The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1896, Page 1

/4 AN Nam gt S i A R VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 6C. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SMITHS BILL MAY GO THROUGH, An Elaborate Scheme for Re-Funding Railroad Debts. CONSIDERED IN SECRET. But There Was First a Public Session of the House Committee, HUNTINGTON'S MEN AT WORK They Make Elaborate Statements That Are Easily Picked to Pieces by Maguire. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—The e Committee on Railroads after its on to-day went into secret session. Every member was pledged to secrecy ecided to send to Secretary Hoke | for his opinion of the bill intro- | auced by Representative Smith of Illinois, the member of the Pacific Roads Commit- who last year supported Reiliy’s bill. Representative Smith’s measure 11 be the one adopted by the House committee, and wi all probability be passed | through Congress. After dealing with the Union Pacific it provides that the Secretary of the Treas- ury be authorized and directed to ascer- 1 the amount of the respective indebt- edness of the Central Pacific Company of California and Western Pacific Railroad | Company on the first day of July, 1896, upon the same principle as if the whole | sum of bonds and interest paid and to be | paid by the United States thereon and not theretofore repaid by credits on account thereof were to be wvaid to the Unitea in States in cash on the said day, and said | 11 be computed and ascertained as | rst—The whole of the principal of | said subsidy bonds attributable to each of | said companies shall be added to the | interest paid or to be paid by the United | States upon the same, so as to ascertain | the totsl amounts that wonld have been due the United States for principal and interest paid on bonds issued to each of said companies at their maturity if no | payments or reimbursements had been | made thereon by the companies. “Second--From the same amounts so ascertained shall be deducted any pay- ments or reimbursements made by or on behalf of either of said companies upon their indebtedness at any time before the first day day of July, 1896, as shall appear in tie bond and interest accounts of said companies, respectively, with the United States. *“Third—Compute the present worth of the amounts so found as of the first day of Jul 1896, on the basis that money is 2 per cent per annum during the ween the date of the average ity of said bonds and thefirst day of ly, 1894, From the sums so ascertained shall be deducted amounts in the d applicable to said companies, computing the value of any d sinking fund at their market e at the time of such computation, as imated by the Secretary of the Treas- nd said sinking fund shall thereupon be applied as payment upon the debt of such company to the United States. To amounts so ascertained and re- unpaid, after deducting said d, add the sum to be com- h basis, assuming money to on e worth 2 per cent per annum, as to rep- resent the present cavitalized worth of the rebate of interest for ten years of 1 per cent per annum on the total unpaid mounis and on the sum so added for the ebate of interest. he aggregate amounts arrived at by such addition shall be arrived at by calcu- lating upon such capitalization as would be required to be paid in cash on said day for the purpose of completely discharging their entire debts to the United States. “Tne Central Pacific is authorized to make. issue and to deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury a mortgage, which shail bear date of the first day of July, 1896, covering and embracing the entire prop- erty of such company, as at present con- solidated, real, personal and mixed, in- cluding all right, title and interest of such company in any stocks, bonds, or securi- ties or lands of any branch lines, or auxil- 1ary companies in which such company has now any interest, and all beneficial interest which it may have in a cer- tain lease of its property to the South- ern Pacific Company, as herein- after provided, and all railroads now owned or hereafter acquired or constructed by the said Central Pacific Railroad Com- , and all their franchises, telegraph lines, selling stock, fixtures and property of every kind and description, as well as those which its successors or assigns may hereafter acquire, subject to any bona fide, lawfully prior and paramount lien, claim or mortgage upon any railroad franchises whose property is now owned by such company, or which company may here- after acquire. *But such mortgage shall not be con- strued to prevent the said company from using and disposing of any of its property or ascets in the ordinary, proper and law- ful course of its current business, in good faith and for valuable consideration; nor 1o prevent the railroad company from r applying rentals derived from said case to the payment of dividends to s stockholders to the extent that dividends are permitted by this act, and said company may sell and convey for Yaluable conmideration any roads included inils land grant and apply the proceeds thereof as required by the provisions of any mortgage or liens thereon, prior to the mortgage given by this act, . “The Central Pacific Railroad Company is authorized to make, execute and issue, under its mortgage aforesaid, its bonds in an amount equal to said aggregate amounnt arrived at, each of which bonds shall be for the principal sum of $1000, and shall be payable within 100 years after the first day of July, 1895. Said bonds shall bear in- terest for ten years at the rate of 1 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year from 1897 to 1906, both inclusive, and thereafter at the rate of 2 ‘per cent per annum, payable semi- annually on the first days of July and January in each year, beginning on !.he first day of January, 1907, and continuing until said bonds shall be fully paid. S?id bonds shall at the time of the execution and delivery of said morigage be dellvered to the Secretary of the Treasury, and shail be received by and on behalf of the United States as provisional payment of said ag- gregate amount arrived at. “So long as any of said bonds belong to the United States, said company shall, semi-annually, on the first days of Janu- ary and July of each year, for the period of ten vears, commencing on the first day of of January, 1897, pay to the Secretary of the Treasury,in addition to the interest which shall then be due on its indebted- ness, one-twentieth of 1 per cent of the whole sum for which it gave its bonds and mortgages, and for a period of ten vears, commencing on the first day of Jan- 1907, said company shall semi-annually pay to the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to interest which shall then be due on its indebtedness, one-fourth of 1 per cent of the whole sum; and for a period of twenty years, commencing the 1st day of January, 1917, shall pay seven- twentieths of 1 per cent of the whole sum; and for a period of forty years, com- mencing the 1st day of January, 1937, half of 1 per cent; and for a period of twenty years, commencing the 1st day of January, 1957, 1 per cent. “‘Whenever in the opinion of the Presi- dent of the United States it shall be deemed necessary for the protection of the interests of the United States in respect to its lien, mortgage or other interest in any property of several companies named in this act, upon which lien, morigage or other incumbrance pmiamount to the right, title or interest of the United Sfates in the same property or any partof the same may exist, and be then lawfully liable to be enforced, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, under the direction of the President, redeem or otherwise clear off such paramount lien, mortgage or other incumbrance by paying the sums lawfully due in respect thereof out of the treasury, and the United States shall thereunon become and be subro- gated to ‘all rights and securities thereto pertaining to the debt, mortgage, lien or other incumbrance by virtue of which such payment shall have been made; provided, that whenever it shall | become necessary for the United States to pay off any part of any sach paramount incumbrance as aforesaid, the Secretary of the Treasury may require the payment of all money paid for such purpose, with costs, expenses and interest, and upon the failure of the company to make such re- payment with all costs, expenses and in- terest thereon, within one year after being notified so' to do, the whole indebtedness of said company tothe United States shall, at the discretion and option of the Presi- dent, become due and - payable at any day thereafter, and all rights of the Uhited States shall thereupon be enforced.” No money is to be paid roads on account of services rendered the Government until the bonds are redeemed. No railroad divi- dends shall be paid stockhclders until the roads have paid their interest on the first- mortgage bonds. Huntington’s lobby was actively at work to-day. Huntington himself was busy. Reilly of Pennsylvania (a statesman out of a job) is here, and had a talk with the railroad magnate to-night. He has prob- ably been employed as a lobbyist. J. C. Stubbs is also here, accompanied by hi secretary, W. C. Martin. John Boyd was iu conference with ex-Representative (and ex-Senator) Blair to-night. Another lob- byist was consulting with Chairman Powers. Representative Maguire said to-night the committee would ‘“‘rush things.” Mr. Boatner of Louisiana will probably be the only member of the Pacific Roads Committee who will vote against the funding bill. He was a member of the committee in the last Congressand stood with Maguire. He thinks the committee report will be almost unanimous for the refunding bill. “I am the last of the Mohicans,” said he to THE CALL corre- spondent to-day. The House Committee on Pacific Rail- roads met at 10’clock this afternoon. Mr. Thurber of New York spoke in a general way for twenty minutes in favor of fund- ing thedetts of the Pacific railroads, but made no new or specially interesting point in favor of the proposition, except that he was an entirely disinterested person, look- ing to the public welfare. - Charles H. Tweed of New York, cool, smooth and eloquent, next addressed tue committee for an hour and a half in favor of funding the debt of the Central Pacific. He expressed the belief that the com- pany could pay its debts to the United States Goyernment in 100 annual install- ments, with interest at the rate of 2 per cent.” He said the comvany could not give the Government a first mortgage on any of the railroad property, because it would have to arrange with its private creditors for the extension of their first mortgage claims and must give to those creditors the same security which they now hold; but he said the company would give the Government a mortgage upon all of its property, including its ferry and ter- minal facilities at Qakland, the California and Oregon road from Roseville to the State line with also the road from Lathrop to Goshen, which additional securities he thought would greatly improve the Gov- ernment’s position as a creditor. He said that the earnings of the Central Pacific road tor the last five years had ranged from a little over $2,000,000 in 1891 down to $42,000 in 1894, and estimated that the company, unless it should be obliged to submit to further reductions in freights, could afford to pay the Government about $1,250,000 2 year on the new arrangement. Grove L. Johnson of California, address- ing Mr. Tweed,at this point said: ‘It has been asserted, particularly in California, by some politicians that if the Pacific Rail- road debts should be refunded the people of California would be obliged to pay the debts in increased freight charges over the roads. Is there any foundation for such a statement?”’ Tweed replied: “No, sir, the proposition is absurd. Freight rates on the Central Pacific Railroad, as on all other railroads, are kept down by competition and they could not be increased to cover the funded debt.” In answer to a question by Boatner Tweed seid he did not think that the re- duction of net profits on the Central Pa- CAILIFORNIA'S BETE NOIR. Uncle Sam — ““If you don’t kill that dog, Miss Kentucky, [ will.”” T cific from $2,000,000 to $42,000 a year had been caused by a diversion of traffic to the Southern Pacific road. Hilborn stated that he thought Tweed bad conveyed a false impression concern- ing the character and value of the railroad lands by stating that most of the land was arid and mountainous and asked if a very large portion of the railroad grant land was not at least claimed to be very valu- able for their minerals, and also asked at what value the lands were held by the company and what had been realized from the sale of land up to this time. Tweed replied that many contentions had been made concerning some of the land of the company, but that he had not come prepared to answer any questions concerning those matters, and, therefore, could not throw much light upon them. At this point Mr. Johnson said: “Mr. Hilborn, I have introduced a bill securing to the miners more chances than they now have in their fight with the rail- road company for mineral lands, and hope you will help me pass the bili.” Hilborn replied : ‘““That looks like a con- fession that the miners have not hereto- fore had a fair chance.” A Johnson retorted: *“Oh, no, that don’t follow at all, but my bill will give them a betterchance.” Maguire then, by leave of the commit- tee, proceeded to cross-examine Tweed concerning the Central Pacific’s proposi- tions, its alleged new securities and its re- lations to the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky. Tweed admitted, in reply to Maguire's questions, that the Goshen and Lathrop road was mortgaged to the extent of about $40,000 per mule, and that the mortgage would be prior to the Gov- ernment’s mortgage under the re-funding arrangement. He would not admit that the road was worth less than $20,000 per mile and did not know that a new and better broad. gauge railroad is now being built through the San Joaquin Valley at cost of $10,000 per mile. He admitted that the Oakland terminal facilities were subject as a first lien to $16,000,000 blanket mortgage of the Central Pacific Railroad and thatthe mort- gage would be prior to the Government’s claim under the re-funding scheme. He also admitted that the road from Niles to Oakland is specially mortgaged at $30,000 per mile inaependently of the blanket mortgage. He also admitted that the Cal- ifornia and Oregon road between Roseville and the State line is mortgaged for at least $10,300,000 which would also be prior to the Government’s claim. Tweed having stated that the California and Oregon road was built by a local com- pany and afterward acquired by the Cen- tral Pacific by purchase, Maguire pro- ceeded tocross-examine him on that point, stating that the revort of the Pacific Rail- road Commission showed that at least the northern half of the road had been built by the Contract and- Finance Coinpany, consisting really of Messrs. Huntington, Hopkins, Stanford and Crocker, under contract with the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and that they had paid them- selves for the building of roads $8,400,000; whereas the construction of the road had cost them only $3,500,000 and had then mortgaged the branch road for $11,400,000. He asked Tweed if} that part of the report of the Pacific Railroad Commission was not true. Tweed said that part of the report, he thought, could not be true. Johnson objected to thisline of question- ing by Maguire on the ground that it had nothing to do with the matter pending be- fore the committee. Maguire said: “I think the questions are pertinent and material. These people are offering alleged additional securities to the Gdovernment as an inducement to an extension of credit. I want to show that the alleged additional securieties are worthless because they are already mort- gaged far beyond their value.” Johnson replied: “They have made no such offer, as I understand it.” Maguire proceeded to question Tweed about the lease of the Central Pacific Railroad to the Southern Pacific Company, showing that the Southern Pacific Com-] pany by lease controls all the lines o railroad running to or from California be- tween Siskiyou Mountains and Tehachapi Pass, and asked him if he did not think the monopoly of traffic of tuat region by a singie company—if the re-funding scheme should be carried through— would enable that company to charge higher rates for transportation than could be charged if the Central Pacific Railroad Continued on Third Page. - - GENERAL GARCIAS STEAMER SINKS, The Hawkins Abandoned by the Filibusters Bound for Cuba. TAEE TO SMALL BOATS. Many of the, Shipwrecked Men Are Picked Up by Pass~ ing Schooners. AT LEAST TEN ARE DROWNED. It Is a Great Blow to the Cause of the Patriots Who Are Battling for Freedom. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 28.—Last Sunday night the steamer J. W. Hawkins, com- manded by Captain Woodrow, sailed from New York with a party of between seventy- five and 100 men bound, it 1s claimed, for Cuba, where the party was ito enter the ranks of the insurgent army. When the steamer was off the eastern end of Long Island she sprang a serious leak, and the water gained so rapidly that all hands were obliged to take to the boats. Monday morning the men were picked up by passing schooners, among which was the three-masted schooner Helen H. Benedict, Captain Brockett, bound from Norfolk for Boston with a cargo of coal. The Benedict picked up twenty-five of the men and landed them at Vineyard Haven late last nignt, from which place they were transferred this morning by the steamer Susie D and landed at Woodsholl, where they took an early train for New York. The four-masted schooner Alice B. Crosby, Newport News for Boston, fell in _with another boat from the steamer about sixty-five miles southeast of Sandy Hook lightship, which contained twenty-three persons, but owing {0 the rough sea only thirteen were saved, the other ten being drowned. The Crosby landed the sur- vivorsat Woodsholl this morning, where they took a train for New York this after- noon. : Another vessel, a three-masted schooner, picked up a number of the wrecked people ana it is supposed put back with them to Delaware breakwater. The men were mostly Spaniards and would say very little concerning the disaster. It was said, however, that the steamer’s true destina- tion was Cuba; that her cargo consisted of $25,000 worth of ammunition, one gun on board having cost $5000." The J. W. Hawkins was a steamer of 125 tons net and 188 tons gross. She was built at Kennebunk, Me., in 1880, and hailed from Onancock, Va. The steamer has been engaced in the fishing business, but has been lying idle in Baltimore har- bor for some months. Two weeks ago a Mr. Tinsley appeared in Baltimore, and desired to purchase the steamer for a Mr. Smith of New York. Those interested in the sale noticed that plenty of money for the purchase was ap- varently at hand; but whatever sus- picions the sellers may have entertained they were very careful to keep to them- selves, and in an incredibly short time the boat was delivered to her new owner free from debt. She was at once taken to New York, where it is alleged a little band of men were gathered in readiness to get on board, their intention being to join the Cuban army and fight in the ranks. In spite of the vigilance of the Spanish authorities, the steamer was fitted for sea and the men were taken safely on board. Last Sunday night she sailed from that port, commanded by Captain Woodrow. Unfortunately, however, the boat was unfit for sea and the hasty preparations had allowed no time for a thorough ex- amination of her bottom, for she had pro- ceeded only as far as thé eastern end of Long Island when she sprang a dangerous leak and began to settle in the water. In spite of all the crew conld do the leak gained with fearful rapidity and in a short time it was apparent that they must take to the boats or go down with the vessel. It 18 believed there were between 75 and 100 men on board, and they had barely time to get into the small boats before the steamer went down. e e TAKEN TO NEW YORK. General Garcia 8adly Tells of the Wreck of His Expedition. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 28, —Theocean tug Fred B. Dalzell brought to this city this afternoon seventy men supposed to be Cuban filibusters, whom Captain Denyze picked up from the schooner Leander V. Beebe at 9 o’clock this morning at a point ten miles due east of the stranded steam- ship St. Paul, off Long Branch. Captain Harry Denyze was lying off Long Branch early this miorning looking for a tow. At 8 o’clock he sighted the schooner Leandér V. Beebe from Baltimore to Boston. An American flag, inverted, flew from her rigging, and the Dalzell ran up and hailea her. “The schooner’s deck,”’” said Captain Denyze to-night, *‘swarmed with men in all stages of undress. Wretchedness was written in every line "of their faces. Very few wore hats, some of them were without shoes and nearly all were minus coats. ** “What price do you want to take seventy men into New York?’ shouted the skipper of the Beebe. “I told him and we made the bargain. I ran up alongside and after an hour’s dan- gerous work got the men on the Dalzell. After the tug got under way it was agreed that I put one man off at Fier 8, North River, and [ did so. He said he wasa gunner. I did not caich his name. None of them made any secret about their ef- forts to reach Cuba and their fight for her freedom. “The most dejected person on board was an old man, who told me he was Garcia and was in charge of tbhe expedi- tion. He was accompanied by his son Carlos Garcia. Garcia seemed completely broken down. He said tbat the Cubans had played one of their strongest cards of the revolution in sending out this expedi- tion, and that more than $200,000 worth of arms and ammunition had been lost by the sinking of the Hawkins.”” Garcia then related to Captain Denyze the story of the wreck. He said: “We Joaded the steamer James W. Hawkins for the expeditionat Port Morris. All day the hatches were closed, and no- body ever had any suspicion that we had thousands of dollars’ worth of arms in her hold. All the work was done at dead of night. We sailed on Friday night and went out by Long Island Sound. We had excellent weather until Sunday, when 1t began to get rough. On Monday morning early the vessel sprang a leak. The waves and wind just opened her seams. Pumps were manned, but they soon choked with coal and became useless. Then the men got buckets and bailed for their lives. The water gained inch by inch, and finally the coal went overboard and the costly arms and ammunition. It broke our hearts to throw these arms away, but we had to keep the vessel afloat somehow. Gradually the Hawkins set- tled down, and at 11:30 o’clock on Monday morning we took the lifeboats and deserted the sinking steamer. Half an bour later the Beebe hove in sight and took uson board. At the time the Hawkins went down she was forty-five miles south- southeast of Barnegat, and the sea was very wild.” Captain Denyze said that the men saved nothing but two valises filled with United States bank notes. These arein the posses- sion of General Garcia. — e SURVIVORS AT NEW BEDFORD. Ten of the Crew Drowned in the Under- Tow. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 28.—A Globe spe- cial from New Bedford, Mass., says that thirteen of the survivors of the wreck of the steamer J. W. Hawkins, being part of the boatload saved by the schooner Alice B. Crosby, reached that city this evening. Four were Americans and nine Cubans. They left for New York by train. As the Cubans could talk no Enelish it was difficult to cbtein any information from them. The Americans, however, were willing to tell what they knew of the expedition. Although ostensibly fitted out for the Bermudas, the Hawkins was really bound for Cuba. When the boat was picked up by the schooner Alice B, Crosby. the occupants made frantic jumps for the vessel. Ten of the poor fellows were unable to secure a hold on her side, fell into the sea and were sucked under with the under- tow. Several others narrowly escaped a similar fate. H. M. Clarity, who shipped as assistant steward of the Hawkins, said there was no use in denying that they were bound on a filibustering expedition, although the crew was not supposed to know anything about it. Fireman Thomas Kelly, who was, he says, the only man saved out of the en- gineering department, said that he was not told the nature of the trip when he was shipped. The men were rromised good wages, which was sufficient induce- ment for them to ask no questions. SN DEPARTURE OF THE HAWKINS. Al the Men Who Volunteered Could Not Be Taken. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 28.—The final gathering of the filibusters was in a mar- ble-yard at Port Morris, at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, where there is a dock, late Saturday night. General Garcia, bis son and 170 other Cubans, who had enlisted for the expedi- tion, met in the yard and the Hawkins tied up at this dock. Then it was found that there were more volunteers than the steamboat could carry. Itwasim- possible to take more than 120 and it was necessary to sift out fifty m en. This an- nouncement was made after two men had deserted and had been chased away in the darkness. After the chosen band had been sifted and the 120 had got aboard the Hawkins steamed away for the Sound. The arms of the boat consisted of two Hotchkiss rapid-fire guns, 1200 Remington and Win- | chester rifles and some revolvers. There was plenty of ammunition for the Hotchkiss guns and 1,000,000 cartridges for the rifles. General Garcia also had taken along 3000 pounds of dynamite and ma- terials for making heavy explosives. e REGARDED AS A MISFORTUNE. But the Cuban Patriots Ave Not at Al Downcast. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 28.—Sev- eral prominent Cubans were seen this evening regarding the disaster to the steamer Hawkins, which had a cargo of arms and ammunition besides a party of Cubans bound for their native country. While they admitted that it was a mis- fortune and caused general regret they seemed to be by no means downcast be- cause of the mishap. “On the contrary,” said one of the lead- ing Cubans of the city, “‘we are ready to make still greater efforts in behalf of the struggle to free our cowntry. We Cubans have to purchase vessels, arms, everything under difficulties. Such purchases must be made and very quietly. We are there- fore exposed to deception. Those who purchased the Hawkins were evidently deceived regarding her sezworthiness.” i THREE VESSELS GET AWAYXY. Eapeditions Secretly Fitfed Out in Con- nectiout. NEW HAVEN, Coss., Jan. 28.—The Register to-night says: 1t is asserted this afternoon on the high- est authority that three vessels for the Cuban insurgents had been hitted up on the coast of Long island, only a short distance from this city, and sent safely to theisland loaded down with arms and supplies for the insurgents’ cause. For several months the work of fitting out the craft has been in progress and it was stated that the last vessel was a brigantine and left its port on the coast only a month ago. The vessels have been make such an unsuspected escape through the fact that the Govern- ment authorities were watching for them at the New York end of the Sound, while the boats slipped away by Montauk Point and New London. The main value of the supplies for the Cuban cause lay in the arms shipped. These were obtained, it was stated, from the manufacturers in this vicinity and were transportea to the objective point on the coast quietly, where they were taken on board the boat and got away later. The insurgents have found, it is said, nearly as many and as willing hands in executing the mission as the slaves found in the celebrated under- ground railway before the war. T i DEPARTS FOR CUBA. General Weyler on the Way With Spanish Leaderas. CADIZ, 8pa1x, Jan. 28.—General Weyler, the newly appointed captain-general of Cuba, sailed hence to-day for Havana. He was accompanied by Generals Ahumada, Barges, Ochando, Bernal, Arolas and Mel- able to Other guizo. HAVANA, Cusa, Jan. 28.—An official report of an encounter between the columns of Generals Siuares and Aldecoa and the rebels under command of Maximo Gomez locates the latter near at Guanajay, to the west of Havana. Heretofore it has been reported that Gomez was to the east of the railway running from Havana to Batabano, but it now appears that heisa considerable distance to the westward of the railroad. A detachment of troops attacked a body of rebels on the Santa Lucia estate yester- day. The troops used cannon, which caused the rebels to make a hasty retreat. Employes of the estate say that the rebels sustained many losses. The Spaniards lost twelve killed or wounded. Gomez is supposed to have crossed the railway line near Quivocan, going west, and thence through the country near Seborucal toward the northern part of Pinar del Rio. General Pando reports that in an engage- ment with rebel bands in the province of Matanzas the Spaniards lost five killed. The rebel loss is unknown. PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICE. Only Members of the fiunyon Family and Diplomats Present. BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 28.—A private funeral service was held at the residence of the late Embassador Runyon to-day, at which no one was present except the mem- bers of the family and the staffs of the American embassy and consulate. Mrs. Runyon, who is nearly prostrate with grief, was led into the room by her son-in-law, Mr. Haskins. Her condition is causing her friends much anxiety. After the service the coffin was piaced in ‘a vault in the American church in the presence of the staff of the embassy and consulate. There was no service at the vault except a special prayer by the Rev. Mr. Dickie of St. George’s Church. F. Zimmermann, United States Vice- Consul-General, watched over the body last night, HUNTINGTON S HANDY HELPERS Will Rally to His Banner in the Fight for the Charter. THEIR RECORDS ENOWN, “0ld Smoothing Iron” Did Some Clever Work for the Magnate. READY FOR A STRONG LOBBY, Californians Expected to Join in the Battle Before the Kentucky Legislature. LOUISVILLE, K., Jan, 28.—Of course C#P. Huntington does not read the Louis- ville Courier-Journa! every day all the way through, but he always manages, through the watchmen that he has at every point of danger, to keep well posted as to what is going on concerning his interests. When, therefore, he learned that an article had appeared in the paper giving a synopsis of an address sent out to the people of Ken- tucky by the Mayor of San Francisco, call- ing upon them to repeal the charter of the Southern Pacific Company, he felt called upon to say something in his own de- fense. In his reply, published in Mr. Wat- terson’s journal to-day, Mr. Huntington, among other things, says: The men who assisted me in getting the char- ter and allowed their names to be used in that connection were honorable men and their fel- low-citizens very well know that such men as Henry D. McHenry, General John Echols and their associates would not do anything dishon- orable. They knew what the purpose was, and the charter has never been used for any other purpose. Now, in regard to those gentlemen to whom Mr. Huntington refers as assisting him in getting the Southern Pacific char- ter. Henry D. McHenry is dead. Nothing further need be said of him, therefore, than that he was one of the incorporators of the old Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad, which had become bankrupt, and about the time of the organization of the Southern Pacific Company passed into the hands of Mr. Huntington and his associates and is now operated by him as a part of the Newport News and Missis- sippi Valley Railroad, which forms the link in the Southern Pacific’s transcon- tinental system from Louisville to Mem- phis, Tenn. Mr. McHenry was st the time a member of the Democratic National committee and a man of great influence in the State. General John Echols, next mentioned, has been the general manager of Mr. Huntington’s interests in Kentucky ever since he obtained control of the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, and he is the second vice-president of that organization. He is no tyro in dealing with legislators in the matter of charters, and on account of his suave and facile ways of managing things goes in this city by the sobriquet of ‘‘Old Smoothing- Iron,”’ which he acquired at the time Mr., Huntington obtained the Short Route Transfer Railroad along the river front in this city. Previous to his coming to Louisville he had charge of Mr. Huntington’s Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad, from tidewater to Huntington, W. Va. He has been con- nected with Mr. Huntington’s interests ever since 1868, Of the other incorporators of the South- ern Pacific Company two certainly were incorperators of the bankrupt Elizabeth and Paducah Railroad. One of them— Samuel Cox—had been associated with Mr. Huntington in various enterprises for years previous. That these gentlemen were not entirely disinterested in getting the charter for Mr. Huntington’s Southern Pacific Company is well known in Louis- ville. They were working for their own interests and their master's. The part of Mr. Huntington’s letter stating that they desired a charterin a State where the laws were stable is rather amusing to people who know the facts. The ease with which such a charter could be got in this State at that time is well proved by the number of such acts passed by the various State Legislatures from the date of the war up to 1890—several thou- sand in number., As indicated yesterday Mr. Hunting- ton’s forces are gathering at Frankfort to fight the Goebel bill. General Basil W. Duke, James P. Helm and St. Jonn Boyle went up yesterday. The first named is regularly retained by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the second is a prominent railroad attorney frequently employed by Mr. Huntington, and the last is one of the receivers of the Ohio Valley Railroad, controlled by Mr, Huntington. H. E. Queen of Covington, a fellow- townsman of Goebel and one of Hunting- ton’s main dependents, is also there with others skilled in such work. California should not waste any time. Delay will put’ the golden opportunity beyond her reach. WITH A BROKEN SHAFT. The Steamer Catalonia Towed Azores While Disabled. NEW YORK, N.Y.,Jan. 25.—The White Star line freight steamer Cevic, which ar- rived from Liverpool this morning, passed the Cunard line steamer Catalonia, Janu- ary 22,1000 miles from Fastnet, in distress, with her shaft broken. Her captain de- sired fo be towed to Boston, but Captain Nicol of the Cevic declined, because of the great distance, and he felt that he could not afford to turn back and tow her to Ire- land. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 28.—The Cunard line steamer Catalonia, from Liverpool for Boston, was towed to St. Michael, Azores, to-dey with a broken shait by the steamer Braunschweig, from Bremen for New to the 1 York,