The San Francisco call., 1896-05-12
to this as my modest necessities ever


Hill suggested iocularly that the Repub-
fornia had declared for silver.
every likely it did," said Frye, "and
against railroads."
Frye then read an extract from Whites
speech, speaking of ''the greed of one
man. meaning Huntington, and COM
mented upon it as ga little bit of the
slogan of the sandlots and of the Golden
Gate whenever the name of Huntin gton is
conjured to frighten babies and whene yer
1t is used by dcmagogues to make the
knees of the weakened politicians trem-
ble." Laughter1
"And yet," he continued, 'that one
man, the Senator admits, is building up
great commerce coming to the finest wharf
in the whole world. But if that man is
building up that great commerce is he not
entitled to have harbor into which that
commerce will come just as much as If it
were built up by twenty different men
Is Mr.. Huntington to be excluded from all
the benefits of legislation? If he succeeds
in establishing a great line of ships from
China and Japan and pouring their
prod ducts into Santa Monica Bay, where it is
taken and landed in New Orleans as cheap
ly as it is to-day carried from San Vran-
cisco to Ogden, and where il is then taken
on board his great line of twenty steamers
to New York for one-fifth the cost of
freight from Ogden to New York by rail,
is he to be punished for it? Is he entitled
to the reprobation of the Senater Is he
to be summoned up as the ghost to
frighten Senators out of voting as their
consciences dictate2 If that is the course
to be pursued we must reform this river
and harbor bill. We must change it en-
tirely. We must strike out quite q num-
Der of items in it.
Take the appropriation for Newport
News. There was the Chesapeake and
Ohio, dead as q duck, an utter wreck
when this man Huntington took it.
his courage and his indomitable en-
ergy he built one of the finest roads in
this country from Cincinnati to Newport
News. And to-day it is carrying more
corn than any other line on this earth.
Cut out the appropriation for Newport
News, because Huntington built up the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. That is
the appeal.
Take another thing. We have been
helping great shipysrds by giving them
contracts for building vessels, and [ am
glad we did. We have been giving large
contracts to the Bethlehem and to Carne-
gle, and have been giving them a chance
to establish their plant as good thing to
do. But there was a quiet man in the
United States who did not call upon the
United States for any help. Nobody in
this Senate knew what was going on at
Newport News.
"One day received an invitation to 20
and witness ship-launching at Newport
News. I had not known that there was a
shipyard there. | went there and saw q
great iron ship married to the ocean. 1t
had been built in the finest shipyard in the
world, equipped with all conceivable
modern machinery, at q cost of Sc, ,0O0, 900.
There Mr.. Huntington employs thousands
OF men who have been pledged to support
and educate their families and to build
themselves homes. And for the next halt
century that yard is going to support
these men and their children. And Hun
tington did it.
"Oh, cut out the appropriation for New
port News. He ought not to have it. Hun.
tington ought to be punished for building
a shipyard. which is to-day undertaking
every shipyard in America in building the
great warships of the country.
"Cut out of the bill the appropriation
for Newport News, with its great line of
steamers, and the appropriations for New
Orleans, with its twenty steamers to New
York. Oh (bitterly) it is too paltry. 1t
is too paltry to undertake to stop legisla-
tion with that cheap demagogical cry that,
because Huntington has done it, therefore
no help must be given to Huntington.
HE employs $1,000 men and pays them
their wages when due. l know of an in
stance where a railroad was an utter
wreck, owing its laborers $500,O0O. Mr.
Huntington put his hand in his pocket
gave the $500, 900 to the railroad (wreck as
it was) to enable it to pay its workmen,
and then he took that wrecked road and
with his energy brought it up to life and
activity and value"
After Frye had been speaking for over
an hour with great force and energy he
began to show signs of fatigue and readily
yielded to suggestion of White that he
should finish his argument tomorrow.
German (D.) of Maryland gave notice of
an amendment which he intended to offer
to the river and harbor bill, limiting the
expenditures for any one year to $40, ,000,-
OOO
The bill then went over and the calendar
OF private pension bills was taken up
After about dozen were passed further
progress was blocked by an attempt of
Allen (P.) of Nebraska to have a second
pension case engrafted on bill giving a
pension to the mother of an officer, and
at 5:35 the Senate adjourned until to-
morrow.
IN THE HOUSE.
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