The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-27
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Newsy Notes From the Seat
Of the S0lOnS.
OPPOSES OUR ADMISSION,
naturalization Law-LeIter to the
PubItc-StanfOrd's Views-Quar.
antino Stations Etc.
Cuttings from the Capital.
OPPOSES DUB ADMISSION.

OPPOSES OUR ADMISSION.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-Rev. R. W.
Montgomery, representing the Home
Missionary Society of the Congrega
rional Church, addressed the Senate
committee on Territories this morning,
in opposition TO the admission of Utah,
and in favor of legislation to suppress
the evils OF the Mermons. This ia yored
Utah Commission bill, or if that
could not be passed, the Paddock bi l,
which vests the appointment of school
officers in the hands of the government.
NATURALIZATION LAW.
A bill to amend the naturalization
law so as to require would-be citizens to
make oath That they are not polyg-
amists. Anarchists or Communists, was
introduced in the House to day, by
Representative Stewart, of Georgia.
COMBINATIONS.
Combinations made were Frederick
". Butterield, of New York, consul
at Client; s. NJ. Stockslager, Com
missioner of General Land Office;
Thomas J. Anderson, as Commissioner
of General Land Office; J. H. Dennis,
melter and refaer of the mint at Car
son, Nevada.
QUARANTINE STATIONS.
The bill reported in the Senate today,
to perfect the quarantine service, pro-
vides for the following additional
quarantine stations; At San Diego,
California, S55 500; San Francisco, $l03,-
600; Port Townsend. Washington Ter
ritory, $55 600.
LETTER TO THE PUBLIC.
Representative Lawler, OF Illinois,
to-day presented and had referred to
the committee on commerce, a letter
to the public from the Brotherhood of
Engineers in relation to the strike on
the Chicago, Burlington d Quincy Rail-
road.
sTANFORD's VIEWS.
Senator Stanford to-day submitted an
address to the Senate special committee
having in charge the reports of the
Pacific Railway commission. He said
he desired to emphasize single state
lnent which would sufficiently answer
all vituperation that has been cast upon
the builders of the road. He wished
the committee to be entirely Invested
of prejudice which false stories about
the construction of the Central Pacific
left in the minds OF all who had heard
them. The statement which he wished
the committee to understand thor
oughlv was that the Central Pacific
Railway Company had fulfilled ev ry
obligation t. the government and the
people imposed upon it by the act of
Congress creating it. In not single in
stance, said he, has it been derelict.
Up to this hour it has been mindful of
every duty it owed both to the public
and to the go yernment. He then de-
tailed what the obligations were which
that act of Congress imposed upon the
The FIRST one was that the road
should be built and that it should
be completed by July 1st, 1876. But by
putting forth extraordinary effort, by
hssitating at no expense, by giving the
highest wages paid in the whole
country, by working on mountains in
the dead of winter, through snow forty
to push the road across the Nevada
desert, work was finished in 1859 seven
years before the time set by Congress.
That is how the Central Pacific full
filled the first obliga ion imposed upon
it by Con sress; but the company
doubled the cost of the road by this
exertiou, he full burden of which it
had to bear, while the government
saved by reduced cost of transportation |
of military stores and mails up to 1876 |
when the act of Congress contemplated |
that the road should be finished, more |
than the company received in gold for |
the sale of bonds received from the |
government.
The second obligation imposed by the |
act of Congress was that the Central
Pacific should pay per cent. OF the
net earnings to the United States from
the completion of the road and there |
after. This obligation has been per
formed fully and conscientiously from
the day the last spike was driven.
The third obligation imposed by
Congress was that the gov
ernment should have the use Of |
the road for postal, military and other
purposes. This has been granted in |
the fullest sense of the term. The com
pany performed generously and imme-
diately every req uirement Of the gov /
eminent. Every officer appointed to |
INQUIRE whether each letter of law had |
been observed has reported that the |
company is in default in nothing.
The fourth obligation imposed by |
Congress was contained in the Thur |
man act, and when the original contract |
was changed by the passage OF an act |
which the Central Pacific believed VIC |
lated every principle of the laws of COR
tract. 1t being advised that alteration |
of the original contract by the legisla-
five department was beyond its author |
ify. and that the act was invalid, sub |
Yritted the matters to the conrts, and |
when the courts sustained the validity
of the act, the Central Pacific complied
with it, and is still complying with it,
although 30 the great detriment OF the
corporation and the government;
1-;.-.Ssr 90 En- the effect of the Thur