The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-14
COLORADO ASKS FOR HELP.
Mayor Sutro's Ringing Address to
the Whole State.
DEMAND THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED.
Dare the Legislature Of California De.
nOunce the Bill as Colorado
Has Done?

NOW the people of California" said
Mayor Sutro last evening, "havs an oppor-
tunity of dealing that iniquitous funding
bill deadly blow If they will only rise in
tn cir might and demand that the Legisla-
ture In Sacramento shall pass resolutions
denouncing the Infamous bin just as the
Legislature OF Colorado has done. Ii Col
Grad o, which has only q fractional inter-
est 10 this bill as compared to California,
can protest so vigorously against this in
fanny, we ought to do as much. If the
funding bill passes. and this tax is saddled
upon the State for the next fifty years. the
value of real estate in our boundaries will
fall $780, 900, 900 In the next year; manu-
features of every description will feel the
effects, and disaster will come upon every
interest of the State as sure as there is q
heaven above US.
''The apathy of the people of California
is unaecountable and can only be ex-
planned by conce ding that a feeling OF
helplessness against the monopoly is so
general that they think that it is useless
to contend against it. The Legislature is
presumed to be in the railroad interest,
but they would pass condemnatory reso-
luton il the peoDe with one voice de-
manded it. No calamity that could visit
our State CO uld be compared to the re-
suits that would follow the adoption of
This bill"
Such were the vigorous comments of
Mayor Sutro, W hich we're provoked by a
message which had been received by him
yesterday from Denver, Colo. The mes
sage was as follows:
DENVER, Colo, Jan. IS, 1895.
Hon. Ad0tph SutrO, MAJOR Of san Fran
ciSco-Both branches of the Colorado Legs.
lature have adopted resolution instrncting
the Colorado United States Senator'S and Rep
resentatives in Congress to resist all Efforts to
reorganlZe the Pacific roads so as TO relnstate
or perpetuate their arrangements or extend
Government credit 10 them. and 10 urge at
once the appointment OF an impartial sole re-
ceiver to manage the Central and Union Pacific
roads in general interest, until it can be deter
mind what foreclosure or final adjust
ment SHOULD BE- made. II is reported here
that Senator Brice Will call the Senate Pacific
Railroads Committee together this week so as
10 take action friendly TO the roads before
other Western Legislatures can Instruct their
Senators. Would 1t not be well to urge lie
California Legislature TO act promptly in line
with action here? For text OF resolution see
W. C. EVANS.
To which the Mayor Immediately for
warded the following response:
". G.. Evans, DenueT, Col0:-Many thanks
for your efforts. Doubtful II we can make our
effort through citizens to counteract the pas.
sage OF funding Dill. ADoLPH SUTRo.
Mayor Sutro then prepared the following
address to the people of the whole S ate,
accompanying 1t with the fervent wish
that 1t might arouse the people TO sense
Of the impending emergency and to
lead to some energetic action that would
compel the Legislatures to respect the
publc's will and pass such resolutions as
would convince Congress that California
as State was unaerably opposed to the
funding bill:
To the Citizens Of Cdliforntd-Bribery and
corruption are holding high carnival at WASH
ington. G. p. Huntington and powerful lobby
are working day and night TO force funding
bill through Congress and II ON all appearances
and reports he viii succeed. Fellow citizens,
it is high time we beat the alarm, for il that
funding bin passes we Will be slaves and help
less subjects to the octopus for fifty years TO
come. The programme now seems to be TO
pass the bill through the corporation Senate,
which will be accomplishing without much ef-
fort, and thus il goes 10 the House on the
Speakers table; meantime the House Commit
tee will agree TO the Senate bill precisely as ii
passed he Senate.
The Senate bill is placed on the Speakers
table together with other bills coming from that
body, and as the House bill necessarily goes to
the Speakers table before adjournment, the
Pacific railroad bill will thus be reached The
usual course would be 10 refer the bill to the
House Committee on Pacific Railroads. but the
chairman of that committee has the right,
when the bill is called on the Speakers table,
TO state that this same bill has alre ady been
faynrably passed upon by the House committee,
aud he also has right to ask that IL be put
upon its final passage then and there IL ma
lority of the House votes in favor OF this mo-
ton. the bill Is properly before the House and
may be put upon its final passage. The debate
thereon is limited, and if MIR. Huntington has
secured enough votes 1t will pass and go TO the
President, who will no doubt sign it,
This course has been decided upon because
the Speaker and the Committee on Rules have
probably refused TO give the Committee on Rail.
roads special day. II this bill becomes a law,
we OF san francisco and California will be the
dependents, the slaves, the servants of the
Southern Pacific OF Kentucky for fifty years to
come. A competing railroad will be out of the
question and Z. p. Huntington will be our mas
ter, our despot, our dictator.
FelOw-citZens, IL there Is grain of man.
hood left in the people OF this coast. they Will
rise III one solid body and enter their protest,
and send number OF reliable, higb-sl standing,
Independent and able men TO Washington to
work against this iniQuty; they Will raise the
sand dollars, in twenty-four hours, and dis
patch their men In twenty-four hours there
after.
Ring the alarm bells every day until Congress
adjourns. Let all men and women telegraph
and write TO all members OF both houses that \
the passage OF the funding bill Is the death
blow TO our prosperity.
There is a slight chance that this may avert
the calamity. but when members are bought
the result will be doubtful.
This is the great event in the life Of Hunting
ton; if he succeeds be Will be king; IL he is de-
feated and the Government does its duty he
and the Southern Pacific of Kentucky will be
bankrupt.
1t is my own private opinion that the funding
biz will pass except a forcbe and unanimous
effort Is Immediately made to snow up The
bribery, the corruption and viliany which are
brought to bear upon the members of Congress.
ADOLPH SUTRO.