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comes from an interested party, as
interested as the gentleman himself.
Hilborn-It comes from a city official
and an honorable man.
PowerS-A city official! So is Mayor
Adolph Sutro a city official, and they
are all engaged in a conspiracy to force
the Government to take the road and
or crate it in the interest of the State of
California, and at the expense of all
the other States in the Union. The
man who sent the telegram, l under
take to say, does not try to tell the
truth
Henderson (R.) of Iowa advocated
tie passage OF the bill because if
nothing We're done foreclosure must fol-
low, with a total loss of the Govern
ment's claim. This was at least an eff
fort to save it and that much 1T was
the duty of Congress to do.
McLachlan (R.) of California opposed
the bill, referring in the course of his
remarks to the assertion that the man
ayers of the Central Pacific had bur-
dened the people of California with un-
just rates for transportation.
To this Watson (R) of Ohio replied,
&C mparing charges on the Pacific roads
with local rates in the East, and find
ing them reasonable and proper.
Cannon (R.) of Illinois and Kyle CD
of Mississippi advocated the passage of
tie bill, the latter controverting espe-
cially statement of Mcguire that the
bill extended the payment of the debt
for eighty three years. He had figured
il out, and under the terms of the bill
the debt and interest would be extin-
guished in forty-seven years.
Maguire-Does the bill provide that
the debt shall have been paid at the
expiration of forty-seven years?
Kyle-It does not. But if the COM
ranies fail to carry out the provisions
of the bill the Government is more am
ply secured than at present.
Harrison CD of Alabama and Bell
CD of Texas stated that Hnborn was
mistaken in the statements he had
made being misled by a telegram from
somebody; who it was the committee
did not know
The closing speech was in favor Of
the bill by Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio. He
said the House had been, through its
best talent, four years investigating
this subject, and he was not willing
in their present positions then should
refer to the matter in all it's deformity
of defeated BILL together with the
Cuban and other unsettled controver-
s-es, to the next administration, on the
theory that their successors would be
any better informed than themselves.
He could not agree that this question
should be maintained i'm its present
condition in the interest of California
politics. The path of duty was clearly
marked out by the majority Of the COM
mittee, and in it lay the passage of the
bill
The committee at O'clock rose, and
the bill and pending amendments were
reported, and the House, at 5:O5 D.
m, adjourned until Monday noon
Early in the days session the action
of the House last night in postponing
until Tuesday the return of the Ser
geant-at-Arms Of the execution on the
warrants for the members absent at
that session was reconsidered, on mo-
ton by General Henderson (R) of Iowa,
after a vigorous effort to prevent it by
Thomas (R.) of Michigan, who had de-
clared his intention to protest against
any member named in the warrant
from voting in any manner until excused
by the House. Proceedings under the
call were formally dispensed with, and
thus the danger to many members that
they would not be permitted to vote on
the Pacific railroad bill was averted.