St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
DULUTH AND WINNIPEG.
Mr.. Warner Answers Mr.. Stone---
Language Too Plain for Misun-

Outstanding.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 4, 1SS9.-Mr.
Editor: The communication from Mr..
Stone, as attorney of the Duluth & Iron
Range Railway company, published in
last Mondays issue of the Pioneer
Press, constitutes substantial reitera-
ton of the remarks of that gentleman
before the house committee on public
lands. | had conference with Mr..
Stone before those remarks were made !;
and, with view to remove all grounds
of apprehension on the part of the
Duluth & Iron Range Railway COM
pany, drafted, and on behalf of the
Duluth q Winnipeg Railway company,
proposed adding to the waiver bill the
following proviso:
provided that nothing in this act
shall operate in any way or to any eX-
tent to impair or affect any subsisting
rights of the Duluth & Iron Range Rail-
road company under the grant made
thereto on March 9. 1875, or under any
act amendatory thereof or supple
mentary thereto"
This is the amendment alluded to by
MIR. Stone in his communication. He
says it does not mean anything. [ say
that it does mean something, and that
its language is too plain to admit of any
misunderstanding as to its purport. If
Mr.. Stone, or his employers, desire or
insist upon broader proviso, then it
necessarily follows that the Duluth &
Iron Range Railway company desires
something the effect Of which will be to
create and establish rights in favor of
that company in excess of those now
enjoyed by them. If that company has
need for and desires any rights which
it does not now possess, let them intro
duce bill comforting upon them such
rights, and if it does not inter-
fere with any subsisting rights of
the Duluth 81 Winnipeg Rail-
way company there will be no
opposition mgde thereto on part of
of that company. The naked fact that
the Duluth d Iron Range Railway COM
pany desire something broader than the
amendment above set forth undeniably
establishes that that company is seek
ing to acquire something new in it's own
behalf; it therefore becomes the duty
of Mr.. Stone to point out exactly what
the Duluth 81 Iron Range Railway COM
pany are seeking so to acquire, to the
end that the members of the legislature
may act Understandings.
Mr.. Stone speaks of there being a
cloud upon the land grant of the Duluth
Il Iron Range Railway company What
does he refer to? Let him explain Just
what that cloud is. and let him also
fully and fairly state what the facts
were which raised that cloud, if any
there be, to the end that the public NAV
see whether the Duluth & Winnipeg
Railway company are in any way OF to
any extent responsible for the existence
of the intimated cloud.
There has been nothing disingenu-
Gus on the part of the Duluth g. Win
nipeg Railway company people.
On the contrary, they are openly,
frankly and in straightforward man
ner urging proposition to which no
legitimate objection on the merits can
be made by or on account of anybody.
The history of the matter involved was
fully and accurately set forth in my
communication on behalf of the Duluth
Il Winnipeg Railway company, publ
lished in your last Sunday issue. The
facts there stated are public, notorious
and uudeniable. The law of those
facts is therein set forth as we believe
it to be, and if we are in error on that
point the courts of the country are open
for investigation and correction of that
error. Yours respectfully,
W. p. WARNER. =