Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-20
seriOus Fire at Olympia.
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Budget OF Political ant, other
News from Washington.
A PETITION FROM Los ANGELES.


WASHINGTON, May lS.-Rosecrans
yesterday presented IN the House pc
tition of the Chamber of Commerce of
Los Angeles, asking for the settlement
of Mission Indians in Los Angeles, San
Bernardino and San Diego counties on
llnds in severalty. The petition states
that, although frequent attempts have
been made for that object, no one place
has been found, either on the public land
be obtained west of or within the noun
tain ranges which traverses these coun
ties, that is suitable and adequate for the
settlement, protection and maintenance
of all the Mission Indians. Realizing the
forlorn condition of this people, and be-
lieving that the Government is under
some moral, if not legal, obligations to
provide q home for these Indians, whose
former homes have been taken by the
white people under cover of law, it is
earnestly prayed that some steps should
be taken to provide homes for these
peaceable and suffering people, where
they may live in peace and quiet so long
as they continue to dwell upon earth.
AGGREGATION OF RAILROAD CAPITAL.
The speech of 7. w. Rice, of Missouri,
delivered on Saturday last, appears in
the Congressional Record of yesterday.
Speaking of the amount of capital of the
railroad combinations, he says: 81 have
no positive means of ascertaining the
vast combination by which railroad pow
er is managed, but a careful examination
of statistics has resulted in showing that
of the $4,000, 100000 aggregate capital
invested in railroad companies in the
United States, So, 3lS, 100000 are con-
trolled by Jay Gould, Vanderbilt, tlfe
Pennsylvania managers, Garrett, of the
Baltimore and Ohio, Huntington, Jewett,
Garrison, Field, Stanford and the few
men who make up the combination.
Rice's treatment of the question is very
bold, and his case against the railroads
is as follows: "The charge against the
railway interpretations is that they know
no law and observe none which in their
management shall limit or control their
selfish greed; that their rule for making
rates is not what is fair compensation,
but what will the traffic bear?' that
they may make unjust determinations
against citizens and localities; that they
have flaudulently swelled their capital
stock by adding to it from one-half to
one per cent. of fictitious value, with
seeming fairness on the face of the
books, but with the fraudulent purpose,
in fact, to obtain extortionate dividends;
that their capital stock has been largely
made up of bonds and money loaned by
the people, municipalities and the Gov
ernment, for which they make no de.
duction in estimates of interest, charges
or dividends on account of capital stock;
that they are criminally extravagant in
salaries to officials; and that in their
special expenditures for useless employ
ment they not only corrupt the purity oi
the ballot box, but commit high crimes
against the sanctity of State and national
legislative bodies.
ANOTHER HEARING.
1t is generally believed that the House
Foreign Affairs Committee will grant
Shipherd another hearing.
WASHINGTON, May l9.-The War De-
partment has the following dispatch
from Fort Leavenworth, of date May
18th: The following telegram is just
received:
The situation at the Mescaleros agency
is much the same, only worse than il
was with the Cheyennes The Mesca
leros must be fed, or they will starve
The Indian Bureau, as it appears, can
not feed them. The army must there
fore feed them. A heavy military force
must be placed around them to make
them starve peaceably. There's time
yet to provide for them, but it cannot
safely be postponed. 1t should be at
tended to at once. JOSEPH POPE,
Commanding General.