South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-01-02
Letter from Washington.
From Oar Heguiar Correspondent
Washington. ID. c., Dec 90.

Washing ION, ~. ", Zee. 20.
The House last "Wednesday uncer-
enormously hustled Mr.. Cullom's In-
ter-State bill TO one side and substi-
tuted Mr. Reagsn's bill on the Same
subject. which had already been re.
ported tavorably from the committee.
la order TO kill this bill. however, the
Republicans after securing pledges
from enough Democrats To support
them. loaded the DILL with amend.
ments which they knew that the Sc
nate could neve. concur in, although
the majority OF that body might DO
expected TO ring in the everlasting
Senegamblan wherever there oppor-
tunity. One of these amendments
provides that no distinction shall he
made by railroad company in the
Conveyance OF passengers by reason
OF race or color, and the other restricts
all companies in passenger rates to
three cents per mile whether the DIS.
tante be long or short The idea OF
Cullom's bill is taken from the Illi-
nois RAILROAD law. out of which has
arisen more litigation. and the indie
finite provisions of which have called
for i-ore Judicial determination, than
any statute that has been enacted ia
modern times. Ii was Il law passed
By the Illinois Legislature at time
when lot OF cranks had control of
that body, and the whole pawer of the
State has been invoked aud found
powerless TO enforce it.
The outlook for the conviction of
General Swain is not so encouraging
as it ought 10 be. | should think that
an ordinary court martial would hard
ly Iced any stronger proof OF guilt
than the miserable pettyiogging that
has characterized the defence from
the outset. When Swain was first
brought face To face with these char.
ges, he declined the Interference of n
military commission TO investigate
them, and when that commi, sion was
ordered by the Secretary of War aud
found ba i'd for the charges, he re :
sisted the court martial that the Pres
ident was compelled to order to try
him, and here he has interposed every
pos ib!e obstacle in the shape OF demur-
rerS, rebuttals, surrebuttals, aud what
not,untii his counsel have succeeded III
getting the court into confusion worse
COMPOUNDED. Swpim, however, shonld
be hustled out of the army ANYHOW
on general principles.
The Invasion Of Washington by
rs hnf 4. l..
dy commenced, even after Mr.Clcve-
land las taken twenty thousand Of
them by the hand at Albany. The
hotels are already more than
full, and al the morning and evening
trains bring its additional population
to make mp the talf million people
who will be here on the twenty
day OF February TO stay until the in :
auguration and as much longer as
they can. Fifty representative citizens
OF Washington ,withoCtregard 10 par
~ affiliations, have been selected as
committee 20 get up an Appropriate
as well as an elaborate programme of
ce: en.onies for MIR. Clovelaud's inau-
gural. Apropos Of the twenty dollar
pair of boots that u Wytheviile. Va.
cobIer proposed to present to the Pres
ident elect, but which the latter in.
sisted upon paying for, reminds me OF
the tactthat Mr. Perry Davis the orig
mater OF the celebrated Pain Killer. ,
made and presented To- Andrew Jack
son the pair OF boots that the General
stood IN when he was inaagurateI
on the fourth of March, 1929. Davis
studied cut his formula for the Pain
Killer while at the cOrdwainer's bench
III Fall River, Mass, and from it left
fortune equal to the deserts OF a
patent medicine man. ia this case OF
boot preeentation. the thought never
entered Davis head that Jackson
would give him an office, nor did
Jackson entertain The least idea Of Civ.
ing him one and he didn't. However.
~ these more degenerate days it we're
better that SIR. Cleveland should pay
for bis boots just as every man does,
only he should insist upon not being
particularly marked FOR q victim OF
eXtortIon. PnONo
Words fail 10 EXPRESS my gratitude,