The record-union., 1896-05-12

the only reason he could think OF was
that it was the remains of an old fight
in which that company had lost ten or
twelve million dollars.
Frye agreed with Vest that he was
ftired of the San Pedro and Santa
Monica question He spoke somewhat
contemptuously of the people OF Los
Angeles on the subject, and OF their
suggestion that he was acting IN the
interest of the Southern Pacific Com
pany. He declared that he would
rather have the kindly regard OF Sena-
tors and their confidence than all the
support of all the railroads and railroad
men on the face of the earth and all
the money they possessed.
THE San Francisco Examiner
Frye continued, said that if l sue
ceeded in getting Santa Monica received
as a harbor my pockets would be lined
with gold. What happy way they
have addressing White of California;
of talking of public men in your State.
what high estimates they make OF us.
L thank Providence that ever since my
mother put the first pocket into my
pantaloons it has been just as we'll
lined with gold from that day to this as
my modest necessities ever required.
Hill (Dem.) of New York suggested
Jocularly that the Republican Conven-
tion recently held in California had de-
| clared for silver
Very likely it did," said Frye, "and
against railroads.
Frye read an extract from Whites
speech speaking of the greed of one
man., meaning Mr.. Huntington, and
commented upon it as "a little bit of the
slogan of the sand lots and of the Col
den Gate wherever the name of Hunt
ington is conjured to frighten babes
and when ever it is used by demagogues
to make the knees of weakened poll
/ ticians tremble. (Laughter)
And yet" he continued, that one
mantle Senator admits-is building
UP great commerce coming to the
finest wharf in the whole world. But
If that man is building up that great
commerce is he not entitled to have
harbor into which that commerce will
come, just as much as if it were built
up by twenty different men? Is Mr.
Huntington to be excluded from all the
benefits of legislation if he succeeds in
establishing a great line of ships from
China and Japan and pouring the pro-
I
Bay, where it is taken and landed in
New Orleans as cheaply as it is to-day
carried from San Francisco to Ogden,
and where it is then taken on board his
great line of twenty steamers to New
York for one-fifth the cost of freight
from Ogden to New York by rail? Is
he to be punished for it? Is he enti-
tied to the reprobation of the Senate?
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to frighten Senators out of voting as
their consciences dictates?
IF that is the course to be pursued
we must reform this river and harbor
bill. We must change it entirely. We
must strike out quite a number of items
in it. Take the appropriation for New
port News. There was the Chesapeake
and Ohio dead as dead duck, an utter
wreck, when this man Huntington took
It, He brought it to life, and with his
courage and indomitable energy il.
built one of the finest roads in this
country from Cincinnati to Newport
News. And to-day it is carrying more
corn than any other road on this earth
cut out the appropriation for New
port News because Huntington built up
the heSapeake and Ohio Railroad
| That is the appeal. Take another thing
We have been helping great shipyards
| by giving them contracts for building
vessels. And / am glad we did. We
have been giving large contracts to the
Bethlehem Works and to Carnegie, and
have been giving them chance to es-
tablish their plants as a good thing to
| do. But there was a quiet man in the
United States who did not call upon the
United States for any help. Nobody in
/ this Senate knew what was going on at
Newport News. One day l received an
invitation to go and witness a ship
launch at Newport News. / had not
| known that there was a shipyard there
| I went there and saw a great iron ship
married to the ocean. 1t had been built
| in the finest shipyard in the world,
equipped with all conceivable modern
machinery at a cost of $4,000, 600 There
Mr.. Huntington employs thousands and
/ thousands of men who have been en-
abled 10 support and educate their
families and TO build themselves houses
! And for the next half century that yard
is going to support these men and their
children. And Huntington did it.
i 'Oh, cut out the appropriation for
Newport News. He ought not to have
/ IT, Huntington ought to be punished
/ for building a shipyard which is to-day
undertaking every shipyard in Amer
/ lea in building the great warships of the
country. Cut out Of the bill the appro-
/ priation for Newport News, with it's
great line of steamers, and the appro-
/ priatfons for New Orleans, with its
| twenty steamers to New York. Oh (bit-
/ terly), it is too paltry. 1t is too paltry
| to undertake to stop legislation with
: Il hot Ion r-a
| Huntington has done it, therefore no
/ help must be given to Huntington. He
employs $4,000 men and pays them
| their wages when due. I know of an
instance where a railroad was an utter
wreck, owing its laborers S500,0 600 Mr..
Huntington put his hand in his pocket,
gave S500000 to the railroad (wreck
as 1t was) to enable it to pay its work
men, and then he took that wrecked
road. and with his energy brought it up
/ to life and activity and value"
/ After Frye had been speaking for
over an hour with great force and en-
ergy, he began to show signs of fatigue.
and readily yielded to a suggestion of
Whites that he should finish his argu-
ment tomorrow
German Dem.) of Maryland gave no.
tice of an amendment which he in
tended to offer to the river and harbor
/ b:ll, limiting the expenditures for any
one year to $10.000,000
The bill then went over, and then the
calendar of private pension bills was
i taken up After about dozen were
passed. further progress was baked by
an item of Allen Pop) of Nebraska, to
have second pension case engrafted on
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