Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-19
IS IT < FRAUD?
4 COMPARIsCN E BETWEEN THE RAIL
 ROAD BILLS.
Joe Alexander Asserts That Somebody Has Imposed an Unsafe and Dan eerous Bill on the People
 Through Congress.
Phenix Republican.

J.L.B. Alexander Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. was somewhat hot under the collar yesterday. He had just received a copy of the North and South Railroad bill vetoed by the President, and had compared it with the bill which had been agreed upoD and which is on file in the office of the Board ofSuparvisors.
 Why" said h, this IS a d-d fraud an imposition. 1 don't blame the Presi- dent for vet0ing 1t
 "Why?n was the query.
 Because" came the reply, the bill which l have here. and which was passed by Congress and vetoed by the President, is not the bill which the people of Mari copa county ratified and authorized.
 Compare it with this,' he continued taking a document from e pigeon-hole, ''and see how radically 1t differs from the original. This original that I hold is the official copy of tlia bill, filed, as you see by the endorsement with the Clerk of the Board cf Gcpst7zaor5 August 3, 1889 Anything that c0nHIcts with this Is a fraud.
 Here is the fit discrepancy: The original specifics that any person, cor p0ration or associai on of persons duly in corporatad un6cr the laws of the Terri tory of Arizona ehal be entitled to the privileges of thl5. act The bill passed limits the benefits of the measure to Joseph Reynolds, as trustee, his assign or incorporated grantee
 The original provides that the road shall be built of frst-class material and in a first class manner. The other puts no restriction whatever upon Mr. Key holds. He could put down strap-iron rails in any sort of way, should he so de sire
 The third count is that in the original was incorporated q clause providing that none of said bonds shall be issued before and until contract shall first have been made and entered into by and between the Board of Supervisors Of said Maricopa county and the person, corporation or as sociation undertaking the construction of said road wherein a reasonable and equitable adjustment shall be made fix ing the maximum rate to be charged for freight over said road per hundred pounds per mile, as well as the rate per mile for passenger fare between the initial and terminal points of said road The other has no frieght and fare provision what ever, leaving the people at the mercy of the road.
 Again, you see that the provision Of the original that the road shall connect with the vest end of the Maricopa and Phenix Railroad, within the city of Pine nix IS omitted.
 ''Section of the authorized measure stipulates that the road shall run from the city of Phenix in northwe5terly di- rection to the boundary line of Maricopa County, in the vicinity of Nulture, on the most direct and practicable route The vetoed bill gives entire latitude as to the route or distance t0 be travelled. The road might legally have been as tortuous as 8 corkscrew.
 Another section n which, it was pro- vided that interest on the bonds should be payable at the office of the Treasurer oi Maricopa County, is here changed so as to read, or at the office of any trust com pany in the city of New York, that said Joseph Reynolds, etc, shall select
 A most important clause in the au- | thorized bill was that the company who shall construct such railroad shall com nence work On< s:id road Ultnln siz months after the approval by Congress oi l this Act Also that said railroad shall l be completed and ready to receive anc 1 transport passengers and freight within ] GlShlEGu LlOultlS dllVl HOih SiLC1I Iict ' | been commenced The Act passed ex | tends the time for completion to January | 1893. And, by the way, l notice that the new bill introduced further extends the l time to 1895.
 Section 10 of the home bill Is entirely left out of the one passed. It provided That if no person or corporation shall within ninety days after the approval o this act by Congress, hare contracted with the Board of Supervisors of Mari copa County for the construction of saiC railroad upon the route aforesaid, 1t shal then be lawful and 1t is hereby made tho duty of the said Board of Supervisors tC make and enter into a contract with an. such person, corporation or association that will undertake the construction anC completion of such Q road as is hereiI provided for, and sbuild the same upor any practical, direct route that will con meet the Maricopa and Phenix Railroad at the City of Phenix, with the Atlantis and Pacific Railroad at some point with in the County of Yavapai, Territory o
 Arizona
 Why was all this left cut Of the bill? asked MT Alexander. By accident
 Not much"
 Mir Alexander instituted other com
 parisons unfavorable to the vetoed bil
 and that pending, and was vigorous i
 the assertion that in both there was
 wide departure from what the people haC
 agreed to and voted upon
 He further said that he would send
 copy of the original bill to Congress, an would insist, and 80 would the peopl when they once understood matters, tha the salient features and essential safe guards of the original bill should be in corporated in the pending bill
 Alexander is much excited over th matter As he is a leading Democrat politician, his opposition is not to | despised
 From Owl Heads.