The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-04-10
FLORIDA LAND GRANTS,
MIR. CALI. ASSAILS THE RAIL.
WAY AND NAVIGATION co.
The Subscribers to the Stock Alleged
10 Have Never Paid In q Dollar in
Cash.-The United States Court
Pictured as Having Aided
the Cnmnnny In pernp.


Pictured as Having Aided
the Company In Perpe.
trating \ Fraud on
the People.
WASHINGTON, April 7.--In the senate
to-day, after tho routine morning bust
mess, which was very slight, Mr.. Call,
according to notice, proceeded to address
the senate on his resolution instructing
tue COMMITTEE ON Public Lands to report
II bill to forfeit all railroad land grants
not earned within the time specified in
the granting or the acts extending the
time.
The general subject Of land grants,
MIR. Call said, was one OF great import.
ance. Over l5O, 900 acres Of public
lands had been granted to railroad com.
panies to aiu in building their roads. In
some respects Mr.. Call would not object
to such grants. A great public beet
had been accomplished, though it might
have been accomplished with perhaps
greater advantage to the people. Some
portion Of the receipts from the property
might have been reserved to the govern.
ment to aid education or to relieve the
people from the burdens Of taxation.
FLORIDA LAND GRANTS.
II was not, however, as to tho general
subject that Mr.. Call particularly wished
to address the senate, but on the subject
OF land grants in Florida. Mr.. Cali then
gave a history Of those lands, and the
building Of railroads in Florida, especial.
| " in connection with the corporation
known rs the Florida Railroad Company.
OF the $l,0OO,O00. nominal capital Of
that corporation, Mr.. Call said not one
dollar hal been paid in cash. except
the amount paid by the state of Florida,
which was 100000. The stockholders
had gone through form Of making for
nal payment of per cent. but had i'm
mediately taken back the money. The
granting act required that the land
should revert to the United States il the
road was not built in ten years.
NOT BUILT AS AGREED.
The road was not built then and never
had been built by the company,
but was built by means of
donations of other public lands
of the United States. The company
however, had sold the right to every
acre of the land grant, which they new
er earned the right to, some 100000
acres of the hest lands in Florida. This
purpose had been aided by the United
States court. Courts should not be made
tools of railroad corporations, and con.
grcss should not permit laws to remain
in such condition IA to allow Of the in.
terpretation referred to which enabled a
corporation to perpetrate fraud on the
people. Mr.. Call was friend of asso
ciated effort. whether Of capital or labor
but corporations should he restrained by
law from accomplishing fraud. MIR.
Call characterized the operations of the
Florida Railroad Company and the Uni.
ted States court, in aid of those opera
tons. rs the most extraordinary trans
actions ever heard of in free country.
The resolution on Mr.. Calls request wa,
referred to the Committee on Publ,
Lands.
Alfred Krupp owns probably the larg
est business in the world dependent OF
one individual The works within the
town of Essen occupy more than 00t
acres, half of which are under cover
According to census taken in Septem
Der. 1881, the number of hands cmplo, G,
by Mr.. Krupp was 1905, the members
Of their families 1916, making 6j,3Sl
persons supported by his works. Mr.
krupp owns 81 mines in Germany. Ii,
owns four sea steamers, and there ar,
connected with his Essen works ~ mile,
of railway. employing IS locomotive.
and $3.50 cars, 60 horses with 1911 wagons
and 40 miles Of telegraph wires. with 3
stations and IS Morse apparatus. TIN
establishment possesses q grand chemi
cal labratory, a Photographic aud litho
graphic atelier, "a printing office will
three steam and six hand presses. aud ;
bookbinding room. The establishment
even runs hotel in Essen.
, II anybody has gained anything by
lthe strike except Mr.. Powderly. VIII,
has gained much public respect and es
, TEEN by his acts to settle the difficulty
we do not know who the gamer is
Leaving the general master workme'
out of the game, all the players seem t
have been losers.-Phila. Inquirer
| 4 bill is now before the Rhode Islam,
legislature to prevent the granting of di
vorce so easily in that State. The peopl
, are indignant at the selection OF New
port as a resort by persons from variou
sections of the Union who desire 4