Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-28

mauded during his CANVASS for the Bomina
ton, which explanation was satisfactory Il
| bis constituents, as shown by their haVin.
renom mated and elected him.
"But," said your correspondent, "the AP
PEAL copied these paragraph, and by 20 do
ing has given them a circulation not other
wise attainsble, and did go TO enable you
through the columns of the APPEAL, TO win.
dictate yourself and let the truth be known
every WELL" said Col. Money, "the facts
are that two friends Of mine, Messrs. Wesson
and Persons, were the owners Of a very large
tract OF valuable pine timber land in Lincoln
county, Miss; on this land they had valu-
able saTnill, but they had no way of ship
ping their lumber except over a wooden
tramway. They wanted $4,000 10 build
railroad eight miles long, TO a
shipping point, TO enlarge the mill
and secure other lands. They came to
me and asked me, az l was well known in
New York, TO assist them in securing the
loan. agreed TO do all could and went
with them to New York. There 1 called on
friend and explained what / wanted, to
him what the security was and how the
money was TO be invested iu improving the
property that was TO be given as security,
My friend at cree said that C. T. Hunting
ton would loan me the money, becaute the
security was ample. called with him on
NJ. Huntington, explained matters to him,
I'D hz loaDed the money, which was paid to
Messrs. Wesson and Persons in installm n p,
as needed. Subsequently l became inter
ested In the property. A mortgage on the
land, the mill, the railroad and the town
property was executed and recorded in
April, 1882, on the books of the Chancery
Court OF Lincoln county, TO be seen by all
the world. Ny name need not have ap-
peared in that mortgage had l desired to
keep 1t out. The properly under mortgage
cannot be bought Tor lees than 100000, and
though the mortgage was executed about a
year ago, all the money was not received
until in January last"
"Col Money" said the correspondent
"What Of this charge that you have voted
for measures in which Huntington is inter-
ested?"
"Since have been in Congress" said Col.
Money, "no bill has been introduced or
voted on which gave Mr.. Huntington a dol
lar OF money, an acre of land, or any bond
or public credit, or anything else whatever.
When the Texas Pacific Company
was asking subsidy of $40 600
10 money and forty sections of
land per mile to enable it to build
road, and Huntington was Building over
L
posed giving it money and land, but tn at
measure never came to a vote. l have
always been opposed to railroads being
built with public money and land, and in
favor of their being built with the money OF
the owners, any statement to the contrary
shows au utter ignorance of the record"
"Then," said your correspondent, 'you
have never voted for any measure of Hun
tington's, neither before nor since this money
was berrowed?"
mo-" said Col. Money, che has had nothing
before Congress 10 vote Cd, ami if he had
should vote without considering that / had
borrowed money from him. That was
business transaction, neither party being
under obligation 10 the other"
SIS there anything else you would like TO
say, If 80 the columns of the APPEAL are
open TO youw
Col. Money, shut i do not approve OF public
men rushing into print to refuie every stupid
Islander that may be printed against them.
l prefer to let my record show. AS have
never cast vote through hope OF reward or
fear of punishment, [ DO not think 1t neces.
sary to explain every time i am misunder-
stood. should lot have noticed this mat
ter except that the APPEAL has always been
my friend. Allow me to say that six per
cent. is large interest in the North"
WHAT THE EDITOR OF THE WASHINGTON
REGISTER" HAS TO SAY.
Your correspondent then called on the
editor OF the Register, and asked him as to
where he obtained the information con-
tanned in his paragraph, and whether it
was intended to strike Col. Money. He at
once renpoadsd that he saw the paragraph
in some Southern newspaper, and copied it
as fitting close to his remarks upon Hunt
ington. He did not know for whom it was
intended. Had he supposed that Col.
Money was alluded 10, he would not have
used it, for he has known Col. Money too
long and too we'll to believe that he could be
guilty of wrong-doing, and he also knows
that no bill in which Mr.. Huntington bad
any interest had been put through since
Money was in Congress. So that ends the
whole matter. N.