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Gordon and several others just before Congress
adjourned, and they said they would go, but I have some doubts about
it, as most of the members of Congress are looking after their
re-election." (No. 221. N. Y., Aug. 25th, 1875.)
By the light of the above extracts may perhaps be interpreted the
meaning of the news that has just come by telegraph that the "Senate
Committee on Pacific Railroads will take a trip, soon after Congress
adjourns, to San Francisco by way of the Union, Central and Southern
Pacific systems - in Senator Brice's private car."

Protest and Petition.

It would be an interesting, and to me a congenial task, to further
analyze the Letters; to show what tools the monopolists secured, and
how they worked with them; to set forth how rivalry was met and
defeated; railroads - such as the Santa Monica - absorbed or paralyzed,
and many things were done and undone. But my intention at the outset
was simply to proclaim with irrefrageable proofs some shameful facts,
and to protest against any faltering in enforcing they laws as they exist,
compelling payment to the Government of great debts soon to mature.
Of principal and interest there will be due from these monopolists and
political corruptionists (the first payment, January 16, 1895; the last,
January 1, 1899), $77,049,630.66 - less some few millions now to their

credit. The money can be collected, and it ought to be. In the meantime,
the toleration of a lobby confessedly corrupt argues the existence of a
Congress at best incompetent.
Joseph H. Moore

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