The San Francisco call., 1896-02-15

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ton County (R.); J. c. Gillespie, farmer.
Carlisle (D0 J. S. Phelps, farmer and
banker. Lexington CD; G. M. White,
travelling salesman, Elizabethtown, Har-
din County CD.
AT least two of these will be in favor of
acting in concert with the party having
the Senate bill in charge and will fight
any attempt to use Stiglitz's bill as a
club to kill the other.
Goe bel does not have great deal to say
about his plans in regard to the bill, but
expresses entire confidence that 1t will
pass both houses, though he recognizes
the fact that the main fight is to be in the
/ House.
If he is advised as to the plans the Hunt
| lngton party have in view he is averse to
saying anything about it. but from what
Is known OF the man they are not going
to spring many surprises upon him. They
will find his line as formidable when in
the House as it is in the Senate, and some
thing more than the usual parliamentary
tactics will be required to beat the bill, if
| it is beaten.
The editorial in the Capital is still caus-
ing curiosity as to who was the author of
/ it, and when Frankfort curiosity gets to
\ WOTk Tile SeCItJ Is bOOl OUT, even OOWn 10
! pieces of manuscript to prove the allega-
ton. The author identity will not long
be secret.
The Capital is a weekly during the best
part of the year. and daily when the
Legislature is in session. Nearly ever
since the war it has enjoyed the fat con-
tract for the public printing, and so makes
up daily from the type set for the jour
nal at small expense. Mr.. E. Polk John
son, Democrat, is the editor. He was
formerly city editor of the Courer-J Jour
nal. That he did not write 1.-THE South
ern Pacific article can be seen at a glance
by any one who knows his style. Nor is
the style that of General Duke. 1t is not
bit like him. 1t rather looks as if it had
been written by Colonel Thomas M. Bull
lit of Louisville, whose name is intro
duced in the article in the following con-
nection:
/ To carry out such project and consolidate
the various railroad companies and their
/ roads which it must necessarily include, and
! which, of course, were chartered by different
States it was important, indeed essential to it's
/ success, that there should be one oompreheri-
siye organization by means of which ali the
4 subordinate corporations might be united into
one well compacted system. This was as nee
essary indeed TO the construction as to the
ultimate operation of the line. Mr.. Hunting
ten therefore obtained from the Legislature of
Kentucky charter for the Southern Pacific
Company. This charter granted, etc.
This charter was obtained for Mr.. Hunting
ton by the efforts and representations Of GEN
eral John Eckols and Messrs. Henry D. Nc
Henry and Thomas w. Bullitt. These gentle
men were principally interested because Mr..
Huntington, in pursuance of his general plan,
a..
Chesapeake and Ohio road into Kentucky and
the completion of the c. O. and S. W, enter.
prtses which have been of vast benefit to Ken
Istucky. These roads were associated into the
;. general system under the Newport News and
Mississippi Valley Company, charter similar
!, in purpose to that OF the Southern Pacific Com
lspany.
Now, the foregoing is Tom BulIitt over
again. 1t is his style from beginning to
end, and he certainly enjoyed full facili-
ties for knowing Mr.. Huntington's plans
when he got the charter, for he has been
his confidential lawyer at Louisville from
the very first. Rathey strange that Hunt
ington himself in his letter to the Courier
should have overlooked colonel Bullitt's
valuable services in securing the charter
He mentions Echols and McHenry, but
leaves out the Colonel, who now, inno-
Gently. OF course, gives IL away.
A bill was presented to the House on
last bill day which is very interesting IN
connection with the question of the power
of the State of Kentucky to repeal the
charter of the Southern Pacific Company.
This bill was presented by Representa-
tive Lyons of Newport, KY. and provides
for repeating the charter of the Twelve
mile Turnpike Company. This turnpike
is not quite as long as the Southern Pa
citic system, but like it the company own
ing it has monopoly. and has ground
and oppressed the people till they have
called on the Legislature for help The
majority of the stock of the road is owned
by ex-senator Thomas S. Jones, who is as
rich in proportion to the length of his
road as Huntington is to the Southern
Pacific's unbroken line of iron from New
port News to San Francisco, and is always
ready to contend for his rights. The
Twelve mile Turnpike runs from Newport.
which is in the extreme northwestern cor
ner of the county, to Alexandria, near the
center.
1t is the only road leading to that
quarter from Newport. The picnic
grounds and all three of the Newport
cemeteries are situated on it, and nearly
all the market gardens. Seven-eighths of
all the vehicles entering the city pass
through its tall gates, and the company
has reaped rich returns from their small
investment, and consequently is loath to
give it up. but Colonel Jones is too good a
lawyer to dispute the power of the State to
take away what she gave. The charter of
his road antedates that of the Southern
Pacific Company many years, and prob
ably has ten times as many vested rights
in proportion to its length as any railroad
in the country.
NO. BREAK IN THE BALLOT
Kentucky Legislators Are Yet In the
Deadlock.
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