The news & observer., 1897-02-09

Capt. Day now to say that it had. Capt.
Day refused to be drawn into any point
between Judge Avery and Mr.. Busbee.
Capt Day rallied the Southern on be-
ing just out of bankruptcy. Mr.. Busbee:
Had you not rather have it behind you
than before you? "No," exclaimed Capt.
Day, Il had rather a crime be in front
of me than behind me. Before me,
may avoid it, behind me, | can only get
on my bended knees and ask God 10
forgive nle-Ihaye you done it? Laugh-
ter) He continued his raillery at the
structure Of the Southern on wrecked
fortunes and crushed hopes, and yet they
come here and talk about straw bids .
Can you think of it with patience?
The Railroad Commission said they
couldn't help the breaking of the inter
state commerce act-hadn't we better.
then, have Legislation? If it was bad for
the Southern it was equally bad for us.
Taking up Poor's Manual, he wished
to prove that Capt. Kitchin was right in
saying that the Southern owned the Cen
| trail of Georgia, denied Saturday night by
Col Andrews, and read President Spen-
| GERS letter to President st. john Of
September 6, 1896, which, to his mind
| conveyed Kitchin's idea.
The stock was like a chameleon, first
it was in the hands of the Terminal Com
pany and then the Central Trust Com
pany, and then Capt Day told the sue
cessive control that logically put the
Georgia Central in the hands of the
Southern. The Captain continued in the
same line. (0nly three minutes more, said
Chairman Cook Capt Day read from
the Charlotte Observer, saying that the
Ifr.s
of 81 100 a mile, while the Georgia Cen
trail was on the basis Of ST, $50 a mile.
| Phen he read from Poor (p. SD about
| the Georgia Railroad capital stock 81,
| 100000 0-rental 100000, which Messrs.
Busbee and Henderson wished to qualify,
but Capt. Day asked why they We're so
anxious if they said the Southern had
| nothing TO do with it? The Captain was
| cut off here.
Capt Alexander arose and said that
| he had understood that Capt. Day had
| said that the directors, when they made
| the lease, knew that it was not to the
| best interests Of the State he wished
| to say for himself that this was false.
| Capt Day flushed up quickly, saying
IF You mean that, insultingly, Capt.
Alexander, | hurl it back in your face,
have any sense Capt. Alexander seem
ed very angry and the two men glared
| determiniedly at one another. Capt Day
said, when he was through, Come on
| the outside, Captain; come on; come on,
and Capt. Alexander made an instantane-
Gus plunge to 90 when he was headed off
by Mr.. Person, of Wilson, and by Robert
O. Burton, who persuaded him to take
| his seat. Order being restored, the ball
proceeded.
Col. Henderson followed, saying in the
outset that he wished to correct some mis-
| takes about Capt. Days reference to the
| Georgia railroad stock, about which
Chairman Cook said the committee knew
nothing. But Col Henderson proceeded
| to explain in detail that Capt. Day was
wrong in his claims honest though they
were-that the Southern was connected
with the roads as he had claimed.
| He was stranger among you but
was not a stranger to these questions
not a stranger to the attacks made by
the Seaboard upon the Southern. 1t had
been heralded everywhere as a foreign,
as an alien; they have proclaimed them
selves as a friend of the people; we have
it in Atlanta, in Richmond, and we have
it here.
They cannot strike this lease down un-
less they strike down the legislative hon
or of a State which he put first with
the exception OF her daughter, Tennessee,
and he said that because Tennessee was
his mother.
He referred now to the outside stock
holder and unless he was protected some
body was going to be ruined. He now
began to review Captain Days
Interpretation of the recent fight
between the Seaboard and South
ern. The Seaboard had been
striking us below the belt, by indirect
methods, by legislative enactments. This
review for some moments was interesting
but not necessarily germane except in
the contention that the Seaboard and
Southern were as competitive hereas they
well could be-even running so close
near Raleigh that one could step from
one to another, and cited other points Of
competition and laid emphasis finally