Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-19

that state on and after November 90
last. The law is of considerable in
terest to Texas cattlemen.
BREwsTER's DEFENSE.
Acknowledgement Brewster said to Il
Star reporter this morning that If there
IS or has been any wrong in the de.
partment of justice, he Is entirely ig-
norant of it and desires the fullest in
vestigation. / know, he said, the re-
suit will be most complete water
haul. When took the Office 1 in
tended to do my duty, and
| feel i ha e succeeded.
Surely, to unearth and reclify
Irregularities in offices of United States
marshals cannot be classed II breach OF
duty. If Springer does not summons
me before the committee | will make
complaint. | intend to be a witness
in my own defense. The compensa-
ton OF the special attorney was fixed
by my predecessor, and had / refused
to pay him the amount promised he
would have dropped the case and the
charge gone through the land that the
attorney-genera was in league with
the star-rOuters. Ifanything is wrong
IN this department, in heavens name
let it come out.
THE RETALIATION BILL.
The house committee on commerce
is by no means unanimous concern
ing immediate retaliatory measures
against France and Germany. Town
sends bill was defeated in the COM
mittee to-day and the whole matter
was postponed until Tuesday.
BY Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
Washington, January Is AT q meet
ing of the house committee on public
lands, G.. p. Huntington appeared in
behalf Of the California ~ Oregon COM
pany. The first intimation the COM
miitee had of his presence was when
introduced by Chairman Cobb. He
came, he said, as IA representative of
the corporation which always perform
ed its contracts in the time required,
and had never asked additional aid or
leniency. For this reason he thought
congress ought not 10 interfere in this
one instance. A general outline OF
the work on the California d Oregon
road was given. He said work was
suspended because the road could only
be built 10 the Oregon state line, where
it was to connect with the Oregon IL
California. Work on the latter, how
ever has been suspended, making the
building OF the road he represented in
expedient.
Before the public land commission
he should NJ, / endeavor to touch upon
the legal question, but he had some
thing almost personal to say about his |
associates and himself. Said he: ave
have always built rs the law required,
and this is the first consi teration we
have asked i'm the way of extension OF |
time. We think we are entitled to !
more from the government than I
any other class of people, |
for there has been no onservator
Of the public pence md prosperity in
the largest sense of the word than the
railroads. We ourselves Were the first
people who commenced the Central
Pacific. When that bill passed, ii
was considered great thing To do,
and we did IL understanding the |
fact that the people said II would |
break us When we commenced |
building, rails Were thirty eight dol
lars ton. They Went 10 Sl25 before
we got through buying but we askep |
no more from the government ON that
account. Before the war, six, seven,
eight or ten dollars was about the
minimum rate of ship tonnage
around Cape Horn. We paid
S34 during the war instead of two and
"a half per cent. insurance around the
cape, aud ut the time the act passed we