The news & observer., 1897-02-09

ON st. John s proclamation that If the
Southern went into the Bay business, the
Seaboard would cut rates; and yet said
the Colonel, they were asking here for
competition. He gave the history and
status of the injunction proceedings to
the prejudice of the Seaboard. SeaIboard
bills had failed in Virginia, Georgia and
Alabama-they would blow the coal of
anybody who would set our barns ON
fire.
The Southern was doing all it could,
but was constantly subjected to such at
tacks as these which ran down the secur-
tiles OF the system, and at the suggestion
of Mr.. Busbee suggested that the Raleigh
and CASTOR Railroad was controlled in
Maryland. No North Carolnian tabood
corporation from outside of the State
unless he did it from a private motive. The
proper sentiment was one OF invitation to
come with you.
No one lad said that the Southern
has not kept its contracts as common
carrier in North Carolina: these gentle
men had tried to get money to rehabili-
tate this road for the best service; they
had gotten foreign money, alien money,
to put down 75 pound rails instead Of
80 pound rails; Sam Spencer was a
Georgian; A. b. Andrews was a North
Carolinian, and he would say that he
had done probably more than amy other
man in it to bring i'm money from out
side; the Colonel referred contemptuous-
ly to the penny-a-liners who were al
legedly depreciating the public services of
A. B. Andrews.
Taking up the Hoffman bid, he denied
that he did bid or that he said he had
bid.
He had been astonished at the acute
ness and wisdom with which the North
Carolina railroad had been managed; and
yet these men had been brought up here
in contumely, as guilty Of legal fraud, or
moral fraud, or as lacking in business
sense: the time would come when they
would receive the credit due their
good work. They would yet be seen
to have stood between this State and
danger.
Touching ON the 30-years lease,h said
at the suggestion of Mr. Busbee that they
had never defaulted ON the North Carolina
railway interest; if it came to be a local
road it would be starved out; if the Sea-
board got it, it would be turned into a
local road, unless the Seaboard could buy
to Washington which they couldn't do;
what were they going to do? Turn the
road at Greensboro out into the sage
fields? The contract was wonderful
twice as much as a United States bond,
with taxes paid-and betterments to go to
the State. The Southern wanted to lease
beforehand ON the same principle that q
farmer wanted to rent before he put in
his crop.
Capt. Kitchin was an exhorter, and
thought the lease was too long fought
to be 80 years.; the longer the lease,
the better for those holding it, and for
the property. Capt. Day had not object
ed to the length, because the Seaboard
had road leased in Georgia for the life
of it's charter, which was forever.
Now as 10 the Hoffman bid. Hoffman
had not made it except under conditions
which Col. Henderson said could never
be carried out. IL this was depended on,
the stock Of the road would not be fit to
make muscovy ducks nests out OF. Was
the Legislature ready to accede to Hoff-
mans conditions to prevent the South
ern railway from building charter-roads.
You don't dare pass that law in the
sense that would say that a man would
not dare strike his mother. He feared
no such thing from North Carolina Leg
islature
'Lochiel, Loehiel beware of the day
When the enemy shall meet you in bat
tie arrayw
Passing hastily ON, they ask why don't
YOU come in and be a North Carolinian?
All right-but that ain't the way Hoff-
man wants it. An we want is an open
sea and sailors rights. What
is the use Of license
from citizen? Whenever the Southern
said to the citizen, "Get out" we would
have to get out You would turn the
whole thing over to Mike Hoffman, Of
Baltimore. Give us the same cup as they
have. He discussed the South Carolina
case which did not give Governor Evans
the power to order the railroad out of
the State, as was contemplated in this
bill.
They raised great hullabaloo about
removing cases to the Federal Court, and