566 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



received. I am glad you are getting along so well with S. 

 P. I will send to-day six copies each of my S. P. report 

 for 1873 an d I ^74- I left Washington on Friday, the nth. 

 I think our matters are safe there for the session. I saw 

 Gen. Gordon just before I left. He had received a dis- 

 patch from some of the prominent men at San Francisco, 

 and he said he thought they would get up a party of say 

 thirty prominent Southern men, and visit California this 

 fall, starting from this city about the ist of September. 

 Yours truly, C. P. HUNTINGTON. 



NEW YORK, November 15, 1877. 

 Friend Colton: 



Yours of the 2nd, No. 27, came to hand some days 

 since, and would have been acknowledged before but for 

 the reason that I have been very busy in Washington 

 most of the time, and I return there again to-morrow 

 night, as I have a hearing before the Judiciary Committee 

 on Saturday. You can have no idea how I am annoyed 

 by this Washington business, and I must and will give it 

 up after this session. If we are not hurt this session it 

 }vill be because we pay much money to prevent it; and you 

 know how hard it is to get it to pay for such purposes, and 

 I do not see my way clear to get through here and pay the 

 January interest, with other bills payable to January ist, 

 with less than $2,000,000, and possibly not for that. I 

 hear from all directions that Scott is very sure of passing 

 his T. and P. bill this session. I do not believe it, but he 

 has never before, I think, made the effort that he is now 

 making. I think Congress will try very hard to pass some 

 kind of a bill to make us commence paying on what we 

 owe the government. I am striving very hard to get a 

 bill in such a shape that we can accept it, as this Wash- 

 ington business will kill me yet, if I have to continue the 

 fight from year to year, and then every year the fight 



