The herald., 1896-01-29

day some very unpleasant things about
Mayor Adolph Sutro of San Francisco. A
few days ago the Courier-Journal printed
u portion OF the appeal of Mayor Sutro, as
spokesman for the committee OF fifty, ask
ing the legislature to repeal the Southern
Pacific charter. After reading the Courier
journal Senator Goebel promptly intro
duced such bill. Mr.. Huntington read
the Courier journal and has sent in reply
the following card, which was published
this morning:
"NEw YORK, Jan. 25.-I find in your
issue of the 22d an article in reference to
the Southern Pacific company's charter,
and also some extracts from Adolph Su-
tro's address. There is little truth in it.
Where 1t says that G. P. Huntington and
his associates procured the charter for the
express purpose of bringing 1t to California
and the other states where they had inter-
ests, that 30 far is correct. We wanted to
get charter in some state where the laws
were stable and the people were not likely
to be changed by the action of such dema-
gogues and charlatans as Adolph Sutro,
who Is figuring in this matter. We have a
great many small railroads, and we
thought we could economize very much by
exchanging the shares of this road into a
great parent organization like the Southern
Pacific company. We did this, and en-
changed the shares for the shares of these
small constituent companies, which was
equal 10 tne economic WORKING under a
This fellow Sutro wanted to have this
company extend the Marke street railway
system out to what Is known as Seal rock,
or the Cliff house, in San Francisco, some
two and half or three miles from the end
OF the Market street road, at First avenue,
and carry passengers from the front of the
city, on the bay of San Francisco, out to
the shores OF the ocean into network
which he had set for catching the money of
the people, including bars, gambling
rooms and all sorts of show places, a dis
tance OF eight miles, over the hills, for
cents, hoping that for every passenger
we brought there he would get many times
the amount OF cents at less cost to
him than it would cost to transport the
passengers.
l SAID to him there was company rum
ming from First avenue out to his place and
running at loss of from $500 to 800 a
month; that we could not afford to extend
the line then, but would do so as soon as
we could get fair returns for the money we
would need to invest in building it. He
said then, showing much temper, that if we
dld not build the road at once he would
hight us in Washington and everywhere
else, which he has been doing in his usual
nasty way.
This Adolph Sutro is the fellow who hung
about Washington many years ago selling
Nevada With the money that he got in
this way he bought up large amounts of
land III San Francisco, said to be more than
one-tentn the acreage of the city limits, and
this land has liow become very valuable,
making him. they say, the richest man in
San francisco, whilst the folks who bought
the shares got nothing out of them.
Take him altogether he is, think, one
OF the worst men in the world.
Ihe men who assisted me in getting the
charter and allowed heir names to be used
in that connection were honorable men,
ana their fellow citizens very we'll know
that such men as Henry d. McHenry. Gem
eral John Echoi and their associates would
not do anything dishonofable. They knew
wnat tue purpose was, and the charter has
never been used for any other purpose.
GoEBEL WANTS DOCUMENTS
SAN FRANCsC), Jan. 2S.-Senator Will
liam Goebel OF Covington, KY, who as
chairman OF the judiciary committee of the
senate of the Kentucky legislature, intro
duced a bill a few days ago to repeal the
charter of the Southern Pacific company,
has telegraphed to Mayor Sutro asking
him to Immediately send to him important
documents bearing upon the history and
actions of the Southern Pacific company
in California and the other states and ter
ritories ON the coast in which it operates.
Mayor outfO began tne egItatlOn IN this
city which resulted in the introduction of
Senator Goebei's bill in the Kentucky leg
islature and he will at once forward such
documents as bear on the subject at issue.
GA. h, RATES.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-Cominander-in- Chief
Walker said tonight after he had been in
formed that the Western Passenger asso-
citation would not grant the desired thirty
day extension on the G. A. r. encampment
tickets:
"WelI, that simply lets st. Paul out of it.
That is all there is TO that. The entire
matter will now be reopened and another
city selected for the encampment."
FALL INTO LINE
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-At meeting OF
bondholders of consolidated first mort
gage bonds of the Kansas Pacific railroad
today, at which $6,5OO.OOO bonds were
represented, 1t was voted unanimously
to accept the terms offered by the Union
Pacific reorganization committee. The
action taken binds all bonds deposited
with the reorganization committee,
amounting to S1O,40O,OOO out of a total
outstanding of $ll 100000, to the Union
Pacific reorganization plan.
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