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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . jitWTTA, TUESDAY JULY 20,1886 (91 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 E. VAN WINKLES CO. ! MANUFACTURER* -ATLANTA, COTTON GINS and PRESSED Cotton Sacd oil villa. Cotton Mad Union, Can. Villa, How Villa,; Mufti nr, Pollrya, Ifnncon, Wind Villa andCnatlnfo, K.VAM WINKLE * CO„ Atlanta.Oa. E. VAN WINKLE & CO, ATLANTA, CA. awr ffST-T.AH, FatcnUdUia Improved USL f.tentod 1ME| Rtoea reduced to nne-half former priced Vo. X Math. $30.001 Mo. a Vaela. 140.0V Bert Cleaner tor Bead Cotton In thasutkat Ho CU trier can afford loba without ona. HIM W1M14ZX « CO, Uinnfietuot*' CINCINNATI (0.) CORRUBATINS CO. j sHMRRfW-. BEST TRUSS EVER U8EDI 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 ’ :