The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04

unanimous agreement which Is en-
bodied in the amendment ne onereo ~
the deficiency bill known as anenoneh1
Senator Morgan said, furthermore. that
if Judge Mcguire had asked MN 10 VIII.
hold the amendment so that the people
of California could have nearing IN OPP
position to it he would undouoteu1ly 4 naxe
done so. and even if he had mol, I LlI
were plenty of Senators who WOulq NAYS
made the single objection needeo, ne re
said 1t could have been easily stopped IN
the Senate If Judge Mcguire hau LnS'oe
I asked the Senator if Mcguire knew Of
the matter before June 29, when IL Gains
up in the Senate He replied that titb ne R Ma-
guire but did talk 1t over with senator
White many times before then, ana thst
was under consideration at least twenty
days before it was offered. The amend
ment, he said, was only in part MS II
the Pacific Railroads Committee for
months, but was not agreed to until MOI
gan's consent was obtained, ana ne Save
that only when convinced that the GOV
eminent would get every dollar OF us
money, and when the rest of the commit
money to construct the Nicaragua Canal.
Morgan simply added that portion 10 IL
and when it was all agreed on consented
to offer the proposition as amen9eu ny
himself as an amendment to the deficiency
bill. Senator Morgan'S explanation putS
an entirely different phase on the WhoIe
posed to getting into any personal con-
troversies, or any controversies at all, for
that matter
Morgan is undoubtedly right in his po-
sition that the Government has the pow
er to seize the road. He has been rlght
and Mcguire wrong. Morgan realized thaI
the only way to kill the monopoly and
give the people of California rele1 was
by effective competition either through
Government ownership and operatlon OF
the Pacific railroads or through the con-
stTuction of the Nicaragua canal o+
the railroad, Mcguire wanted it to get the
cash. On the Morgan plan we would get
just what every Popu1ist in the land IS
ship and operation at cost; and on the
Mcguire plan the Government would get
sixty millions of dollars. which the rail-
road owners, as in the case of the Union
Pacific, would water and add to their
capitalization, and thus impose an ad-
freight and passenger rates would pay the
piper: BY using the money 70 construct
the Nicaragua canal Senator Morgan has
found a way to mitigate the eV1l OF TAX
ing these railroads away from the people,
who could have had then. if Senator Nor
could have had his way.
For these reasons l shall oppose the
election to the highest office in this State
didacy by traduCing the gray-ha1red oid
hero, whose every act and every Impulse
has been to rescue monopoly RIDDEN Can-
fornia from the domination of Coils z
Huntington.
DO you intend to oppose the whole fu-
sion ticket? was asked of Mr.. NON
teith.
Not by any means. I shall vote for
Mr.. Hutchinson for Lieutenant Governor
Naples for Controller and Runkel for
School Superintendent, who are Populists;
Judge Van Dyke and Judge Conley for
Supreme Judges, R. A Thompson for Sec
missioner and John P. Dunn for Board of
Equalization. For Governor | shall write
many Populists will DO the same, al
though some will vote for Hartman, the
Socialist. The only thing Popultsts can
consistently do is to support the anti
railroad men everywhere, especially the
fusion candidates Van Dyke and ConIey
for Supreme Judges and Hinton ana Dry
den for Railroad Commissioners, for these
are the vital points.