Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-04-25

litigation as has heretofore occur
red.
Butler said the Senate had dis
cussed the bill for weeks, but only
in generalities. He predicted that
1t would not hold water and re-
called how he stood against an
overwhelming majority in the
House, who demanded that the
Senate bill regarding the silver
dollar should be passed. He had
opposed accepting just what the
Senate said and now that bill had
turned to ashes on their lips and
was not worth, for the purpose for
which it was passed, the paper on
which it was written. Cox yester-
day had debated o bill involving
seven millions after it passed,
preaching the danger of passing
such bill hastily, and yet he says
we are not to debate this bill in
volving $l50,000,000. He ventured
the assertion that not a man knew
what was in the bill that he was
about to vote for.
Morrison - You are mistaken
there.
Butler said that old men would
not spoil their eyes reading this
written matter and this bill differed
widely from the printed one. He
would be willing o be stoned by
any man who would say he had
read the bill now on the Speakers
table. He believed this question
should be dealt with, but he was
not sure that this bill came within
the proper limit. He was shocked
when he heard the learned and elo-
quent Cox-he begged Cox not to
leave the hall-characteriZo the
riots Of last summer, "The wild
justice of the people," 1t was ar
son, murder, rapine. Cox had ar
gued that the Government had the
right to proceed even to the confis-
cation of this railroad property.
Nobody was safe under such an in
depreciation and we must now vote
on the matter without understand
ing it.
| Dickey asked if Butler believed
the railroads would litigate any
bill passed by Congress?
Butler replied that, believing
them to be selfish men, he thought
they would litigate, because they
had seen bills after bills passed that
the Supreme Court had de clared
utilities.
This bill, if passed without revis.
ion, will cause litigation and adj
verse decisions. He would advise
the companies to litigate. The
Supreme Court would say it was
passed without the understanding
gress and without debate and was
no law. The companies were not
open to wild justice and confisca-
ton; they had their faults, and
bad ones. 1t was claimed that
they had paid no money into the
United States Treasury, but there
was nothing, so said the Supreme
Court, in the acts of Congress COM
pelling them TO, and they were not
so magnanimous as to donate
money not due. He wanted bill
passed that was invulnerable-one
examined by the many good law
: yers in the Houee. The pending
bill was never even read, or was
not discussed an hour or moment.
Why have a House, if we vote for
everything the Senate sends?
Where was the old Democratic cry
for the independence of the House?
Now we owe this Pacific railroad q
debt of gratitude. The North felt
it more than the South. In 1882 it
was a little dark up here and it was
still darker on the Southern Dor
der. A cloud no bigger than q
mans hand was seen rising in the
West, and doubt was felt as to
whether California and the Gulf
States would not come to think it
would be better to set up for them
selves, and as war measure, as a
measure to bind this country to-
gether with chains of steel and
iron, we passed the Pacific railroad
bill and gave the companies an en-.
dowment out of the treasury of the
country, which was pouring from
us like water. We did it as a war
measure, to bind the North to-
gether, and it was very success
full measure. We did it, too, my
friends on the other side, in order
TO say to you that we meant bust.
ness; to show you that we could
carry on the government with one
hand and fight with the other. Be-
sides, we did it for the same reason
that, while taxes were piling upon
us-up, up, up-We went on.
BOSTON Wool Market.
BOSTON, April 24th.-The wool
market is generally unchanged,
holders being anxious to close out
as fast as possible. Prices are low
and unsatisfactory. Spring and
fall California, HOPS; pulled woods
quiet at 30@40 for super and choice
super spring.
Destructiye wind Storm.
CLEyELALD, April oath. -
heavy wind and rain storm passed
over this place at 1l;l5 this morn.
ing. The roof of the new Metho-
dist church was blown off, the
casting house of the furnace was
blown down and Truesdell g. Town.
sends warehouse, at their factory,
was demolished; also, the stack at
their mandatory and the City
planning mill stack. Several houses
| and chimneys and trees were
| wrecked in all directions.
Iu.u't 90 AN American Cit:zeD.
PUNTA ARENAS, Costa Rica,
April 12th.-A naturalized Ameri-
can citizen named Rafael Gallegos,
of the firm of Montealgre & Co., of
San Francisco, has received gross
injuries at the hands of the gov
ernment. He is q Costa Rican by