564 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



Scott much by this move. This fight will cost us much 

 money, but I think it is worth it, as I have written you 

 from time to time. I have been trying to work parties up 

 that have interests in roads in Texas, outside of Scott's 

 interest, and they told me, a few days since, that if I 

 would get up a bill I could use their names, and I at once 

 done so, and they now like it very much; and I think it 

 makes us stronger than we were without. I send copy of 

 the bill with this Senate bill No. 500. Your letter to 

 Luttrell was good, and I noted its effects. Good articles 

 in the California papers sent to our members of Congress 

 would do good. They get many from our enemies which 

 hurts. Wigginton gets nearly every thing bad that is said 

 about us, I think. I have many things that I would like 

 to say, but it is dark, and I quit. 



Yours truly, 



C. P. HUNTINGTON. 

 A PROPOSED PICNIC PARTY. 



NEW YORK, July 26, 1876. 

 Friend Colton: 



I have been working for the last two months to get a 

 party of say twenty-five Southern members of Congress to 

 go out to California and over the line of the S. P. and see 

 what we have done and our ability to do. Of course I 

 want no one to go except the best men of the South; men 

 who will go for the right as they understand it, and not as 

 Tom Scott or somebody else understands it. / told Senator 

 Gordon, of Georgia, if he would get up a party of the best 

 men of the south we would pay all their expenses, which I 

 suppose would not be less than $10,000, and I think it 

 would be money well expended. When would be the best 

 time to come? I think it would be as well to take them 

 over the S. P. before the connection is made between 



