Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the House
and Senate.
HENLEY GAINS PROMINENCE
A Motion by Stanford on the Land
Laws Rejected Markham
at Work.
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SENATE
WASHINGTON, June 24.--After the
routine morning business in the Senate
the bill repeating the presumption and
timber culture laws was laid before the
Senate. Senator Stanford stated that the
provisions Of the bill, as amended by the
Senate. would absolutely prevent the
reclamation Of desert lands. There were
enormous quantities OF such lands, he
said, not worth a penny an acre. and
they could only be reclaimed by the ex-
penditure Of large sums Of money. In
order to make reclamation possible he
moved to restore certain words already
stricken out by the Senate.
Plumb feared that the amendment
might lead to fraud and opposed it.
Stanford's motion was rejected and
the bill then passed. yeas "a, nays 20.
On motion OF Dolph a committee of con-
ference was ordered on the disagreeing
votes of the House and Senate on the
bill.
HOUSE.
Long, OF Massachusetts, rising to a
correction of the record, said that in a
speech made some weeks ago the gem
tleman from California Henley had
charged that Charles Francis Adams OF
the Union Pac fc Railroad, had com
mitted gross violations of the law. He
bad asked the gentleman to specify what
these violations were, and the only spe-
cific reply made by the gentleman was
that Mr.. Adams had himself stated that
the matter of free passes given by the
Union Pacific Railroad cost the govern
ment some $1,000 day. He, Mr.. Long,
had denied the correctness OF this state
ment. He found that his denial was
altogether too broad, as it APP
peared from his published
speech that Mr.. Henley had said that it
cost the company $1,000. Mr.. Adams.
in his testimony before the Senate Com
mittee, had stated that free passes cost
the company $1,000 day, but this was
not violation Of the law, and the
statement was accompanied by the modi- |
flying remark that many passes were
issued to railroad employees. In extend
ing his remarks in the record. Mr.. Hen
ley had made what purported to be a
quotation from Mr.. Adams himself, con-
sisting OF some fifty EIGHT lines aud con
taiuing very severe reflections on the
Union Pacific aud on Mr.. Ames and the
gentlemen connected with him in
the construction OF the road. 1t
seemed to be quotation from a
bJok or pamphlet written by Mr..
Adams in 1869. He found on examina-
ton that the first twenty-four lines Of
that alleged quotation we're words that
were taken from that book or pamphlet,
bat the remaining ,hirty-four lines were
words that Mr.. Adams had never ut
tered and never written, and which were
incorrectly and improperly attributed to
him by the gentleman from California.
About eighteen months ago an enormous
pamphlet had been published containing
a severe criticism on Adams. In this
pamphlet appeared the first twenty four
lines Of the quotation. Then followed,
in different type, certain disconnected
passages which had now been put in
Mr.. Adams mouth. He knew the gen
tleman from California was not guilty of
intentionally putting in Mr.. Adams
mouth words he never uttered, and he
knew the gentleman would have no OBJ
lection to having the correction made in
the record.
Henley said that the gentleman was
right 10 his statement that he Henley
had attributed certain language to Mr..
Adams which he had nsver uttered or
written. When he prepared his speech
he remembered that good many years
ago Mr.. Adams had written a scathing
arraignment of the Union Pacific, its
Directors, the credit Mobilier aud Oakes
Ames. Before the Senate Committee
Adams had become not only an apollo
gist but an eulogist of the Union Pacific
which he had previously denounced. He
Henley had thought it fair matter Of
criticism for him to criticise Adams past
and present utterances. Not having
Adams pamphlet at hand he had been
obliged to rely on what purported to be
correct copy Of it in the newspapers
and had used it, not deeming that there
was anything in it that could not be
properly attributed to Adams. He would
make the correction but wanted TO call
attention to the precise injury which
Mr.. Adams fancied he had sustained at
his hands in the part Of the quotation
VIII ch was conceded to be correct. The
sentiment and denunciation was in ex.
act accordance and entire harmony with
that part which had been improperly
attributed to Mr.. Adams. He could
not conceive that that gentleman had
suffered injuries at his hands. There
were other things in his speech to which
Adams could address himself and could
complain about if they were not true.
The logical result Of the complaint Mr..
Adams had made was that he had no de-
NAL to make Of the charges made.
MIR. Long then took up the charges in
the published speech and denied them
in detail. The first charge was that
Charles Francis Adams and his co-direc-
tors had criminally violated the law in
issuing 81, 900, 900 Of 5 per cent. collat.
eral trust bonds in 1888; that the tran
sactions had taken place before Adams
even became director. The second
charge was that Adams and the directors
had violated the law in paying dividends
In 1888 and 1884 in the teeth
of the existence of floating
debt of $4,000, 900. 1t was not
violation Of the law to pay dividend
when there was floating debt. The
third charge was that Adams and the
directors had violated the law in placing
the endorsement of the Union Pacific on
about $4,000, 600 Of the bonds of the
Oregon Short Line Company. That
was perfectly legitimate, and had oc-
CARED three years before Adams oon-
nection with the company. The fourth
charge was that Adams and the directors
had deliberately defrauded sssets be-
longing to the Government lien by an
ticipating the payment of the third
mortgage bonds. The answer was that
there were no third mortgage bonds at
all.
Henley--"Everything allege there
can be proven. The matter was then
dropped.
Without division the Committee of
the Whole Incorporated an amendment
in the Sundry Civil Bill, requesting the
Secretary Of the Treasury to issue GER
tificates of the denomi nation Of 81, 81,
and $5 on all surplus silver dollars now
in the treasury in payment of appropria-
tions made in bills and other expendi-
lures and obligations of the government.