The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
Huntington's Lobbyists, However,
Think They Can Secure De-
feat in the House.
SOON TO RECEIVE ATTENTION.
Pending the Battle on the Repeal the
Senatorial Deadlock Remains
Unbroken.

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 13-For the
hrst time during the session thirty-eight
Senators were present to-day in the Joint
assembly. No pairs were announced in
the Senate and only one in the House.
The ballot resulted in no change from yes
terday. The ballot stood: Hunter GA,
Blackburn So, scattering 8. Necessary to
choice SO.
The duplicate of the Goebel bill to
repeal the Southern Pacific's char
ter, introduced in the House several DAYS
ago by Steiglltz of Louisville and referred
to the Committee on Corporations, has
brought the matter prominently be-
fore the House and members have
begun to read the masses of liter
ature sent by friends of the bill and
the Huntington people. 1t was the pur-
pose of friends of the measure to have the
bill discussed before the committee in
order TO facilitate the measure when it
passes the Senate. Chairman Freeman
said to The CALL correspondent tonight:
II have not yet called meeting of the
committee TO consider the BILL but will do
so whenever the parties for or against the
bill desire it. l am not thoroughly ac-
quainted with the bill, but the measure
shall have fair and impartial consideration
before my committee"
Friends of the bill in the House claim
the measure is meeting with much favor,
and will pass in that branch. Huntington
and his manager have evidently conceded
the fight in the Senate and have been
taken by complete surprise by the intro
| ductiop in the House. The bill will have
! to be first acted on in the Senate and then
come to the House. The Senate is ex-
pected to reach the bill before the week is
over.
The Capitol, the largest and semi
official daily paper of Frankfort, comes
out this morning in a strong editorial,
evidently drawn by the master hand of
Huntington, against the bill. Friends of
the bill have gained such headway that
the only hope of defeating it will be by
causing delay.
AT every session of the Kentucky Legis-
lature (as we'll as. of other States) the
friendly or hard feelings engendered on
the part of those interested in the various
measures proposed toward those who
favor or oppose them cuts its figure in the
course of everything done or sought to be
done.
This Legislature is no exception to that
rule, and it is very fortunate thing that
Senator Goebel and others who
are supporting HIM have no di-
rect or indirect interest in the
repeal of the Southern Pacific Company's
charter, have received no retainer for in
Producing and supporting the bill and no
promise of a fat fee contingent upon its
passage, but are actuated only by dis
interested motives-a desire to remove the
stigma and disgrace resting upon their
State Legislature by undoing the wrong
full and unjust act OF their pre-
decessors of the session of 1884,
which made it legal and possible for
close corporation of capitalistic cormo-
rants to fasten upon the good people of
large section of our country a system of
thieving monopoly. as they understood it,
saps the very blood of their industry and
their "trade, the calm health of nations,'
and growing more jnsolent and powerful
year by year through their ill-gotten gains,
far from being satisfied seeks by the most
nefarious methods, at which long practice
has made them adopts, to virtually perpet-
uate the monstrous wrong.
Were it otherwise the repeal bill would
certainly have strong opposition in some
quarters in retaliation for the action of its
supporters in the matter OF the "anti-pool-
room" bill introduced by Mr.. Grazioni,