesso OF New York would have
the haplcss state pay In addition the
fl,cc value of bonds OF no better valid
ity than these stolen notes of the Bank
of Tennessee. An amendment to the
thus sanctitied constitution OF the
United States inhibits the payment OF
public debts c.~atet..-by seheliaA, and
yet II Is q fact that Tennessee troops In
the confederate service at Columbus,
KY, when the battle OF Belmont was
fought, were paid, as such confederate