Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-30
Mr. ROYniI's Reply.

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As Colonel Ruilin thought proper
yesterday morning to criticise my &C
ton in asking what the State paid
Messrs. Tucker and Allen for their SER
vices in the Dulaney case, | ask per-
mission to enter my most positive re-
monstranee against the justice Of the
criticism.
NV inquiry was as to how much Of
the public money was paid to those
gentlemen. am q citizen Of Virginia,
and ! discharge ali my duties to the
State as well as know how. insist
that every citizen has the right to know
where every dollar Of the public money
goes. If had asked how much each
member of the Indemnifying Board
paid those gentlemen, 1t would have
been sufficient reply to say that my
question was an impertinent one, and
should have received a very
proper rebuke for my impcrtinent Gu
riosity. But | asked no such question.
asked how much OF the public money
had been paid; aud this, insist, |
have a right TO know, and no one is en-
titled to ceDsure me for asking the
question; and as I have asked it, and
as Colonel Rulin has undertaken 70 an
swer it, | will ask HIM one question
further Does be mean 10 say that Mr..
Tucker has as yet been paid nothing
on. of the Treasury? For if that is
what he means, then | admit that my
right to question is at an end. | claim
that ] have a right to know exactly
what was paid Messrs. Tucker and
Allen by the State, but that / have no
more right 10 pry into what their pri-
yate clients paid them than any other
person has 10 inquire what my clients
pay me.
Colonel Rufiu intimates that the
Board of Indemnity will continue to
force taxpayers who tender coupons to
pay in money after their tender. ! ask
him why the Board does not force the
number Of county treasnrers who frank
y acknowledge that they will not lovy
to 10 so. There are many treasurcrs IN
the State land can name some OF
I theI0) who all not levy, and so declare.
Is this thing to be allow ed to continue :
Are citizens Of some cities aud counties
20 20 tax-free while the horses and cattle
/ OF those of other cities and counties are
forcibly seized and driven Of TO the
courthouse and sold?
Recently the treasurer OF James City
levied on the stock Of Mr.. Robert Ne
Vile, who had rendered coupons, and
advertised it for sale. On tho day OF
the proposed sale Mr.. Neville notified
al persons that he would treat every
bidder as a cO-trespasser with the trea-
surer, and no one would bid for the
stock, and there was no sale. How long
can such a state Of things az this con-
| tinue? WILLIAM l.. ROTALL.
July %, 1856.
p. S.-Since wrote the above a
friend has called my attention to a part
of Colonel Runin's letter that think
| should reply to. Colonel Rulin makes
all argument founded upon the as
sumption that there vas an agree
ment between MIR. Delaney and my.
! self that | should have half OF what
ever was recovered and he the
other, and he derived his impression
that there was such a contract from
my address to the jury. Colonel Ruff
TN entirely misunderstood me when he
got this impression. What / said was
this : Great stress had been laid on the
fact that Mr.. Delaney is a rich man,
and it had been argued that here was q
rich man trying to get richer at the ex-
pepse Of his State.
said that | had got the impression
that Mr.. Dulaney, who is one of the
highest ard most delicately-scnsitiyC
gentlemen that | have ever known.
would not take the money if be re.
covered q large verdict, and that
thought this would seriously i'm.
peir the effect Of victory that
had therefore written him, urging
him not TO refuse any monoy
that he might recover, but 20 take hall
Of j; and give me the other half; that
! wanted the fact TO go abroad thai
Hal Dulaney was not ashamed to take
what he recovered, and that !, IS his
lawyer, was not ashamed to taxa hall
Of it as fee. then asked permission
TO read to the jury his letter
in answer TO mine, that the jury
might determine whether Dulapey
vas sctusted by mercsnary motives
The defendants counsel would moi
agree to my reading this letter, so that
the public has never yet known wha
Mir. DulaDey's views were. Bat will
BOW state that his reply was an earnest
argument to show that be ought to be
at liberty to refuse TO take the money
ard to return it to the State, bat thai
be would be governed by what his
cousin, Colonel Arthur Hubert, would
say. WILLIAM l.. RoYALL.
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