The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-11
HIGH OFFICIALS IuPEACHED.
Extract from Testimony OF Joseph
Male on File In the Federal
Circuit Court at Austin.

why you we're compelled to pay more
than one and W hat YOU were paying
each. Give a statement of the acts
and conversations that brought about
this payment Of tribute to procure
cotton for your congresses and what
induced you to do it
A. A detailed answer to this inter.
rogatory necessarily carries with IL in
full or In part answers to interrogato
ries numbered, respectively, IA and
10, and can be more fully set forth
and understood by the reproduction Of
the following copy of letter addressed
by me to Mr. G. p. Huntington, who
was generally regarded as largely in.
terested in the Houston and Texas
Central railway, and in fact controll
ing its management.
copy J
Mr.. 4 p. Huntington, New York.
AUSTIN, Texas, june IL, 1S92.-
Deal Sir: Knowing that you are
largely interested in the Houston al d
Texas Central railroad, and without
desiring to trespass upon your time, 1
place in your possession certain facts
regarding the management Of that
great thoroughfare, which can not fail
to command your attention.
l know that 1t is prevalent idea
that gentlemen occupying high and
responsible positions like yourself are
not usually willing to accord a
patient audience to private citizen,
but | cannot believe that you will be
SO deaf to your own interests or those
OF your patrons as to refuse in this
case to give an impartial hearing. |
shall not tax your time nor patience
with lengthy details, but brief fly and
concisely as possible place before you
the methods by which your receiver,
Mr.. Charles Dillingham;, and your
general freight agent, Mr.. Daniel
Ripley, manage the great property
under their control.
For about twenty years | have been
largely engaged in the lumber trade,
with yards at, among other places,
Waco, Austin and Alexander, all sit.
uated ON the line Of the Houston and
Texas Central railway. In the sum
mer of 1888 | was urged by the then
management of the said railroad to
] build cotton compress at Waco, to
meet the competition of compress
established at that point on the line
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway, being repea eddy assured that
| should have the support and inhu-
ence Of the road so far as it could be
extended through the cotton it con.
trolled at that point. | built the
compress, and in the following year,
also at the urgent solicltstion of the
then management, [ built another
compress at Ennis, also on the line of
the Houston and Texas Central rail.
way,
At the common cement Of the cotton
season of 1886, the management
having undergone change, l was
approached by Mr.. Daniel Ripley,
general freight agent, with the de.
mand that l should pay him an indi.
vldual bonus OF Il! cents on each
bale of cotton given my presses by
the Houston and Texas Central rail-
way during the season for compress
ing. declined to accede to his de-
mand, when finally he offered TO in.
crease the price for compression from
10 cents per hundred pounds or SO
cents per bale to II cents per hun.
dred pounds, or 60 cents, per bale
Recognizing that it was in his power
to ruin my business and render my
property valueless, reluctantly con-
sented 20 pay his tribute, and as a
result paid him the sum of 81 ,474 81
it being l24 cents per bale on 59,799
bales OF cotton compressed at Waco
and Ennis for the Houston & Texas
Central railway company for season
of 1885,.
AT the commencement of the season
Of 1886 Z Mr.. Charles billing CHAM, re-
ceiver, in personal interview, de-
manded that | should pay him for his
own use a bonus of 10 cents per bale
on all cotton controlled by his road
and pressed by my two presses.
declined to 90 so, assuring him the
business would not stand such a levy
and expostulated with him; but know.
ing his power to crush me through his
position as receiver Of the road,
yielded to his demand for 10 cents
per bale. Doing SO, however, com
PEELED me to cease the tribute to