The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-10-18
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
LEVI REACHES FOR NORTH CAR
OLINA CASH.
N. C. Special Tax Bond Cases to Come
up this Week-Talk of Adjournment
"A Travellers Notes-Perse mails.

IN
up this Week-Talk of Adjournment
[Speeiaz Correspondence to the Se,atinsl.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13th.-Messrs.
r. a. Battle, Thomas Rufin, Theo.
dore F. Davidson and John w. Gra-
ham have come on here to defend the
State in Levi P. Morton's suit against
her for the recovery of twenty eight
millions of fraudulent special tax
bonds and interest. Judge Ruffin
has returned home.
The original amount claimed was
about fourteen millions. These bonds,
as everybody ought to know, were
issued during the time of the profigate
Republican regime and were bought
up by the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co.,
of New York, with full knowledge of
their worthlessness and for mere
song. They began in fraud and crime,
and their present holders have never
been wronged out of dollar. 1t
would be an act of dishonesty to force
the people OF North Carolina to pay a
single cent on them. Levi P. Morton,
the Republican candidate for the
Vice Presidency against that ..illustri
GUS and stainless man, Allen G. Thur
man, is the prime leader in this effort
to extort money from North Carolina.
He seeks to evade the provisions of
the Federal Constitution which ex-
pressly inhibits suits against sover-
eign State. They say here, as | un-
derstand, they charge in New York
that Morton secured the nomination
for the express purpose of enabling
him to use the machinery of the party
to which he belongs to coerce the
people into paying his bonds. He
proposes to have a legislature chosen
which shall be Republican, or
lican, Prohibitionist and Independent.
This legislature he hopes will send
down to the people constitutional
amendment striking out the existing
provision of the constitution of the
State which forbids the payment of his
bonds Morton, it is stated, has al
ready contributed $96, 900 to the cam
paign fund, and stipulated with the
unwilling Quay that very large
portion of the sum shall be expended
in North Carolina.
Some of the North Carolinians in
the city have fears that the Supreme
Court may decide these iniquitous
bond cases adversely to the State, but
the better Judgment is that it will
throw out the suits-thus reversing
Judge Bond. The Louisiana bond case
is on the docket just before the North
Carolina, and Judge Rogers, the At
torney General of the former State,
thinks that his case may be reached
Monday afternoon by 8 o'clock. The
North Carolina cases may be
heard at the same time, or they may
go over until after the Louisiana mat
ter is disposed of. Maj. John w.
Graham says that the North Carolina
cases are not likely to be heard before
Tuesday of next week.
A prominent gentleman just return
ed here from trip through Connec-
ticut says that he visited number OF
factories in that great manufacturing
State and found the preponderance OF
sentiment among the working people
largely in favor OF Cleveland and
Thurman. Out of large number OF
them with whom he talked in private
considerable majority expressed
themselves as being with the Demo
Gratis this year and intending to vote
that way. This gentleman wore on
his coat lapel a swell red G. q T,
badge, and the fact attracted the at
tention frequently of the operators
whom he saw. They would say
..Them's my sentiments" This gen
tleman is not in politics-that is. be is
not making Ispe eches or taking any
active part. His visit was simply 8
| private tour, and his testimony il
therefore more reliable. He regards
Connecticut as one of the most certaii
| States for the Democrats.
1t seems probable that the House
will adopt pretty soon, perhaps mex
week, resolution of adjournment
but the matter is not settled yet
There is opposition among Democratic
members to doing anything until th,
debate is exhausted in the Senate OF
the tariff question. As prominen
member said yesterday "Let US Sc
if the Republicans will pass their bill
or if they are only shamming. reall.
think they are not able to. agree OF
one" Some of the Western Senator
have been all along opposed to tn
heavy reduction on sugar, which
not at all because they sympathiz
with Louisiana planters, but for tn
reason that their States, notably Kan
sas and California, are trying to max
sugar and claim that they requir
protection. A fellow feeling il fello'
interest.
There are barely seventy member
of the House in the city, and less tina
twenty Senators. Senators Ransol
and Vance have both been ava
speaking in North Carolina. II
farmer returned Thursday night. II
!, latter is expected back, I think, t
day. Only Major Latham, of Il
House delegation, is here.