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

paid "a high rs seventeen per cent
We did not ask of the government ad
ditional aid. We paid 49,, 500 foi
locomotives in war times. viii Ii
could have been bought previously
for $4,000. We crossed the Sierra Ne.
Yada against the predictions and adj
vice OF all our friends, because we
stood by the work honestly and man
| fully and cared for every interest we
had in charge. We Endorsed the pa
per of the Central Pacific when IL had
40 credit, and we personally had fin
ished this work IN the time re-
CURED by law. | mention
these things to show that
we have worked hard and honestly,
asking no favor, but accomplishing
what depended on ourselves. In the
present case we were stopped from
carrying out our purposes through no
fault OF misfortune of our
own. We built l52 miles Of
road from the Central Pacific
line northward ut tremendous cost
and effort. We were on our way
through to the boundary, and pro-
posed to go right up there, but when
the other link failed of completion, we
knew there was no local interest To
compensate us, and road to the state
line rs a terminus ii lded no return.
We stopped and waited, and when
our sister company was about to go To
work, we got every man wecould raise,
put him on our line for 300 miles,
and we built from Reading To Mount
Shasta the most difficult work we ever
did, embracing heavy cuts, fills and
tunnels. We did the best we could,
and there is no ground, equitable,
moral or financial, upon which this
land can be taken away from us. Some
political reasons may exist; If so, they
are reasons | have no interest IN or ILL
iluence over.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The house committee on commerce
discussed for two hours the proposed
relaliatory measures against prohibit
ing hog products by France and Ger
many. The subcommittee, consisting
of Clardy, Long and Davis, appointed
to consider the subject, reported favor
ably, with several am ndments, the
] lint resolution of Townshend, which
authorizes the president in his dis
erection TO prohibit the importation
of goods reported by experts to be in
furious, when foreign countries pro-
hibited the importation of American
goods sGid to be deleterious to health.
Reagan, Dunn and Stewart opposed |
action in the absence ofany commune
ication from the secretary Of state.
Dunn insisted that sufficient informa-
ton was not at hand property
to consider the measure and
seemed TO doubt the propriety
Of action. He indicated that facts
might exist which would authorize uc-
ton to be taken by foreign govern
ments, and In connection with this
idea favored government inspection OF
meats.
Reagan believed facts existed which
Justify the passage of such
but said the correspondence
between the United States, France and
Germany should be examined In order
hat Intelligent action be taken.
Long, Clardy, Davis of Illinois, Tur-
ler OF Kentucky and Peters favored
Clardy said all the In
necessary had been
given by the secretary Of state In a
former report, showing the existence
nf discrimination. The consul al
Main and Minister
Sergeant ut Berlin had not only called
The attention Of the government to
.he fact that the action OF
Germany was without warrant
and mere subierfuye or pretext 10
eyade treaty stipulalions, but also