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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . jitWTTA, TUESDAY JULY 20,1886
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N. J. HAMMOND.
HIS SPEEC*< IN THE OPBRA. HOUSE
ON SATURDAY NIOHT.
Xii opening of the Oongreealonnl Campsite on the
Part of the Hon. N. J. Hammond, Who Pre
sent* Bessons for nu XU-elect! on-How
Be Bee Boeulntd Blaeell. Btc.
Mr. Hammond walked upon tbo stage amtd pro
longed applause, and was introduced by Judge
Janus Anderson.
Vben Mr. Hammond aroie to sprak.t he applause
was again renewed, and lasted for some minutes.
After it bal subsided, Mr. Hammond spoke at fol
lows:
Fellow-Citizens: Fatigued by quite a long Jour
rt>. i am without preparation for addressing you
in a becoming mantier tonight. I feel almost in
aiblt giro
%i.it something for profitable thought and content'
piation.
once, many rears ago, my father went to dine
with old man JfcCrmky. who kopt a hotel down
stout where Brothtnons stoto now is.
after sitting at the table a little while he corn*
try yourself at my table.’
get as good a compliment
when I am done I shall t
1 hope that yon feel as
Juld
«tt>
Colonel Anderson, wht£has done me the honor to
speak In such extrarigan
troductlon. As a man
friend,but one wbo.two years ago,wasmy opponent
in politics, I feel speclslly grateful to him for the
manner in which he spoke of my public services.
There are two otter gent
the representative of this
at home and actively can
they have spoken as often
Mon. [Laughter. 1 They
Yon remember that when
Corinthians of his trouble
by speaking of his "care <
avo
ties*
ebt.
the
nsx
naryt
day. [Laughter.] These
vssicd have been to see j
of the people in the dlstrf
buttons have actually :
many of them have been
mis*
ting
It is a ....
thousand miles on public
me fir being there attend
p!nu»e]. Bat it is gratify
no other and greater com]
The next complaint here
ent, Colonel Mynatt, has
by my friends giving not!
only 19 miles long and 61
!«
Ap-
are
hat.
K»n-
R meut at a meeting for
» the procuring or theca
was In tta&niugton, and i
my duty. 1 could not havt
inty
out
ivill
was
liox
ml
tof
tbo
_ > time and at tbo mee
was ids mbfortune at tbia
Atlanta and in DeKalbc
all
iDU-rcsi nere now as no ever nan. iemc,i am iota,
was the only man to protest against the people vot
ing next Tuesday. It makes a wonderful dltterenno
whose ox is gored. I heard an anecdote recently
t is gored.
of a man running for ofllo
at the time t
about running Grai
term, and this man w;
bate judge, or wbat w
teen In for fouryears, a u
_t the new man in. At l
be came walking dowt;
with hla head cast down I
met a friend and said, "J
Jones today? ’ He said "J
come down yet." "Welt,
him. I want to i
BUI," The friend said,
After?" lie said. "No, b
badly." "Wbat have yon
"You know tour years a*
county and told everyboc
keep a man In office mon
terms in that office, and,'
ilia
’ L
his
V
ploymtnt from free labor T Who want, more
convict labor In Atlintal (Applauw.l Lei
Colonel M>satt adrocato It,—I do not. The
Judiciary committee of wbten I am a member ha.
bad beiote It for nearly two mouth, the iu,ac
tion of the attorney seueral that at um point
Ibeie tball be elotfe federal prison built, and
they have bad petition after petition from labor-
Si “en at Albany, N. 1,, bertlnt them to remov-t
the federal pri-orers from there, because they
compete with their labor outside. [Applause.] 1
have said all I desire to say on the subject. If
yen are not ra lifted, yon are a pretty hard crowd
to satisfy. [Laughter.]
The next complaint is that I did not vole for the
labor arbltiation bill. I did not. Do you know
w ha: It Is? 1 w til tell you plainly aud distinctly:
It is simply a declaration that whenever anybody
u is simply a declaration that whenever anybody
1 an a quarrel with a railroad corporation, If that
ftrson an<; the corporation are both willing they
may submit iho matter to arbitration, and that
when the arbitrators have taken down the tosti-
lstcr at
that is alb ...
the aw aid upon ........
simply to be kept. When that bill came up, I said,
I stu not wllllug to lie to the labor of the country,
and ray that thire is anything In that bill, [Ap-
C lause. I 1 will not do It, [Renewed applanse.J but
ir. Ktlley, of Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia,
the gre atist 1st or centre in the Uutted States, made
somt revere remarks about It. I will read It to you
became I understand there has been a good deal
of talk ou that subject. I will read you also re
marks in my speech. These are very interesting
books—scrap books edited by N. J. Hammond.
[Laughter.] This was my remark:
"The real friend of labor It the man who Is care
ful lest he be drawing the sword of the govern
ment to strike down the right of combination
lylvania, (
S ion of labor on ibis floor, _
ire to say that I will vote for this bill, and aa that
is my purpose. I want to say In advance to the
workingmen of the country. that It la a trick upon
their credulity and a fraud. 1 Mr. Kelly also said.
The bill of tbo gentleman means nothing and
cannot have life breathed into it by an amende
ment." Ibad said that arbttratiou under state
lawa was preferable to the proposed bill. Ou
the next day Mr. Kelley urged like ar-
K iments in favor of the state
ns. He said: Here la a bill proposing to enable
people In controversy to do. under the sanction of
congress and at the cost of the government,whst
they were doing at that tune, what the great mas
ter workman ol the combined workmen of the
United States bad appealed to bis side to do under
penalty of his withdrawal from connection with
them." After paying a high compliment to Mr.
Powderly. Mr. Kelley continued : "Thlsjbill pro
poses to do. without penat sanction, what has beeu
cob . ____
try (under state arbitration laws) In the concession
Of j *— • -
Increased pay by employers,In the concession of
shorter hours, to the overwrought conductors and
i mpsnies. in tbl< view 1
Is now every state in the unlou has an arbitration
law. Anybody who agrees can have an arbitra
tion in the state, flic it in the state court and make
It a Judgment aud havo it enforrt d. You caunot
((ration bill. The state arbitration Is far the best
lu that particular. But when you make the fed
eral legislation, look at It In another view. If
tLrre be a combination In Georgia of labor against
a railroad and a crimo bo committed tbo crime Is
triable in a Georgia court before a Georgia Jury,
with an appeal to the supreme court of Georgia,
and an appeal for pardou, if wrongfully couvictoJ,
to the governor of Georgia. But suppose you start
out on this United Htatcs line and rnako au arbi
tration in the federal court as broad as tbo stato
court. Nobody know* where you will go when It
stans. Then when arrested for a breach of tho
law y ou are to be carried to a federal court, away
from your borne, hundreds of miles perhaps.
to now ne snail cuargo we jury, out suinonzea to
tell the jury to find you guilty if be soes proper,
and witn no appeal except to the president ortho
United Htatcs tor pardon, who never heard ot you
parc__..
or your family aud cannot be expected to have any
special interest in your affairs.
KIUI. IU HIM UUIBV. MIU,
thinking about it; 1 have
myself aud 1 know that I
how to attend to buslnea
thing the people can do la
*ra
era
term. [Uugnter and ap]
1 Bill Jones wrong, a
tit.’
X I
got
_ a this stage that w E
two ycais ago I near!]
att
The gentleman
aid. You will recall that on that occasion
Tna Constitution made a mistake and published
that the election was to oo “ * —
at* ad of the doth. I said ’
waits, and started to.tbe o
gage a place for * “
Tbur— *
Thursday night, but betor
i the later time. Bui
and apart from the real i
tonight.
We are engaged in a gi
nesa of determining who i
in Washington to convey
wishes to the law-making
No graver doty ever comet
that, If he looks at it In a
When 1 say cltlsen I mean
lis
ted
try,
plame.)
Declarer
Indepcnd
equal,
class
meet tho class legislation in
old Xngland which made one man bom to be a la
borer and another man born to be a prlnoe. [Ap-
plans*.] In this country we proclaimed for tne
E lans*.] in this country we proclaimed
m time that there should be no heredlti ...
or, no fame but that which a man should strike out
tor himself from the took of adversity and trial,
frilly to the highest and
umy. [Item
b different 1
inter-
the sacred right of the ballot, each entitled to be
considered. as be is under the law, the legal and
political equal of every other man in the country.
Now because I have no ocher way
ef guiding myself, I propose to reply
to the arguments that have boun
made, so far as I can learn
them from the evening p*per%and those whohave
jm the evening papers,! _
beard my opponent speak. If yon please, for con-
—* - - B sake. I shall take thei '
years ago to the fact that there ought to b» ■■■
to prevent men sent to tho penitentiary from tod-
er J courts, from being carried to Albany, N. Y„ to
I understand he points to tne inclem
ency of the climate and almost freesas a man to
deads at the very thought, from what lean gath
er from btsvpeecbes it la really a matter or won
der that any body car'**“ *“ —
ns look at tne thini
r can live in that country,
ng setiooaly as a matter of j
r men are tbet^^ro^^roM
ness. Bow many men are there from Georgia in
the federal pri-on at Albany? Only ten. and It is
a grand fact tbat bone of them ever voted
for tre, [Laughter ) There is no surer guaran
tee to stay out ol the penitentiary than to associate
with my friends. [Benewed laughter.] How
many go there per annum? About three. Mr. HU1
fc- l ame he has rent three, be thinks, since be has
been district attorney. Tbat prison Is selected, and
Columbia, send their federal prisooers to that
point. The attorney general’s own state. Arkan
sas, sends theirs to Detroit Michigan. Why ? Be
cause there is no respectable prison initbesoothem
states. Who wouldbanfeha white man for mak
ing illicit whisky to Dado coal mines? [Ap
plause.) Why, in all these states and in, all Geor
gia I am selected for abase on this topic? They
are sent to a prison remarkably comfortable, re
markably wail kepi, inspected very frequently and
closely, and when tamed out given tree transpor
tation to their homes. Bat what would be the
rawed*. it you propose to have one? 1 am told
tbat Colonel Mvnatt would build a penitentiary
here in Atlanta. Could hatmlid where he plashes?
Would all southern states ;yield to his wish? We
have had quite a good deal |of building going on
here by tbe federal government; we have several
hundred thousand dollars just here, (pointing to
wards tbejenetom boose;) we have sure than double
wbat that cost going oo below here (referring to
fe deral barracks soon to be erected near Atlanta).
It was to arrange that and get mote snooty for that
that kept me In Washington np to day bdfore yee-
TBUfsa.TSSSi
•ral prison built here, who wants
remember “*■—
yoo could kavaa fed
when
it?
and they
i they
Mtllcdgeville __
had the penitentiary there with nearly eoe hon
ored men la U (tor we .very seldom went at»rc
last) tbat there was not a carpenter to be found In
the city. When 1 wished a box ol borts opened 1
tad to seod ta tbe penitentiary for a screw driver.
peso yoo locale them here: they weald hereto
*«rk, voddn'i tU,? Would they oat uka am-
Let mo show you In a moment bow littlo there is In
this eternal ciy of no wlllingueia to aid what they
call the laboring claams. For convenlonoe let mo
read to you what measures have been passed in tho
boure in the Interest* of organized working associ
ations, and all tbat character of men within tho
last three years by democrats in the boose of repre
sentatives. in tbe last congress we established tbo
labor bureau.
Now wbat are the bills tbat have been passed by
this house this year? I havo already spokeu of tho
arbitration till, which was tho only oue 1
opposed. Wo have passed a bill prohib
iting tbe leasing or hiring out of government
prisoners; granting leavea ofaoeence to tho em
ploye* of tho prlntlug office for
thirty days in each year; legalising tbo
Incorporation of trade-unions; and then to prevent
the employment of convict labor and alien labor
upon public buildings and other publlo works.
Tbat Is Dill £641. Homebody baa told me ou tho
lal is to be put into tbat military post Complain
not our house done all it could do? We have
passed a bill. It could not be speeded; it had to go
through the regular tribunals, the regular commit
tees, the regular order of business, and uo man In
Washington could go ahead or tbo law. It was
simply this: Shall all work cease, or shall work
go ou aa all tbe work In tbe United States Is going
on, until a law changing tbe order of things can be
passed. Tbe mechanic who is wanting a Job
would not make much complaint, provided tin
law making power was doing all it could. But ic
S recced, this boose has also passed a bill amend-
ig the act to prohibit the emigration of lmml
grant labor, foreigners and others under contract
Another
their wages, also the senate bill providing for tbe
diem of government e»L___
Decoration Day and the fourth of July; ana lastly,
tbe house bill directing the commissioner of labor
to sake investigation In regard to convict labor
throughout tbo United States. There are other
chairman of the committee. a*c/sy or twouviurci
left Washington, as containing measures on which
. ling
our party was a unit. Now, I mean to say this,
. w .... — •-»- organisation
that the greatest danger to labor as an o
but tbat It will ask 1:
about It seriously wl
great matters it is j
and exact as in any other
can coma from consulting about those matters just
ig„ ,
aa we have to consult about all other mat
ters before action. I am talking a good deal
nponthis topic because It has been suggsttod by
my friend In introducing me at a matter of Irn
ports nee, and because It is so regarded by all of ns.
1 desire to call your attention to one other mat-
speech last night, and that is tbat 1, with
gentlemen in the house of representatives, voted
against what la called theoieomanarin blit. Now,
let us consider tbat In the light of labor. —
tin, tbe old war governor of Pennsylvania, waa
lighting the bill against its author. William Hcott.
the great millionaire dairyman of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania were opposed I
undertook to prove L
you some of bis remarks:
Mr. Curtin—"I oppose tbe bill on the principle!
or the till Itself. I am oppoecd to it because I au
opposed to taxing any industry out of existence.
duce an inqnii
quirr Into e
wd fust as wi
if this is a
yon
into codec anflH
MB well as Id refer-
[■parental gov-
ncrslly, but until then let the freemen
generally, r
united mates be tbe judge* of what is wholesome
snob a subject.
have this telegram and the resolutions
read, and if there is not time *n the two minutes
allotted to me then I snail ask to hare them print
ed.” [Cries of "Read!" "Read!"]
The clerk read as follows:
PimiBURo, Pa, May SI, im.
Hon. ANDaxw G. Curtin, House ol Representa
tives, Washington:
ly and lodge* composing c
by mail:
PmsBcao, Pa., May 29,1*36.
congress tor the regulation of tbe manu
sit ion of taxea thereon amounting to a pro hit
•id
Whereas, The manufacture and sale of this ar
ticle is a legitimate bnsinese, furnishing a cl tan,
palatable, healthy and nutritious article of food at
a reaonahle price, and that the effects this legis
lation will be to Increase the price of a cheap ar.d
wholesome food product, and destroy tho labor its
manufacture employs; and
Whereas, The only reason given for this legisla
tion la that It comes Into competition with butter;
It is resolved, that we protest against tbe pass
age of such measures aa unjust and injurious to the
Uterine classes and as opposed to the principles
of sound public policy. ,
It is further resolved, That copies of these reaolu-
tious be tra*milted to our senators and repreeenla-
The foregoing pfeambto amf resolutions, were
adopted at a session of the trades assembly of wsafe
era PennsjIrani* for the purpose of taking prompt
action In regard to a bill now pending before e ki
grass entitled "A bill to regulate the manaucturu
and sale of bottevlae or oleomargarine."
Richard Ennui
President of Trades Assembly of Western Feaasyl-
veala. ^ ^
Secretary Trades Amembly of Western*Wnneyl.
the list of those aisociatlons whose names
were printed in the record, making nearly a half a
column, had the right to represent 74000 muu In
their several lodge*, as they saUl they did. My
friend, Mr. Fargubar, ol New York, ex preaidentot
the International Typographical union, took the
trouble to go to Pittsburgh peraou aud sco the
eertlemcn who hr.d asrcmblcd, and I havo hla
letter on the table addrc»ied to me In which he
with, I think three exceptions, nnanimoukly said
■’ ‘ '* * keilevr"*" vv “ * *
that their associations
sved the bill was b*L
alt very well'to talk aftout caUng 'thirty rive cent*
ou and I know it is not done. You aud
s of people In this clty k
In the weat aud south pariicu-
Ttgr
you i
that
larly. don't get auy kind of butter, they eat gravy.
[Loud laughter and applause ]
Ho much for the labor element in that. Mark
you now, that la what I had before me. Why,
oran, provident of a labor association, spoke
•gainst it. Nearly every representative
on tbe floor anoke against It. and yet I a
nonneed by Colonel Mynatt for voting wit
hundred other gentlemen against that bill. Wny,
Mr. Haas, tbe chief on Colonel Mynatt’s ticket, la
Arm In my district on the subject. I did receive
Ml th|f city asking
I me to have the law, if I could, changed to be just
like tbe Georgia law. Obedient to {heir request,
I introduced the Georgia law word for word, and i
had it passed as an amendment in a committee of
tbe wholes and it was afterwards stricken out by
a small majority in the house. [Applause.] I
told the house we had stopped it down in Geor
gia. And that so far from It hurting ns here It
only Increased the price of bolter in the country,
tor that knowing there naa an imitation article in
market, we were on the alert, and that I, whan 1
went tobny, and tbat yon, when you went to bay,
would give move to the farmer whom we knew,l
because we anew that on his butter was the stamp
of tbe honesty of the farmer and the purity of the
fanner's daughter who put it up. [Applause.]
And do you know how the bill was carried in the
house? On the last day. when It was in danger of
destruction, they agreed to reduce the tax from
ten cents to three cents a pound, and then Mr.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, arose and said sabstan-i
tially, "Look at the men opposing this bill. There
Is, Hammond, of Georgia* end Rogers, of Arkan-I
■as, and Breckenridge, of Kentucky, and some
other man from a southern state, 1 don't remember
who." He said substantially: "Take the four stales
by tbe census, and they make lew butter, all put
together, than the little stato of Vermont/’ There
he sneered at tbe sooth, and urged representatives
to understand that that was a tight between the
dairymen of the cast and the cotton seed oil sell
ers or the south. By a sectional
light they managed to carry It. I lave you gentle-
mt n all thought bow much there la in this cotton-
Iseed oil industry? Do you know that that is what
reduced the price of lard in Chicago to six and a
quarter cents, not because it is used as lard, but be-
„ _ who raises a bushel of
cttton-seed for the oil mill, even tho colored mon
of the counity owe to this new discovery ofsclenco
tbe cheapness of their food which makes heat and
Another complaint is in this paper tbat I saw
this evening. This is the Capitol. By-tbo-by I
will remark there is something In tbe Capitol
paper, tboJourna
thousand people down there
they were all for Colonel Mynatt before
tbey went I would rather somebody
who are not for me would come, tbat I might con
who are not for me would come, tbat l might con
vince them that they were wrong. The Boys tell
me that it was not as large as that maw meeting
tbat Colnnel Mynatt complained about taking
snap-judgment on him. Colonel Mynatt made a
speech in McDonough tho other day, and an artlclo
lu tho Journal said every district In the county
was represented by "representative men," and
p a "large and appreciative crowd of Ifenry**
people?’ That sounded well. There are
e, and, counting Colonel Mynatt. there
district left out. (Laughter.! I don’t
ch told the truth, but somebody lied as
to that occasion. llAUgbtcr.] But I have got off
or my sut ject. This is tho Atlsnta Journal issued
on tne l?in day ot July. In it Is an article he#dot
and there Is a complaint about the Central rail-
tor the (£ntra? railroad. 1 do not know to
what it alludes. But do you know where 1
was In 1879? You had sent me away from hero to
work for you. and 1 was In Washington by tho lHth
ney for tbe Central railroad; so I eras unu • w
came attorney general In 1874. Then I became
tbe attorney of tbe state against them, and In this
book is the argument made on the lax oases which
‘ rousht the whole of the Macon aud Western road
nd the branches from Albany called the Geor
and Florida railroad under tlio hammer of tho
fax gatherer, arid f rom that day to this they have
paid Into tbe state treasury their ■ heckles, *
And yet some fellow in a newspaper who ba« not
bttnln tbiff late perhaps long enough to warm his
Mat, comes here and talks about my being "tbo
uol of the Central railroad.” [Applause]. I .in not
tffSL*
Major ;Camt)beU Wallace was auperlntc
signature of tbe reasons? Ido not remember tbe
Karens: I suppose they were good reasons. 1 have
so Ideahe ever took a dollar that he ought not to
have had, but be ought to be equally charitable to
i judgment, and h, ought to remember
11 took was out oftbe pocket ora private
on, and wbat be took was out of your
corporation, and wbat be took waa out or your
pockets, because the Western and Atlantic railroad
beloor “
belongs to the state. [Applause ]
homebody, writing over the name of "Mer
chant" baa raid that he has teen a letter of mine
on file In the governor's office, In which 1 took
'44.68 as a fee in th« Georgia national bank esse:
waa like Toombs when they published
Methodist church,
on him that be had joined the I
ter. J But I did not know how to explain th* er
ror. for I bad not seen the letter since I wrote It In
February .1874 and 1 never did see it until yeeterday.
It waa fully explained by "Voter" in Tux Consti
tution. 1 wish to show you how unfairly I have
iter bad, aa you may have
‘mwlng tbe money nal»*
part of wnld
Bttybeus~*rid~C0U7n*fTDm
been dealt with. Tbat le
read, two accounts; one
by tbe bank to the state of Georgia, part ol
*aa to.oco and odd dollars pakfto Judge
Glenn aud turz
to me. aud the balance, g3.M4.66, paid N. J. Ham
mond. That was called statement No. 1. Right
under that wax statement No. 2-the account or N.
J.Hammond with the state of Georgia on account
from the Atlanta National bauk.
M, 910.26V 42. Held by
i iiHt riHitu iuo aiuiniui iiu.ou ia .
Glenn fa,COO as bla fee; held brme’9600. instead of
13,044, and balance of nearly tio.oeoipidd that day
by me to John Jones, treasurer. Now, what
tli Ink;
of a man who, with such a
tbe
sajs nothing about number 2 right ut
samo letter? [Applause.]
mRtepnenad
before had declined to al__ .
torney general, on account of political oonsideca-
dispose of them as I saw best, and to pay me sueu
compensation as be or I thought proper ortoem-
-agr^upootennj
.... Hiilrer A
he Informers, got» per
In 1 their several caves for
iherisselvee and infoimers. I got 10 per cent, on
the net after theirs was taken out, and ou cases
i mall. But In that they stated that because of hla
grand fight against glsnt corporations in 1877 they
tell thst they oned hint a debt of gratitude which
i mild only be paid by sending him to eon trees
Well, tbey were a long time settling, lr the"
thug had been In judgment
it would have been barred ia that
length of time. Perhaps Colonel Mynatt could
have shown that he kept it alive by having an en
try of "bulla bona" made on it every two yean.
grave yard?
receives 1
an anecdote
,Ct0 bales perhaps. It reminds me of
tbat used to be told about a littlo
was quite an Important man In our town.
In stalk wuh us school boys ho said one day,
bragging on his father. "When my father came
bt re be aid not havo but two goats, uow look at
him." He had a goat In every man’s garden In
.. * -• —& •
town. [Loud laughter ] What waa most remark-
more to do with the mnltlpiyliif of those
K >ats [Upioarous laughter] than —*
jnatt .has bad to do with
in created cotton receipts. [Laughter.)
Now, in 1877 this gentleman who is poslug all
through the country aaa great leader from all
trouble Into Joy and happiness, did what? What
did he do in the convention ol 1877 to
trouble? Let’s appeal to the record.
fourteen standing committees of that
composed of nine members, extent the last,
waa called a "revising committee" of tweoty-flvo
members. I was on the Judiciary, on the commit
tee on education and the "revising committee."
Colonel Mynatt was on the committee on home
steads and on the "revising oommltte." Had any
iimi nnu
help ou Uhls
There were
t house, all
e lass which
■BuiiloHH
body picked Mm out to.
They had^M
■t to manaco transportation?
thought of that; they had not loosed
t .light a all, and be to not by tho
upon it in that . _
books made a champion in any way 'of any such
legislation. General Toombs, as chairman of that
groat committee of twenty-five, reported a measure
which said tbat railroads were "publlo highways,"
which tued expressions about their
"abuses," their "extortion" and dec
larations that tho legislature shall es
tablish "reasonable maximum rate* for rralgot
and passenger" and "uniform on the same com
modities" and brought It into the house for dis
cuss ion. 1 said a railway Is not a ’public high
way." Your code said a "public highway" must
be thirty fret wide and free from trees aud Gov
ernor Jenkins said it was not "a public highway."
Colonel Mynatt said it was in a certain tense, but
tense. 1 said tbe 1
Mann care from
Illinois, bolding tbat yon can make all this kind
of legislation and having the authority to do it is
nrelfrsstoputitintothe constitution where you
may find an unbending rule Inconvonlent. These
spcechct are all in print and there is my later and
more elaborate speech was not reported, because
more elaborate speech was not reported, because
the speeches of 17.18 and 19 August, 1877, were
never written out and published. Nopoailble
chance to dodge auy thing about 1L Many speeches
on both sides were made. Wbat else occurred?
Colonel Mynatt introduced a resolution, but with
drew It before It got to a vote. Mr. Seward, of
Thomaivlllc, Introduced a substitute, but It was
voted down. Mr. llutoombe, ot our city, at the
National hotel. Introduced a substitute, but It was
UUIVI, l ill Unimex, Bniiimiiuw, UUh II WM
voted down. Mr. Warren, of Savannah, introduc
ed a resolution and It waa carried, Mr. Reese, of
Morgan, Introduced a resolution and it was car
iuiiuuuccu ■ nuMUHDU win it wu Rtr-
rlcd. Thera waa uodeflnlte Idea, but a great many
propositions as to wbat should be done on that
Tbo ptoiK stuuh,about which Colonel Mynatt
so much noise, wan voted out of tho constitution.
and theprosltion of Mr. Warren was first asoptod
and then reconsidered, and last the eompomilse
td. Colonel Mynatt, as I am
Di Kalb tbe other day in bis speech, that Warren’s
and not Warren’s [Laughter. 1 ] I have not tlme to
Mr. Warren, of the first, oflered the following as
roads In this state are hereby declared to bo com
mon carriers. Tbo general assembly shall have
power to pa»« laws regulating freight* and |
- ' ou railroads; and when the *
gcr fares on railroads; and when tne local freights
arc unrearenable and extortionate, it shall be the
duty or the general assembly to pass such lavs.
The general amnibly shall, from lime to Ume,
establish maximum rates of freight and pasaeuger
to the people, and not destructive of the
urs vi wjC ral head companies: and such as shall
make no dbcrlmlnstlon nor give any advantage to
189. ot which 49 were democrats and two were
Georgia. Did any'
r-slx were democrats and four from
any such thing. Then in the
was reported cn tbo 16th of January i.vu by Judge
en effort to get It up in preference to all other trills
and tbe bouse re fused to take It up iu preference
to all other bills. on which Gcor.
g!a was divided, but tbe bill itself, upon its mer
its, was never voted npon. In Janus ~ ’
lttsgau asked to fix aday to roust
1 here were 121 yeas, 78 democrats ami five Geor
gians in favor of it, and 78 nays, of which were
ten democrats and no Georgians. There we
•greed a little better, but at the same time U waa
far from twins unanimous either way. I say noth
ing about pairs because my reference book omits
th» psiis.
On tbe 12th of June 1882 Townsend, of Illinois,
— - Reagan only out oftbe fifteen members
dliseutiDf. Twice have I been called upoo by di
rect vote in tbe boose and have voted for the
Reagan bUL It to said "
to tbe same thing. One man on one —
th. other count. Von, ccutlomen, mu nol under-
‘ lo me to
mo o.UI Icon como beck from Iho MHoOoode
partment where I cut attend lo amne balnea tor a
ronMItcent.'' Whan the roll U called neither vote,
hecaoa of that pair. I paired once on that bill
with Brum, ol rennajlvaal*, who mad, a apeech
agaloat It. On another Ume with Rohloaon, now
lorcrnor of HaaaaehqaHU. who had made aereral
apecthea ainlnit IL I had aa effectually oaatmy
vole ti If I had voted. I paired with a mu on
theoUwr aide. We en Oblffod to do that ot we
^^Ummrniiumumulnam; we en obllfed to
with no |
-r to woch np eny Information, or to
no anythin, that you — — *
except by leevln, with
oeeealeao 1 do not know
ateeot. In the laaleoofrca.
1 voted .train.t the hul alter
I her (Torn Booth Carolina,
and others voted on an amendment to fore* the
commingling of the raoea in cars in our state,con
trary to cur own laws and the desires of our peo
ple. True, it waa so modified thst some thought!!
could be accepted, and others thought the aenate
irstIf d
tlrglfU
>, thatgU
tton of passengers oo land, except In theelvll
rights bill which has lately been declared uncon
stitutional by the supreme court of th* United
on land, except
l blame nobody for voting the other way on that
ocas ion, but no ooe can properly blame |me for
voting my way for my reasons. Besides, I believed
then, as I now believe, tbat tbe Reagan bill can
not become law, and tbat the ouly prospect of
success Is in a commission bill, for on tbat only
can the home and seuate agree. But my oppon
ents sa^r, "Why do you not speak more on tho
subject?"
H pea king is hard work. I
roll slraro of that work.
do my full snare or
1 have my full share of It on subjects
“| t |g[|
before my
pens, leaning back In flue chairs and all tbat
If jou had the amount ot correspondence to do
«.— written Iu the last eight
that there fingers have i
jusi as u is everywncra rise, ido man wno siicnas
io business will have plenty to do. A Ivr man
there and a lasy manat home will loaf [Ap-
K suse.) You know that It can be no life of eaie
at produces the great men of tbe country. 1 am
not talking of the living, but think of Olay, and
_r, and Calhoun: and Lincoln, andImuglM
and Garfield, los*} nothing of the great dead of
Georgia, Including Bill, whose monament we
erected as an inspiration to our youths. Could
tbey dla
"The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden fllgbt.
But they, while tbelr companions slept,
Were tolling upward In tbe night.'’[Applause.]
There Is no life more laborious than that of tho
thinker; there Is no life more laborious than that
of one chaged by pride, by ambition, by Interest
of every kind, to grand endeavor for hla country's
**IdonH fnow^betber I have alluded to every*
subject of railroads 1 want
1 Mynatt talked about
, Oh no. On ibis same
to say this: He tola
strey tbe distinctions betweeu local and thnuuti
mights, which exist and are rccognlxed generally
throughout the United Htatcs. r or shall they bo
so framed or executed ns to out off
through business or lo drive through business
by making tbe rates upon It uniform with l.wsl
i would otherwise pass over the rail-
around the Mate, such advantage over the Hues
parsing through tho state, aa to cripple the latter,
and divert tbelr business lu favor of the lines out
side of the state.
Nor shall tbey givo any advantage to
_j# line over another competing line
In this state. Rebates snail never be paid dlraotly
rcctly by any railroad company In the state,
through orfl competitive badness". That
Dt sound like nonsense. It does seem to me
does not sound like nonsense. It docs seem lo me
that with a reasonable amount o' study Colonel
Mj natt could nave understood lb He did under
stand It. but inasmuch as 1 waa recorded in favor
of that, it was to bte interest to say it was nol vety
sensible. Who waa recorded the earns way? Let
me call your attention to the vote. Those voUi
ting
If; I
•ive yoo some of them. On the vote Hudson, ol
tbo twenty ninth, called the previous questloo ou
his amendment, aud this to the vote in favor of
tbat amendment, 100 to 74. Among r
dred were: Pope Barrow, late Bulled
tor; John Collier, a very respectable 0
r, a very respectable
ton county, then representing Ful
vantlon; Judge Fain, Judn
illon county, and Its
I tbat convention: Judge Fain, Judn Feauieratooe,
iMr. Gibbs, of Walton county, and Uamiltoo, of th*
forty-second, of Rome, Judge Hausell aud myself.
Judge Hill, Jougt Reese, olthe twenty-clghthraroji
Is ol Wilkes; Judgo Iteere, of tho iweuty-u
- -dee Rsssa
Hcreven and Trammel, your present rail-
* ' *tt>l—‘ " •—"
road commissioner; and Colonel Hofoombe down
here, and Lawton, and Judge Lawaoo and
Tuggle and J. L. Winn and Judge Welborn and
others, making In all an affirmative votept 100 to
other people who were t:
niuBuuuic yiucui wuhh in iuo owniu'iuvu,
which were still a compromise, were put In by
Judge Reese, of Morgan, that grand old man who
refused to preside on the bench when Pope told
oath. [Applauwj mat
Georgia lu hl« Ufe aud
was laid away lu his
irsnd old man who honored'
u less than sixty days ago
icnond grave m Madison; whose friend I was
no subject of Itnpor-
r, except that i thought him a little too stingy
money for education (Applause.) So muon
ie legislation in Georgia In the oouveniton.
w in 1878 and 1879the legislature met. 1 was
if, and so waa Colonel Mynatt, to carry
cqp*tltutton. Before I weut lu, tbey
rtocudgreM, and so our repreeanUUvea
nstt. 1 telle-va J am oorrecl about it. Now did
Colonel MynaU take any lead tbere?_Bome arti
cles written over the signature of "Voter" have
Iren yon a history of It all. After boom four or
Jve gentlemen had Introduced measures he Intro*
doccd one. It waa laid on the table. He tried an-
cent en the grora
verdict tor 998,000, a
recovered a
foes in both cases were
were my services
cases. Ido not car* to go into thi
ther. 1 wish to give you simply the facts how
ttere things were conducted In the general busi
ness.
Kf it until last
wtekvrcak of it as familiarly as If they had been
•leering with it under their pillows for ten years,
gtolil tell you tbe plain honest troth about there
matters, and have fatigued myself today In getting
tbe facts. Let me give yon first a little History
•lent tbe legislation of railroads in this state. In
1K4 a Mil was introduced in the boose of repre
sentatives or Georgia to regulate tbe lariffb of
freight sad paatageon railroad* in this state. It
waa postponed indefinitely In tbe boost- No other
ti.cb action waa taken I think nnUI 1973. _when|
MiMremMiitotoreihblliraifo
Mr. Hudson introduced In tbe bourn htobill toreg-
that till passed tl — -----
tabled by a vote of 21 to 10,1 believe. Your hon
orable mayor waa oao of the gentlemen who.vo* 4
to table. You never lost confidence In him for it;
he Is one of yoor most honorable gntlemen now,
and to io regarded by everybody. But, to goon
with tbe history. Then came the convention of
1877, and a great deal bas been said in tbe poblie
pma about tbe railroad legtoUUoo In that eon-
vtulcn. Quite a number of leading reea In At*
Ism aligned a petition to Colonel Mynatt to ran
hr cot grots., CoBildering how easily reew togn
TeCftkms. and tbat thst waa out from th* 7lh lo
yetfikm*, and tk
the leth of May,
I thought the number waa wwite
other and tbey put tbat oo tbo table [laughter aud
applauic] aud then when tbe legt-lature was over
yt u put him on the shelf. Homebody, calling him-
■rlf *-litre hint" when * —
ebauts know that ha told General lAwson that he
wss In flavor of tbe British or Ma^sachu<«tta com
mit) ion." Well, now, which? The British rail
road commission to a very strong and
.. that la Just as easy
•a tailing off a log. Don't you remember when we
had to get out at Dalton, then at Cleveland, and
then at Bristol, and then at every other, place be
tween here and New York, night and day, buy a
new ticket and rccbeck our baggage- Than wben
aman got discharged from one railroad heoonld
get on another. But they began to mako through
lines; thou to have one president and one secre
tary for all tbe road's lines, and one
run clear through. One of the greatest
achlevt menu of tbe age was the moving of thirteen
thousand miles of track In a week In the south to
•tit us In ck-ser communication wltb tbe <
until
What made those combinations neceeury v
Colonel M^naH teach tfobo gerittomoo to j
leopof corporators! Taka ibtoVttle corpor/
i, the Georgia railroad from here to Augusta.
There are 1.222 corporators, or private persons,
whose money to in that road. To say twelve men
In New York control all tho railroads in tho
country, it all stuff. It is a very easy thing to un
ite array ooa olare of i
other In this oovntry and.
millionaires. Men ra
the Indlee may
ft male college at MaoooT [Apptaure.1 Whatman
with a reml In him can took at old Vanderbilt
college at Nashville—turning out Its educated bun*
■o lo »|*inl In * nouthcrn dime? (Applauio.) Bom,
iu. wealth oomiptljr; mow um U iruvllri
,nu naouihlto abiuo th, corrupt and Uud tha
>r ( Co'not know anythin, about tha prlrata bud-
atm of thua rallroadi, and roudonot I do know
IM-. that In th. oronu of IMS. rolumt 4, nan 21,
JOO can Itarn all lha fact, that 700 daalta to know
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awr
ffST-T.AH,
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Rtoea reduced to nne-half former priced
Vo. X Math. $30.001 Mo. a Vaela. 140.0V
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Wont night and daji
Pealtireljonraa Bnptvoi
Seat br mail rreiyohera.
Writ# for otrenlara to tbl
National Elastic Trnfl Co.,
744 Broad way (Room Ifc
NEW VARK. • '
DRYERS
BMMUMAII U fa ML BUHUMIOM. IOWA
Iht
in the Y(—. ... _ — — — ,—.
road Christian Association library, .bat everybody
may consult them. On that page It b
declared that of 1,900 and odd rail
roads In the United States, only 929 declare any
dividend at all; that out of thore 923 ninety-two
declare a dividend of Iras loan on* per oent upon
the net canto paid In. Four hundred and flfiv Hro
of them do ‘ "
J250i£S'i/JSrS““5S
June22-wkyXj90l
Four hundred and fifty five
dots than 7 per cent of dlvl*
dnd.- Tb« countrr ha, tha rallraarta, arbathar
thry arc piofllublo or unproAUbfe. Wo get tha
gurtof tbo r.llrc.0.. whether tbo corporator. — —m ■ let
sestS'w iisrocjy?pcTQ&
bey are t
or the country to onr storahoases,
“.““"ing, and the
i cbeatwn elothiog, and
r to prejudice yoo r~
ictelopmeuts of that character acts uni
ly.tesay the least.
*», tU MID KMIa
I an MitMUBHa to Now York and look oat aa
tbUpmtbarborondMoehlpo (olni oat to tho
n.tluieot tho world, and hx n little whllo thwa
ttnrf a tton of humility when t Me to few with
finel* _ ‘
ja
Marne this paper.
when I turn
nilb He grand enterprises,
thst we ba~'
the last
all tbe ship
n!su»*.J
. contempieto
railroads
flag, glinting npon the ocean waves, but I confess
to a grander pnde at beholding those other
stars flashing from forges forming river spanning
bridges or those others glistening at the points or
OPIUM
pan ■!«» rtilll
tmUm _
poaerhil bo2y became they bore
no conitltotlon tbat declareo that all rixnu
tjea. or tboeo other, alt
Burlelph drill., forcing throoxh mountaloo away,
for Intentata eemmeraa. IApplaaaa.| Hrlahtand
btioilfniu lha ooean nath. aloay. raarty for too
minion baa no .trenftb
etmlox keel; hot Mfhtor and mon noautlful to
■y oya ara ambanted road. b.Iwd with ctwe tie.
ed lb ted with Meet wade,laid and kept Infiapalf
‘ (iweat of American mania,
DR. RICE,
tween tha (wo.
Bat what wat dona lath, lepl.lalaro of IdflT
Rankin, olCerternllle. and Kiort, of America., each
linrr duced bill., aud it aent tbroutn tho h'ouo u
the rorvRankin bill, Itwont to tbo wnala and the
lenottrald would lokeonly ora 11 rood com ml mfoa.
•Vot.r” waa wronp In oo. partleolar; ho Mid tho
lec.lc .ent their cuamlwton bUI bonk and It'
adopted by tbe booao. Tbo troth lo I believe tho
Mn.te r* fund to pom the Fort-Ronktn Mil ond
■ Dbimiitrd their commlmlon bill end It came bank
It w.» laid npon tbo table and Ur. Ronklo’.
Jt tho Are department rattled by.)
hat tt that? [A vote., flrall Wall, It won’t horn
M, I reckon: let mo talk n lilt la loonr plcaao.
ittaoy cite, of “pjotil”jroon.") I wliEto allndo
lo another thin* which OMooel Mynatt did not
alind, ra
Batlmlatma not lea that tha .ranine paper
S idtNDt. Colonel Mynatt aa tavorlo. tha par-
•re of all lha railroad, by lha eovarnmaoL
Rote ka with uo to ImluM lloly with her 2,000
• Ilea Franeo with bar 14,000 and daman j with
tirrlt.OCO, of tbelr wane and axtravafanoe? Ara
— InSmdof ‘
Fmrf yeanaiiyCoarr Flaaa,a
S22MarketSt
Beh Third aadFo
brtama tha preaenl law. In all that C-tlon.l My-
natt’e came noobeia eppean, eirept when ha
vr.ud with tbe othero. (kppleate.1 And per he te
1 Manl .filer oh! 1 —
Job wm a emir
and my opponent, who . i thmik
smua Tsuraxsuvs
last ten yiara nearly to In black and wkite, and I
esnrot ••cape if 1 would; thank God I have no de-
sir* to do »o. [Reuswed applause] Just as we
ended with a commlMloo bill In Gworgia. so If wa
ever get any legislation In eoegrere, tt most be
JMflNU
came np for lavestfgatloii.. Was It a MU at
which all mem could agree? The vote fm It
nuif itnm w HBWBBWtWt rat wmwvnm wot
the Ustted States toyteld toastrlke. It cannot be
sued end wbat to more It has an army. Barely
ColMMl Mynatt does not favor soehM that.
Bat In rsinrn. On lha 2Ut Hd»tytgnii>nr. H82.
BMHHMMfcs
> wmUr of roorre-* from
teevsTr.awa
[s: p i sv«K»8aiS
1 Asron lf'A'an.11’hll. I>-M
[tho tr.Mi prominent gentU;-
r« tnsrlc* f ir more offen-
thst V.z called tb*ut
Captain Jackson Introdnoed me
stage end complimented me fur
was plsaeed to say was a fine passage at
Judge Freer, then a * *
ninth district Tha
on thatoccas*
nrrolfe party ,—...... „
ftjor Mynatt, dated the Id
) a reqw
’ :