Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13

He reports to c. p. Huntington, and if the I
members can't conveniently take a trip to
New York Mr.. Huntington comes to
Washington Sometimes nc prefers to
come here to having the members visit him
in New York. He is thrifty man OF bust
ness, and it Is often cheaper to come here
than TO pay the expenses of several Con-
gressmen. ] remember on one occasion
another New York capitalist, who had
business before Congress one winter, told
me that all through the session Of Con-
gress. whenever certain Southern Con-
gressmen visited New York. he had 10
pay their hotel bills, and it was ast0nish-
ing how many extras were included in
those bills.
TOM SCOTT WAS A GENIUS
as lobbyist as we'll as in TaiIroading. He
learned the art at Harrisburg wien quite
young. He was born at a little village ID
the Cumberland Valley Of Pennsylvania.
His father was tavern keeper In the ola
DAYS of the Pennsylvania Pike. London
is situate st the foot OF SiQlng hin, east
OF the mountains. When but boy Tom
scott became an emplOye Of the Pennsyi-
vania Canal, at Columbia, short dis
lance below Harrisburg, on the Susque-
hannah river. He was afterward a con-
ducto- on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
rose rapidly to be Division and then Cen
eraI SUPERINTENDENT Of that road. He
the corporation he represented, and after
ward the repeal of the tonnage tax-part
of the consideration the railroad agreed
70 pay for the great property it obtained
from the State. ] notice that Mr.. Hunt
iagt0n in his letter TO his San Francisco
associates speaks very highly of Scotts
ability in switching off congressman
Well he might. Judge Black once visited
Scott in behalf of one OF his clients. He
had some claim, or imagined he had,
against Scott or account of the Texas
Pacific Railroad charter. Black told
Scott the object of his visit, and that gen.
tleman, with perfect nOnchalance, opened
drawer of his desk, took out a paper,
and, handing 70 to the Judge, said: Look
at that" Th2 good old Judge glanced his
eve over it, and saw the names of many
distinguished men, with sums of money
opposite. ''sFhat in the world is this2'
be demanded Of Scott. THAT shows
what 1 have already paid for that piece of
legislatiOn.' imperturbablY replied the
railroad king. Black threw the paper
down in disgust ami said, wrathtully:
what on earth did You show me that for?
/ don't want my soul buTdened with your
sinful secrets. That list of names
cursed rOll-call of my cOuntTy's dsh0uOr
lis scored into. burned upon, my memo
, ry," and, angrily twIrling his silver to-
bdccO-JON the Wrathtul old man was
about to leave the room, " zen Scott-said,
ldu-hingly, pulling out a big bundle of
letters; ''Oh! they don't think it
dishOnOrable. Here are letters from al
+ III st every one OF them demanding still
/ more money" During the
/ CONSIDERATION OF THE THURMAN
PACIFIC FUNDING BILL
/ in the Senate, Jay Gould came to Wash
/ ingtOn 10 conduct in person his cam
/ paign against 1t. He occupied a suite of
rooms at the Arlington, and every night
] visited Senators at their houses and
rooms. Some queer stories are told about
the cheek he displayed in visiting more
/ than one Senator who was supporting the
I bill. Neither he nor Huntington squander-
4 ed any money on the outside strikers dur
ing that contest. Ii 1t is true that Hunt
ington charged up 5000 600 fO- expenses in
Washington, one thing is certain, very little
of it was spent indirectly. But the story
seems to me ridiculOuslv absurd. If
Huntington spent S6OO,OO0 on account of
the Central Pacific, it is certain that he
saw to it that Gould spent as much.
/ You don't catch that shreWd Connecticut
Yankee letting Jay Gould come it over
. him in that way at any game. Does any
I body believe 81, 100000 could be spent in
Washington bv Huntington and GOuld
without accomplishing their purpose?
I That sum of money would be sufficient to
/ buy at least two Congresses. 1t is
]
( but he was neither Gould nor a Hunt
ingt0n.
/ THERE HAVE BEEN A GREAT MANY
CLEVER STORIES
written about ladies being employed by
! corporations to lobby for them. An
| imaginative correspondent wrote a pic
/ tureSque description of a wonderfully
beautiful woman JAY Gould brought here
! to work on Senators. She was a described
as tall, sylph-like in form, classic face.
ana q wealth of brown hair. She DIRE ssed
/ in " orth's most exquisite costumes, and
/ whenever she made her appearance in the
ladies' gallery of the Senate she was the
/ cynOsure of all eyes. She daily held
/ leyees in the marble-rOOm OF the Senate
I dOOTkeepers and pages danced attendance
! upon her, and first one and then another
| Senator held seances with the mysterious
! lazy. 1t was all fictiOn-eYery bit Of it
/ except that a tall. blonde woman was
! about the Senate side of the capitol a
great deal during that session OF Con-
gress. She was not beautiful, and not
[ even very attractive looking. / doubt
whether JAY Gould ever saw her. You
Z can see her almost any day on the streets
! of Washington, and am sure no man of
I good taste would turn around to look after
/ her as she passed him. She came here
/ from Pennsylvania after having sojourned
there for a time. Her birthplace was a
little village on the Eastern shore of Mary
land.
recollect another story about the Won
derful dOings Of a Mrs. White in the lob
by. 1t was all stuff. There was such a
woman who came here, the widow of an
eS-army officer, who had been appointed
an Internal Revenue Collector in one of
the Southern States, and died, leaving his
! accounts il confusion. She managed to
get a bill through Congress relieving his
bOndsmen aEd leaving her small pit
lance in the Enal settlement. She after
ward married Frank Brooks, who several
wears ago was a noted character about
Washington. She was not much assist
ance to Frankie didn't need any, being
/ fully capable OF managing the men he
came in contact with.
A Mrs. Mason, formerly residing here,
had something to do with the sale of con-
Gemned arms by the government to agents
OF the French Republic. 1t is said that
she secured from Belknap the order for
the sale of the first lot, but she made very
little money out CT it. The only time l
ever heard Of her making 9 big strike was
in connection with the owner of The con-
tract for printing bank notes to the Co
lumbia Bank Note Company.
THERE ARE SOME QUEER TIL INGs
about legislation. For instance, year after
year the suadry civil appropriation bill has
contained a clause preventing COmpeti-
tion in contracts for photo-lithOgraDhi
work to be done for the Patent Office. A
Mr. Peters, who has an establishment for
doing that kind Of work here. makes a
profit OF from $4,000 to 100000 a year on
work done for the government. Under
the terms Of the law the work must be
awarded to q Washington bidder if he is
as low in his proposals as an outside bid
der. The way the Department Of the IL
terror inteTpTets This is as follows: They
advertise for proposals. If any foreign es-
tablishment is lower than Peters, he is
asked il lie viii do it at the figures of the
lowest bidder. and he, of course, says
he Will. The contract is then made with
him for "a certain amount OF work Of a
certain kind. For all other kinds of work
ana for all work of the specified kind over
and above what his contract calls for he
charges his own price-result, big profits.
He keeps 4 yacht, and entertains Con-
gressmen handsomely, makes expensive
presents to their wives and daughters, and
always has friends on the Appropriation
Committee of both Houses.
But the scheme that Congress has to
contend with this winter is the whisky in
bond bill. Before the 9th day of July