The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

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Then, too. some of the members from
the mountain counties "don't like fellow
that wears plug hat and high collar
and shayes every day." Yet Rozel Weis
singer is no dude" by any means. He is
| too exclusive, however, for "hoi polloi' (the
people generality, and especially for GER
| tain members who never saw the inside of
atallor-shop, but always wear store clothes
! on state occasions. Such is human nature,
| and to such prejudices ambition must
| bend the knee or fail. Weissinger has
| been too proud to bow down, and the cause
he advocates is the loser.
| The question is not how many votes did
he gain for his side by his speech, but how
many against it. The Senator showed a
lack OF experience and Judgment yester-
day afternoon when he tried to kill off
Senator McChord, who was to follow
When he rose to begin he remarked that
1T lacked but quarter of an hour of the
usual time to adjourn, and moved to ex-
tend the time and dispose of the bill be-
| fore adjournment. This would have shut
off Goebels closing, which they all feared,
and limited McChord and any others who
might have desired to speak for the bill.
OF course there was prompt objection
and he had to consume the time himself
HIS attempt had the effect of making
Senator McChord more determined than
before in his advocacy of the bill and he
is spending good part of the time of the
recess in preparing broadside in answer
| to the line of argument that Senator Weis-
singers remark indicated he would follow,
and the Huntingtonites are now sorry
they did it.''
Senator McChord's effort will fully an
swer the expectations of his friends. 1t
will be powerful and piercing arraign-
| ment OF constituencies monopoly and
strong rebuke to the inconsiderate legis-
| lation which bred and foste1ed to such dan
gerous growth the Southern Pacific mon
ster. He has a powerful appeal to the
Senate, to heed the cries of the oppressed
people of the Pacific Coast, and withdraw
its couutenance from the man and God
defylng robbers and oppressors who acting
under the law of Kentucky, ignore and
trample under foot the laws of California.
lie will be listened to with much attention
by full chamber and crowded lobby, as
he Is popular speaker.
He is thoroughly prepared TO answer
Mr.. Weissinger, and in q master way dis
pose of his arguments as the deleterious
effects OF the repeal on the confidence of
| the people in the stability of chartered
institutions in general and railroads in
particular. He will show Mr. Weissinger
and the Legislature very conclusivefy that
the passage of the bill will hurt but few
people, and they are fully able to stand it,
while it will benefit nearly 2,00O 900 who
were in almost absolute slavery as long as
the charter existed.
| Mr.. McChord is in fine trim, and when
he warns up to his work, which he will do
in a few moments after opening he will
win every one in the House not already
pre-empted with him. III is long service IN
his native county's contests with the
L.. and N. Railroad over bond liability
and his four years service as Railroad
Commissioner under Governor Brown
have made him thoroughly acquainted
with corporation law and the workings of
tariff schedules. He will soon make
Senator Hays sorry that he ever alluded to
| the subject of corporation rates in Cali
fornia and the East.
The Springfield Senator has all these
things well sorted in his mind and he will
not need to read them from print except
TO show his authority for a citation of
fact. Major Hays Will not be able to keep
up with him even with his primer in
his hand, but the Senate will, and catch
ing the inspiration of the speaker follow
his array OF facts and comparisons and his
logical conclusions therefrom till they are
led to the point of conviction almost be-
yond escape. His speech alone will more
than match the arguments of both HAYS
and Welssinger.
He will make but little allusion even to
the latter's criticism of Judge Seymour C.
Thompson's article in the American Law
Review, read to the Senate by Senator
Goebel yesterday, not seeming to think
that the Senator's attack needed any at
tention. 1t was too much like Sancho
Panza charging the windmill. 1t may be
that Mr.. McChord does not exactly see what
there is to answer, as it is a question in the
minds of some of the audience as to
whether Weissinger himself knew lust
what he was trying TO say.
There are some few people who still
think the Pandanna member a great law
yer even if he does make people "tired."
He may be good lawyer without being
good advocate especially in case like
this. where his own true and better nature
won't let his heart enter into the case in
which mistaken loyalty to interested
friends has led him and his natural obsti.
macy keeps him.
Senator Jack Gross was an attentive
listener to all the proceedings, and if he
was incliued to waver before, Rozel's
speech fixed him for the bill; and while
he will not probably make any extended
remarks on the subject during the debate,
he will talk outside-and Jack" is a man
of few words and much influence among
his fellow-mem bers especially the country
boys, who admire him. He don't like to
wear a cravat, and as for high collar like
Rozel's he would as soon think OF hang
Ing himself.
He ridiculed Mr.. Weissinger's burst of
Indignation at the attempt of California to
secure repeal of the Kentucky charter.
while the Mr.. Huntington was engaged in
Washington before Congress, and his
Characterization of it as "firing in Mr.
Huntington S rear" Jack was all through
the war, and was fighting like a man,
while Rozel was playing "mumbly-peg'