The record-union., 1896-05-27
sAoRA1ENTo REcoRD-uN1oN WEDNESDAY,,

! Is conclusive unaI tney naO not ROUND II
out What is the evidence?
Somebody wished to know where you
could place the wharf in San Pedro,
and assure the Senators it is a very
serious question. Here is the Southern
Pacific Railroad, that horrible inStru-
ment of injury to the country" running
right along here and out to this point
| dndicating). This is a very high bluff
| Gndicating), q should say sixty or sew
enty feet high, rocky and perpendicular
The waves of the ocean are nearly all
the time dashing up against it at the
| foot. Where are you going to put your
wharves? Where will you locate them !?
The second board of engineers said that
you could make a dozen in some way
or another-it would be very expensive
| for this railroad-by running your rail-
road out ON the breakwater, and then
attaching your wharves to it.
| Now, is not that conclusive proof
| that the second board did not know
that the southwest wave line accom-
panied southeast shore wind? Have
not Senators here seen the power of
waves on the Pacific when they come
sweeping in across the sea over water
that is 300 fathoms deep within three
miles of the shore and strike that
breakwater ten feet up out of the
water? How long would a railroad
track stand on the top Of that break
water? How long would a ship lying
by the wharves stay there? Those
waves would break over that break
water from forty to fifty feet high, and,
as woman would sweep with a broom
| hn 111Cf fv1VS
your railroads and your railroad tracks
and completely submerge every ves-
sci lying by the wharves attached to
the breakwater.
| Here is what is called the Terminal
Railroad Gndicating). It comes down
here to Rattlesnake Island and out to
that little island on that point Gndicat-
ing). Here is the Pacific Railroad,
down to here Qndicating).
Mr.. White-The Terminal Railroad.
Mr.. Frye-One is the Terminal Rail-
road and the other is the Southern Pa
cine Railroad. Now, to a certain ex-
tent this is a railroad fight. The SEN
ator from Arkansas (Mr. Berry, thinks
1t is fearful thing for a Senator to be
on the side of a great railroad and a
greedy monopoly" l never have seen
anything more greedy in my experience
than this little Terminal Railroad. 1t
is about forty miles long. What is it
there for? It was built there after the
first report Of the Board of Engineers
Under the first report of the board
there were certain gentlemen who
thought they saw chance for a spec
ulation.
They saw that the Southern Pacific
had the entire north side, all the land
on it; that there was a chance to get a.
little terminal railroad down on the
southerly side; that if that breakwater
was built and it became a great harbor,
necessarily there must be two great
competing lines stretching from the Pa
cine shore over toward the Atlannc
Ihey built this railroad with the un-
derstanding and expectation that when
the harbor was completed some great
transatlantic railroad would be obliged
to gobble up the little terminal railroad
and make very handsome speculation
That railroad is in the fight. The
Southern Pacific, as a matter of course
is in the fight because it Is up there
Qndicating). The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad is in the con-
test. Why I do not know. Here is the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Gndi-
catlng). 1t runs away up to that point
now Qndicating). Here is the harbor
Qndlcatlng). Here is the Southern Pa
cine Qndicat1ng, running to the place
where they have located their wharves
| Here is little tunnel Gndicating). I
heard it asked in the Senate half-a-
dozen times if another road could go
| through that tunnel. What do YOU
suppose that tunnel is? 1t is a tunnel
under a street a couple hundred feet
long. You can cut 1t out; you can throw
1t away; you can build bridge over
1t, ana forty railroads can get through
II they please any time and anywhere
You Will observe that there is plenty Of
room. The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company could get but fifty feet wide
The Trustees of the town owned this
front down here Gndicating).
Mr. Davis-Of San Pedro?
Mr. Frye-Of the county or town; I
do not know which
Mr.. White-Of the town.
Mr.. Gray-Of Santa Monica?
Mr. F'rye-Yes. They own it. They
refused to let the Southern Pacific Rail-
road have an inch Of land outside Of
their place for two tracks, and the
Southern Pacific does not own an inch
of land at Santa Monica. They own
nearly all of the land on the north side
here Gndicating)
Mr.. Cullom-San Pedro?
Mr.. Frye-San Pedro. There is room
at Santa Monica for twelve tracks. for
ten more tracks. Any other railroad
can get it just as easily as the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company did. Mr..
Huntington said he would build the
tracks for them for $4,000 mile, and
this bill provides that they shall use
his wharf if they desire to do so.
Now, can some Senator tell me whv
the kilograms from the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad have been
falling here upon Senators in the last
ten days as the snowf1akes fall in the
winter storm, except that it is the re-
mains of the old fight between the
Southern Pacific and the Atchison. TO-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad? They
made it once. They lost from ten to
twelve million dollars in the encoun-
ter and went into bankruptcy. I han
pened to be the unfortunate owner T
am happy to say of a very small
amount, of stock in the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad, and onlv
a few months ago paid an assessment
on 1T. l can think of no reason whv
they should interfere except for the re-
mains, as / say, of the old fight. That
is just about the condition of the whole
thing; and say no man on earth can
make an argument in favor Of Santa
Monica so strong as that picture IT.
self, silent though it be.
wish to call your attention N ono