New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-24
LOBBY HARD AT WORK.
.,uruCs WHICH WOULD DESTROY YELL
IOWSTONE PARK.
.r THE MONTANA MINERAL RAILWAY CON
vvIs TRYING To DO WITH THE HOUSE.
tpy TELEGRAPH TO THE TMBUNE.l

AN
tpv TELEGRAPH TO TIE TKIBUNEl
,,,stou Feb 23.-Thc Montana Mineral Railway
mv and the lobby il employs in Washington
C~ hr M means given up hopes OF securing legs
.'o, rom Congress which will enable them 10
,,et = road through part Of the Yellowstone PARK
a,on has been fully detailed in these dispatches
It II may do no harm, however, 10 ara" az
- once more to the effect which such legisi'uOh
tenuo" .od would have upon the future Of the Park
u ros almost necessary in view OF the means IT.
~ - employed by the lobby to get the scheme
through Congress Ahcsc '"oi' "'0 WV
o,otinr 10 the case:
g. many years those who seek to preserve inc
,,.,er of the Park have been called upon 10 prevent
ar.o,s desirous Of entcrng tie Park with railway Io
ring the necessary legislation in Congress Sc"c'o
- scheme has been presented and 1t has taken inc
ost active vigilance the part OF those h'ereS'ou
- N.,,nc the Park untouched for the purposes Tor
which il was set apart 10 defeat the nldVHh"'l"' "
,ho schemere But in addition TO this the irehuS Vi
A.. p,rl, have cndcavoied, for the last eight years
A. on,arge il, limits with the object Of protecting INC
sourccs Of the water supply without when Ne I",N
ou,d furnish but few attractions to the tourist ou'uo
.ho cevser basins No one objects to tahlh' III wv
wv +erritorv contemplated in the bill which mas
nassed the Senate twice alrcduS Io
al least. who is not Interested III inc eoipol" '.
.,o known As the Montana Mineral hdu"'S
fnrnnA
holders own what said to be vaiuaolo iil"os on
ido Tho Park limits and naturally enough INC uoSnO
4, 20 connect those mines with the Northern r",'"
Railroad or some other line providing
outlet 1t is asserted, though proof Is "d"'"7'
a road cannot be constructed to THESE H'V' 49,,
will not traverse the Park. Be tins aS IL iiaS' w
fact remains that the lobby of the Montana mineral
Railway Company, at the head OF wmch j. "a ~
gresham Money. of Mississippi has steadily EeIuScu
overtures which look to segregation from tie raiN
of that portion of it which will be traverSed by tho
proposed railroad MI
Tho bin providing for an enlargement OF the IdiN
to the west w taking in certain foreStcOVered ho""
tain ranges, passed the Senate at the laSC se'Si'
When it reached the House it was referred 10 "Ic
Public Lands Committee of that body Ana there i
where the lobby rot in its fine work" knowing
well that a concession for a railroad through inc fF
for that is really what the Montana Mineral kS"a!
Company wants and the story OF the mines WHICH
await development is a mere subterfuge-could no'
be obtained from Congress by open means, the lobby
secured all amendment 70 the senate bill which gave
them the desired permission. This amended bill Is
pending in the House now, and may be called lap at
any moment in tle c, element and confusion which
prevail during the closing days OF a session 1t can
be passed only in its present shape through Ignorance
OF the facts the case
The position assumed by the railroad company and
its lobby is simply this They say: Pass this bill
with the concession We desire attached 10 H. on We
will permit no legislation whatever in behalf Of the
Park its water supply may be impaired or runed-we
little for that what want is the privilege Of
constructing railroad and we don't care to have a
concession If coupled with IL Is provision placing
our scheme outside the limits of the Park"
1t remains to be whether the impudcn, iDsoent
and mpertinent demands of this lobby Will have any
effect upon the House. railroad once permitted in
side the Park would mean, has been justly said. the
beginning Of the end" The Park would be DESTROYED
The latest of the lobby has been the printing
in The Record" Of to-day, Of memorial Of the Legs
latve Assembly of Montana praying for COngressOna
action authorizing the construction of the Montana
Mineral Railway through portion OF the Yellowstone
Park to Cooke CITY" The'memOral was presented by
Mr. Carter, of Montana. 1t does not pray simply for
specifies that the House pass the amended senate bin
and none other This shows clearly the object of this
modest corporation, which apparently the Montana
legisdti Assembly and prcsumeS TO control the
action Of the National House of Representatives.