The San Francisco call., 1896-05-13

his own testimony before Congressional
committee and certain letters which 1t Is
| alleged he wrote to an assistant on the
board of directors of q company with
which he was connected. have no feel-
| ing of personal animosity or jealousy or
envy toward him. I admire him for his
enterprise, for his pluck, for his energy. /
admire him for what he has accomplished
| in his life.
II knew him many years ago in Cali
fornia, when he was an honored and re-
spected merchant in that State. He left
us to come East many years ago, and l do
not know much of him except through
general reports since that time. But 1 re-
pei the charge that the people of California
seek Office by disclaiming against him or
his assistance and by advocating that
which he desires or opposes. The people
of California. in city and country and
State, gave most literally toward building
| the first transcontinental railroad. They
were in sympathy with the promoters, be-
cause the latter were with the people at
that time, and if to-day our people cen7
sure them it is because they believe that
they have not been true to their trust, but
have forgotten the common interests and
common bond which unite their interests
| with the interests of California.
IF they are censured it is because they
use their great power sometimes to thwart
the wishes and desires of the people; but
that the name of Mr.. Huntington is used
to influence acts of public men in Califor-
MIA is untrue. l repeat it is a vile slander
against the good name and fame of the
people of California.
"Only last week great State Conven-
ton met in California. There were in that
convention representatives. from every
town and county in the State. They as
sembled at the capital. and among the star
resolutions they passed was one denounc-
ing what is known as the railroad funding
bill. But to show that they had no preiu-
dice against individual members of that
company except only as to their action in
corporate sense, they nominated for Pres
idential elector the vice-president of that
railroad company, and as sure as the sun
rises and sets on election-day in November
next he will be elected a Presidential
elector of the United States"
White CD of California rose to follow
his colleague.
Frye said the bill must be voted on to-
day if the Senate expected to have any
river and harbor bill this session.
Aldrich (R.) of Illinois-Why not vote
now?
'Not yet," White curtly remarked.
Vest said nobody had attacked the peo-
pie of California. He had simply re-
marked that Mr. Huntington seemed to
be the issue and the great political factor
in that State. That was so much the case
that one gentleman who appeared before
| 10 IN ot,Nit too on 10 (ay, I'd
of the Superior Court had decided that
rather than make any compro-
mise with Huntington or any con-
cession to the Huntington influence
he would expiate himself and cease to be
a citizen, and any man who would assert
that Huntington was not burning issue
in that State had hardihood which he
| (Vest) did not envy and could not appre-
ciate.
In that connection Frye read at extract
from a leading California newspaper,
abusing the members of the Committee
on Commerce who favored what it called
the Santa Monica "steal," and declaring
that their names had the suggestive SOUND
OF a burglar-alarm.
THAT is certainly" said Vest, 'sa Wit
riolic utterance. The only surprise I ex-
in it. 1t is the first time have escaped
when a charge of burglary or any other
crime has been made
"They had not heard" said Frye, "that
you had made speech declaring that Mr.
Huntington was entitled to the rights of
civilized man. If they had heard it your
name would have been in the list
Vest soon drifted away in the San Pedro
1 Mt ,pta IA.
cussion as to the Eads jetty system at the
having for its foundation a newspaper in
terview (unfavorable to that system) with
Major Quinn OF the engin eering sorps.
White repudiated the insinuations of
Frye that there was anything of the "sand-
lots agitation on his white 81 side of the
controversy. The people of California, he
said, were just as slaw-abiding and as fully
competent to take care of their affairs as
were the constituents of the Senator from
Maine. He denied they were animated by
any sentiments that were not honorable
and manly. He tWhite) did not regard
the soil on which Mr.. Huntington stood as
sacred, but he had uttered no unbecoming
word against him.
White spoke in playful ridicule of Frye's
| pretenslons 10 decloe, after survey OF TWO
mornings, which was the better location for
the deep-sea harbor of California. The
fact was he said, that Santa Monica was
an absolutely unprotected roadbed, with
hardly anything of the bay about it.
In the course of Whites speech, he
referred to the eccent1icities of the late
Republican convention of California,
which had resolutions condemning the
Pacific Railroad funding bill, and had
then chosen as one of the delegates at large
vice-president of the Southern Pacific,
and as delegate the representative from
the State, who, as member of the Pacific
Railroad committee, had voted for the
funding bill.
The debate had gone on since Friday
last to the exclusion of almost every other
subject, and when it closed after four
hours discussion to-day an amendment
was offered by the chairman of the Com
| mittee on Comm erce-Frye of Maina on