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BLAINE AND EDNUNDs-NR. EDNUNDs's EULoGY
OF SOMEBODY.

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A Dialogue In the Senate
BLAINE AND EDNUNDs-NR. EDNUNDs's EULoGl
OF SOMEBODY.
In the debate on the Pacific Railroad bill
in the Senate, April 9th, Mr.. Edmunds, il
the course of his remarks, said
This stock is said to be now all in yer,
few hands. 1t is said that one gentleman
whom l have long known as a very amiabl,
and estimable gentleman, a man of eXtraOr
believe is painted great deal blacker thar
he is. owns more than a majority of the
stock of one of the companies. He is under
no obligation to hold it; he is a private citi
zen although director and president fol
aught know of one of the companies but
his ownership of the stock is his private
property, and he is under no obligation tC
US or to anybody else to hold it for five min
utes when ne can sell it at price that is
satisfactory to him. If the management ol
that corporation is left with him and with
his board of directors. we might all expect
that this thing would 20 on smoothly and
swimming!y. that fidelity to these require
ments would be observed, that the income
of the corporations would be as great as it
is now and would increase. that the same
energy and economy and prudence
and skill that in his hands have made
the company develop large profits much
more than ever before will continue to go
on but if he chooses to sell out his stock
tomorrow, have you any right to complain
of him? Not the least.
You cannot tell, sir, what will happen +;
you cannot tell who will manage these cor
pOrations you cannot tell how long there
will be any net income or not, depending
not upon the fair progress of natural re-
sources Of development and natural compc-
tition, but depending upon the evil deviltry
Of stock-boards and private jobs. There is
the tronble about all these corporations !;
and yet my honorable friend from Maine,
in that sweet innocence which characterizes
his character, that sublime faith that every
body is as virtuous as he is, is willing to
fold up his arms and be tied up in bag by
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rail
road Companies for twenty-five years.
merely because We require them to establish
a sinking fund
Mr. Blaine-lf understand my friends
argument, he desires to state that AZ long as
Mr.. Jay Gould (he did not call him by
name but referred to him) shall own ma
jority of the stock. the Government Of the
United States may rest secure, but it might
possibly pass out Of his hands and then dan.
ger would come.
Mr.. Edmunds-Mr. President, then my
friend does not understand me. did not
desire to state anything of the kind. de-
sire now to state, as Mr. Jav Gould is re-
ferred to-my friend is fond it ,,ems Of re-
ferring to private conversations and to pri-
yatc men
Mr.. Blaine-Why, the Senator referred to
him. Did not the Senator refer to him, il
not by name?
Mr.. Edmunds-I have not mentioned Mr.
Jay Gould at all.
Mr.. Blaine-Am | mistaken in saying
that the Senator intended to refer to Mr..
Jay Gould as the gentleman he spoke Of?
Mr.. Edmunds-l intended to say exactly
what did say. ard intend to respect the
proprieties of this place sufficiently not to
name private citizens BY name unless there
is very urgent reason for it indeed.
Mr.. Blaine-But the Senator spoke Of
some gentleman holding majority of the
stock, who was a very much better man
than he is painted to be. and the Senate,
| think, could have understood only that
he referred to ore gentleman, whom | am
net referring to except with respect my
self. | understood the Senator to say that
as long as the stock or majority of it
was in his hands all would go smoothly,
but the possibility of danger arose just
ha, ,t.thf oil hap ID md
get into somebody else's. That is what |
wanted to understand.
Mr.. Edmunds-Why, Mr.. President, my
friend must be very much wide of the mark.
Docs he suppose that there is nobody else in
the world than Jay Gould who is better
than he is painted? There are a great many
Senators that have heard very severely de-
nounted in connection with corporations and
otherwise, that believe are great deal
better than the stories that are told about
them. Therefore my description Of an i'm
aginary being or real being as being great
deal better than he is painted does not make
it necessary for my honorable friend to jump
up and say that am talking about Mr.. Jay
Gould at all.
Mr. Blaine Then shall understand that
the Senator WAS not talk ing Of him?
Mr.. Edmunds-The Senator is entitled to
understand exactly what he likes from what
say. l do not undertake TO control my
friends understanding at all; he is entirely
at liberty to understand anything that he
wishes to understand, AMI am at liberty to
say 'ny thing that wish to say within the
propreties of this place.
General Summary
Sunday is observed in New York as day
Of arrest.
Great storms of snow, rain and wind pre-
vailed last week on the Dakota division Of
the Northern Pacific railroad.
The bill abolishing gambling has been
passed by the Massachusetts Legislature,
and the Boston gamblers 20 abou. the streets
mourning.
A decision of Bishop Andrews that women
must not be allowed to preach in Methodist
pulpits creates remark at the Hub
One of Brigham Young's daughters has
married former hostler in her fathers
stables, who already has one wife. She is
homely, but brings her groom $50 900, her
share OF the prophets stealings.
A female defendant in suit a: Rushville,
Ind, during the trial the other dav became
angry at the plaintiff, man, and rushing AT
him struck him on the head and knocked
him senseless.
A Georgia topper, determined to reform,
and conscious of his weakness, advcrtises in
the papers iorbidding any person selling
him liquor, and threatening prosecution i'll
case they do.