Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
HUNTINGTON TO COTTON.

Bstween the Roads-A Coming I'm
vestigatitn.
HUNTINGTON TO COTTON.
The San Francisco Chronicle has
printed the 800 letters produced by
Mr.. Cotton in the Central PacifiC
railroad scandal. They were written
by G. 2. Huntington from New York
to his associate, Mr.. Cotton, between
the dates of Oct. s, 1874, and Oct. 4
1873. The Central Pacific syndicate
consisted Of Huntington, Gov. Stan.
ford Crocker, Hopkins and Cotton.
Cotton. Hopkins and Crocker are dead,
and the rest of the seven have been in
litigation with Mas. Cotton, who
brought suit to settle her husbands
interest. The defense was that Cotton
was In debt to them. The letters came
out during the trial. Their special in
terest is that they reveal lobby meth
ods, and show the work done to defeat
the Texas Pacific bill and Thurman
funding bill in congress. The essence
| of some of the letters, stripped of adj
| dresses, signatures and private gossip
issummed up by the Chicago Tribune
as follows:
III II notice what you say of Lut-
trell; he is wild hog; don't let him
| come back to Washington" T2l CDR.
Gwin is also here. I think the Doc
5or can do some good if he can work
lunder cover. It is very un-
fortunate that he came over in Direc-
tors car with Crocker. When
he left told him he must not write
to me, but when he wanted to know
my whereabouts to write to r. T. Col
burn, of Elizabeth, N. J." {.
HE was often with Kerr of Indiana
and K. was at his room and spent
nearl y one evening" 81 had
an interview with the [3], Secretary
of the Treasury, and [ think he will
help Us fix up our affairs with the
Government on a fair basis"
[4l Sargent has gone off the Railroad
Committee, but there is a good man in
his place, Eaton Isl, of Connecticut"
|. '"Then on our ride we have
Sargent Isl, Booth, Cole, Jones and
Forham to help us in the Senate" )"
ri 'Scott is working mostly
among the commercial men. He
switched Senator Spencer and Walker
off vlessrack, but yoa know they may
be switched back with the proper ar
rangements when wanted" &.
Cali the members from California are
doing fi1st-rate, except Isl Piper, and
he is id hog any way you can fix
him. / wish you would write
a letter to Luttrell and say he is doing
first-rate and is very able. {.
Scott got a large number of that
drunken, worthless dog Piper's
speeches printed and sent them broad
cast over the country" 81
notice what you say about Wiggin-
ton, Luttrell, and Piper. The latter
should be defeated at almost any cost. ;"
=. ''The demagogue [9l [Lawrencel
from Ohio cannot trouble us before
the 9Th of July" II staid In
Washington two days to fix up the
Railroad Committee in the Senate. "
Gordon of Georgia taken off
and Bogy of Missouri
put on" RAILROAD COMMITTEE T..
eve should be very careful to get a
United States Senator from California
that VIII be disposed to use us fairly,
and then have the power to help us.
Sargent, 7 think, will be friendly" "
| II notice what you say of 10]
Conover, the Florida detective. He
is clever fellow, but don't go any
money on his" IT think if
any Republican is elected in Sargent's
place, he Sargent is worth to US, if
he comes back as our friend, as much
as any six new men, and he should
be returned" 'I have given
Gilbert @. Walker, a letter to you.
He is member of the Forty fourth
Congress, Ex-Governor of Virginia,
and slippery fellow. Igave
him a pass over the G. P. and got one
for him over the y. p. so do the best
you can with him, but don't trust him
much" 81 hope Luttrell
will be sent back. I think it would
be a misfortune if he were not. :"
Il am glad you are paying
some attention to Ill Gen. Taylor
and Mr.. Kasson. Kasson has
always been our friend in Congress-
Il have just given [12l Sena-
tor Ingalls, of Kansas letter to you.
LIZ 10 d SOCu 16IIOW duu Call w uS
much good, and I think he is well dis
posed towards u.s." Senator
Morton is coming here, also his broth
er-in-laW, Burbank. They are good
fellows, but B. means business, y
. Except [13l Jim Wilson,
who is their man and has much in
fuence with McCrary" 1.-The
T. & 2. Texas 6 Pacihc] are work
ing hard on their bill. They offered
one member 81, 900 in cash, $1,000
when bill passed, and so, 900. in
bonds" ia Fremont has
been appointed Governor of Arizona.
shall give him free passes. j.
| He is very friendly to us now.
|. Il think in all the world S
history never before were such a wild
set OF demagogues honored by athe
name of Congress.
Concerning this correspondence the
Chicago Tribune says:-The revela-
tons in these letters of the lavish use
of money for the purpose of corrupt
| IL