South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-01-25

From OR Rsyals, Corr. spo.ds,a
WAsHrxsrox. ID. G. Jan. 81.

cd fact, barring the absolute purchase
OF Congressman BY Huntinxton's
gents. that the present Congress will
meet the expectations OF the people in
compelling the surrender by railway
corporations OF y number Of forfeited
land grants. Tho House Committee
on Public Lands has already decided
upon n nplDer OF these grants the
most impN,ant Of which Is the Texas
Pacific, which Mr. H. ntin2ton Is try
ing 10 GobbIe, aud there Is no doubt
that the committee will be sustained
in its report. A fierce fight will be
made Ly the lobby, but the current
appears to be too strong for them .und
the eyes OF the country, through the
press, ale too elise upon them to rem
der the purchase of enough votes prac-
ticable or possible.
Ii tho Texas Pacific had been built
under the law making the grant. the
company would have been entitled to
l4,ooo. 900 acres of land. Bot the
company failed and abandoned the
work, after having earnestly besought
Congress for other aid in raising no
ney, which WAS refused Its chief ar
gument was that there ought to be n
southern ronte to compete with the
Union and Central Pacific. But
here came in Mr.. Huntington OF the
Southern Pacific. who defeated them
by setting I'D that his company would
build tho desired competitor without
subsidy and without Government aid
To beat Scott and gain his point he
even claimed thar the Texas Pacific
grant had already lapsed, and pushed
his line through territory Upon which
he WAS really tresspasser If that
grant was alive. Toe Texas Pacific
went down. Tom Scott, broken in
health and defeated in purpose, sold
out to jaw Gould. And now comes
tine virtuous antl-sdbsidy Huntington.
who built his road upon the ruins OF
the Texas Pacific. aud presents Jay
Gould's order on the Government for
th.s fourteen million acres of land
which the cXa5 Pacific would have
been entitled 70 if il had been built.
The euterprislng Gould having no de-
sire to bnlld the road .ohligingiy turn,
cd over to Huntington, Tor whate ger
he could maze ont OF, it, the land
grant to which he himself had no
more title than Satan had to the real
estate Cnce offered By him frcrl the
top of nigh mountain. 1t is graft.
lying To observe that the scheme is
gning to be heavily sat down upon by
Congress and that some portion oil
the vast territory supposed to be in
HE graep Of those who have never
glveh anything for it. is to be restor-
cd TO the public domain
Somebody has calIe,l attention to
the curious tact thai it is unIncily fol
aspiring statesmen to bnili big houses
IN Washington. and The re -cnt defeat
OF Nit Pendl, to-; seems to DO "a fre-l
: illustration OF this peculiar trnth. III
nearly every case, even as far back Il.
Douglass and i;reckinbridge, the pub
NC men who have attempted Il II lie
permanent residence here have found
II the erection o. 4 mausoienm 70,
their political hopes instead of a pal.
ace. Neither Spragae or his father
in-law long c'lioyci the stately man.
sion with IFS large grounds. at rho
, corner OF sixth and L streets, which
is now boarding house. Attorney
General Williams was one of the fgs,
, to bnild fine residence in the new
part OF the West end. The red lin,
ing OF carriage killed him not long
alter Senator Stewart built wha. il
called Il he Castle fun out. II
nearly burned down twice, and his
) family have only occupied it for /;
short time lately. General Batter e.
rectei the weil.known granite man.
sion on Capitol Hill, which, conlo nor
have cost less than 3loo. 300, Just be.
tore he went ont OF national polite:
APPARENT for good Even the lea
ing of seemed likely to prove al
inost equally fatal to the prosperi,y
OF Senator Jones, OF Nevada. 'Boss
Shepherd only completed his fine
house abont the r. iurn wave came il
his fortunes and sent him to the Mex.
lean mines AMI his house into the
hands OF u receiver. Mr.. Rohcson
has not lived in his house; Nr. Blame
only short time III his; Mr.. VIM
dom's was directly used rs a campaign
) card against him; Senator Cameron
has gone around from his immens,
bnt somewhat gloomy pile, and Iii.
State has reared aud kicked np n
gainst him; anl now The rear neigh
Dor of those last mentioned has rue.
lnily walked The plant; in Ohio.
The investigation being conducted
BY Mr.. Sprlnger's committee into the
affairs OF the Del artment of Justice
IS developing very int resting state
ct facts concerning various United
~ ties marshal5 II appears that near.
~ every marshal has taken care 20 get
II good deal e Government money n
the way vi fees, and that numbers NJ
them are short i'm their accounts -