Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-05-14
BY T ELEGR ApH,
SPECIAL 70 THE PIoCHE DAILY RECORD
BY WESTERN UNION LINE.
EASTERN DISPATCHES.

NEW YORK. May ia Times Wash.
ineton special says: petition has lust
been received here from California ask.
ing Congress TO appoint joint-commit-
tee to SIT in San Francisco during the re-
cess to inquire into the affairs of the Gen.
tral Pacific Railroad Company, the affairs
OF the firm of Charles Croker & Co. and
OF the Contract and Finance Company.
The petition also asks that legislation
be postponed until the commission have
reported the facts. The petitioners offer
to make good series of allegations con-
tanned IN the petition. The petitioners
ailege that the various gifts and subsi.
dies to the Central Pacific have exceeded
in value Sl25, 900, 900, besides the bonds
issued and secured by mortgages on the
road to the amount of 1877 1000, 600.
They say the construction is of the finn
siest character, and that the road as con-
structed could be built for $35 200 900.
The petition charges whom it names as
LELAND Stanford. Mark Hopkins, c. P.
Huntington and Charles Croker formed
firm known as Charles Croker & Co..
of which all tho managers were members.
and that they let to this company con
tract for building the road at most ex-
travagant prices, dividing the profits
among themselves. Frauds are alleged
in connection with the Contract and FL
nance Company, of which it is stated the
managers are members. One of the
most serious charges is that the OUTLAY
of money is insufficient to keep the road
in repair; that the ties and trestles and
iron rails are in bad condition and nm
safe for the transportation of passengers.
The petitioners ask an Investigation on
the ground that they are stockholders in
the road, and are unable to obtain anv
share of profits, and cannot secure their
rights through the courts because the
immense resources of the managers ena.
Bile them to obtain the most skillful |
counsel and invoke the laws of delav.
The petition makes out charge against
the Central Pacific which, if sustained.
would be even worse than the Credit
Mobilier frauds in the construction of
the Union Pacific.
The Tribune's Hartford special in re-.
gard to the result Of the election for
United States Senator, claims that the
contest was one of dollars and cents and
says that A. E. Barr, of the Hartford
Times, had sundry interviews with Sen.
ator English, the result of which WAS
that the latter short time before the
election paid down $40. 900 for the use of
the State Committee in the approaching
election, which amount was subsequent
" doubled, making his contribution
S2o,o00. Barnum was to meet his rival
IN the presence of Barr, but failed to do
&c. yet managed to transfer like sum of
9Zo'ooo into the Golfers of the Commit
zee. f. Brown, the nominal dispenser
u this sum. admits that he knew at that
line that English was laboring under a
'eiuslon but insists that his business was
o carry the State, taking tolls wherever
he found them. He has been since prom
nent in urging Barnum's claims and is
harged with have everywhere repre-.
ented to workers that it was Barnum's
money they were handling.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12.-The Emperor I
nd Empress of Brazil and suit, num-
'ering sixteen persons, left this morning
or st. Louis. After visiting Louisville
nd the Mammoth Cave the party on
thursday will leave for New Orleans and
eturn to Washington by way of Mobile,
Montgomery and Knoxville. The tour
Will be completed by visits to Niagara
falls, Toronto, Montreal. Quebec, White
Mountains, Boston, Saratoga, Albany I
md New York.