South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-02-22
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II u understood that Senator Logan
will make speech against the fMz
John Porter ball IL the Senate. buu
that he will not prr.ue the matter as
savagely - heretofore. A couut ol
noses from the b.st informant "a at
tainabie concerning the position OF
Senators renders it certain that Porter
will be restored to the regular army
with the rank Of colonel, which he
held when cashiercd, and be placed
on the retired list with two thirds pay,
but without arrears of pay. This will
meet the hearty approval of o MAORI
T. Of the people OF the United States,
and the tacit acquiescence of nearly
all the remainder. The truth 10, it is
not the action of Fitz John Porter
that has been at stake. but that Of Ed.
win N. Stanton, Secretary of War.
Stanton, enraged because his :avorite
Pope could not defeat the Confeder-
ates made Porter scapegoat, and or.
ganized q coutt-n,artial for his con.
viction, and, ii possible, his execution.
Garfield, who was o member of the
court, Grant, and other Union officers,
became convinced, whel no longer
under Stanton's influence. that q great
wrong had been inflicted on Porter.
and thoy determined to vindicate his
public record and private reputation.
This is the beginning of q series of re.
versals of the acts OF Stanton.
Most OF the opposition to Mr. Nor
rison's tariff bill thus far is evidently
OF the kind that would find any posi-.
bic bill for the reduction OF the tariff
'grotesque, sclap.trap,' sinharmoni-
Gus, "a bungle,' 'foolometer,' etc., as
the divorced Mr.. Porter calls it in an
Incorporate letter to the Philadelphia
Press. But it must not be forgotten
that back of the few hig hly-protected
manufacturers whom MIR. Porter re-
presents ia the great mass Of the A.
merican people, demanding redLc-
ton OF taxation, and that in the Trea-
sury great surplus is banking itself
mp at the rate of almost hundred
millions year. Congress should
calmly proceed with the reduction of
taxes according to its best wisdom,
without much regard TO tho violent
outcry of small class OF interested
rich men, which is like that CT few
crickets lii q fell.
Ex-senator Dorsey has been IN
Washington and while here resumes
his old haunts and habits. l saw him
with Tom Keogh, Senator. Bowen, OF
Colorado, and few other congenial
spirits around table III Cliamberlin's
restaurant, and it is SAID ihoy play
poker pretty regularly and for high
stakes. Dorsey has been talking a.
gain about not only the Star-route
trial, but other family secrets Of the
party. Nobody doubts hat he tells Il
good deal OF truth as far as the cor
rupt methods employed or the success
OF the g. o. 2. is concerned, but the
worst of it is Dorsey takes a good
deal too much credit to himself. That
the election of Garfield was actually
bought in Indiana and New York
City, is now generally admitted, but
Dorsey assumes too much when he
claims to have made Garfield Presi-
dent. lie was merely the tool Of his
party asso ;iates to do certain dirty
work; aud very fit tool he proves
to have been.
Somebody who signs himself'T. F.
is sending bundles fprinted circulars
to Senators, i'll which objections arc
made to the forfeiture Of the Texas
Pacific land graut 1t gives the usual
arguments which were made by the at
torueys Of the Texas Pacific before the
House Committee on Public lands,
and adds the new aad astonishing er'
eument that the laud is worthless.
The circular recites that 'if tie Uni
ted States were to give all these lands
for nothing to actual settlers, it is
doubtful whether anybody could be
found with temerity enough to ACCEPT
them Notwithstanding the worth
lessness of these lands, this advocate
OF the railroad insists that the road
must have them, and reiterates G. p.
HuntiDgton's threat that If Congress
declares the grant forfeited the con.
stitutionality of the act must be de
cided by the Supreme Court ] be
gentlemen who are supposed TO be
prominent in tho movement 10 take
these 'wortales So lands from the Tex.
as Pacific are accused in this circular
Of simply seeking political capital
The writer says: These men see in
the noisy discussion Of such bills, aud
the apparent warfare which they wage
with the railroads, something to catch
the ears of the groundling5-of those
who are opposed to anything and ev-
erything which tends TO develop and
build up tue great West Too bad,
isn't il?
Senator Lapham greatly Mortified