Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Rings at tho Capital-Betes NoIres
OF Congressman.
Common Law and Common Sense--Ex.
cepiions and Variations.
Dangers that Beset Members Greed of
Gold and Wiles OF Women.
Some of the Besmirchcd Worthless of the
Past aud Present.
Special correspondence OF the Gazette.

Past aud Present.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Washington, January IL. - The
whisky ring aud the tariff ring and
the railway land grant ring and the
bank ring are the hctes aoires of con.
gressmen. The agents of these ara
ubiquitous. Ex-Governer Jno. G.
Brown is to appear before the Pacific
railway committee to-day to expound
the virtues eft the Southern Pacific
railway rs owner of vast tracts i'm Ari-
iona. The lawyers used 10
say that common law was
common sense, or, as Blackstone
puts 1t, 1.-The perfection of human rea-
SON" And yet it is true, the lawyers
say, that though congress declared.
when these land grants We're made
that they should be void and of no eff.
feet il the roads were not built within
u fixed period, that still, though the
roads were not constructed as requil ed,
the grants are mot void and ONLY
voidable." In other words, the gov
ernment can only recover its property.
though it never parted with it's title.
through the decree of a competent
that nearly million acres
were granted to moonsbine
road in Mississippi on condition that
the road should be begun and finished
within given period. The road was
never begun and the company never
dreamed of finishing IL, but the com
pany sold the land to another COM
pany building another road in another
slate, and yet, with solemn faces. |
agents of this second company went to |
Mr. Secretary Teller who was almost |
persu ded by the redoubtable Bre wster.
To issue The required patents for the |
land. That exceeding good man, KEEL
l0gg, was the chiefest manipulation of |
this scheme. 1t was stated
in newspapers that several
congressman besides Kellogg
were beneficiaries of this proposed alb,
sorption of broad districts in one or two
of the Gulf states.
MISERIES OF CoNuRESsMEN.
IT happens, most unfortunately for
the people, that many congressnlen are
either bankers, or railway stock hold
ers, or attorneys, or tariff mill, or mine
or whisky owners, and all these NAV
cooperate. Each MAJ urally s,,,s to his
friend, help me aud IN help you.u
and therefore the infiuite danger that
each grand scheme of peculati0n, by
with every other, may gain
power enough, to control results.
ituntington's published letters show
that, in his opinion, he can secure
the fifteen million acres in Arizpna by
slVl. congressman about 10. OGO acres
sach. II he gave 50 90 acres To each v
)f majority of botn hous, he would
still have eft fourteen million acres
If Kellogg and Huntington and u
he Northern Pacific, which loses
~ law, II law be common sense and
ne perfection OF human reason. about
about forty million acres, combine and ,
heir surplus fund he added To that OF
ne banks and of the mine
and mill owl ers, it Is palpnhle that W
ZACH oth majority of both houses may
re easily pronted in n sum exceeding
haii million dollars. 1t is assumed,
III ms estimate, that each of The rings W
Above Enumerated, contributes prpx
inattly an equal amount TO the sup
POSED general slusll fund.
these are mode rate estimates based w
lpon statements of facts and assump-
ioils made by Huntington in his re- :.
emily published letters. 1t * com. W
monty said that every man Ia, his
rice. How many are marked
bove 500 0O0? The whisky Or
ing can well afford to put
p hve or ten millions If the
oVerhment will only hold the whisky IN
"o years as security for ssh, 00O.O J"
ue me government, the whisky VIII
ave doubled in value with age"
nj half hese profits, or forty million
ilsh be dispensed more prolitably for tp
Dies. ~,
Then comes johnny Roach, who lii
W sung INTO the siush fund quite a Bl
Illl'on, if he can induce congress To In
'iund 10 him duties he must pay on ru
! imported articles that enter into tul
h' construction of ships. or cours-, IL
u'nt mean to say tlat Roach, or he
or Kellogg or their lobby 10
'pr' sehtatlves would d" these things. six
uhlihgtoh's letters might persuade ex
h"cent people to question his hon w
~ III dealing with legislative Ct
D les and with courts. like M
lht conducted by AytpU la iur
ew Mexico, but the whisky ring iii,
~ Kellogg and the ret are above tho
spiclon, aud nobody would imagine siz
one nom mt that these paragnns of the
rue would cooperate with such Us mi
untington; DeGolyer and the in.
ruit inoDlller were fables. and Col dis
ana Garfield were grievuusly f,r
ohged. Nobody ever dreamed ct Ing
yins congressional votes, and Hunt vel
s.oh spoke fall ely, even in his most will
.'md en.'a' letters TO his most trusted sidt
hu ana partner, when he said, fl -
iohey makes the mare go" fair
SAD CONCLUSION. lun
have only adverted to these sim
Ihcts to show the readers of the
'HETrE now infinitely great are d an b
Is hat brset the paths of NJ. C,s In DIR
iShington. If there toe those inn trus
'vi"us To the force of z I'D, charming ups
men = Establishments are employed vart
Bunyah's inimita lie Christian ate
: not truer god on earth or hero pose
',I arh tlaii representatives of The pile
'ple or o states In Washington, who oiha
never detected by improper innu. OF D
fl.e.. e 4.