Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1905-07-14

measure, however unimpOrtant or in
consequential, relating in the remotest
degree TO the First Congressional Dis
trict, the passage Of which through
either branch OF Congress Senator
Martin either secured or even advocat-
ed, or with which he was ever i'm any
manner, shape or from, directly or in
directly, connected. This is a very
broad. and possibly may seem to you
an amazing assertion, but it is never
theless one that is literally true.
GOT RIXEY's GLORY.
When entered Congress the birth
place of Washington at Wakefield had
never been marked by the u. S. Gov
ernment, now splended marble obe
lisk indicates that hallowed spot. 1t
was Senator Daniel who secured i'm the
Senate the passage in the Senate ofthe
bill which subsequently became an act
OF Congress and under the provision of
which Vir9inia's great sculptor, Valen
tine, Is now engaged in having cast the
bronze statute which IS soon to he
erected at Fredericksburg, Va. i'm COM
memoraton of the valor of that great
Revolutionary hero, General Hugh
! Mercer. These are but two OF the
| many measures having relation TO the
First Congressional district with which
Senator Daniel has been conspicuously
connected. am not quite so familiar
as to what Senator Martin may, or
may not have done for the people OF
the other nine Congressional districts.
do know, however. that it was claim
ed for him, and he modestly accepted
the credit, that he secured the passage
OF the Act which provides pay for over
time work performed by employees Of
the navy yards OF the country during
the Spanish war. AS n matter OF fact.
that measure was introduced i'm the
House of Representatives by the Hon.
John +. Rixey, OF your district, was
advocated 10y him before the committee
to which it was referred, and, at his in.
stance, passed through the House or
Representatives. The records OF the
Senate do not disclose that Senator
Martin had anything whatever TO do
with its passage in the Senate, and as
matter OF fact he had not And vet
some labor unions having unadvisedly
adopted resolution thanking him for
having secured that legislation, he did
not hesitate to write letter accepting
the thanks thus mistakenly, and most
unj Justly TO Mr.. RiXey, given him.
beg TO assure you that am not at
all disturbed by the statement, which
you say is being made, that the efforts
of the Virginia Members OF the House
have been without results. The hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars which /
have secured for the water ways Of my
District during my service in Congress
(to say nothing OF any other appro-
prations obtained by me) and that
too, without the slightest assistance
from Senator Martin, who Is a mem
ber of the Commerce Committee OF the
Senate, having special charge Of river
and harbor appropriations, tell their
own story. 1 am entirely content
that the records of Congress shall
speak for me. But if it be thought that
have accomplished less than i should
for my constituents | trust may never be
guilty of detracting from the accomplish
ments of any of my colleagues in order To
add to the sum total of of my own.
JAMESTOWN APPROPRIATION.
To give you som idea of the lengths to
which some of Senator MARITIME advocates
will go in order to make political capital
for him, may recall to your memory the
fact that after Senator Daniel had secured
the passage through the Senate of the
jamestown appropriation measure, during
the last hours of the last session of Con-
gress, it was teegraphed from Washing
ton to some of the Virginia papers, and
actually published in them that Senator
Martin and not Senator Daniel had called
it up in the Senate when it came to that
body from the House and secured its pas
sage. That statement went for days un-
corrected, and was doubtless accepted as
true by Thousands of Virginians until the
Hon. Carter Glass, member of Congress,
from the Sixth Virginia District, caused
the correction to be made and the credit
given where it belonged, Then, and only
under such provocation, did Senator Mar
tin say in an interview that Senator Dan.
iel vas chiefly entitled to the credit for its
passage. ! might give other notable in
stances in which credit has been claimed