Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-23

EASTERN INTELLIGENCE.
MEETING OF THE ANTi-MO-
NOP0LY. LEAGUE.
Abuses of the Corporate
Powers.
SPEECH OF JUDGE JERE BLACK
Foster rendered a Cabinet Posi-
ton.
OF JUDGE JERE BLACK
A RAILROAD COMMISSION CREATED
No Division of the Net Earnings of
the Central Pacific Railroad.


Especial to the Sentinel.l
New YORK, Feb. 22.-There was q large
meeting last night at Cooper Institute,
under the auspices Of the National Anti
Monopoly League, with Peter Cooper as
President. s. E. Chittenden briefly set
forth the objects and purposes OF the
League, asserting its origin to be the out
growth of the abuses of the corporate pow
| ers, and urging the necessity Of universal
organization upon some systematic basis
by the entire taxpaying element Of the
country. Judge Jere Black Of Pennsyl-
vania was introduced. He spoke for over
an hour, and in the course Of his address,
of which the keynote was the legal and
constitutional aspect Of the transportation
question, and he considered at length the
| relation Of corporations to the public. He
said that the course Of these institutions
had been steadily towards complete monop-
oily. Their ultimate design was fraught
| with the greatest danger to the State, and
unless the Legislature should step in and
aid the oppressed people the whole ma
/ chinery of the Government woul be
| thrown into the hands Of the m~onopolists.
These men, said the speaker, were not now
satisfied with their possessions, and their
power to absorb the property Of others,
n tax producers at their own caprice by
the consolidation Of railroads and the
union OF telegraph lines, subversion of
laws, and the insecurity given corporate
properties by their refusal to recognize the
rights of minorities of shareholders. They
have set at defiance the rights Of the public
and individuals prevented beneficial COM
petition, and trampled on the Constitution
and laws of their country. He advocated
that railroad men should be turned out of
Office under the Government and their du-
ties compelled, as well as their rights OBJ
served, through the interposition of the law.
The constitutional methods by which the
people might be protected in their rights
were discussed, and authorities quoted to
demonstrate that the remedy lay in the
hands of the public itself. 1t was shown
that by the power of their wealth railroads
had obtained a large share Of the control
of the Supreme and State Courts and the
various legislative bodies, and that
Judges were elected and representa-
tives selected with special reference to
their fitness for advancing the interests of
corporations they represented. The rail-
roads were rapidly assuming an influence
disproportionate to the relative positions
they occupied TOWARD other cooperate bodies.
The character and extent Of such laws as
should be enacted were explained and their
adoption strongly recommended. The
speaker was frequently interrupted by APP
plause, and one time, when he asked the
question, "what shall we do with these
corporations p" the audience shouted,
"~confiscate their stealings." "Well," was
the answer, tive would like to, but they
have carried them out Of sight,"
Gov. Foster Visits Mentor.
New York, Feb. 22.-The Worlds Co.
lumbus, Ohio, special says: Governor
Foster went to Mentor to-day. Before his
departure he told q correspondent that he
had been unoficially informed that he
would be rendered q Cabinet position, and
he felt it to be his duty to accept. He is
clearly on the slate as it stands at present.
@. r. Railroad Matters.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The House Com
mittee on the Pacific Railroad held a meet
ing to-day to take action on the letter Of
the Auditor Of the railroad accounts,
French. relative to the Central Pacific
Railroad. A resolution was adopted in
structing the Chairman to get here with
Representatives Butterworth and Dickey,
to call upon the Attorney-G General and con-
suit with him as to the legal remedies
proper to be taken under the Thurman
act. or under the general laws, to prevent
any division to the net earnings Of the
Central Pacific to leased roads, in preju-
dice OF the lien of the United States, and
to consult with him generally in regard to
the allegations on the subject made by the
Auditor Of the railroad accounts in his re-
cent communication to the Secretary Of
the Interior. The subcommittee to re-
port on the subject on Thursday next.
Congress Locking After Railroad
Companies.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--In the House
yesterday, Representative Turner intro
duced a resolution creating q commission
OF three, n being q railroad expert, one
q lawyer and one interested in commercial
pursuits, whose duty 1t shall be to inquire
whether any railroads or common carriers
Of the United States, in their freight
charges, discriminate unjustly against
communities or individuals, and II SO,
what railroads and how.
Second-To inquire whether freight
charges for Interstate m are op-
pressive and unjust.
Third-To report to the next Congress
the result Of their inquiry and recon-
mendations to prevent the injustice.
What Garfield VIII DO.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 22.-R. B. Hayes says
Stanley Matthews name will be left with
the Senate to take its chances, adding that
he has received an assurance from Garfield
that he will reappoint him in. case he is not