The record-union., 1896-05-24
SANTA MONICA HARBOR.
Senator Fye'S Famous Speech on Mr..
Huntington.
He Handles the Demagogues Without
Gloves-Something About New
port News.

Ger date of May 22d, which says The
hot controversy between White and
Frye over the Santa Monica harbor ap-
preparation, which occurred in the SEN
ate more than week ago, is still being
freely discussed in all it's various
phases. The speech of Frye which called
forth Whites bitter arraignment of the
Maine man has not yet been published
in the West. 1t is here given for the
first time:
THE harbor that we are talking about
here is not little harbor for a town or
a city. 1t is a harbor for the commerce
Of the world, a harbor for the ships of
the world, and Los Angeles has no more
interest in it, and no more to say about
| il than the people up in the city of Port
| land, Me.
We have heard talk about corruption
and bribery, but in this body there is
more bribery from the good feeling
which exists between Senators than
| from any and every ether cause known
to man. l think that We yield our pref
erences and our wishes to Senators
| when no amount Of money and no
amount of honor would induce Us to do
| it under any circumstances; and / ad-
nit that l am one of the yielding kind
| for while it has been charged in Los
| Angeles that I am owned by the South
ern Pacific Railroad l would rather have
the kindly regard Of these Senators
am addressing, and their confidence
than the support of all the railroads
and railroad magnates on the face of
the earth, and all the money that all
/ Inf fInr, NhA inc, -oi6 4
ii 1 succeeded in getting Santa Monica
adopted as a .narbor my pockets would
he lined with gold, happy way they
| have of talking about public men, sir,
| in your State Mr. White. Pleasant and
agreeable compliments they pay US, a
| high estimate they make of us. l thank
a kind providence that ever since my
mother put the first pocket into my
| pantaloonS it has been just as well lined
with gold from that day to this as my
modest necessities ever required"
Mr.. Hill call the Senator's attention
to the fact that the Republican State
Convention recently held in California
declared in favor of silver.
Mr.. Frye think it very likely they
did, and against railroads.
II do not understand that the Senators
from California are entitled to any more
recognition in the question of whether a
| harbOr shall be established at Santa
Monica or shall be constructed at San
Pedro than the Senators from the State
| of Minnesota. Neither did the Com
mittee on Commerce consider that they
were any more entitled to 1t, although
we had one of their Sena tors on the COM
mittee as member. 1t is not harbor
for California. 1t is just as much har-
Dor for my ship which sails out from the
city of Bath as it is for the ship v. the
Senator from California which sails out
through the Golden Gate-just exactly.
It is just as much home for the safety
Of the ship which sails from the lakes,
II it can escape to the ocean, as it is
for the ship which comes from Aus
tralia.
There is another thing which / am
sorry has crept in to becloud this case,
because I think it Sravely unjust. The
Senator from California; am sorry his
speech has not been published in the
Record and have to take the report
Of his speech from the Morning Post
in concluding, says:
1T will be a donation of 100000 to
private corporation said Mr.. White
1t will be taking So, 100000 which the
United States engineers have recon-
mended be not expended, and expending
it on an individual. 1t will not be for a
public benefit, but for the benefit of an
enterprising person who is developing
a large commerce over one of the most
magnificent wharves in the world
The distinguished Senator from Ar
kansas (Mr. Berry, intimated that it
would be a terrible thing for the Senate
of the United States to yield to the
greed of one man. All, bob of these
utterances SAVIOR a little bit of the slo-
gan of the sandlots of the Golden Gate
where the name of Huntington is con-
jured to frighten babies with and used
by demagogues to make the knees OF
weakened politicians tremble. The
greed of one man. Yet the one man.
the Senator admits, is building up a
great commerce, which is coming over
the finest wharf in the whole world
If that man is building up a great COM
merce is he not entitled to have har-
Dor to which that commerce shall come
just as much as if II were built up by
twenty different men? Is Mr.. Hunt
ington to be excluded from all the BEN
efits of legislation?
why, pray tell me, if he succeeds in
establishing a great line of ships from
China and Japan, and they bring the
contributions of the Orient down tC
Santa Monica Bay, then take them or
the Southern Pacific Railroad and LAND
them at New Orleans as cheaply as to-
day they can be carried from San Fran
cisco to Ogden, and then they are put
on board this great line of steamers
twenty in number, from New Orleans
and carried to New York for one-fiftl
the cost from Ogden to New York by
) rail- is he to be punished for it? Is he
: entitled to the reprobation of the Sen
ate? Is he to be summoned up here as
a ghost to frighten Senators from vot-
ing as their consciences dictate? Mr.
| President, if that is the course to be
, pursued, we must reform this river anG
harbor bill; we must change it entirely
we must strike out quite number OF
, items we have in it.
Take the item for Newport News
There was the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, dead as a duck, an uttel
: wreck. This man, Mr.. Huntington
took it and brought it to life; and will
his courage and indomitable energy HI
has built one Of the finest roads in this
country from Cincinnati to Newpor
News; and to-day it is carrying more
corn than any other line on this earth
Oh, cut out the appropriation for New
= port News because Huntington built the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad! Tha
7 is the appeal.
/ Take another thing. We have beer
} helping great shipyards by giving then