Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-31

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from eff 'ers Of the road, but Mr..
Gray said he mistook his meanir &.
Senator Reynolds held that the
people are taxed to pay these eff ,ials,
and they would Ike to know what
they are taxed for.
After some further discussion Sena.
tor II yuolds moved that Mr., Kimbill
be respectfully asked to state his sal
airy. The motion not being seconded,
however, was of course lost.
The chairman (Mr. Grant of O.oe)
asked il the UAion Picldc had any In
tereet or owned any stock Ia any ne We
paper, and the wttnesa replied mot
within my knowledge"
Senator Rs holds II quirsd ii they
had done 40 Tne wleucss replied,
III the committee will allow mc t.
state q the fct2'
Senator Re- uolda "That is what
we want; the exact facts"
The witness continued, "At one
time Mr. Gould said to ire on his own
bghllt that he had II talk with q re-
osesentative OF RN7o water, aud Mc.
Rose water himself"
Senator Reynolds here objected on
the grouun that this was mere hear
gay.
Citizou Mason suggested that it
would be well TO hear what Mr.. KIM.
ball had to say, and it could be struck
out of the record If irrelevant.
Senator r Reynolds: IF you want to
have a little amusement Tor the audi.
ence l don't objec'."
Mr.. Kimbsll then proceeded to re.
late his little story as follows:
l was gOirg on to say that Mr.
G )uld said that he had had a talk
with Mr.. Il Dsowster and a repre- s enta-
tive, ard that he had a meeting with
these parties to wi the PROPOSE.
ton for him to get control If a ma
jority e the stock Of the Omaha Re-
publican and consolidate that paper
with the OMAHA BEE; and he said to
me, | lave been been thinking the
matter over, aud l should not be sur.
prised if a an arrangement of that
kind would be feasible and desirable,
perhaps profitable, and l will delegate
the authority to you to negotiate with
Mr.. Rose water this consolidation aud
to go ahead and buy n controlling in.
terest for him in the Omaha Republi
can. l did not understand that he
was talking for the corporation-the
Union Pacific. IL was a matter that
? had been brought to his PERSONAL at
tention, and he cime on to me to
look It up and let him know
what / thought of it. I finally
got a positive order to carry
out that arrangement if 1t could be
accomplished. / net Mr.. Rosewater
and talked the III alter over with him.
He came to my office almost daily for
weeks to confer with me OF the sub
joot, and | asked him to map out his
programme f)r such consolidation ii l
wss successful in buying the control
lag stock in The Republican. He did
81, h, gave me in writing a list of the
Off jers that was to own and control
the two newspapers. l have got that
now in writing the original memor
was his place to put TIE OMAHA BEE
in the consolidated company on a Ger
tain basis naming the number OF
thousand dollars that he should ask
for THE BEE property and circulation
also the price that he would be willing
to pay The Omaha Republican to GO
it into that consolidation and tn,
} stock basis upon which he proposed tt
organize the new COMPANY and tina
Mr.. Gould must put n $4,000 il
: money to the new corporation an,
take stock. Rosewater WAS to repre-
2 sent 80 much of the stock, Mr.. Goul,
r 30 much If the stock, and q thir'
party was to hold the balance q
s power between the two parties and h
( named that party; the party tina
Q would be satisfactory to him il
8 would be to Gould. Oh! there wa
r another condition that he Wa
to be the managing editor OF the com
pany, and that Mr.. Brooks was to u
Q associate editor. I told him l voul
take the scheme under sdvisemen
and communicate with Mr.. &c ould.
did so. Gould told nae to go ahead
d r sswater told me to 60 ahead, and
did go ahead and bought come of tn
stock. When 1 struck P. w. Hitct
@ cock l got a rebuff. He would nc
sell. I tried Chauncey Wiltse and h
would not sell. I tried Brooks. ii
h did not want to part with his stoc
under the proposition. In which h
was to play second fiddle to Rose
d water. But I went to buying tn
stock and got quite a block Of It.
was summoned to 60 to New Work
MI. Goul6. I went on, and went Owe
II to Washington with him, and viii
10 We were In Washington We takted tn
matter ovae. Mr.. Rosewater arrive
j. there aud had frequent interview
a with Mr.. Gould, and persuaded hi
It all the while to put up his &2O,G0O.
IF told him that l very much doubte
@ my ability to- get absolute contral of
B. ma ,rity OF the stock of TT
a Republican; that there were 4eav
Ia stockholders there who pr,
1T posed to fight the propositio
,r In the courts, and that l doubted IL
a thing would go easy. He then sal
IS that he would otgan'z,a c1mpary
10 his own, and get Nj. Gould into III.
and let the Republican go, and
n went ahead on that basis. He sske
Mc, Gould to take $40 600 in gGl
1t BEE company. There were certei
Is stipulatIons, the details of which I d
ts not now recall, but L know the fec
Q for he told me so himself; and G )uI
10 told me 80, and he asked me to 9,
ii Gosld aud prevail On him to brir
about that arrapg sment; that he mu
l. have his answer If possible while
1t Washington; that he had invested
he presses and additional machinery su
Ie enlargement of his building, and