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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1887
Page
2
The Comet reports Tennessee Governor elect Taylor’s pending office distribution amid crowded spoils, with Bate’s Senate win praised by Democrats. It notes Voorhees’ widow’s death, university scholarships in East Tennessee, and unresolved ministerial appointments abroad. Also covered are Indiana senatorial ballots, Carlisle contest moves, and interstate commerce bill rhetoric on railroads.
In a secret senate session the nomination of J.J. Mathews of Albany to be recorder of deeds for the District was discussed for an hour and rejected by a vote of 81 to 17. The article notes partisan lines and hints at pay politics among both parties.
The protec tion Democrats finished discussing a bill to cut surplus revenue. The measure frees many items like lumber and goats hair, repeals tobacco and Weiss beer taxes, and raises dealer licenses for whisky. It lowers steel rails to 15 dollars and merges Hewitt bill features, omitting warehouse provisions. Expected revenue cut about 50 to 60 million dollars. The House will decide on alcohol taxes for area use and timing of customs changes to avoid controversy. The committee will confer with Speaker Carlisle on procedure.
A New York dispatch reports Norfolk and Western directors seek a Bristol to Rockwood rail line via the Cincinnati Southern, surveying to begin Monday for about 150 miles of new track. The move would align with Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, divert through traffic from East Tennessee Bristol, and reshape regional rail competition. Separately, a majority of preferred stock of the Memphis Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad was transferred to the Richmond Terminal, with talks to control Georgia Central underway.
The Charleston Cincinnati Chicago line lists connections with many railroads including Ashland with QO to seaboard Newport News and O to Cincinnati Lexington and Big Sandy Sciota Valley Cincinnati and Eastern Ironton and Northern Pittsburgh and Ohio River Pomeroy and Marietta Re Ro to Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Clinch River with Western Extension By and O at Moccasin Gap with AL and O Bristol Tennessee Line with Western Extension N and Wi John Jet City with BT Vic G and ELT and WON C at Marion with WON C to Charlotte and Asheville Rutherfordton with Carolina Central to Wilmington Blacks with Piedmont Air Line to Richmond and Atlanta Yorkville with Chester and Lenoir Rocky Hill with Charlotte and Augusta Lancaster with W and at Camden with South Carolina system Sumpter with Charleston and North Eastern Laties with Georgetown at Charleston with Georgia and Florida Railroads Atlantic Ocean and the World.
John M. Bailey of Bristol Tennessee and Rufus A. Ayers Virginia attorney general visit Lafayette to push rail line extensions in Virginia and Tennessee. Bailey predicts a bright era for Southern rail development, noting stronger Northern capital and a thriving iron and coal output driving demand and prosperity.
A tramp asks to sleep in a yard back lot and to be awakened at 7 sharp for a limited cattle train. He negotiates terms with a woman who agrees to shelter him briefly while noting the difficulty of preserving dignity in a slushy street.
Washington letter reviews Congress achievements including presidential succession and electoral count reforms, Inter-State Commerce bill, anti polygamy measure, and Pacific Railroad investigations. It notes Senate aging, ex Confederate and Union representation, and reports on Secretary Whitney's stance toward Arctic expedition. Mrs. Cleveland conducts a monument elevator visit amid a damp air, while Susan B. Anthony and women suffrage themes surface ahead of the Nineteenth Annual Convention.
The Senate and House of delegates met at noon and voted for United States Senator. Camden, the present senator, received 40 votes, ten in the Senate and thirty in the House, a gain of three. A joint session will ballot next. Camden needs six more votes amid a strong fight.
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