The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-03-12


- get the benefit of it were just
-, violators of the law as the
10 holds me up upon the street
takes my purse. If 1 do you an in
49,. IN assuming that you had any
:. this. or that you received any
81. from this nefarious and infamous
ct,on no one will act more quick
49,. myself In correcting it.
Now am not going over these mat
Mr.. Perkins and had never in
"a 70 refer to them in public out
.orsonal qualification but because o!
assertions which you made in your
40, that I had maliciously misrepre-
..a vou. The fact is that l studious
rofrained from doing anything more
or discussing what l believed to be
arr views in regard to these matters.
had another matter before me to
hitch could have referred, and which
now call to your attention, which
,ou,d seem to indicate your belief in
Monopoly. l refer to this particularly
acause you are pleased to call my at
anton to the fact that l met as
member of a National committee GER
ain gentlemen for whom you seem to
ave great disrespect One of them was
Mr. Guggenheim. Were you always of
hat opinion? 1 find as a part of the
worn testimony before a senate com
mttee this statement which bears upon
he Alaskan situation. "After the Can
kdian owners of the reorganized Alas
"a Central had taken over the property
h entered into negotiations with ]. P.
Morgan and company. + + + 1 had
nv negotiations directly with G. w.
Perkins. 4 + + In the summer of
1909 they sent A. M. Gray, the traffic
and tonnage expert for Morgan and
company, to make that investigation.
In July of that year Mr.. Perkins him
self went up to Alaska. ] met him by
appointment at Seward Mr. Perkins
f. told me at Seward and later in Seattle
| that later he would favor financing the
road on the plans 1 had proposed in
\ the event he could get the consent of
the Guggenheim brothers to do so and
could make such arrangements with the
Canadian owners for a conversion of
their securities of the proposes new
company He explained to me that the
Alaskan syndicate at that time was
owned by Morgan and company and by
the Guggenheim brothers and that they
had an agreement by which j p. Nor
gan and company should not engage
In any other Alaskan railroad enter
prises without the consent of the Gug-
genheim brothers.. An agreement be-
tween Morgan and company and the
Guggenheim brothers that neither should
enter into railroad building without the
other-this was undoubtedly looking
toward monopoly of transportation in
'erests OF Alaska. Later in the win
Ter or possibly in the spring Mr. Per-
nns told me the Guggenheim brothers
nao refused to give consent to the plan
OF Morgan and company to take over
tne financing of this project as a mar
'ne susitna valley to the Tanana on
the ground that they regarded the Tan
ana valley as their field. Mr. Perkins
'old me at the same time that Morgan
and company were not prepared to en-
outrage any railroad building in Alas
nd until the government issued patents
" coal claims then pending
I asked Mr.. Perkins. DO 7 under
'And from this that If 1 or any other
"uiVidual or any company should go tc
some other bank or banker and raise
"ohey Tor building a railroad through
0usitna valley to the Tanana should
NHN OPPOoitiOii VI TIC oNhSi
VI the Alaskan syndicate? He replied
we could not allow a railroad to bt
ouiit through the Susitna valley into the
ianana. There will be no more rail
toad building In Alaska until the Goa
iieids are opened"
The witness further states, 81 mad,
'n's same statement within thirty day
after that interview with Mr.. Perkins
" the senate committee on territories
"neh Senator Beveridge was chairman
senator Beveridge, Senator Kean of Ne,
Jersey Senator Dick of Ohio was pres
eh1 asked permission to have m.
a'ehent taken down officially so tina
might be an official statement be
eause legislation was then proposed TO
"e guarantee of interest on the bond
VI thousand miles of railroad whicl
sAe Alaskan syndicate was favoring
committee refused to allow m
'eht to be taken by a stenograph
ana published in the official record
Nehator Beveridge called Mr.. Perkin
~ phone in New York 7 am Informed