Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-27

mol surpassed by any Job Printing office
pn the Pacific Coast, outside Of San Fran
DISCO. In facilities for doing job work
Low prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this office.
The probability Is that If the
California railway magnates had
chosen to cultivate cordial relations
with our people the whole popula-
ton Of Les Angeles would see the
Advisability of the extension of the
California system Of railways to the
Rio Grande and Mississippi rivers,
especially II the whole Southern Pa
cific, from those rivers to Santa
Monica and Wilmington, should be
placed, as Mr.. Huntington proposes,
under the absolute regulation of
Congress. We have regretted ex-
ceedlngly that the railway COM
pany, in a year of drouth, have
seemed to think that the scant in
come Of their Southern load was
the fault of our people,
and that our people, on the
other hand, have held the railway
company responsible for the evils
which have flown largely from the
failure Of the Temple & Workman
Bank, the disastrous smallpox Wis
itation Of Winter . year ago and
the drouth which followed closely
on the heels of both disasters. IT.
ritation has been met by counter
irrItant, without the beneficial re-
sults which are sometimes chroni-
cled of this method of treatment as
applied by the medical fraternity
to . sick man. AS we remarked,
the other day, the two rival railway
magnates--Scott and Huntington
In their addresses before the Con-
gressional Committee, pretty thor
oughly demolished each. other. The
rough handling given Huntington
by Scott has been pretty faithfully
reproduced in Los Angeles jour
malls. We think it is only right that
the consummate searching given
Scott by Huntington should also be
ventilated in this section. If
Huntington's address was not a
Roland for the Pennsyivanian's
Oliver, we confess that We are not
skilled in railway dialectics. Here
It is:
Mr.. G. P. Huntington addressed
the committee In reply to Colonel
Scott's argument made last week.
He denied the assertion that the
Southern Pacific and Central Pa
cific were the same thing, and said
they were quite distinct in their or
ganization and aims.
He claims that instead of build
Ing from Marshall, Texas, west
ward on the main line not less than
100 miles q year, as the law re-
quired, Col. Scott had got q devil
fish'' of y road in the Northwestern
corner Of that State, struggling
about on the three sides of a square
tn pick up some good fands, and
that II the same energy, time, and
means employed to get up conven-
lions, petitions, and resolutions,
and in besieging Congress for
subsidy, had been devoted to build
ing railroads, he might have had
his track across Texas, and would
have commanded the confidence of
nection with the Southern Pacific
road, as his company had pledged
itself to do. He then referred to
the allegations of the excessive cost
Of the $50 miles of Southern Pacific
road in California, claiming that
the grading of 1876 miles Of the line
North of San Fernando had cost
more than the entire 444 miles of
Texas Pacific road, for which the
Texas Construction Company had
a contract to receive Sl12, 900 mile
Ia bonds and stock, or ten dollars
for each dollar put into the road in
cash. He challenged comparison
of the cost of the work on the
Southern Pacific with it or some of
Col. Scotts other roads, mention
Ing the Baltimore and Potomac at
100000 per mile, the Northern
Central at Sl44,O per mile, the
Allegheny Valley at SIPS, 900 per
mile. the Pennsylvania Central at
$500, 600 per mile of main line, or
$500, 900 per mile of main line and
branches, or he would be willing to
compare any financial arrangement
with that of Col. Scott in paying
three million dollars annual lease
money for q 80 mile road and its
dependencies between Philadelphia
and New York, which, at 8 per cent.
represents capital value of fifty
millions for monopoly, when a
competing line could have been
carried through for 100000 per
mile.
Mr.. Huntington then said that of
all men with whom to entrust COM
petition for the benefit of the peo-
pie, Thomas Scott was the last,
the same man who alternates his
trips to Washington to promise
competing railroads out of the
treasury with trips to New York to
patch up treaties to prevent compe-
tition over roads where there are
more people and more tonnage
passed in one day than crossed the
eontinentin twelve months. The
same man who for months resisted
the efforts Of competing road to
cross his tracks at Hopewell, in
New Jersey, and who had torn up
repeatedly the tracks of q road west |
Of Pittsburgh. and who compelled
an oil pipe line to break its line In
crossing his road and cart the oil
over 1t, and who was this day OPP
posing the Free Oil Pipe Bill at
Harrisburg, was an amazing cham
pion for railroad competition. His