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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
CENTRAL PACIFIC DEBT.
He Is CHARGED WITH HAVING
UNDERSTATED IT BY MANY
MILLIONS.
VAMPIRES AND PARASITES.
TERMS APPLIED TO THE CORPORA
TIoNs UNDER LEASE TO THE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

There was a remarkable unanimity of
opinion among the prominent men, all
thoroughly conversant with the subject,
who were interviewed yesterday on the re-
plies made by Mr.. Huntington to the ques-
tions propounded to him by THE CALL.
and this opinion WAS that the answers
were on a par with the methods of the cor
porations under discussion and their pro-
motors and manipulators. They were
alleged TO be evasive, unfair, permeated
with sophistry, falsehood and misrepresen-
tation.
1t was said that the Central Pacific was
making no real effort to come to an under
standing with Congress as to its debt to
the Government; that Mr.. Huntington
dared not in specific terms state what he
considered fair settlement of the Central
Paciic's debt; that he understated the
amount of that debt, and that he was en-
deavoring to collect a claim against the
Government for $1,S0O,OO0 which had
already been twice rejected by Congress as
being without just merit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
EXPERTS ON THE ANSWERS OF HUNTINGTON.

demands should be returned to the treas
ury when the bonds mature. No one but
Coils p. Huntington could have the bold
ness to say to the people of California that
he and his associates were compelled to
sell the stock of the Central Pacific to pay
for building the road. The road had been
been built for ten years and more than
twice paid for before they sold any stock
stock which never cost them one dollar,
because they wrung that from the Central
Pacific. in addition to the sec, 600, 900 which
they had wrung from the Government,
the first mortgage bondhoIders and the
people of California.
"Those poor 10000 stockholders who
have invested their $50,000,000 in those
shares are mostly foreigners. They made
the grave mistake of sending Sir Rivers
Wilson to the United States to represent
them, no doubt with the nope that he
would be able in some way to secure some
thing of value for the moneys which they
invested in those stocks. But instead of
dealing with Huntington as all Ameri-
cans, who know him, deal with him, Sir
Rivers Wilson allowed himself to be per-
suaded by Huntington that he had better
leave the whole matter to him, with the
result that the situation of those foreign
stockholders is every day becoming more
desperate.
Il put it to The CALL and all the people
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
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It Has Been Proven That His
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Every 100 Who Use Them.
The Most Careful Investigations by
the Press Result in a Glorious
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Medicine.
UP TO DATE
Ideas Score a Brilliant
Victory Over Old
Fogyism.

There is no question whatever about
Munyon's complete victory over the old
way of treating disease. Such testimony
has never been received in San Francisco
by all of the different medical preparations
in the world together as by the Munyon
Remedy Company during the past three
weeks. Hundreds have been cured who
do not report this fact to the papers or to
representatives of the company. 1t is
everyday talk in this city now to hear a
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two bottles of Munyon's remedies, and at a
cost not exceeding the price of one visit
from their physician. Few persons have
declared they have received no benefit,
and some of these, after visiting Munyon's
representative at the hotel, find that they
have not taken the proper cures, and feel
confident of recovery in the near future.
Professor Munyon invites physicians of
this city to send him the name AID ad-
dress of any patient whom they acknowl-
edge cannot be cured by their methods, on
receipt of which the professor will admin
lister such remedies as he thinks are re-
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to be published in the daily papers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

fair and Just settlement of that debt is all
that anybody wants. Payment would be
a fair and Just settlement according to my
view of the matter. What he will con-
slider fair and just does not appear. AS to
what Congress is expected to do he very
frankly confesses he does not know, and
generously presumes that it will do what is
fair and right.
"He suggested that fair and practical
way at arriving st a settlement between
the Central Pacific Company and the Gov
eminent would be to employ an honest
and able statistician to examine the COM
pany's books from the beginning and re-
port what the company under all the cir
cumstances can pay. after taking care of
the debts of the company which are prior
to the claim of the Government and pay
ing all current expenses and fixed charges.
81 have no doubt that the books of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company will
show the utter inability of the company to
pay anything on account of its indebted
ness to the Government. 1t would be
more instructive to examine the books of
Charles Crocker, the Contract and Finance
Company, the Western Development Com
pany, the Pacific improvement Company
and the Southern Pacific Company, all of
which have been in turn parasites of
the Central Pacific Railroad, absorbing
its surplus assets and earnings and yield
ing these assets and earnings to pay to the
partnership Huntington, Hopkins, Stan
ford and Croker, who were as copartners
permitted to and always until very re-
Gently did own or control ali of these NOM
inal corporations, including the Central
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who read THE CALL-and 1 hope all the
people in the United States read THE
CALL-ought not Congress to look after the
intere SITS of the people whom it repre-
sents rather than to look after the inter
est of Huntington and his stockholders?
And, if any are to lose, should the inter
ests of the people of the United States be
sacrificed upon the mere altar of senti-
mentality?
''In conclusion, Mr.. Huntington says
that the debt to the Government, with in
terest, now amounts to over $50 OOO, OOO
The truth is that the debt to the Govern
ment, when the last bonds with added
interest mature, is about $78,00O,00O
When Huntington says that the builders
of the road in misunderstanding him
self and associates-have large amounts
invested in the shares which have paid
him no dividends the readers of THE CALL
will smile; for they know that the build
es have never put a dollar into the
shares.
"The people of California know how
the roads were built and Huntington can't
fool them. They know that when Hunt
lngton commenced to build road very
soon he would mortgage the whole line
for about three times what it would cost to
build it. He would then make contracts
with the Contract and Finance Company,
the Western Development Company, to
build the roads and make the railroad
panies pay the construction compa-
MES about $780, 900 mile in bonds and all
the capital stock of the railroad company.
When he got the railroad in operation or
nartIV Strncta6 ha would
vince the financiers of Europe and of the
East that the road would be sure to pay
the interest on the bonds. He would
then sell the bonds at par or above par,
making a clean profit out of the sale of
bonds of from $4,000 to $4,000 mile, and
i'll addition to that profit would own the
whole capital stock, and that, too, without
having paid one dollar for it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

Railroad Commissioner Stanton thought
the whole essence of the situation was con-
tanned in the answer to the last question
in which Mr. Huntington says:
"The builders of the road in California
have large amounts of money invested in
the shares OF the different companies for
many years, on which, with the exception
OF the Central Pacific, they have received
no dividends; but they are willing to wait,
believing that the time will come when the
population of the State will so increase as
to admit Of q return upon the money"
/ Commenting on this, Commissio ner
Stanton said:
"We are given to understand from this
that they have had no return from the
money they invested. They claim that,
with the exception of the Central Pacific,
they have received no dividend. Now, in
order to get some idea of the real situation
and the sophistry of this statement it is
only necessary to read over a portion OF
the complaint which was filed early this
week against the Board of Railroad Com
missioners to prevent the reduced rates
from going into effect and from making
ny other reductions,
"In the case of the Northern Railroad
they state that they are paying that COM
pany under the lease made with it for
ninety-nine years by the Southern Pacific
Company, per cent annually upon the
capital stock of nearly $13,000,0O0 or more
than three-qua rters of million dollars, in
addition to all the costs of maintaining
and operating the road and the fixed
charges or interest on the bonded debt.
| The last-named item alone is a matter of
more than half million dollars annually,
being per cent on bonded Indebtedness
| of nearly $10,000,00O.
"Now, it is well-known fact that the
directors of the Northern Railroad are the
same directors who are interested in ard
control the Southern Pacific Company.
"a study of this clever arrangement will
make clear the peculiar, unfair and wrong
full methods of these men to enrich them
selves, not only by operating against the
Government but against the people of the
Pacific Coast. Just as they prevent the
| Southern Pacific Company from being a
paying Institution by absorbing its marrow
| through the Northern Railroad, Just so
| have they made the Central Pacific an ap-
| parently worthless wreck through the in
| strumentality OF the Contract and Finance
Company, the Western Development Com
pany, the Southern Pacific Company and
other corporations in which the original
incorporators of the Central Pacific were
the principal stockholders.
| "These inner corporations, to which con-
! tracts were let at exorbitant figures, or
which were USED to divert the natural
business of the Central Pacific, were the
vampires which drained the life-blood of
the Central Pacific. Thus to-day the Cen
trail Pacific is financial wreck, while it's
builders, strange as the paradox may be to
| the ordinary individual, are, every one of
them, multi-millionaires, or left estates
valued IN the tens OF millions"
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the Southern Pacific Company was in that
matter the agent of the Central Pacific.
A very potent factor in the determ1na-
ton of that question was statement
made before the Committee on Appropria-
tions of Congress by Judge Payson, the
accredited attorney of the Southern Pa
chic Company, in which he expressly ad-
mltted the substantial identity of these
two companies.
LAS long as the lease exists between the
Southern Pacific Company and the Central
Pacific Railroad it will be utterly impos-
sible for the Central Pacific to pay any,
thing OF its obligations to the Govern
ment, for it receives only rent arbitrarily
fixed by the directors of the companies, all
acting under the absolute control of Mr..
Huntington and his associates in the
making of the lease.
But the books of the Contract and
Finance Company, and perhaps of most
OF the other collateral companies, have
been placed beyond reach OF experts for
examination. 1t was for long time I'M
certain what had become of the books of
the Contract and Finance Company. They
had disappeared suddenly and nobody
seemed to know what had become
of them. Even Mr.. Stanford did
not know whether they had been
destroyed or were taken away from
California to some uncertain place to be
exported. 1t is now pretty well settled,
however, that they are burned. Mr.. Hunt
ington. in a conversation with me in
Washington. stated very frankly that
while he did not know of his own knowl-
edge what had become of the books, he be-
lleved that they had been burned; that he
himself had on more than one occasion
advised Mr.. Hopkins to burn them, as
they were no longer of any use and were
in the Way"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

Congressman Mcguire has made spe-
cial study of the Central Pacific Railroad s
indebtedness to the Government, and the
strongest impression left on his mind was
the clever eyasions of the railroad mag
nate.
Il have read Mr.. Huntington's state
ments as published in THE CALL of this
morning" he said, "and in the whole
course of the two-column interview con-
corning the purpose of the companies he
represents respecting Congressional action
he does not make single specific statement
as to what legislation will be asked or
urged. He says that the Pacific railroads
all propose or try to obtain from Congress
such legislation as will settle fairly and
justly the debt of the Central Pacific Rail-
road to the Government
"There can be no objection to that. A
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

between two men or women generally de-
velops the fact that one or both are troubled
oy Sickness of some kind. One man is all
right except his rheumatism, another has a
Slight touch - of dyspepsia, another has
bilious headaches, and another is too nerv-
Gus to sleep well. What's to be done about it?
The situation is serious. Little things
nave way of getting big. Big diseases are
cao Things. Sleeplessness brings irritable
nerves, loss of flesh, loss of appetite. Sleep
less people soon get their bodies into such
condition that disease germs find it easy
70 lodge there and propagate. People die
rom the aggravatlon of an aggregation of lit
ne things. The more promptly disease or
dlsoroer is met the more quickly it is cured.
. MOST all sickness starts in the stomach,
liver or lungs. Rheumatism, scrofula, &C.
zema, consumption, come about because
!nsuhclent impure or impoverished blood
is present. The diseased blood finds the
weakest spot in the body and local symp-
tom appears. If the irnpurity is supplanted
with good, rich, red, healthy corpusc1es,
the disease will have nothing to feed on.
II the proper cleansing medicine is sent to
the seat OF the trouble, it will force out the
germs and repair the damage done.
DR.. Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery is
cleansing, purifying medicine, a blood
enTlcher, a nerve strengthened. It is an
efhclent tonic, aids digestion, creates
healthy appetite and healthy flesh. It
does not make people fat" 1t makes
them strong. 1t makes useful hesh-solid
muscle. 1t will cure any sickness that
has its source in the digestive organs, or
through them In the blood.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
BURNED THE BOOKS.
Huntington'S Significant Comics
sion to Congressman
MaguIre.

ariU be perfectly 1UiUing TO hare the
Government employ any able and honest
stdtisticidn to examine The compdnVs
books from the beginning to the time of
such examination, and lOiateuer then re-
port that the company can pay l0ould
be perfectly witt5ng that the compdny
should undertake to pay. As to aChat the
Government 0lUeS The Southern Pacific
Conspaay-a corporation entirely distinct
from the Central PGcifc-I hare no doubt
the Government eoiU some time pay IL.
C.P. Huntington, in ''The Call"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
VAMPIRE CORPORATIONS.
Commissioner Stanton Gives q
Lucid Insight Into the
Situation


The builders Of the road in California ::
hare large amounts of money INFESTED in ::
: the shares Of the different companies for ::
many gears, on a0hich, qoith the creep ::
a: ton Of the Central Pacific, they haze ;:
received no diuidends. !:
C.P. Huntington, in "The Call" !:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

A new process of making gas from crude
petroleum. water and peat is being tried in
Boston with good results.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

BANK STOCK is the only paper scientifically
made for preserving the eyes. The Myself
Rollins Company, % Clay ST., print and bind it,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
STOMACH AND DYSPEPSIA CURE.

STOMACH AND DYSPEPSIA CURE.
Munyon's Stomach and Dyspepsia Cure
cures all forms of indigestion and stomach
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Price, 25 cents.
Munyon's Kidney Cure cures pains in
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puts up specifics for nearly every disease
mostly Tor 25 cents bottle.
All communications addressed to Mum
yon's representative at the Mansfield,
Post Street, San Francisco, CAL, will
| meet with prompt attention.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
BLACK GOODS
DEPARTMENT!
ANOTHER LARGE SHIPMENT!

We take pleasure in announcing the arrival of another
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
HUNTINGTON'S WAYS.
Judge Mckisick. in a Few Strong
Words, Criticizes the Rail-
road Magnate.

The debt to the Government, I belieUe, at {:
the present time amounts, Nth principal !:
and interest 10 little OUer $50, 0OO, 900.
&. =. Huntington, in 1.-The Call"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
RHEUMATISM CURED.

Munyon's Rheumatism Cure is guaran-
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
NOIE1!

We will also exhibit this week elegant collection of
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Mohar Crepons and Black Pure MoIair Bouces.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20

All communications addressed to Mum
yon's representative at the Mansfield,
Post Street, San Francisco, CAL, Will
meet with prompt attention.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-20
BUY NOW and Save MONEY.

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Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-04-20

Sihley and His Friends Have Established
Headquarters


Chicago, April 13.--The free silver
party has headquarters at Chicago to-
day. This morning General A. J. War
! ner, chairman Of the national commit
. tee, and Congressman Joe Sibley ar
rived and We're met by Charles Miller,
Sibley's business partner, Colonel Tur-
ner, leader OF the free silver party OF
Michigan, and General Wolcott This
afternoon they were Joined by Senator
Jones Of Nevada, and tonight they left
for the west. Today a conference was
held with some Chicago silver people
to canvass the result of the anticipated
democratic declaration on free silver in
Illinois, and set in motion the arrange
ments for a great free silver mass
meeting to offset the one being arranged
for by Chicago gold men.
silver views known with effect. On the
other hand, Governor Uphan and the
republican leaders in this state are TAX
ing equally strong grounds in opposi-
ton to the sO-called silver agitation,
with the result that the rank and file
Of both pareties are Gisinclined to take
much part in the silver discussion
Many of the 133 members comprising
the Wisconsin legisla ture have been in
tervieWed by a Times Herald reporter.
Of this number 80 are democrats and 45
repu blicans. taken at random from al
portions Of the state. The views of the
members may be summarized as fol-
lows: The 80 democrats stand as fol-
lows: For free coinage, Z; against, s;
for an international agreement, 8; non
committal, 6. The 45 republican sena-
tors and assemblymen who were inter-
viewed are thus divided: For free coin
age, 9; against free coinage, q; for an
international agreement, s; for coinage
Of American product, 2; non-commst-
tai, 81