The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1895, Page 12

1 ¥ 1 a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1895 EXPERTS ON THE ANSWERS OF HUNTINGTON. His STATEMENTS CONTRA- DICTED IN MANY IN- STANCES, CENTRAL PACIFIC DEBT. HE Is CHARGED WITH HAVING UNDERSTATED IT BY MANY MILLIONS. ‘VAMPIRES AND PARASITES.” D TO THE CORPORA- =R LEASE TO THE RN PAcIFIC. There was a remarkable unanimity of opinion among the prominent men, all thoroughly conversant with the subject, who were interviewed yesterday on the re- plies made by Mr. Huntington to the ques- tions propounded to him by THE CALL. and this opinion was that the answers were ona par with the methods of the cor- porations under discussion and their pro- moters and manipulators. They were alleged to be evasive, unfair, permeated with sophistry, falsehood and misrepresen- tation. It was said that the Central Pacific was making no real effort to come to an under- stanaing with Congress as to its debt to the Government; that Mr. Huntington dared not in specific terms state what he considered a fair settlement of the Central Pacific's debt; that he understated the amount of that debt, and that he was en- deavoring to collect a claim against the Government for $1,800,000 ich had already been twice rejectea by Congress as being without merit. 5 HUNTINGTON’S WAYS. Judge McKisick, in a Few Strong Words, Criticizes the Rall- road Magnate. “Mr. Huntington says he gress to pass such an act as will settle the debt of the railroad to the Government,” said Judge McKisick yesterday. *The Central Pacific is and has been a Califor- nia corporation, therefore it is not only the debt of the Central Pacific to the Government, but it is also the debt of the ate of Leland Stanford, Collis P. Hun- tington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker; and if the Central Pacific is in- solvent thev made it so, because the records in the case of the United States es against the estate of Leland Stanford show that the persons named made it cost the Central and Western Pacific companies at least $60,000,000 to build the road from San Jose by way of Sacramento to Ogden. Legally and morally they owe the debt, as much as the corporation owes it, and they ought to be made to pay it. : I have no more doubt that the Supreme Counrt of the United States will reverse the decision of Judge Rossand theUnited States Circuit C of Appeals in the Stanford case n had sued the estate of Stan- ford upon a promissory note given by him to the Government for money loaned him. That was in fact what the Government did. It loanea $28,000,000 to Stanford, Hunting- ton, Hopkins and Crocker, and they ought to be made to pay it. If they had not squandered the money of the Central Pac on themselves that corporation would never ve been insclvent, and if they had not disposed of to themselves $34,000,000 in dividends when they knew the corporation owed the Government and first mortgage bondholders more than $100,000,000, there is no doubt at all but what the Government and the bondholders could have had every dollar due them. “The very fact that the Central Pacific, from the time the road was completed up to the year 1884, paid 4,000,000 in divi- dends is proof conclusive that the compet- ing lines referred to by Mr. Huntington hurt it very little, if any at all, and, there- fore, when Huntington talks about com- veting lines haying hurt them he is simply trying to divert public attention from the fact that he and his associates hurt the Central Pacific a great deal more than the competing lines did. “In question 2 Mr. Huntington says he presumes Congress will do what is right as between the Governmentand the railroads. Congress, of course, represents the people of the United States and the real question is, what would be fair for Congress to do, as between the people of the United States and C. P. Huntington and his associates. “Inview of the historical facts, with which it is presumed Congress is or will be fami- liar, as to the manner in which . P. Hun- tington and his associates diverted the moneys which the Government loaned them, it would seem to be just and fair that Congress ought to provide some means by which the real debtors to the people of the United States should be compelled to pay every dollar of that indebtedness whether the railroad company be solvent or insolvent, and in my opinion Congress will do a great wrong to the people of the United States if 1t enacts a law giving to Mr. Huntington and his associates any ad- vantage whatever over the people whom it represents. ““As to the claim for $1,800,000, which he says is due the Southern Pacific Company, that 1s simply a debt due to Huutington and his associates, and as they owe or will owe when the bonds mature about $78,000,000, Congress ought to set this $1,800,000 as so much against this indebted- ness. When Huntington goes to Congress and represents to it that the Central Pa- citic is insolvent, and asks Congress to give him some relief, Congress will know very well that it is not dealing with that ideal intangible thing called a corporation, but that it is dealing with C. P. Huntington, and it ought to deal with him just as a creditor ought to deal with a debtor who has grossly wronged him. “In answering question 5 asked him by Tre Cary, Mr. Huntington says that he cannot but believe thata majority of the members of the Fifty-fourth Congress are honest men. The people of the United Btates hope that they are honest, and that they will remain true to the interests of those who sent them there. If they do, they will compel Huntington to make a fair settlement—a settlement that will force from him and his associates their ill- gotten gains which they have so long tnjoyed and which every sense of justice 1 demands should be returned to the treas- | ury when the bonds mature. No one but | Collis P. Huntington could have the bold- | ness to say to the people of California that | he and his associates were compelled to | sell the stock of the Central Pacificto pay | for building the road. The road had been been built for ten years and more than twice paid for before they sold any stock— | stock which never cost them one dollar, because they wrung that from the Central Pacific, in addition to the $60,000,000 which they had wrung from the Government, the first mortgage bondholders and the people of California. “Those poor 20,000 stockholders who have invested their $50,000,000 in those shares are mostly foreigners. They made the grave mistake of sending Sir Rivers | ‘Wilson to the United States to represent | them, no doubt with the nope that he would be able in some way to secure some- thing of value for the moneys which they invested in those stocks. But instead of dealing with Huntington as all Ameri- cans, who know him, deal with him, Sir | Rivers Wilson allowed himself to be per- | suaded by Huntington that he had better leave the whole matter to him, with the result that the situation of those foreign stockholders is every day becoming more | desperate. | “I put it to THE CALL and all the people | | | | fair and just settlement of that debt isall that anybody wants. Payment would be a fair and just settlement according to my view of the matter. What he will con- sider fair and just does not appear. As to what Congress 1s expected to do he very frankly confesses he does not know, and gengrously presumes that it will do what is fair and right. “He sugeested that a fair and practical way at arriving ata settlement between the Central Pacific Company and the Goy- ernment would be to employ an honest and able statistician to examine the com- pany’s books from the beginning and re- port what the company under all the cir- cumstances can pay. after taking care of the debts of the company which are prior | to the claim of the Government and pay- irg all current expenses and fixed charges. “I have no doubt that the books of the Central Pacific Railroad Company will show the utter inability of the company to pay anything on account of its indebted- ness to the Government. It would be more instructive to examine the books of Charles Crocker, the Contract and Finance Company, the Western Development Com- pany, the Pacific Improvement Company and the Southern Pacific Company, all of which have been in turn parasites of the Central Pacific Railroad, absorbing its surplus assets and earnings and yield- ing these assets and earnings to pay to the partnership of Huntington, Hopkins, Stan- ford and Crocker, who were as copartners permitted to and always until very re- | cently did own or control all of these nom- inal corporations, including the Central EX-JUDGE L. D. McKISICK. [Reproduced from a photograph.] who read Tre CALL—and I hope all the | people in the United States read TnE | Carr—ought not Congress to look aiter the | interests of the people whom it repre- | sents rather than to look after the inter- est of Huntington and his stockholders? And, if any are to lose, should the inter- ests of the people of the United States be sacrificed upon the mere altar of senti- | mentality ? | “In conclusion, Mr. Huntington says | that the debt to the Government, with in- terest, now amounts to over $30,000,000. The truth is that the debt to the Govern- ment, when the last bonds with added interest mature, is about $78,000,000. | When Huntington says that the builders of the road in California—meaning him- | self and associatés—have large amounts invested in the shares which have paid him no dividends, the readers of Tur CaLn will smile; for they know that the build- ers have never put a dollar into the shares. “The people of California know how the roads were built and Huntington can’t fool them. They know that when Hunt- ington commenced to build a road very soon he would mortgage the whole line for about three times what it would cost to build it. He would then make contracts with the Contract and Finance Company, the Western Development Company, to build the roads and make the railroad companies pay the construction compa- nies about $30,000 a mile in bonds and all | the capital stock of the railroad company. | When he got the railroad in operation or partly constructed he would «then con- vince the financiers of Europe and of the East that the road would be sure to pay the interest on the bonds. He would then sell the bonds at par or above par, making aclean profit out of the sale of bonds of from $10,000 to $15,000 a mile, and | in addition to that profit would own the | whole capital stock, and that, too, without having paid one dollar for it. A BURNED THE BOOKS. Huntington’s Significant Confes- sion to Congressman Magulre. T will be perfectly willing to have the i Government employ any able and honest : statistician to examine the company' 3 books from. the beginning to the time of such éxamination, and whatever they re- © ort that the company can pay I would ¢ perfectly willing that. the company : should undertake to pay. As to what th : Government owes the Southern Pacific i Company—a corporation entircly distinct - i from the Central Pacific—I have no doubt © : ‘the Government will some time pay it. P. Huntington, in *“The Call.’ Congressman Magulire has made a spe- cial study of the Central Pacific Railroad’s indebtedness to the Government, and the strongest impression left on his mind was the clever evasions of the railroad mag- nate. “I have read Mr. Huntington’s state- ments as published in Tue CALL of this morning,” he said, “and in the whole course of the two-column interview con- cerning the purpose of the companies he | represents respecting Congressional action he does not make a single specific statement as to what legislation will be asked or urged. He says that the Pacific railroads all propose or try to obtain from Congress such legislation ‘as will settle fairly and justly the debt of the Central Pacific Rail- road to the Government.’ “There can be no objection to that. A | to offset that amount as ag Pacific Railroad - Company, whichr serve that copartnership as agents or agencies. “The books of the Central Pacific Rail- road Company will show little or no profit to anybody.and it is apparently late to suggest the examination of the other books for the purpose of ascertaining what would be a correct basis of settlement. “Speaking of the $1,800,000 claim of the Central Pacific Company, which was twice ted by the last Congress, he says: As to what the Government owes the c Company—a corporation distinct from the Central Pacific— no doubt the Government will some it; and as most of it is now draw- nterest, the longer the Government ts, of course the more it will have to “Mr. Huntington, in this matter, has the misfortune to disagree with the opinion of others who are not connected with the Southern Pacific Company or the Central | Pacific Railroad and who are in a position to know about their legal and business relations as much as Mr. Huntington doe: It will be remembered that the South- ern Pacific Company was organized by the controlling directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1888 as a close cor- poration for the purpose of taking up and conducting all of the business | theretofore carried on by the Central Pa- cific Railroad Company. including a lease of the Central Pacific itself. That com- pany has been continued to the present day as a close corporation, the stock of which has been held constantly and ex- clusively by the original copartners and the successors of those who are now de- ceased. “The real purpose of the organization of that company was to prevent the Govern- ment from enforcing its rights against the Central Pacific Company under the Thur- man act and was therefore fraudulent in its ‘inception as against the United States Government. If the Central Pacific Company had earned the money from the Government which is mnow claimed by the Southern Pacific Company, the Government would have had a right to hold it under the Thurman act and apply it to the satisfac- tion of the Central Pacific Company’s obligation. The question was raised in the last Congress whether in view of the palpable fraud upon the Government in- volved in the organization of the Southern Pacific Company and the leasing of the Central Pacific Railroad to that company for the purposes stated, Congress should allow the fraud to succeed as against the Government by making the payment in question to the Southern Pacific Company. “The Fifty-third Congress twice decided that, so far as it was concerned, that part of the fraudulent purpose should not be permitted to succeed, and therefore re- jected the $1,800,000 claim. The result of that rejection, unless the present Congress shall override it, will be to submit the question as to the right of the Government st the $70,- 000,000 debt of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. “The question involved before Congress was the substantial identity of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Company with regard to the transporta- tion of mails, troops, etc., for the Govern- ment, and the decision of Congress was that for those purposes the companies were substantially identical, and at best the Southern Pacific Gompany was in that matter the agent of the Central Pacific. ‘A very potent factor in the determina- tion of that question was a statement made before the Committee on Appropria- tions of Congress by Judge Payson, the accredited attorney of the Southern Pa- cific Company, in which he expressly ad- mitted the substantial identity of these two companies. “‘As long as the lease exists between the Southern Pacific Company and the Central Pacific Railroad it will be utterly impos- sible for the Central Pacific to pay any- thing of its obligations to the Govern- ment, for it receives only a rent arbitrarily fixed by the directors of the companies, all acting under the absolute control of Mr. Huntington and his associates in the making of the lease. “But the books of the Contract and Finance Company, and perhaps of most of the other collateral companies, have been placed beyond reach ot exverts for examination. It wasfor a long time un- certain what had become of the books of the Contract and Finance Company. They had disappeared suddenly and nobody seemed to know what had become of them. Even Mr. Stanford did not know whether they had been destroyed or were taken away from California to some uncertain place to be experted. It is now pretty well settled, however, that they are burned. Mr. Hunt- ington, in a conversation with me in Washington, stated very frankly that while he did not know of "his own knowl- edee what had become of the books, he be- lieved that they had been burned; that he himself had on more than one occasion advised Mr. Hopkins to burn them, as they were no longer of any use and were in the way.” VAMPIRE CORPORATIONS. Commissioner Stanton Gives a Lucid Insight Into the Situation. The builders of the road in California : have large amounts of money invested in : {he sharcs of the difierent companies for : many years, on_ which, with the excep- : tion_of the' Central Pacific, they have : received no dividends. : C.P. Huntington, in “The Call.’” Railroad Commissioner Stanton thought the whole essence of the situation was con- tained in the answer to the last question, in which Mr. Huntington says: “The builders of the road in California have large amounts of money invested in the shares of the different companies for many years, on which, with the exception of the Central Pacific, they have received no dividends; but they are willing to wait, believing that the time will come when the population of the State will so increase as to admit of a return upon the money.” Commenting on this, Commissioner Stanton said: *“We are given to understand from this that they have had no return from the money they invested. They claim that, with the exception of the Central Pacitic, they have received no dividend. Now, in order to get some idea of the real situation and the sophistry of this statement it is only necessary to read over a portion of the complaint which was filed early this week against the Board of Railroad Com- missioners to prevent the reduced rates from going into effect and from making any other reductions, “In the case of the Northern Railroad they state that they are paying that com- pany under the lease made with it for ninety-nine years by the Southern Pacific Company, 6 per cent annually upon the capital stock of nearly $13,000,000, or more than three-qua rters of a million dollars, in addition to all the costs of maintaining and operating the road and the fixed charges or interest on the bonded debt. The last-named item alone is a matter of more than half a million dollars annually, being 6 per cent on a bonded indebtedness of nearly $10,000,000. ‘‘Now, it is a well-known fact that the directors of the Northern Railroad are the same directors who are interested in and control the Southern Pacific Company. “A study of this clever arrangement will make clear the peculiar, unfair and wrong- ful methods of se men _to enrich them- selves, notionly perating against the Government but azainst the people of the Pacific Coast. Just as they prevent the Southern Pacific Company from being a paying institation by absorbing its marrow through the Northern Railroad, just so have they made the Central Pacific an ap- parently worthless wreck through the in- strumentality of the Contract and Finance Company, the Western Development Com- pany, the Southern Pacific Company and other corporations in which the original incorporators of the Central Pacific were the principal stockholders. ““These inner corporations, to which con- tracts were let at exorbitant figures, or which were used to divert the natural business of the Central Pacific, were the vampires which drained the life-blood of the Central Pacific. Thus to-day the Cen- tral Pacific is a financial wreck, while its builders, strange as the paradox may be to the ordinary individual, are, every one of them, multi-millionaires, or left estates valued in the tens of millions.” BANK STOCK is the only paper scientifically made for preserving the eyes. 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