The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
RAPHAEL'S
incorporated,
F.RISCO'S MOST
POPULAR HOUSE.

CORPORATION no privilege not possessed by
the old com pany, and held it to a strict
ful6llment of all its obligations.
An amendment offered by Moody (R.)
of Massachusetts was agreed to. limiting
the issue of stock to the amount of the
unpaid mortgage debt at the time of the
sale, and providing that additional stock
may be issued with the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior for cash paid in
and limited to $100, 100000.
A letter was read from Joseph H. Call
special United States Attorney, in ht1ga-
ton against 9 Pacific railroad compa-
MES, urging the passage of the bill. 1t
sufficiently guarded the interests of the
Government, and the prompt reorganiza-
ton of the company was demanded in
justice to the people along the line of the
road.
McRae I'd. J of Arkansas proposed a sub
stitute for the Senate bill, going into
minute detail, to enforce the liabilities and
obligations OF the Atlantic and Pacific
company and requiring the sale of all
lands within its grants whenever ''rea-
sonable price" is offered.
Pending consideration of the bill the
legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priatlon bill for the year ending June 80
1898, was reported and placed on the cal
endar.
McRae, supporting his substitute for
the penang bill and in answer to ques-
tions by members as to the necessity of
all the provisions he had set forth, said
that if the House wanted to protect the
creditors of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road, its workingman and others, it would
put it in the bond, FOR" he said, 1.-The
history of the corporation for forty years
shows that 1t has violated every pledge it
ever undertook to keep"
McRae's substitute was rejected-ayes
20, noes 163.
An amendment TO the committee bill
was agreed to requiring the new com pany
to become incorporated in the several
States through which its line runs.
Cooke r. of Illinois moved an amend
ment requiring the purchasers as prece-
dent 10 organize within six months of the
passage of the bill and before it shall take
effect to file with the Secretary of the In
terror REIMBURSEMENT of all claim to
that part of the land grant adjoining the
incompleted portion of the road.
Powers said that suit to enforce the
forfeiture of the unearned land grant had
been instituted and was to-day being
argued in the Supreme Court of the
United States. He did not think the COM
pany should be blackmailed before per-
mission to incorporate was granted. The
amendment was agreed to-78 to 43-and
the bill then passed.
Loud (R) of California moved that the
House go into committee of the whole
upon his bill 10 exclude from the mails as
second-class matter sample copies of news
papers, books, periodicals, etc.
Quigg (R.) of New York moved to sd-
iourn. but the House refused-102 to 1874
10 adjourn.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the mail classification bill.
Loud opened the DEBATE in favor of the
bill by describing it as the most important
measure that would come before the
House. As early as 1887 the officials of
the Postoffice Department saw the abuses
likely TO occur under the law of 1885,
which gave these publications the right OF
admission to the mails, and the report of
the Postmaster-General of that year and
for every succeeding year had recon-
mended to Congress the reform contained
in the bill. The transmission of this class
of matter. Loud said cost the Government
at least $20,000,000. and PostmasIer-Gen-
eral Wanamaker had estimated the cost to
be not less than 0,000, COO. The passage
of the bill, he said, would be opposed on
sentimental and educational grounds, but
he wanted to ask the House would the
members now be willing, as an original
proposition, to vote for the next ten years
$240, 600 600 for educational purposes and
those purposes wholly outside of the con-
troll of Congress?
The transportation of these articles
through the mails the past ten wears, he
said, has cost $240, 0o0, 900. The cost to the
Government of carry ing this class of mat
ter was not less than II cents a pound