The Shasta courier., 1871-06-03
as basis, this was worth $500 .OOO.

as basis, this was worth S5OO,OOO.
Page ZIG. ''An Act to survey and dispos,
of certain salt marsh and tide lands be
longing to the State of California" an
| proved March Both. 1868.
This gave subsidy of 60 acres of lane
in Mission Bay, San Francisco, to thu
N. P. S. P. Railroad Companies, and said
land was then worth at least $1,5OO, 900
Page 696. "An Act authorizing the Trus
tees of San Diego to give and donate t.
the San Diego and Los Angeles Railroad
Co., 5000 acres of land as a subsidy. ,
approved April I'd, 1870.
No vote of the people required.
Page 786. "An Act compelling the Beard O
Supervisors of Yuba county to compro
mise and settle with the Cal. P. Railroad
Co., and release said company from giving
the said county any more stock"
Approved April 4th, 1870.
Page TAG. Gan Act to empower the Boards
of Supervisors of the several counties tc
aid in the construction of Railroads, ap.
proved April 4th, 1870.
This is the famous per cent. bill.
STAT. 1S69-7O-page 1888. can Act to aid
in giving effect to An Act of Congress re.
lating to the S. P Railroad Co." approx.
ed April Nth, 1870"
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
had forfeited their charter and land grant,
and by this Act their charter was renewed
and the company allowed to float its line
of road in such manner that they secur-
ed about 100000 acres of choice land.
STAT. 1S67-70-Page 1926. San Act ex-
ton -
of the Central Pacific Railroad terminal
for two years." approved March 3lst. 1870.
Page 532. San Act authorizing the county
of San Joaquin to donate to the Stockton
and Visalia Railroad Company 5000, ,0OO,'
approved March 31st, 1870.
Page 531. "An Act authorizing the CITY
of Stockton to donate 100000 to the S. (
V. Railroad Company" approved April
1st, 1870.
Page 669. can Act extending the time for
making the terminus of the W. P Rail-
road in Mission Bay." approved April Cd.
Extended 18 months.
Page 707. can Act to empower the CITY
and county of San Francisco to aid in the
construction of the S. p Railroad, and
other purposes" approved April Cd. 1870
This gave a subsidy of 81 100000.
Bulwer must have had Gov. Haight in
his minds eye when he wrote the often
quoted sentence, "With those who are
truly great the pen is mightier than the
sword" By merely signing his name
with but few strokes of his trenchant
goose quill-he has taken from the people
ten millions and eight hundred Mousnd
acres of land, and transferred it to the
railroads. Gould tiia have beer done by
the sword Again, he signed few other
bills which, if they were all carried into
effect, would take from the people in ad-
dition to the foregoing, in land, at fair
valuation, and in cash and bonds, over
four millions more. Could the sword
have done this? No one could have ac-
eomplished so much with the pen in Bull
wer's time, consequently he must have
had presentment that his Excelleney
was the coming man. Aye, he has come
and with his ink bottle at his side and his
pen in hand, he has despoiled the people
of their broad acres he has taken from
them their hard earned gold; he has
caused the tax -gatherer to multiply every
where, and has struck more terror to the
souls of honest men than if he had come
with "banner, brand and bow" Truly,
the ''pen is mightier than the sword"
Never, in story, did Aladdin acquire riches
with such ease and dispatch, by rubbing
his wonderful lamp, as did the railroad
companies by procuring the talismanic
name of H. H. Haight to small slips of
paper. And now come his Excellency,
in the face of this infamous record, and
claims to be the sole champion of the
people-the only man, indeed, in his party
or out of it, who can guard the State
against the aggressions of the monopolists
the only man who can and will put
down subsidies. Can impudence farther
go? After compelling the Supervisors of
Plumas to issue bonds to the railroad COM
pany, or be punished as felons, not even
allowing the people of that county to vote
on the question; after committing other
criminal errors of still greater magnitude;
after making the monstrous record which
we have shown, he has the cheek to look
the people square in the face and ask them
to elect him again. Such effrontery as
this is stunning. Language fails to meet
the case. What pretext does he give,
think you, for the present assumption :?
Why, only this: that he has vetoed two
small bills, which were harmless when
compared to many OF the twenty which he
signed. 1t is said to be susceptible of
proof, that he agreed to sign even these
that they were submitted to has inspection
before they acere introduced IN the Legis-
lature, and that he then pronounced them
"proper, just and constitutional" and
agreed to sign them if they were passed
by the Legislature. It is said these bills
would never have been introduced into
that honorable body had his Excellency
not seen and consented to sign them be-
forehand This being the fact, he is just
ly charged with the paternity of the very
bills which he claims so much merit for
having vetoed. In his message, vetoing
these bills, he has entered into an elabor-
ate argument to convict himself Of the
preparation of great wrong in signing
the twenty subsidy bills which preced
ed these two. We think he succeeded
"Remember, my masters, it is written that
I am an ass" Now when he signed these
bills he either knew them to be "preper,
just and constitutional" OF not, If the
former, he should have signed them as he
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