The Anaconda standard., 1896-05-13
I'm 4HE SENATE.
Frye stilI Working the Interest of @.
A.. Huntington

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FRYE stm Working Ia the Interest of O.
n. Huntington
washington, May 12.-Aldrich asked
| immediate reconsideration in the SEN
| ate for the resolution offered by him di-
1 recting a financial committee under the
| provision of the senate resolution of
March 3. 1894, to inquire whether Amer
ican laborers and institutions are suf-
ferinR from or threatened with injur-
ious competition through the importa-
tion of Oriental products; IL so, to in
vestigate the causes which made such
competition possible Allen objected.
The resolution went over.
Frye resumed his speech in support
of the proposed amendment to the river
and harbor bill for a deep water har-
Dor at Santa Monica.
The senator reviewed in detail the re-
ports of the army boards. Reference
being made to the feasibility of locat-
ing a harbor at Santa Monica for the
amount mentioned in the amendment,
Frye took up evidence given by Hunt
ington. This was the man." said the
senator, referred to by White as an
individual and by Berry as a man of
greed He is not bulling the stock
markets, nor bearing them," said Frye
scornfully, but is engaged in great en-
terprises, and in all of them he is sue
cessful. So, If he be an fndividuaP
and be greedy the reasons that in
duced him to change from San Pedro
to Santa Monica. are worthy of the con-
sideration of the senate"
The senator read at length from the
evidence of Huntington, also from the
reports of Engineers Hood and Corthell
When incidental reference was made to
the fact that the people of Los An
geles did not want the harbor at Santa
Monica, Frye said he did not care what
the people of Los Angeles wanted. They
did not know what they wanted. Frye
laid stress on the report of Captain
Taylor. showing the unequal ad-
vantages of Santa Monica. The Cali
fornia senator (White) had, like
skillful lawyer. Incorporated
Captain Taylor's report in his speech,
in order that it might be buried in the
bowels of that speech" The senator
read a letter from General Miles stat
ing that, as a result of his observa-
tion, while in command of the division
of the Pacific, he had no hesitation in
saying that Santa Monica had many
advantages to make IL a safe harbor
and good anchorage.
Frye said 1t was useless to think a
harbor could not be built at Santo Mo-
MICA. Did any one suppose Huntington
was not going to have harbor at
Santa Monica?
Vest interposed the suggestion that If
Huntington desired to construct har-
Dor, let him do so. Three millions ex-
pended by Huntington would be no
charge on the United States treasury.
Perkins denied the suggestion that
this was a contest between two rail-
roads. He read from Frye's speech
that the cry of Huntington "savored of
the slogan of the sand lots" and that
this name was "conjured as the boyle
man of California" That cry is a libel
upon the fair name of the people of
California, exclaimed Perkins. The
senator spoke also of Huntington's
former associate, Senator Stanford and
his public sbeneficence, and of Crocker,
who were distributing thousands in
charity. He refuted as a vile slander
the assertion that the people of Cali
fornia juggled with these names to in
fluence politics. The people of Califor-
MIA believed in railroads but they in
sisted that the roads should not prosti-
tute their powers and influence.
Frye, amid laughter, read a para
graph from a San Francisco paper re-
ferring to the nine senators who voted
for the Santa Monica amendment as
nice lot of "rasoals," whose names
Were suggestive of the burglar alarm,
and who would be dangerous to meet
ON a dark might If a man had money In
his pocket.
White, in concluding the debate, said
the people of California were just as
law-aIbidng, just as intelligent and as
able to take care of their interests as
the people of Maine. The senator from
Maine had placed a low estimate on
the California senators in suggesting
that they were subject to sand lot
agitation.