The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-19

signed the bill alluded to this was a
stab at His ~Excellency, intended to
show that he was not as sound on the
main question as Johnson himself.
We will, however, allow him 10 speak
for himself. In that speech he is re-
ported to have said:
He regretted that the question had
been brought into the Democratic
party. 1t was in nc sense a party
question, but had been forced into pol
iticS. Having been made a question
of importance it became his duty to
tell them what he thought. He con-
sidered the five per cent. subsidy Act
the mo- infamous scheme of robbery
ever inflicted on a people, the most
dangerous law that eve wen upon
the statute books, as putting every
county in the State in constant .jeop-
ardy of being Swindled out of the tax
PAYERS money by railroad sharks.
Had he been Governor on the 4th day
of April last he would certainly have
vetoed it. lie denounced the act then
and there as a gross violation OF the
Constitution, impolitic, unwise, and
most dangerous TO the public welfare,
and if elected Governor, pledged him
self to advocate and labor for its re-
peal. Under its provisions San Fran
cisco might be tieeced Out 81 81 200, 900
and other communities in like proper
ton. He then referred to the Nisalia
and Stockton Act. passed by the last
LEGISLATURE. that was now before the
Supreme Court. The bill, he said,
donated the enormous and unprece-
denied subsidy of $4,000 per mile,
enough to build and equip the road,
making the franchise Il free gift to the
incOrpOratOrS. \ tlrSt-claSS railroad,
running through the rich and fertile
valley of the san Joaquin. was actu-
ally presented to half a dozen rich men
of Stockton. After the bill became a
law, it was discovered that ii would
run nearly parallel with and necessa-
rily be in opposition to the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, the latter
having already commenced running a
branch up this same a joaquin Val
lev. The people needed Il road to hold
in cheek the Central Pacific people.
After they had voted to give their
money for il, the Central Pacific peo-
pie inaugurated a fight against it, and
the city and county were enJOlned from
the issuance OF their bonds, The At
tOrnev General took the fight Off the
hands of the Central Pacific, and the
latter took the other side of the case.
1t was an Infamous thing from begin
ming TO end. and aSham hight through
out. made up to deceive the people
and with no particle of honesty in il.
lie predicted. and if his predictions
did not prove true. he would not be a
candidate. thai the case would be dis
missed, that it would expire by the
Statute OF Limitation. as IL had only a
short time further to run. He pre-
dicted that it would be dismissed at
the April term of the Supreme Court,
or if nuJ. that it would be decided
against the law. He defined his po-
>itiOn clearly because he had been
charged in his absence by the press
and politicians. with having voted in
the interest of railroad schemers, and
with having voted for the Northern
Pacific Railroad bill. He denounced
the assertion Is a base SANDER. and
declared that the donations of the
public lands to that company were
made three wears before he entered
Congress. and while he was residing
in DOwnieviIle. He did work and
vote for the Southern and Texas Pa
ci1ic Railroad grant of lands, and had
no apprehension that the people Of
California would blame him for it. II
had been charged that he had sUs-
tanned the railroad grabbing bills. and
the Union said it would he proof posi-
tive. if he was a candidate, that he
was in the interest of the RAILROAD
Ring"