The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30
THE KING OF THE LOBBY.
Adolph Sutro's Warning to the
Members of Congress at
Washington.
A FORECLOSURE ASKED FOR.
The Mayor Says Huntington Was a
Trustee of the Government and
Should Be Sued.
A FORECLOSURE ASKED FOR


Sutro yesterday in talking about the
funding bill, which the railroad company
will try to engineer through Congress al
! this session. ''The Government of the
United States is divided into three
branches-legislative, executive and judi
cial. In this matter of the railroad in
debtedness the legislative branch has moth
ing to do; it belongs to the judicial. and il
is the duty of the executive to move in the
matter The railroad owes money to the
Government, which it says it cannot pay.
| That being the case it becomes a matter
for the judiciary to pass upon, and it is
the duty of the President to instruct the
Attorney General to commence proceed
! ings in foreclosure. That is all there is to
| it. Congress has nothing to do with re-
| funding the debt. If man borrows
money on a piece of property and is un-
able to meet his obligation when it comes
| due, the holder of the mortgage COM
| mences an action to foreclose.
"Our representative at Washington will
urge, among other things that will be
done to defeat this measure of the octopus,
that this is matter entirely outside the
province of Congress.
''The railroad is in desperate straits, the
knife is at its throat" and the Mayor
illustrated his remark by his own fingers
and neck. '.It will do all it can to force
this through if it can be done, but we will
do what we can to prevent it. Some of
our committee are very energetic, but they
are all watched by the octopus, which is
doing what it can to hinder them III their
work.
"There is another matter" continued
the Mayor, "and that is that the members
of the railroad ring were the trustees of
the Government for the execution of GER
tain trust Instead of carrying out that
trust they robbed the Government and are
now asking for immunity for the crime
they committed. The Government should
commence an action against each indl-
viduai and make him disgorge that which
belongs to the people. There has been an
action against Mrs. Stanford, but she is a
woman and she has the university in
which the people are deeply interested,
but why don't they commence suit
against Huntington, who is rolling in
wealth, who has millions? He is the man
to go after.
at is astonishing how Indifferent the
people of the State are to matters of the
most vital Importance to them. Here is a
corporation that is trying to squeeze
$50, 600, 600 from them, yet they remain
passive. If the octopus can secure that it
will in the future secure anything it wants
and the people will not make an effort to
prevent it,"
The following is copy Of telegram
sent by Mayor Sutro to Washington last
Friday Two thousand copies have been
| printed. A copy will be delivered to each
| S enator and Representative in the SEN
| ate and House and copy will be left at
the residence of each. Copies will also be
| sent to the principal newspapers in the
| East:
| Huntington, the king of the lobby, is hold
| ing court again at Washington. Surrounded
! by an army of retainers, funkeys and hire
lings, and fortified by huge sack, he conf
dently believes that this time he will carry the
| day.
Twice defeated at former sessions, but
nothing daunted, he is at it again, and with
brazen assurance bade his funkeys lie in wait
| to capture, if possible, the new members OF
| Congress as fast as they arrived in Washington.
| The American people are now loudly declar-
| ing that our honor must be sustained by up
holding the Monroe doctrine. American honor
is involved thousandfold more in the ques-
| ton whether the American Congress will de-
clare that there is one law for the rich corpora
ton and another for the poor man.
| Eighty millions are practically about to be
given to these corruptionists; eighty millions
to be saddled on the impoverished, enslaved
and cowed people of the Pacific Coast, thereby
to be ground into the dust for half g century to
| come.
No legislation is required. Let the law take
| its natural course. As the mortgage falls due,
default should be had, foreclosure take place
and the roads sold to the highest bidder.
Members of Congress, take warning. During
the holidays many friends of the people are
away, while nearly all the friends of the cor
| ruptionists remain steadily at their posts.
| A march may be stolen on the House, and
| Huntington's myrmidons, at an unguarded
| moment may be victorious.
| Eternal vigilance is needed at this hour.
ADOLPH SUTRo,
Chairman Committee of Fifty.