The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1895. TWO MAYORSONC. P.HUNTINGTO'S ANSWERS MayYor SuTro CALLS IT ANOTHER CASE OF BRIBERY. AMOUNT OF THE DEBT. MAYOR DAVIE OF OAKLAND ON THE PoOR MEN WHO BECAME QPULENT, M'KISICK'S FIGURES CORRECT. ANOTHER DETERMINED EFFORT WiLL BE MADE TO DEFEAT A FunpinG BiLL. The interview with President C. P. Hunt- ington of the Southern Pacific Company, published in Saturday’s CArr, has evoked wide interest throughout the country. As an authoritative exposition of the railroad’s views on the relations of the corporation to the Government it has been regarded as of exceptional value. On all sides it has elicited comment and criticism, of which the following strong expressions are se- lected as peculiarly interesting: E— CALLS IT BRIBERY. Mayor Sutro Speaks Plalnly and Disputes Mr. Huntington’s Esti- mate of the Debt. The d t to the Government, I believ > af'the present time amounts, with prin pal and interest, to G little over $50,000,- * 000. C. P. Huntington in “The Call. “Mr. Huntington says the debt of the ilroad to the Government is $50,000,000. now over $80,000,000,” said Mayor Sutro yesterday, when asked about C. P. ton’s replies to pointed questions asked by THE CALL, and as the Mayor spoke he smiled and that smile was signifi- cant. After a moment’s reflection he said: “This means that it will be only one more attempt at bribery to accomplish an end. i believe that this Congress being Re- publican can be more easily handled, but I want to say this, that this debt of the railroad to the Government will be made one of the issues of the campaigr. Now, if the members of Congress pass a refund- | ing bill it will be through bribery—I re- peat it, bribery, that is the word. “The next ion of Congress will be on the eve of a Presidential campaign, the railroad indebtedness will be an important factor before the conventions, and if the members of the dominant-party in Con- gress pass a refunding bill, 1 say that will mean the political death of that party. If the Republicans pass such a bill—but I do not believe they will—the party will go to pieces and the people will charge that they were bribed to pass the measure. These self-confessed bribers of the railroad, these highwaymen who have been robbing the people for vears, will resort to their old tactics to carry a point. Why, they couldn’t passa cat through Congress with- out bribing some one. The time has come when the rich man and the great corpora- tions must stand equally before the Gov- ernment and all must be treated alike. The railroad company is indebted to the il Fullfi Xayor Adolph Sutro. Government and it should be made to pay it, and if it does not let the Government take possession of the road and operate it. I want to see corporations treated as indi- viduals are, I care not what the corpora- tion is. “The fight against the refunding of the railroad debt will be renewed as bitterly as it was when the Reilly bill was defeated. The fight will be carried into both houses ot Congress and into the conventions, and 1 shall take as active a part in it as I did in the past, and continue to do so for twenty years if necessary should my life be spared. “Time was when we had a Congress, an executive and a judiciary that was of the | peopleand for the people, but now we have a Government for the corporations, and there is corruption on every side. Why, sir, these bribers have even attempted to corrupt the judiciary. There must be an end to it, and there will be, for I do not believe that nearly 70,000,000 of people will sit calmly by and see this continue. “Mr. Huntington says the debt of the railroad to the Government is $50,000,000. It was $80,000,000 when the Reilly bill was first brought up and it is more than that now. Just see Judge McKisick about that; he has the figures, and what he will say on that point will be correct. “‘Quote me as saying that every member of Congress who votes in favor of refund- ing the railroad debt will lay himself open to the charge that he was bribed, and that so sure as a refunding measure is passed, so0 sure will the party to which those voting for it go to ruin never to rise agam.” ol MR. HUNTINGTON’S PATHOS Mayor Davie of Oakland Points Out That the Bullders Became Multi-Milllonalres. and sufered— : . P. Huntington, in “The Call.”” : ington’s story in Saturday morning’s CaLL and says he has not changed hisopinion of the railroad magnate since he did so. “The answers to THE CALL’S questions are written 1n Huntington's very beststyle. He has made the mistake of thinking that the incidents connected with the building of the Central Pacific are unknown to everybody but himself. It is not the bnild- ing of the road that the people of Califor- nia condemn him for, it is the manner of conducting it since and the method em- ployed to use the money made from it for the purpose of stifling competition and fostering a monopoly. We all know that it was a great undertaking to build the first overland road, but that is no excuse for so mixing up its affairs that when the time comes for paying its debt to the Govern- Mayor J. L. Davie of Oakland. [From a photograph.] ment it is unable to do so and seeks to evade it. Mr. Huntington’s references to the early struggles of the builders would be pathetic to a community which did not | know that the builders started in poor | men and by chicanery grew to be arbitrary monovolists and multi-millionaires. It | will be the crowning disgrace of the cen- tury if Congress does what Mr. Hunting- | ton says he expects of it. I, for one, think | he will be disappointed. If the road is, as he says, a losing piece of property, he should be very pleased to see the Govern- ment take it.” | SR S | JOHN T. DOYLE’S VIEW. He Says Huntington Is Mililons “Off” In Hls Esti- mate. If the people of this country unde stoodthe labor and privation_which the builders of the Central Pacific undertook and suffered, and if they understood also the great amount of money that the : i Government saved in the expense of : i policing the country which the road : : traverses, they would say that the Go: : ernment had been the greater gainer. C. P. Huntington, in *The Call. John T. Doyle, the well-known attorney, who is recognized authority on all matters pertaining to the Southern Pacific Rail- road Company, was seen at his beantiful home in Menlo Park yesterday afternoon. “Yes,” he said, “‘I read TuE CaLL's in- terview with C. P. Huntington, and cut it out to place in my scrapbook. But you take me at a disadvantage when you ask me at short notice or without any notice | at all, in fact, to discuss the subject-mat- ter contained in that interview with the serious thought it deserves. “I can only indulgein glittering gener- alities. There were some points he made in answering THE CALL’s questions that are logical and well taken. There can be no doubt the Government was greatly bene- fited by the building of the subsidized roads. It gained not only by the policing of the wild, sparsely populated country, but from the increasea value of the even sections of land held by the Government. It is also true that at the time the road was | built material was high and that enormous | expenses were incurred. “Baying this much we have given Hun- tington credit for what truth there is in his statements. As to the Government debt which Huntington estimates at $50,- | 000,000, I think $70,000,000 would be nearer | the figure. That was the estimate I made some time ago, though of course I am not prepared to say what is inthe sinking fund. *'0f course, the big railway corporations are opposed to the Government operation of the Central Pacific, or any other road for that matter, because in the fixing of rates certain rules would have to be fol- lowed that must necessarily open the peo- ple's eyes to the arbitrary methods now in vogue among the railway systems of the country. The railway companies, instead of basing their rates on station service costs, distance traveled, etc., fix their rates in accordance with what they think the traffic will bear. The Southern Pa- sific is a fair sample, if not a monumental example of the system. Ifa man or cor- voration wants to open up a new industry, manufacturing, mining or otherwise, the company figures to leave just enough of the profits to warrant the carrying out of the enterprise. They make fish of one and flesh of the other. All the talk that can be made on behalf of the Southern Pacific will not excuse the great shame of the act of the Kentucky Legisiature creating the Bouthern Pacitic of Kentucky—a corpora- tion created in one State to carry on busi- ness in all other States but that one. ““We also find the Southern Pacific in the peculiar position of a tenant receiving pay from the lessee for looking after its prop- erty. The company leases lines in Ari- zona, Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, etc., and instead of paying rent thereon derives an income from the companies from which they rent. That omnibus lease is a great document. There are none like it on rec- ord. “As I said, however, any hasty talk like this must be more or less desultory. I would like more time to think over the subject-matter and consult my data. But as we are indulging in glittering generali- ties it may be said that the debt as esti- mated by Huntington (§50,000,000) is $20,- 000,000 too small, and that the Govern- ment has it in its power to repeal the con- tracts of the Southern Pacific leased lines. The injustices practiced by the company on its patrons are so well known that to re- count them would be tedious. It is grossly unfairin the fixing of its rates, and all the talk by its magnate leaders will not avail in blinding the lorg-suffering victims.” THE SEVENTH QUESTION. Ex-Mayor Davis of Oakland Polints to What He Bellaves Is the Gist of the Matter. My own impression is that it would | : e bad policy for the Government to take : and operate the road. e P. Huntingto ex-Mayor W. R. Davis of Oakland, “I think the gist of it all hangs on the seventh question. Upon the proposition of the ex- tension of time to the Central Pacific or of foreclosure at this time there are two de- terminative elements. “First—No adjustment in the way of ex- tension would be of any service either to the Government or its debtor unless defi- nite and specific provisions are made so that the Government debt would be re- duced steadily. It is of no use to the debtor to continue in a debt that is auto- matically piling up year by year, and of course that process never can be of any advantage to the Government. To have any financial reason in it such a proposi- tion must rest upon a showing of facts that the creditor’s debt is being diminished from year to year, not increased, and this necessity is applicable as to the advantage of the debtor as well as the creditor. “In other words, if the foreclosure has totake place for want of ability to pay, the sooner the debtor is out of his misery the better for him,and the sooner the credi- tor exhausts his security the better it can adjust itself to other and future manage- ment of the property. “No bill that leaves afloat the accounts between the parties, or leaves uncertain the conditions of payment and the end- ing of the relation of creditor and debtor will be of any avail, and, besides, is of no advantage to either party. “The second element in the case is this: Some have suggested, and many have apprehended, tnat if the Government fore- closed on the Central Pacitic or Union Pa- cific or any other aided road, therefore it would have to go into the general railroad business of the country. That is not trus. Suppose there are three lines of high-tariff stages into the Yosemite Valley. The Government does not need to own and operate all three in order to fix the price of a stage ride into the valley. ‘‘As soon as the Government obtains the one stage line and fixes the price of trans- portation the other two lines have to fall in line immediately or lose their traffic. It is just so as to trunk lines of railroads. The Government control of one trunk line from San Francisco to Chicago practically controls transportation traffic between those two cities on all lines. The bugaboo about the Government having to go into the railroad business universally and hav- ing to have hundreds of thousands of em- ployes, and of the corruptingof the politics of the country and debauching the Govcrnment generally, is more than nine-tenths imaginary. Four or five trunk lines under Governmental control would practically control all the impor- tant railroad tariffs in the United States. That is the sum and substance of the mat- ter. First, the bugaboo is by ro means so dangerous as it is represented, and, sec- ond, no procrastination, as such, means anything, and no arrangement that is not perfectly definite and specific as to pay- ment of the Government debt can ever be of any good, either to the railroad debtor or to the Goverment creditor.”” M OLD RESIDENT ILL WILLIAM SHIELS AFFLICTED WITH AN ATTACK OF ACUTE PNEUMONIA. He Hap Just RETURNED From A VisiT To His HOME IN SCOTLAND. For some days past William Shiels, a man well known in this City, has been lying at the point of death at the Occi- dental Hotel. It was only a few weeks ago that Shiels came back from Scotland, where he had been visiting for some months. He was in the best of health, and the stroke of pneumonia which now afflicts him came upon him suddenly Thursday evening. 1t began with a slight cold, and that was not considered at all serious, but before many hours had passed it became danger- ous and developed into the case of pneu- mo nia from which he is now suffering. Mr. Shiels is the father of Dr. George 8hiels, who is well known in local medical circles. He is owner of the Shiels build- ing on O'Farrell street and also of the old Bush-street Theater property on Bush street. He has other property in various parts of the City and is accounted a man of considerable wealth. Since his illness commenced several doc- tore have been in constant attendance on the invalid and everything possible is be- ing done to relieve him and stay the prog- ress of the disease, but it is feared heis in a very dangerous condition. ————-—— PEN and pencil work equally well on Bank Stock. It is milled with especial reference for saving the eves. The Mysell-Rollins Company, 22 Clay st., handle more Bank Stock than any house in the country. * — - A Despondent Wife. Mrs. Annie Harrls, employed as a domestic at 225 Sanchez street, turned on the gas in her room yesterday afternoon. She wasdiscovered about 10 o'clock last night and taken to the Receiving Hospital. She will recover. She is separated from her husband, who is an em- pioye of the Market-street Cable Company. She refused to give any reasons for her rash act, but says she will make another attempt as soon as she gets a chance, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Rol Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE et Jaros Hygienic Underwear is one underwear that is comfortable, absorbs moisture, keeps folks well. Morgan Bros., 229 Montgomery st.* D S G — Arrested for Larceny. Minnle Lewrence was arrested yesterday in Stockton by Officer G. B. Glbson on a warrant charging her with grand larceny. Last Sep- tember, while living in a house on Eddy street, she was accused of having stolen $60 from W. A. Tubby, who immediately swore out a war- rant for her arrest. The woman fied to Stock- ton, where she hes been in hiding ever since. ———— THE health of most women &nd men isin the underwear they wear. Jaros Hygienic Under- wear—'nough said. Morgan Bros., 229 Montgy'* THE BONDS ARE VALID. THOSE OF THE MARKET- STREET RAILWAY CoM- PANY SO DECLARED BY THE SUPREME COURT. MucH MORE THAN A TWO MILLION DOLLAR SALE INCIDENTALLY INVOLVED. POINTS OF THE DECISION. ALL THE JusTICES, EXCEPT HAR- RISON, AFFIRM WALLACE’S RULING. The Supreme Court has just affirmed the judgment in favor of the Market-street Railway Company rendered by Judge Wallace some time ago, which declared the bonds of that company to be legally drawn and of legal value. The opinion was rendered by the court in Los Angeles and the text of the decision was sent to the Justices yesterday. Commissioner Searls wrote the document and Commissioners Haynes and Britt concurred. Chief Jus- tices Beatty and Justices McFarland, Van Fleet, Garoutte and Henshaw signed the opinion, and Justice Harrison concurred in an opinion of his own. The decision established the bonds issued by the Market- street Railway Company as good and suf- cient. The original suit had for plaintiff the Market-street Railroad Company and for defendants 1. W. Hellman of the Nevada Bank and others. Hellman contracted for a large number of the bonds and to test the validity of their issue refused to accept the same when they were issued.. The Market-street Railway Company sued to have the Nevada Bank and Hellman, its president, accept the bonds contracted for. The suit was brought before Judge Wal- lace and he entered a pro forma opinion in the case, and from that opinion #n appeal was taken. The judgment just rendered is upon that appeal. « After consummating its consolidation the railway company entered into acon- tract with the bank for the sale of $1.000,- 000 worth of bonds, subject, however, to this condition: that the amalgamation and consolidation of all of the railway corpora- tions into the Market-street Railway Com- pany was properly and legally effected, and that the new corporation was entitled to dispose of the property of each and in- cumber the same as though it were the legal successor of all these constituent cor- porations. The bonds were tendered and the bank refused to accept and pay for them upon the ground of their supposed invalidity, and to avoid the expense and delay of an ordinary action at law an agreed statement was prepared and the controversy submitted to the Superior Court without action. The first point made by the appellant in favor of a reversal from the judgment of the Superior Court was that the consolida- tion was not legally effected. The main point in this contention was that many of the roads were incorporated prior to the provisions of the Civil Code which took effect January 1, 1873. These provisions demanded that the laws under which all corporations were formed must be re- pealed or applied subject to the provisions of these sections. In this was found a point in the consolidation of these various corporations the legality of which the de- fense questioned. It was also claimed that a proper vote of the stockholders of each corporation had not been taken upon the matter of consoli- dation. It was claimed that many of the roads were brought into the combination by the vote of stockholders, which was not in any way representative, and that there- fore the remaining stockholders were not bound to recognize the consolidatien of their property with the central corpora- tion. This consent of the stockholders to the consolidation was the principal issue in the case. It was necessary that the hold- ers of over three-fourths in value of all the stock in each corporation consent to the combination. This, it was claimed by the main corporation, was done by each of the subordinate roads at dates varying from September 5, 1893, to October 13, 1893, and that the several companies consented to consolidate “in such manner as may be agreed upon by the respective boards of directors of sald companies.” On the 13th of October the various boards of di- rectors executed the ‘‘articles of consoli- dation, amalgamation and incorporation,’” in which the manner, terms and general provisions of the consolidation were fully set out. The Supreme Court held that in the absence of more specific directions in the statutes governing the case this consent of the stockholders was sufficient. It rested then with the court to decide whether this consent was legally obtained, or if the dissenting stockholders, of whom there were a great many, had th& power to overthrow the acts of these consenting parties, In considering this phase of the case it became necessary to recognize that in some corporations a vortion only of the stock was issued and that in estimating the three-fourths of the stockholders whose consent was necessary only the “outstanding stock” was taken into account. Asan example the case of the Market-street and Fairmount Railway Company was cited to serve as an illustra- tration. The facts of this case were appli- cable to all. The capital stock of this company con- sisted of 10,000 shares, of the par value of $100 per share, of which number of shares only 2050 were ever at any time issued or outstanding. The holders of these 2050 shares so issued consented in writing to the consolidation. This the Supreme Court says is sufficient. When shares of a corporation or a majority of such shares are spoken of in statutes the Supreme Court holds that it usually refers to the subseribed or issued or outstanding shares. In speaking further of this the court in its opinion says: ‘As stock or shares which have never passed to the ownership of stockholders or having so passed have again been purchased by the corporation cannot be voted or represented by either the corporation or by stockholders. They are not taken into consideration in deter- mining majorities where action in corpor- ate meetings or assent of stockholders is involved, but when a given Pproportion of the stock 1s spoken of, it must be construed to mean the shares which have passed h:)t::l ,t-,ha corporation and which may be voted.! Another contention of the defendant was that some of the stock was held and voted by trustees and not only ap- peared upon the books of the corpora- tions as such, but were really and in fact t}'ustees for other persons. Their conten- tion was that a trustee of stock has no au- thority to destroy the corporation by merging it in another corporation. To this the Supreme Court answered that the trustee is the legal owner of the stock and as against the corporation and all the world no inquiry may be bad trusting his action in the premises except by those in whose name he holds the stock. In cases where the stock of constituent companies is held by other corporations the Supreme Court does not enter upon an analysis of this phase of the subject. Upon the issue of the bonds in question the Supreme Court notices but two objec- tions calling for special comment. First as to the sufficiency of the notice to stock- holders and of the resolution passed at the meeting in pursuance of the notice. This notice specifies in substance that the pur- pose of the meeting was to consider and to act upon the creation of a bonded in- debtedness in the aggregate of $17,500,000. The capital stock of the company was $18,750,000, and under the law that the amount of bonds for promissory notes is- sued for the payment of debts for con- structing and completing a road must not exceed in all the amount of the capital stock, the Supreme Court held that this issue was proper, and that the notice was sufficient, as the proposed amount was within this limit, and there was no exist- ing previous issue to invalidate it. The second objection was as to the right of the stockholders to be represented and have their votes cast by proxy. In cases of this kind the Supreme Court says that the contention that two-thirds of the stock at least must be voted in person might have been eminently sound a century since, but that the law of corporations has undergone important changes in recent years. Stockholders, the court says, have the right to vote by proxy if the by-laws of the corporation in which they hold stock authorize the votes to be cast in that manner. In concluding, the opinion states that the other objections raised by the ap- vellant have been examined minutely and no cause for reversal isdiscovered in them, and that upon the whole record the Com- missioners are of the opinion that the judgment appealed from should be affirmed. Justice Harrison wrote a short opinion, in which he concurred in that portion which declares that the proceedings for the issue of bonds were in accordance with the requirements of the statute, or in other words in the purely legal aspect of the case. In the other points of the opinion he enters a mild aissenting voice. s g wl WHAT IT MEANS. I. W. Hellman and Others Indicate the Effect of the Decision. I. W. Hellman, president of the Nevada Bank and at the head of the syndicate of capitalists who are willing enough to take the Market-street bonds if they are valid, said yesterday that he had heard from Los Angeles that the Supreme Court had sustained the opinion of Judge Wal- lace in the matter. “This settles the whole question, of course,” said Mr. Hellman, “‘and we will take the bonds and pay for them. It has been my opinion from the start that the bonds were legal, but we wanted the very highest authority in the State to decide the question once and all before placing our money. “It is quite a serious matter, the pay- ment of $2,000,000, and we very naturally wanted to be sure of what we were doing. Of course, our attorneys made every pos- sible point against the validity of the bonds, and now that they have been up- held we do not consider ourselves in any sense like a defeated litigant. Judge Hayne argued the case before the Supreme Court, and with the experience and assist- ance of Attorney Bergin behind him you may be sure that no point against the bonds was left uncovered. “The chief point in the controversy was that permitting stockholders to vote by proxy. It wasthe contention of our at- torneys—for the purposes of the test case— that voting by proxy under these circum- stances was illegal. “I am glad that the Supreme Court did not uphold that view of the case. If it had done so a great many innocent bond- holders would have been greatly wronged. It would have made illegal millions of dol- lars’ worth of bondsfalready paid for, and would have been in no small sense a pub- lic calamity. “I have been quoted as saying thatin my opinion these Market-street bonds were not worth the paper they were written on. Now, that was entirely wrong. I never had such an idea, but have been a believer in the validity of thess bonds from the start.” Joined with I. W. Hellman in this amicable suit to determine the validity of the Market-street bonds were Daniel Meyer, Paul Barth, the Parrott estate, the Nevada Bank, the Bank of California and others. The agreement for the consolidation of nearly all the streetcar lines in San Fran- cisco was reached in October, 1893. This was planned to capitalize the stock for about $18,000,000, of which the Market- street system should take 76 per cent, the 24 per cent remaining to be divided among the Omnibus, North Beach, Ferries and Cliff and other systems. The combining roads were the Market-street cable, the Market street and Fairmount, the Park and Ocean, the Potrero and Bay, the Southern Heights and Visitacion, the City Railroag, the Central Railroad, the Omni- bus Cable, the North Beach and Mission and the Ferries and Chff. After capitalizing the stock at $18,750,- 000, the stockholders authorized an issue of bonds for $17,500,600 bearing 5 per cent interest. In December of last year an agreed suit was brought before Judge Wal- lace. W. F. Herrin was the chief counsel for the railroad, while Robert Y. Hayne represented the snydicate that had agreed to purchase the bonds if they were proved valid. Attorney Thomas I. Bergin had previously given an opinion that the bonds were illegal because of the proxy clause and from the fact that, as it was claimed, the issue would make a bonded indebted- nesskof $4,375,000 in excess of the capital tock. 2 %dr. Herrin says that a private telegram from Los Angeles informed him that the Supreme Court had upheld Judge Wal- lace’s decision, and that meant, of course, the validity of the bonds. In all probability the Hellman syndicate will buy its $2,000,000 worth of bonds, and pmbab{v this issue will be immediately followed by another §2,000,000 worth, for the Market-street Company is in need of ready cash. SAVE a little and get sick—wear Jaros Hygienic Underwear and keep well. 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