Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-03

$40 ,OOO; and that the State pays the met
little suns Of sl2. 900 per annum for tn
use Of portion Of this WATERFRONT on,
fourth Of it. Apretty good investment
I would like to spend S45 900 building
| some water works near some State insti
tuition and get $l2 900 year for furnish
ing one fourth Of the water that I could
supply to the State. And this is saddled
on the State for five years. think it il
small specimen Of Tweedism, and looks
nightly like divide. OF course don't
mean to intimate any such q thing, be-
cause if they should pay $4,000 . day
for it. it would have to be honest because
it came from reform Administration. -
Noticing the Senator's remarks in re-
ply TO what lie bad said in regard to the
public expenditures of California. Mr..
Gorham said:
Mr.. Booth complained Of Mr.. Phelps
Statement, then that the civil expenditures
Of this State in 1873 were S2,1l5. $50,
and he said if Mr. Phelps had not been
either Ignorant or careless, he would
have seen that $334 900 were for this
purpose. and eighty thousand for that
and sixty Thousand for the other. Very
well. l have added up the sums that
Mr.. Booth wants Deducted from the *
penditures in 1878 and they amount to
Just S475. 3d. deduc: them from the
amount stated by Mr.. Phelps. and i find
that 81, 240. 900 remain as the experdi-
lures of is13-not a very important re-
duc,ion. Mr.. Booth divided my speech
up into three parts; an apology for my
self. he said, on the railroad question;
abuse ot the State administration. and
an attempt to arouse the prsjudices of
Republicans upon war questions. I
thought that his speech was divided also
into three parts; one part misrepresents-
ton. another part rage. and the third
part wit. for l do not deny that to him;
and these three ingredients entered into
nearly every sentence he uttered. His
Misrepresentation began with my posi-
ton on the railroad question, and, by
inference. Misrepresentation Of his own
position on the railroad question.
think Mr.. Booth is the Only man in
the State. perhaps. excepting myself,
that clearly remembers what his position
has been on the railroad question. 1
propose to refresh your recollection Of
1t. He WAS State Senator in 1868.
This morning / ran over the statutes of
road man. and for all subsidies. l found
tina. All Act passed to authorize the city
of San Francisco to subscribe 5000, 900
worth If stock 10 the Central Pacific
Railrns d Company. and S400, 600 worth
If stock to the wicked Western Pacific
Railroad Company, which the Contra!
P.c tir did not own then and never
would have owned if the bill | had aided
couid have. tten pass. d. That WAS just
IA million. was il ? l found that Mr..
Booth WIS the special champion of the
bill in the Senate, and / have taken
unins TO copy his remarks in favor of the
bull. The speaker here quoted at length
from spe. ch delivered by Mr.. Booth in
April. 1863. ard continued:
"Whnt is Mr. Booths political record?
H. sat in the State Senate one session.
do no, know Of any great public act
that he introduced. During the war be
MAS very modest. and l never knew that
h. took any prominent part; indeed he
WAS regarded as studious gentleman.
who delighted in literary pursuits and
in mercantile pursuits. evenly divided.
But in 1871 a meteor shot across the
political armament. A tnrpentine ball
taken from grocery stand. could not.
in the hands of school boys on the
Fourth OF July. have been firted about
with more animation. or have excited
more general attention. than did this re-
markable meteor to which l allude
have not mentioned the name and time
rolled on, and it seemed to take its
place as a fixed star. contrary to all
known rules. until fnally-to drop tine
very distinguished. very
able and very honest old gentlemen,