Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-19

McLachlan has promised for Ben
Wards scalp. This is strictly legal
question, to be decided by Judge Luther
Brown according to the conditions and
prosperity of each applicant
1.-THE Southern Pacific has sent word
out to head me off at every corner,
because 1t and its allied highwaymen
have lost several cases at Pomona.
''If the Republicans and independent
American citizens want to make
further donations of millions to the
Southern Pacific, besides assisting in
the entrenchment Of pernicious plu-
tocracy upon us, to the everlasting
injury of the country and corruption
and degradation of the public morals.
then, with his eyes open, let him sup
port the Luther Brown-Walter Parker
James Mel .achlan ticket for congress
and forever keep still.
"a vote for me is a vote for a $780,
900 appropriation for the construction.
of the breakwater at San Pedro, for
Wharves and piers to be owned con-
trolled and operated exclusively by the
United States government. This will
pull the cork out of the bottled-up
San Pedro harbor inserted by James
McLachlan when he deceived the pres,
ident and the River and Harbor COM
mittee as to the complete domination
Of the Southern Pacific at San Pedro
and by not demanding the insertion
of conditions in the government ap-
preparation insuring the abandonment
of the Southern Pacific holdings before
the money was spent. San Pedro IL
now private harbor of the Southern
Pacific. Do the people want public
harbor? In ten years James McLachlan.
Luther Brown & Co. have bottled up
San Pedro. Give them ten years more
and they will have delivered the goods
past redemption"
w. Ona Morton Speaks
The audience, knowing of the stand
of the Democratic nominee for attOr-
ney general in favor of a free harbor
at San. Pedro, gave w. Ona Morton a
warm greeting and cheered his re-
marks throughout
Mr.. Morton gave a history of the
San Pedro and Wilmington harbor
CRAFTS by which the Southern Pacific
and other railroad and corporate in
terests had Illegally secured fran
chises, and continued:
This covers all of the land around
the Wilmington and San Pedro bays,
except those around the outer harbor
of San Pedro now protected by the gov
eminent breakwater. The Southern
Pacific company owns, through the Pa
cific Improvement company, the lands
on the west side from the breakwateI
northerly for a distance of about one
mile. under patent from the United
States, and claims the right to wharf
out and fill in to the now navigable
water by virtue of its ownership of the
upland as a railroad company.
"Of the remaining land of the San
Pedro bay, grant was made by the
city of Long Beach of about one mile
in length on the east side of the Pa
cific Wharf and Storage company for a
period of fifty years. The grant was
not made under the Broughton act, nor
in conformity with it i'm any respect,
nor was 1T governed in any way as to
its width by the provisions of the polit-
ical code above mentioned, and appears
to be wholly void,
Another grant was made on the west
side of the city of San Pedro for fifty
years, about one mile in length, to IL
r. Huntington and others, and another
grant was made for a similar period on
the west side for half mile in length to
Lieutenant Miner and Others. Neither
of these latter grants was under or IN
compliance with the provisions of the
Broughton act, or Of the provisions OF
the political code as to the width of the
wharf Nothing has been paid, either
to the city of Long Beach or San Pedro,
for any of these franchises and there
is no provision In the grants for any
percentage of the earnings to be paid
to the cities, or either of them, and
they all appear to be equally void.
Neither the city of'San Pedro nor the