Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-27

not an early compromise was the thing, Tho
admission OF other roads was thing greatly
to be desired
MIR. Bunham thought that the proposed
ordinance represented the mature dclibera-
tions OF those opposed 20 IL, but what else he
thought no one could make out.
In BehaIrof the Road.
Then lIr. Thurston told why the Union
Pacific was getting the worst of the deal all
the way through, aud why the city ought to
jump at the chance to get the biggest thing
ever offered in the lifetime of living men.
And yet 1hc told the crowd when he
first took his feet, that he appeared as the
general solicitor of the Union Pacific and in
no other capacity IT the company ever
finds out how he tried to give them the rag
will be berth at $4,000 year for some
other ambitious lawyer. 1t was really
very much to Mr.. Thurstons discrcdit
to openly boast that he was
there as the representative of the
company, and in the very next breath to urge
the city council to snap up proposition that
the road had been induced to consent to,
when 1t didn't know what it was about. IL
was rank duplicity and treachery on the part
of the general solicitor. He said that the
proposed settlement embodied the concessions
of the company all the way through: that it
owned all the property in question beyond "a
reasonable doubt, and If anybody didn't be-
lieve it let him try to take it away. He in
sisted lO0u Inc company ndu never ldltCl W
comply with its contracts with the city,
but had even done TOrC than it had given
the city any right to expect.
AT this iuncturc all but those OF iron con-
stitutiOns went outside, and Mr. Thurston
then proceeded to tell how little the com
pany was to gain by the proposed settle
ment. 1t would get nothing but the waiver
of the city's right to the depot
grounds, as it could hold everything
else and that, too until there is skat-
ing in all parts of the next world,
but it wants the title quieted in it, in order
that other roads may be induced to join i'll
the erection of union depot, something that
they will not do as long as the title must re-
main in the Union Pacific, as is necessary
under existing conditions. He declared that
the proposed depot will cost S250,0OO more
than the one contemplated when the bonds
were voted, and gave the history of the con
trOverSY, us another chapter of the days
lesson in ancient history.
He solemnly declared that the company
proposed to relinquish to the city today
property worth more than all the money and
property ever given the company by the city,
and said that the city and not the road
was the stumbling block in the way of
the faithful performance of the con-
tracts. He insisted that the company had
only consented to the settlement just to help
out the city, and that the only ohter thing
that induced it to consent was that the con-
ditions had been the most fruitful cause of
annoying charges for twenty years, and 1t
wanted to get rid of the cause of this per-
ennial agitation, that was not only annoying
but expensive.
Some Moro History.
This served to put Mr.. Rosewater in a
reminiscent frame of mind, and he concluded
to add his mite to the general potpourri of
stale chronicles. He spoke of the
efforts of the conference committee,
of which he was chairman, to hold
meetings without his knowledge and
said that he viewed it with distrust. He
| spoke of the bond election some time ago,
| and said he supported the move, because he
| regarded it as an attempt to settle the mat
| ter forever. Then came the building of the
| viaduct, and the change in the Union Pacific
management before it was completed The
vaduct was n good one, but it ought to
have been built years before, as lives had
| been constantly endangered in reaching
! the depot. Nothing more had been done to
give the city the things to which it was
entitled. The building up of Dillonville was
| discussed, and the conspiracy of Dillon to
kill Omaha and build up rival city across
! the river was touched upon briefly. The
voting of 900 for the Union Pacific by
the city of Omaha and the county of Doug
| las, and the use of the money in building
the transfer depot across the river
were not forgotten. The speaker then told
of the iuggery of the officials of the road
that brought about the decision of the
supreme court locating the eastern ter
minus in Council Bluffs, and said that such
eminent lawyers as Roscoe Conkling and
William NJ Evarts had told him
that it was most outrageous pro
cedure, and that the position taken by
Omaha in the matter was right lnasmuch
as the city had one contract that had beer
violated, and another that had not beer
kept, he could not see why it should want tc
enter into another He was satisfied thai
no other city of this size in the country
would submit to the imposition practiced OF
Omaha for the past eighteen months or two
In IrfphT hn nj mr.
worse for the city council to be parties t,
this deal of giving away all the city's right!
for so little in return.
Mir. Her said that the city had already los
more by the delay than the Sl5O00O would
amount to, and he hoped there would be u
compromise and that the depot would g
ahead.
Looking for "a Dead Cinch.
Then Mr.. Nash took whirl at the vexa
.ious question. He said that Mr.. Thurstol
had unwittingly sounded the key
note of the Union Pacific policy
He knew what that road wanted
for he was associated will
it for fifteen years in position that enable,
him to know what he was talking about. FL
wanted the people to understand som
things that had long been known to railroa'
men, and one was that there is but one pos
siblc entrance for another road into Omaha
trance Thmston would have every
body believe that the Union Pacifi
wants all the Iowa roads to come int
Omaha, but IL was known TO railroad circle
that that road controlled the terminals AM
would not give them up, They did not wan
these roads going on west to enter the Cnio
Pacific territory There are number o
roads that ARE very desirous of coming her
but they know the situation an
will not come. Omaha stands toda
without railroad prohibition, for the road
cannot centralizo and bring in the vast bus
ness of the transmissoum country: TIL
Union Pacific wants to so back to the oil
days of the transfer Thurston said tina
the Union Pacific would take our trains
How9 BY compelling us to pay interest o
, every dollar that went into that bridge an
roadbed Wait few months Th
first of May will settle the n,
brasRa Central one way or the othel
If that builds its depot you will have tw
depots, for it viii compel the Union Pacif
, to build. That road wants u depot wOrs
than you do. The present state of affairs
, diverting their business, and the
p are more anxious than Omaha can possibl
! be about it. You are dealing
? this matter with perhaps the smartest raj
, road manager in the country, who is maxim
: these deals every day, while the councilme
have perhaps made but one, You will q
i, well to look before you leap, or you wi
awake to the realization that you have bee