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 THE POLITICAL RECORD 
 
 OP 
 
 HON. S. C. POMEROY 
 
 AS SHOWN BY HIS OWN PARTY 
 
 NEWSPAPER PRESS, 
 
 IN 
 
 li: ^^ ]v s .^ s , 
 
 AND OTHER STATES, viz : 
 
 LEAVENWORTH TIMES, NEW YORK TRIBUNE, MISSOURI DEMOCRAT, 
 
 WYANDOTTE GAZETTE, NEMAHA COURIER, , IRON AGE, 
 
 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, LAWRENCE TRIBUNE, 
 
 MARYSVILLE ENTERPRISE, TROY REPORTER, 
 
 AND 
 
 THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. 
 
 PUBLISHED AT 
 
 THE NEMAHA COURIER OFFICE, 
 
 SENECA, KANSAS. 
 1866. 
 
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THE POLITIGAL KECOKl) 
 
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 HON. S. C. POMEROY, 
 
 AS SHOWN BY HIS OAVN PARTY 
 
 NEWSPAPER PRESS, 
 
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 AND OTHER STATKS, viz : 
 
 LEAVENWOIITII TIMES. NEW YOKK TKIBUNE, MISSOURI DEMOCRAT, 
 
 WYANDOTTE GAZETTE, N^EMAHA COURIER, IRON AGE, 
 
 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, LAWRENCE TRIBUNE, 
 
 MARYSVILLE ENTERPRISE, TROY REPORTER. 
 
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 THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. 
 
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FRO 31 
 
 THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 Mr. Poiiieroy's course in i-ofcreiicc to the Smoky Hill Koute, 
 in our view, is indefensible. We do not sec — we cannot 
 imagine — how he can justify it to the })eoplc of Kansas. We 
 admire the zeal with which he protects Atchison; we honor 
 the energy with which he lias advanced her interests ; hut 
 we do not admire, nor can we honor, the eagerness with 
 which he sought to defeat a measure which can only benefit 
 the whole of Kansas. 
 
 To-morrow, if we have time, we shall give a full synopsis 
 of the debate in the Senate, and of the part he bore in it, on 
 the Pacific Road, or what is known as the Smoky Hill Route. 
 
 FROM WASHINGTON. 
 Shameful Neglect of Kansas Interest at the National Capitol— 
 The Senator from Atchison Tries to Help His Ecad " Slight- 
 ly" to Some Four Million Dollars, but Don't Succeed— The 
 Record of Mr. Pomeroy— One More Chapter. 
 
 Correspondence of the Times. 
 
 Washington, June 23, 186G. 
 
 On the loth of this month a bill was taken u[) in the 
 Senate giving the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern 
 Division, their right under the law of 1864 (but declared 
 suspended by Mr. Pomeroy and others) to build their rail- 
 road up the Smoky Hill Valley. 
 
 Farmers of Kansas ! here was a bill introduced giving a 
 responsible company, who have shown their good will by 
 their works, the privilege of employing, this season, two 
 thousand laborers on the raili'oad in your State West of Fort 
 Riley — a bill that would give you a good market for every- 
 
LEAVEN W ORTI I TIMES. 
 
 tiling you have to sell — a bill that would cheapen everything 
 you have to buy and raise the price of what you have to sell — - 
 a bill that would double the wealth of your State, and thus 
 decrease your taxes — a l)ill that did not ask one cent from 
 the State (ir National Treasury. Now mark its reception. 
 Mr. Senator Pomeroy attempted to load it with an amend- 
 ment giving his road, from Atchison, a U. S. bond subsidy 
 of nearly ibrty hundred thousand dollai-s, and land in pro- 
 portion. This modest amendment receiving no consideration, 
 the Hon. Senator witlidrew it, and after helping the Omaha 
 road all he could in debate, dodged the question at the final 
 vote, not daring to recoi'd his vote against it. 
 
 Here is a sam[)le of the Hon. gentleman's shystering, taken 
 from the Congressional (jlobe of the 19tli and 20th insts : 
 
 Ml'. PoMEKOY — I desii'e to submit an amendment to come 
 in at the end of the first section. I have shown it to the 
 Secretary of the Interior and to the chairman of the com- 
 mittee, and I sup})Ose there will be no objection to it. Those 
 gentlemen are for it, and I do not know of anybody who is 
 t)}){)osed to it. 
 
 Mr. Sherman— -This amendment, 1 presume, increases the 
 amount to be granted to the Atchison branch. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy — Slightly, in case they move the line of their 
 road. 
 
 Mr. Sherman — If this amendment should be attached in the 
 Senate, I have no doubt it loill defeat the bill, because I 
 think it is certain that if the House of Representatives are 
 determined on anything, it is that they will not grant any 
 additional money aid to railroads. I assented to the amend- 
 ment proposed in behalf of the Pacific railroad, eastern 
 division, because it gave them a route which I thought, from 
 the information we had before us, would be better, and it 
 would involve no expense to the Government, while it would 
 probably create a I'ival competition between two lines as to 
 which would reach the neighborhood of Denver first. It 
 was manifestly for the interest of the Government to allow 
 them to take the best route, one which would enable them to 
 make the most progress westward. Since that time an 
 
LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 amendment has been added to the bill in behalf of the Cali- 
 fornia or Pacific division of the road, to which I have no 
 objection ; hut if this is now added, it will undoubtediy defeat 
 the bill. It seems to me that if the Senator from Kansas 
 desires to see this bill pass, he ought not to add this provi- 
 sion. I am willing to extend all facilities to the Pacific 
 railroad or any of its branches that will not involve a larger 
 appropriation of money, but I am not willing to grant any 
 additional sums of money. As this amendment does that, 
 I shall certainly vote against it, and it will undoubtedly 
 defeat the bill, in my opinion. 
 
 Mr. Howard — By the act of 1862 all these eastern branches 
 of the main stem were required to unite with the main stem 
 on the one hundredth degree of longitude. Such was the 
 effect of the act of 1862 incorporating the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. But by the act of 1864, amending the origi- 
 nal charter of the company, it is provided that any of these 
 branches may unite with the main stem at a point west of 
 the one hundredth meridian, if they shall see fit to do so. 
 In this connection I will call the Senator's attention to the 
 ninth section of the act of 1864. He will find it in the 
 second proviso contained in tliat section : 
 
 And provided further, That any company authorized by this act to construct 
 its road and telegraph line form the iMissouri river to the initial point aforesaid" — 
 
 That is the one hundredth degree of longitude — 
 
 "may construct its road and telegraph line so as to connect with the Unioa 
 Pacific Railroad" — 
 
 That is the main stem — 
 
 "at any point westwardly of such initial point, in case such company shall deem 
 such westward connection more practicable or desirable ; and in aid of the con- 
 struction of so much of its road and telegraph line as shall be a departure from 
 the route hereinbefore provided for its road, such company shall be entitled to all 
 the benefits and be subject to all the conditions and restrictions of this act : 
 Provided further, however, That the l)onds of the United States shall not lie issued 
 to such a company for a greater amount than is hereinbefore i)rovided, if the 
 same had united with the Union Pacific railroad on the one hundredth degree of 
 longitude; nor shall such company be entitled to receive any greater amount of 
 alternate sections of public lauds than arc also herein provided." 
 
 It will be seen from that, that the privilege of making the 
 junction at a point west of the one hundredth degree of longi- 
 tude has been secured to all these companies for some two 
 years past. Now, in regard to the Pacific railway, eastern 
 
6 LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 division, it was required by the statute that that brancli, 
 known as the Kansas brancli, should locate its route within 
 a given period ol" time, which period has elapsed, and the 
 object of the first section of this bill is simply to extend to 
 that branch the right of locating its route until the 1st of 
 December next ; but the first section requires positively, in 
 express terms, that the eastern division shall form a junction 
 with the main stem of the Union Pacific Railroad Company 
 at some point not more than fifty miles west of the mei-idian 
 of Denver. They are not, therefore, at liberty to extend 
 their route to a point further west of Denver without forming 
 a junction with the main stem. 
 
 Mr. Henderson — I stood on this side of the Chamber in 
 1862 and appealed to the Senate not to do a great many things 
 that they did do by the bill of the 1st of July, 1862, a few 
 days before the adjournment of the session. They passed the 
 Pacific railroad bill. But just before the bill passed, a dis- 
 tinguished Senator from Iowa, who is now Secretary of the 
 Interior, offered a proposition which destroyed the whole 
 original intent of the bill, and said that the Pacific Railroad 
 Company proper, the one that was to start at the hundredth 
 meridian and build west to the California line, leaving the 
 Central Pacific Company of California to build up to it, 
 should build the branch to Onuiha. That was not the inten- 
 tion originally. The intention was to let the Pacific railroad 
 commence at the hundredth meridian, and other companies 
 from Iowa and Missouri build their roads out to that point ; 
 but this amendment was put on requiring the great Union 
 Pacific to build that branch to Omaha ; and afterwards the 
 legislation of 1864 required that they should forfeit all their 
 privileges as the Pacific railroad if they did not build the 
 Omaha branch, thus making, as far as legislation could go, 
 that Omaha branch the main Pacific road, encouraging that 
 road, Avhen it was constructed, to bring passengers, freight, 
 and everytliing across that line to the neglect of all other 
 lines. 
 
 Now, Mr. President, one of the most energetic men of the 
 West undertook the construction of the line from Kansas 
 
LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 City out to the one hundredth meridian. In the meantime, 
 before 1864, a survey was laid along up the Smoky Hill fork ; 
 and it turned out just as I had predicted in 18G2, that on tlio 
 Smoky Hill there is the greatest abundance of timber, the 
 finest farming lands in the world, just as i-ich as tliey can be. 
 
 Mr. Perry, who is the President of this road, finding tliat 
 he could reach Denver City one hundred and thirty-tour miles 
 nearer, over an easiei* route, with easier grades, less curves, 
 and could make infinitely a better road, came here in 1864 
 and proposed to the Senate that they should permit him to 
 build up the Smoky Hill ibrk instead of the Republican. 
 
 The Legislation of this body in 18G4, as read by the 
 Senator from Michigan, gave Mi-. Perry the right to go up 
 the Smoky Hill fork because it had been demonstrated even 
 then to be the better route. Senators will find it in the nintli 
 section of the act of that yeai', on page 871 of the laws of 
 1863-64. 
 
 Mr. Howard — So far as this company is concerned, it is 
 merely a question of further time to locate their road. 
 
 That is all there is about it. 
 
 In opposition to this single request of the Kansas Valley & 
 Leavenworth road, for an extension of time, to make up for 
 delay caused by the rebellion, we find Senator Wilson repre- 
 senting the Omaha branch, offering factitious opposition ; 
 and Senator Pomeroy representing the Atchison branch, 
 offering an amendment giving his own road a "slightly" 
 increased bond subsidy of some three or four million dollars. * 
 
 Mr. Wilson — If I understand this matter correctly, in 1862 
 it was agreed that these several routes, two or three of them, 
 should unite east of the one hundredth meridian. This, of 
 course, would require the branch road named in the first 
 section of this bill to go up the Republican fork. In 1864 an 
 act was passed by which provision was made that they might 
 take another route. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy — The Senator is mistaken in that. The 
 legislation in 1864 allowed them to continue beyond the point 
 of one hundredth meridian by running on the valley of the 
 Platteorthe valley of the Republican, but did not allow them 
 
LEAVP:NWOnTII TIMES. 
 
 to change outside of the Repnl>lican valley or Phittevalle}'. 
 It (lid not change tlie route, but only allowed the point of 
 junction to be beyond the one hundredth meridian, still con- 
 fining this branch to the valley of the Platte or the Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 Mr. WiLSON^ — It did not allow them to take the route they 
 now propose to take, did it? 
 
 Mr. PoMEROY — No, sir. 
 
 Mr. Wilson — If the Senator is right in his construction, 
 it shows that the act brought in here by the Senator from 
 Missouri to justify this bill does not permit this company to 
 go up the Smoky Hill fork. * * * * * 
 
 I think they had better I'est on the legislation they have 
 already got. 
 
 If the parties have complied with it, very well; if they 
 have not, let them go. I thought it was very unwise legis- 
 lation which in 1864 gave them the privilege to go south. 
 
 Mr. Henderson — -What damage does this proposed legis- 
 lation, do to the Pacific road ? I hioio that there is a great deal 
 of capital invested in that road in the Senator' s toiun ; but 
 there is some capital in the Senator' s town investedin this other 
 road ; but those so investing have not been so noisy, perhaps, 
 and have not attempted to deceive his mind on the subject as 
 the cajiitalists interested in the Omaha branch ; perhaps not 
 so many banking institutions have been established upon it ; 
 perhaps no credits mohilier or credits fonder have been estab- 
 lished on that line ; but I can state to him that we have built 
 just as much road as the other company ; we have gone further 
 west, and it is a more imporant road than the other. If this 
 bill is to affect the credit of that company in Europe, it will 
 be simply because lor two hundred miles the travel from 
 Denver will be over a seperate road instead of being thrown 
 upon the Union Pacific railroad. 
 
 That is to say, the transportation of passengers and freight 
 between St. Louis and the Pacific will, by this bill, be saved 
 two hundred miles of transit upon the main stem, but after 
 the junction is made it goes over the main stem. That is 
 the only effect it can have. The main road is left with all 
 
LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 the money to which it is entitled, with all the means which 
 it has, with all the capital it ever had, and this hill cannot 
 effect its interests except in the way I have just stated. 
 
 After a full discussion, of some four hours, the bill passed 
 the Senate, as it came from the committee, without Senator 
 Pomroy's modest amendment and opposition, by the decisive 
 vote of 20 to 12. ****** 
 
 The Union Pacific Kailroad Company, eastern division, 
 has already built one hundred and sixty-eight miles 
 of railroad in Kansas. Cars are running over one hundred 
 and forty six miles of it. The company now desire to build 
 two hundred and sixty miles more of railroad in Kansas, and 
 continue this line to Denver, some three hundred miles of 
 which must be built without any aid from the Government, 
 either in land or money. It has already built a branch thirty- 
 three miles, without any money aid from the Government. 
 
 Its great wealth, and its liberal expenditure in the Kansas 
 railroad system, is sufficient guarantee of its good faith. 
 
 Yet this great company which ought not to have an enemy 
 in Kansas, finds a most implacable foe in Senator Pomeroy, 
 who Avishes to make his Atchison branch the principal road 
 of the State. 
 
 In the great race of life, between man and man, he who is 
 hindermost cannot reasonably complain of him who fairly 
 gets ahead. 
 
 But the duties of Mr. Senator Pomeroy are widely different 
 from those of Mr. President Pomeroy of the Atchison & Pike's 
 Peak Railroad Company. Let us keep this distinction in view. 
 
 Mr. Senator Pomeroy is chosen by the people of Kansas, 
 to the U. S. Senate, to look impartially after the interests of the 
 whole State. The people of Kansis connot sit in the Senate ; 
 they cannot serve on committees in Congress ; therefore it is 
 that Mr. Pomeroy is sent here wdiere he forgets his duties as 
 Senator, and remembers nothing but his own interests and the 
 interests of his railroad. 
 
 Mr. Senator Pomeroy helped to divert the Northern Kansas 
 Railroad from its course, due west from St. Joseph, some 
 miles to the South, to accommodate the town of Atchison. 
 
10 LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 
 
 He then secures to liis road nearly every alternate quarter 
 section of land in Northern Kansas, between the Missouri 
 and Big Blue rivers; he fights the Union Pacific Railroad, 
 eastern division, step by step, and is the chief engineer of 
 the ring that has delayed that company for five months past. 
 
 All this, and much more of the same sort, may be consid- 
 ered "sharp " on the part of Mr. Pomeroy, President of the 
 Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad. But on the part of 
 Senator Pomeroy, it is a gross dereliction of a duty he is 
 paid to perform, to say the least. 
 
 KANSAS INTERESTS— SENATOR POMEROY. 
 
 A continued review of Senator Pomeroy's course, in the 
 United States Senate, on the Pacific railroad bill is continued 
 to-day, on first page. The facts are ofiicial. Our corres- 
 pondent follows the Globe report, which is "authority" in 
 both Houses of Congress and all over the country. 
 
 Let us guard against one error ! 
 
 Narrow rivalries between cities we have fought earnestly 
 and steadily. This the readers of the Times know. They 
 are foolish, generally ; unavailing, always. The laws of 
 trade, above a<ll powers, settle their growth, and their 
 extent, and hence, jealousy, spiteful oi^position, and that 
 cribbed and spiteful feeling which knows only the place in 
 which we live, are i:)alpable and almost inexcusable follies. 
 
 A Senator of the United States who is all for Lawrence, all 
 for Atchison, all for Leavenworth, is unfit to be an United 
 States Senator for Kansas. Let him defend his home and its 
 interests with clean sagacity and earnest zeal. This is his 
 right — his duty. But let not the narrow interest of the city 
 in which he lives absorb his power, to the neglect of the 
 frreater interests of the State. Attend to both. Defend both . 
 Advance both. This is the policy, the principle, which 
 should govern an United States Senator representing Kansas, 
 or any other State. 
 
LEAVENWORTH TIMES. 11 
 
 Herein, in our judgment, has Senator Ponieroy signally 
 failed ? 
 
 We do not complain that he has stood by Atchison, and 
 defended its interests, with tact, industry, and, if you please, 
 success. This, we repeat, was his right — his duty. But we 
 do complain, that in looking after, in sustaining, in advanc- 
 ing the interests of Atchison, he became, and was, and is, 
 so far as the greater improvement of Kansas is concerned, the 
 Senator of a city, and not of the State! 
 
 For this reason, we ask every intelligent citizen to read 
 carefully the Senate proceedings, involving the Smoky Hill 
 route, on the first page of to-day's issue. 
 
 READ AND UNDERSTAND. 
 
 If we mistake not, the editor of the evening paper neither 
 understands the interests involved in the Smoky Hill route, 
 nor comprehends the real positions of Senator Pomeroy on 
 the subject. We so judge from his articles. For really, 
 unless we mistake the issue, it is not only against the direct 
 welfare of Leavenworth, but against the welfare of the whole 
 State ! 
 
 But we give the official history of Senator Pomeroy 's action 
 as to the Smoky Hill route, on the first page to-day. It is 
 taken from the Congressional Globe. If the evening paper 
 wishes to be fair, let it publish that. All we ask is, that the 
 public — that the people of all sides should read and under- 
 stand it. 
 
 This we know, that no true friend of Leavenworth, reading 
 and understanding Senator Pomeroy's action, can justify it. 
 This, too, we feel, that no true friend of the State of Kansas 
 can endorse it. 
 
 A painful rumor reached the city last night, that the 
 grasshoppers had attacked the A. & P. P. R, R., and were 
 "gobbling" it up, root and branch. The St. Joe Herald says: 
 
12 WYANDOTTE GA;^ETTE. 
 
 " One corps of the miglity grasshopper army came down 
 the main street, eating off the tops of the houses, entering 
 stores and devouring groceries, dry goods, and hardware. 
 Senator Pomeroy, the ' incori-uptihle' Kansas Senator, 
 known throughout the civilized world as ' the great cham- 
 pion of human freedom,' while attempting to heat hack a 
 hattalion of grasshoppers from his residence, was seized and 
 eaten up in a twinkling." 
 
 itkom: 
 
 THE AVYANDOTTE GAZETTE. 
 
 Tariff Postponed. — The Tariff hill which had passed the 
 House, and whicli, though not jierfect, was the hest we stood 
 any cliance of geting this session, and would haveheen worth 
 millions to the country, was postponed the other day in the 
 Senate hy a vote of twenty-five to seventeen. But the point 
 of the most interest to Kansas is to know how our Senator, 
 Mr. Pomeroy, voted, and we regret to he ohliged to say that 
 he voted for the postponement. Mr. Pomeroy, we have 
 always understood to he an old Massachusetts Henry Clay 
 Tariff Whig Kepublican, and so supposed that if there was 
 a man in the Senate who could he relied upon on the Tariff 
 question, he was that man. We are disappointed in the 
 course pursued by our Senator, and unless he can give some 
 better reason than any we can now conceive of for his vote, 
 we shall feel compelled to throw any little influence we may 
 possess, in favor of some other man to take liis place after 
 the 4 til of March next. 
 
 Our correspondent, " G," in endeavoring to justify Senator 
 Pomeroy's vote, simply raises the old South Carolina, nulli- 
 fying, ]")ro-slavery, democratic cry against a protective tariff, 
 that it builds up and enriches the manufacturer at the 
 exiwnse of the laborer and the agriculturist. By deceiving 
 
WVANDUTTE GAZETTE. 13 
 
 voters, with this plausible sophistry, loco-foco, and free-trade 
 politicians have succeeded in keeping our tariff so low or in 
 such a fluctuating condition as to retard the growth of our 
 country at large in wealth, to the extent of thousands oF 
 millions of dollars. If, as we suppose. Senator Pomeroy's 
 views are expressed by our correspondent, we are entirely 
 through with giving him any aid or comfort in his aspirations 
 lor anotlicr six years' term in the Senate. 
 
 Our correspondent says that tlio new England members of 
 the House supported the bill, and was afraid their blandish- 
 ments and Senator Pomeroy's New England education would 
 induce him to go for it. A pity it is that such was not the 
 result. But our correspondent does not say, although it is 
 the fact, that both of the Massachusetts Senators, as well as 
 two or three members from other New England States, voted 
 against the bill, and \\\ favor of the postponement. Perhaps 
 their blandishment did have something to do with our Sena- 
 tor's vote. 
 
 The truth of the matter is, that Kansas now needs a 
 protective tariff far more than Massachusetts does ; and all 
 new Western and Southern States which have not got 
 manufactures started to any considerable extent, stand in far 
 greater need of a tariff' for protection than do Penns3dvania 
 and the New England States, which, in the manufacture of 
 so many articles, liave got so well established that they can 
 defy foreign competition, and only fear competition at home, 
 which an increase of duties would render all the more 
 formidable. 
 
 But we have not time to consider this matter at length this 
 week. If our correspondent, or Senator Pomeroy, or any of 
 our readers don't know that it is better for all agricultural 
 States and communities to have manufactures and manufac- 
 turing towns built up about, around, and in the midst of 
 them, thus affording the best market in the world for their 
 products at their very doors, than to be obliged to send their 
 corn and potatoes a thousand miles away, then we certainly 
 cannot afford the time and space to beat so plain a proposition 
 into their heads. 
 
THE NEW YOBK TRIBUNE 
 
 PARDONED. 
 
 Upon the recommendation of Senator Pomeroy, icho made 
 a personal ajypUcation to the President for the j^ardon of Leivis 
 M. Coxsetta of South Carolina, a privateersman during the 
 late war , the latter has received the desired Executive clemency . 
 This is the first and only case of any officer of that condition 
 having been pardoned by the President. 
 
 Next Novembei", Kansas elects State Officers, Members of 
 Congress, and a Legislature, which is to choose both her 
 United States Senators. We trust she loill oust all the thieves, 
 discomft all the corrupt ^"^ rings,'' and choose no man to any 
 position whose personal integrity is not above suspicion. 
 
 Rumors df corruption among her high officials have long 
 been a shame and a sorrow to the historic young State, wliosc 
 fidelity and courage never wavered, either in her early 
 struggle with the Slave Power, or during the Great Rebellion. 
 The standard of intelligence and integrity is high among her 
 people, and ought to he among her p)uhlic men. 
 
 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, EASTERN DIVISION. 
 
 Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. 
 
 Washington, May 17, 1866. 
 
 The telegraph brings information that the Leavenworth 
 branch of the Union Pacific railroad, eastern division, is 
 finished, and the cars running over 131 miles of the road, 
 including the branch. 
 
 Expressions of impatience with the progress of its con- 
 struction having appeared in different journals, a few facts 
 in relation to the subject may not be out of place here. 
 
NEW YORK TRlBTiN'E. 15 
 
 The road, you will observe by reference to any railroad 
 map, leaves the Missouri river at two points — Wyandotte 
 and Leavenworth — uniting at Lawrence, follows up the 
 valley of Kansas to Fort Riley, the junction of the Smoky 
 Hill and Republican rivers. 
 
 The amended act of Congress, of July, 1804, leaving it 
 discretional with the Company which of the two last named 
 livers to folloAv, they decided last December^, after an exami- 
 nation and survey, to take the Smoky Hill, because it 
 shortened the route between the Atlantic Ocean and Rocky 
 Mountain gold regions some 135 miles, and therefore, saved 
 Government subsidy of $10,000 per mile, or some $2,000,000 
 in all, and it could be built a year quicker. Every mile of 
 the road would be through a country, capable of sustaining 
 a thriving population, containing iron and coal, which the 
 Republican fork did not. 
 
 Major Gen. Sherman testified it would be a great saving to 
 Government in transporting supplies, and gave various other 
 good reasons why the Smoky Hill was every way preferable. 
 But upon making application to the Secretary of the Interior 
 to file the maps, as required by law, they ivere met by objec- 
 tions interposed by speculators and middlemen, declaring that 
 inasmuch as a former President of the road had filed a map 
 declaring his intention to go up the Repuhlicanforh, the present 
 President ivas, therefore, incompetent to make a change without 
 further legislation. Other equally frivolous objections being 
 urged, this great national work was virtually arrested at Fort 
 Riley, and five precious months lost. 
 
 Mr. John D. Perry, President of the Company, assumed 
 control of the work during the summer of 1804 ; but, for 
 nearly one year thereafter, was unable to send supplies to his 
 field of labor, to any great extent, on account of the rebellion. 
 In December, 1805, speculators and middlemen interfered, 
 and caused about five months' additional delay. 
 
 So, between re\ie\&,speculcdors, and middlemen, the com-pany 
 have found the road a hard one to travel ; but for their inter- 
 position, the cars might, at present writing, be running over 
 300 miles of the finished road, instead of 131. 
 
from: 
 
 THE NEMAHA COURIER. 
 
 OUR NEXT U. S. SENATOR. 
 
 It seems conceeded that the re-election of Mr. Pomeroy is 
 not to be thought of, except by a few of his personal friends, 
 for various good and sufficient reasons. 
 
 The first of which, may be frankly stated, is the want of 
 ability on the part of Mr. Pomeroy, to represent the State of 
 Kansas properly in the United States Senate. 
 
 Secondly, Mr. Pomeroy has been so fortunate, or unfor- 
 tunate as to secure to himself more jjecuniary advantages 
 than naturally accrue to United States Senators generally, 
 or a devotion to the best interests of his constituents will 
 admit of. The Atchison & Pike's Peak Railroad Company, 
 of which Mr. Pomeroy is a most efficient President, has 
 secured, by aid of the United States Senate, of which, at 
 present writing, Mr. Pomeroy is a member, and chairman of 
 its Committee on Public Lands, nearly every alternate section 
 of Public Land in Northern Kansas between the Missouri 
 and Big Blue Rivers and a U. S. Bonds subsidy of about 
 1^600,000, to the injury, as we have already shown, of what 
 we believe to be the interests of the people of the northern 
 part of this State. 
 
 The history of our Government cannot furnish a parallel 
 to this case — where a member of the United States Senate, 
 and chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, has been 
 permitted to secure to a company, of which the said Senator 
 was President, a gigantic grant of lands and money from the 
 government. 
 
 It is not many years since a United States Senator was 
 strongly condemned for having an interest in a government 
 contract. We cannot view a Senator's interest in a railroad 
 
XEJIAJIA CUUrJER. 17 
 
 land and money grant from the Government in any other 
 liglit, thougli tliere may be a tcclmical diflferencc. 
 
 Granting, however, no legal objection to Mr. Fomeroy's 
 course in feathering his nest witli Land and money grants 
 while occupying the position of United States Senator, we do 
 most decidedly object to his opiiosition to other Kansas Railroad 
 projects than his oirn. A duty that the people of his State 
 certainly did not elect him to perform. Upon this point there 
 are ample grounds for opposition, and upon it we do not wish 
 to be misunderstood. 
 
 The amended Pacilic Kailruad law uf 1864, permitting the 
 Union Pacific Railroad Company, eastern division, to extend 
 their road up tlie Valley of the Smoky Hill river — thus open- 
 ing up tlie entire western })ortion of Kansas to settlement- — 
 adding some $20,000,000 to its wealth, making a great 
 National railroad thoroughfare through the whole length of 
 the State — some 400 miles — the Company was, last February, 
 prepared, after making the necessary surveys, to commence 
 the preliminary work of the construction of the road. But 
 upon making ap})lication to the Secretary of the Interior to 
 file their maps, as required by law, they were met by 
 objections, urged by Mr. Pomeroy, against their right to 
 build the road as contemplated. The objections urged 
 against this magnificent National Enterprise, by Mr. Pom- 
 eroy and his newspaper organs, were not found in law, but 
 they accomplished the purpose of delaying the enterprise 
 until a technical objection could be discovered ; and arc 
 significant as showing the real animus of the Hon. Senator 
 in opposing any East and West railroad in his State, other 
 than the one which has the honor of claiming him President, 
 and Ave might add, " guide, philoso])her, and friend." 
 
 In fine, our honorable Equestrian is now engaged in 
 attempting the dangerous feat of riding five horses, at once, 
 into another six years Senatorial term. He professes great 
 friendship for tlie radical majority of Congress, and at the 
 same time an equal friendship for the President's Policy, by 
 proxy, through two of his minor newspaper organs. He 
 professes great friendship for the Northern Piailroad of 
 
18 NEMAHA COURIER. 
 
 Kansas, the Atchison & Pike's Peak Railroad, and the- 
 Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division. 
 
 Two diverse political factions, and three competing rail- 
 roads, are more than the most nimble political gymnast can 
 ride at once. 
 
 THE FARMING AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS 
 OP KANSAS vs. SENATOR S. C. POMEROY. 
 
 The Fort Scott Monitor evidently begins to appreciate the 
 benefits oi' home iiianufactures, and the superiority oi protection 
 over free-trade. 
 
 In commenting upon the benefits to the State of the Fort 
 Scott mills, the Monitor states that^ — 
 
 "Several loads of wheat were brought from Ussawattonaie, in Miami County, 
 and Mr. Crawford has eontraeted for 10,000 pounds of wool, from Texas, for 
 whieh he expects to trade clothes, manufactured in the factory, and the result 
 will be that the merchants in that State will buy their wool there, bring il to 
 Fort Scott, and trade it for goods.'' 
 
 The Editors of Leavenworth Times, and other papers in 
 this State, have been shown samples of cloth manufactured 
 at the Port Scott mills, and all admit its superior qualities. 
 
 For some ten years we have worked hard to encourage just 
 such enterprises as the Fort Scott mills, and to combat the 
 idea that Kansas farmers could ever look for a Euroi)eon 
 market for their products. 
 
 It is only among the Miners in the mountains west of us, 
 and the manufacturers, railroad men, and mercantile classes 
 .of our State that our farmers can look for a market. 
 
 Sir Morton Peto's idea, expressed in his advertising book 
 of a European market for our farmers, is all a sham and 
 delusion, put forth to induce our National Government to 
 adopt a policy, that discourages such enterprises as the Fort 
 Scott mills of Kansas, and encourages its rivals, the pauper 
 labor mills of Manchester, England. 
 
 Senator Pomeroy voted to postpone the tariff bill until 
 December next, tliereby delighting our British rivals. — 
 Therefore, we vote to postpone Mr. Pomeroy's return to tlie 
 U. S. Senate until — say ]896 — by which time, if he shall 
 
NEMAHA COUIUEII. 19 
 
 liave well studied political economy, we may then, perhaps, 
 if we can find no otlier man to take it, favor liis election to 
 the Senate for another term. Meanwhile we would recom- 
 mend, to our entire Congressional delegation, a work 
 evidently unknown to them, entitled '' Principles of social 
 science, by H. C. Carey, L. L. D." 
 
 We have heretofore shown how the halt-naked barbarians 
 of South America, Africa, and Asia, were permitted to send 
 their wool and hides to this country, nearly tax free, 'io 
 compete with our owm overtaxed farmers. 
 
 We have advocated in season and out of season a higher 
 tax on the products of foreign industi'y and a lower tax on 
 Home Industry. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy, by voting fur tlie postponement of the tariff 
 bill, opposes us. — Therefore, we oppose Mr. Pomeroy. 
 
 It is true that the money lending land shark — he of the 
 five per cent, per month brotherhood, is greatly benefitted by 
 the partial or total prostration of the industrial interests, 
 by the inability of unfortunate farmers or mill owners to pay 
 off the mortgages on their real estate. 
 
 In voting to postpone the tariff, Mr. Pomeroy favors the 
 money lending land shark, therefore, it is that we oppose 
 Mr. Pomeroy. 
 
 Neither will the British cry of monopoly silence us. We 
 well know that a profitable business breeds healthy compe- 
 tition, and competition brings prices down to a reasonable 
 standard. 
 
 During a visit to Washington, some months since, we 
 noticed in the Navy Yard, near our National Capitol, that 
 all the guns, munitions of war, &c., captured on board the 
 blockade runners, bore the trade mark of British manu- 
 facturers. One machine, particularly, intended to make 
 rebel projectiles, to carry death to our men, bore the name 
 of its manufacturer at Manchester, England. 
 
 These wealthy British manufacturers furnished our rebels 
 with a large proportion of their supplies, and this prolonged 
 the rebellion. They intrigue to ruin our manufactures. 
 They employ pauper labor to undersell the labor of this 
 
20 NEMAHA COURIER. 
 
 country. And yet yunator Pomeroy votes exactly as our 
 British enemies desire. Therefore^ we vote against Mr. 
 Pomeroy. 
 
 THE POMEROY HYPOCRISY. 
 
 The Atchison Champion, in an article entitled " Atchison 
 and its Future," and lauding the Atchison &: Pike's Peak 
 ro'tid, says : 
 
 "Who is there, witli liraiiis enough in his head to form one idea, who cannot 
 see that the St. Joseph and Denver, or Northern Tier Railroad, or all that can ))e 
 built of it, if any, will in the end help Atchison. In the first place, if Congress 
 jjasses their land grant, it will aid them liut little, for the reason that there is no 
 land to grant." 
 
 Mr. Champion, we don't want to encourage Mr. Pomeroy in 
 such shysiering as that. As the special organ of Mr. Pomeroy at 
 Atchison dont in the future claim the support of this section 
 on the grounds of his railroad service, for you have acknowl- 
 edged too soon, for him, your understanding, " that there is 
 no land to grant." 
 
 THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 
 
 The Pliiladelphia Noiih American cautions its readers 
 against the danger of electing congressional wolves in sheep's 
 clothing ; or hard shell democrats, disguised as friends of 
 the industrial interests. 
 
 With quite a considerable minority of copperheads in the 
 Eastern Middle States, the advice is exceedingly appropriate 
 and timely. In this latitude and longitude, however, where 
 we have full ten republicans to one democrat, the danger is 
 quite in another direction; viz.: the election, to Congress, 
 of sheep in wolf's clothing: or, tearing, speechifying, two- 
 faced "Radicals," like our Senator Pomeroy; who nearly 
 always has a weakness for doing just about what the enemy 
 desire, except in the mere matter of buncomb speeches ; in 
 which he out-radicals the most radical alive. But to so little 
 effect, that he has more friends among the coi)perhead demo- 
 cracy than in the party upon which he relies for a re-election 
 to another six years' term to the Senate of the United States. 
 
NEMAHA COURIER, 21 
 
 For when called upon to confront the implacable enemy of 
 our industrial interests, he drops his wolf's garb, and appears 
 the most submissive sheep in the whole flock ; ready to be 
 shorn as our American copperhead, or wealthy British 
 pirate ship building enemies may desire. 
 
 This may seem a broad and groundless assertion to those 
 innocent souls who have had the good ibrtune to peruse that 
 recent remarkable work, entitled "The Anti-Slavery Record 
 of Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, published at the request of the Equal 
 SuftVage Association oftheDistrictof Columbia, Washington, 
 D. C, McGrill & Witherow, printers and stereotypers, 1866." 
 
 This remarkable pamphlet, (prepared, we suspect, by, and 
 at the expense of, the Senator himself,) is intended to show 
 Mr. Pomeroy to be the great champion of human freedom, 
 and consistent statesman, before whom all other great men, 
 the world delights to honor, must hide their diminished heads. 
 This is what the pamphlet is intended to show ; but to the 
 discerning mind it only shows a crafty demagogue, taking 
 the advantage of a noble cause to work himself into wealth 
 and high official station. 
 
 Let us then see what an impartial and unbought examina- 
 tion of Mr. Pomeroy's " Anti-Slavery Record" will disclose. 
 
 Commencing back to the time of the early troubles in 
 Kansas Territory : What was the record of S. C. Pomeroy 
 at the first sacking of Lawrence ? It was there he earned 
 the sobriquet of " General," bestowed upon him in a spirit 
 of the bitterest irony that the hearts of his disappointed 
 followers could conceive. 
 
 A little later we find him compromising and making his 
 bed with Atchison, Stringfellow, Able, and other pro-slavery 
 border ruffian leaders, which intimacy has been keep up to 
 this day. We are not unmindful of Mr. Pomeroy's defence 
 of his course in this one important part of his record ; its 
 lameness exposed it to suspicion, and final repudiation 
 among all discerning friends of Kansas. 
 
 As general and financial agent of the New England 
 Emigrant Aid Co., we make free to say, that in our humble 
 opinion, Mr. Pomeroy has been of greater benefit to the pro- 
 
22 NEiMAIIA COURIER. 
 
 slavery democracy of Kansas and 8. C. Pomeroy, than to 
 the anti-slavery settlers, whose interests lie was commissioned 
 to look after, and by whose votes he now occupies a seat in 
 the United States Senate, that should by good rights be 
 tilled by a far more worthy man. And will be so filled in 
 future if our people wisely determine to be no longer deceived 
 by the crafty arts of a demagogue, intent only on his own 
 advancement. 
 
 A professed friend of free labor, we find "General Pom- 
 eroy" engaged in a wholesale exportation of laborers from 
 this country to the inhospitable Islands of the West Indies. 
 An enterprise upon which the "General's" biographer is 
 very wisely silent ; thinking, perhaps^ that the usual brazen- 
 faced defence inapplicable, or insufficient, attempts none. 
 
 The Courier, as well as all other independent republican 
 papers of Kansas, have exposed again and again Senator 
 Pomeroy's wretched and atrocious duplicity on the railroad 
 question ; on the free State, anti-slavery question, and on the 
 tariff question. Voting on the latter exactly as our British 
 pirate ship building enemies desired. Which brings us to a 
 new view of our two-faced Senator ; being no less then a view 
 of Senator Pomeroy as a rebel pardon broker. 
 
 In a " recentish" copy of the New York Tribune we find, 
 under the head of pardoned, the following : 
 
 " Upon the recommendation of Senator Pomeroy, who made a jjirsomil application 
 to the President, for the pardon of Lewis M. Coxetta, of South Carolina, a privatcers- 
 man during the hi-tc war, the latter has received the desired Executive clemency. 
 This is the first and only cast' of any officer of that condition hariny hecn pardoned hy 
 the President." 
 
 So ! So ! We see our very radical Senator Pomeroy, who 
 never tires of denouncing, before his constituents, the 
 "traitorous course of President Johnson," is yet on suffi- 
 ciently good terms with his Excellency to obtain the only 
 pardon given to a rebel pirate traitor ! ! 
 
 Here is evidently the milk in the cocoa-nut ! We wonder 
 if our Senator did not, while procuring a pardon for a traitor, 
 just suggest, to his Excellency, the President, the propriety 
 of removing from office the editor of the Lawrence Tribune, 
 
NEMAHA COURIER. 23 
 
 and of retaining in office the editor of the Atchison Champion. 
 Because why ? The latter advocates Mr. Pomeroy's re-election, 
 and the former don't. 
 
 Come, come, friend Martin, own up. You did not, we 
 think, attend the Philadelphia, August 14, Convention ; hut 
 on the contrary, if we remember rightly, you committed the 
 crime of denouncing that pure hearted, silent, and enduring 
 body of patriots. For which we greatly wonder that the 
 earth did not open and swallow you up. 
 
 Now then, who procured your jjardon, and retention in 
 office? If it was Senator Pemoroy, you need not be ashamed 
 to own it. That gentleman's chances for a re-election have 
 gone up ; not a ghost of a chance left, so you need not keep 
 the secret longer. 
 
 Dropping badinage, however, we wish most distinctly to 
 be understood that Mr. Pomeroy is not to blame for his two- 
 faced hypocritical disposition, or his political position, practi- 
 cally, but secretly, on the fence between the two great con- 
 tending parties of our time, ready to take to himself whatever 
 advantage may come within his reach from -either side. 
 
 He was born with his treacherous disposition, and it is liis 
 right to have a good secret understanding with the enemy 
 so as to be right side up, which ever side wins. 
 
 We do most decidely object, here and now, henceforth, 
 
 AND elsewhere, TO HAVING SUCH MEN IN THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SENATE. 
 
 A HOWL-CHOICE VOCABULARY, &c. 
 
 The Pomeroy Chamj}i07i at Atchison sends up a slirill howl 
 against the Nemaha Courier. 1st. Because the last named 
 paper has dared to express itself against the re-election of 
 Mr. Pomeroy; 2d. The Washington correspondent of the 
 Courier is " one of the Cone Family, " and said '' family " 
 publish a newspaper which the editor of the Chamjjion don't 
 like at all, — a perfect horresco referens to said editor; 3d. 
 The Courier has taken occasion to speak in praise of the Atch- 
 ison Free Press, and has not said anything particulary com- 
 plimentary of the Champion. These three points of opposi- 
 
24 TROV REPORTER. 
 
 tion are set off by the editor with the following vocabulary 
 of slang, not compiled by us in strictly alphabetical order, 
 but given so that if any of our readers should wish to learn 
 liow to "cuss" politely, a la Champion, they can do so by 
 just glacing through the list : 
 
 "Silly rascal ; inibecilty; nobodies who sweetly imagine 
 themselves to be somebodies; idiots; gibberish; little 
 printed sheets of advice ; incurables ; boy's illustrated pocket- 
 liandkerchief grown very dirty from long use; sewer into 
 which they empty their garbage ; dirty mechanical ap- 
 pearance ; foulness of principles; titly adorn the interior 
 of a very disgusting county jail; miserable sheet; petty 
 malignity; silly scoundrel ; witless, " &c. 
 
 There! don't tell us hereafter that "treasured wrath" 
 can't be expressed on paper without absolute swearing! The 
 galled jade's impotent rage is truly exhilarating, and we trust 
 the al)ove vocabulary will be transferred by our readers to 
 tlieir serap-l)ooks for permanent preservation. 
 
 TIIK TUOY REPORTEPv. 
 
 THE AUTHOR OF IT! 
 
 Senator Tomeroy, from Atchison, has been writing letters 
 to citizens of the "Northern Tier," assuring them that 
 he is very much interested in our railroad, and is doing all 
 in his power to get a grant of land to aid in constructing it. 
 His letters are all just alike, being copied from a carefully 
 prepared form, stereotyped for the purpose, in order to 
 humbug the people of the Northern Tier into i)elieving that 
 if we are ever blessed with a railroad at all, it will be owing 
 to his masterly exertions in our behalf! He says in his 
 letters, several copies of which have been shown to us, that 
 he wasthe author of the recent Senatebillgrantingtensections 
 of the public lands per mile to this railroad, but that as a favor 
 to B. Gratz Brown, he allowed him to present the bill, as 
 Brown thought it would help him in northern Missouri. 
 
 Now, we don't like to find fault with our Senator, nor are 
 we going to do so, for not having expected any local favors 
 from him we are not disappointed in tlie least at never 
 having received any. 
 
from: 
 
 THE MISSOUBI DEMOCRAT. 
 
 [Correspondence of the Missouri Democrat.] 
 
 THE PACIFIC RAILROAD— THE OPPOSITION TO IT IN 
 CONGRESS-ITS FINAL TRIUMPH. 
 
 Washington, D. C, July 10, 1866. 
 
 In 1864 an amendatory act passed Congress, allowing 
 the Union Pacific railway to go up the Smoky Hill river, 
 if it should prove a better route. Besides the general 
 war on the borders, an Indian war raged on the plains, 
 and it was found impossible at that time to make the 
 surveys of the two routes. In 1865, the surveys were pushed 
 up the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers to the Rocky 
 Mountains. This survey proved what was already believed, 
 that the route by the Smoky Hill Valley, was one hundred 
 and fifty miles shorter ; that the grades were more easy by 
 twenty-five per cent,, and what was of still more consequence, 
 it ran in a direct line, through a country much more fertile 
 and susceptible of sustaining population than the Platte Val- 
 ley route. Still further, the heaviest beds of coal in Kansas 
 existed on the Smoky Hill river, considerably west of the 
 middle of that State. In addition to the coal, salt, gypsum, 
 iron, lead, and tin oifered this route for the Pacific Railroad 
 all the advantages of its future development. 
 
 Following almost on an air-line through the great central 
 States and St. Louis, this route by Denver, and the jmsses 
 through the great parks of the Rocky Mountains, offers the 
 best facilities to the through travel to the Pacific, and will, 
 in spite of all opposition, be the grand artery of trade on the 
 continent. 
 
 But the very greatness of the enterprise, the richness of the 
 
2G MISSOURI DEMOCRAT. 
 
 natural advantages of this route, exposed it to the most bitter 
 opposition. In February last, the President of the road, 
 Mr. Perry, filed the plat of the survey to the mountains, 
 under the act of 1864. The astute Secretary of the Interior, 
 Mr. Harlan, who is the Senator elect from Iowa — and wlio, 
 according to the language of Senator Conness, while formerly 
 of the Senate, manipulated Pacific railway bills so as to suit 
 his local interests — sat in one of the departments of the Gov- 
 ernment. It was hoped that, as one of the confidential 
 advisers of the President, he would forget he was a citizen 
 of Iowa, or an interested party in the Omaha road, in 
 remembering the responsibilities of his position. With tliat 
 infirmity of purpose that characterizes all his actions, the 
 Secretary at first conveyed the impression that there would 
 be no difficulty. He was not long in finding some one to 
 share with him the responsibility of defeating the great over- 
 land road. It was certainly remarkable that a Senator from 
 Kansas should have been the active opponent of the great 
 Pacific Eailroad for Kansas. But Mr. Pomeroy, besides 
 being Senator, was President of the Atchison and Pike's 
 Peak Kailroad. The Atchison and Pike's Peak Eailroad is 
 one of those projects by which it is proposed to build a road, 
 in a comparatively new country, along a surveyed line, at 
 right angles with a hundred streams. Looking at the map, 
 the proprietors of Atchison saw that the first standard par- 
 allel south of the base or Nebraska line ran through Atchi- 
 son. A parallel line is not a river. A parallel line can 
 cross the Rocky Mountains anywhere; a "base" line, like 
 Crockett's great Texas road, is "much better defined on the 
 map than the face of the country." It looks well on paper, 
 however, and satisfied the speculators of Atchison that the 
 "parallel line" was the line of the great overland railroad. 
 In order to secure for it advantages that it naturally had not^ 
 Mr. Pomeroy secured for it all the land in Northern Kansas, 
 which by preventing the road through the northern tier 
 from getting any land, was a bar against such rival road 
 being built, and he joined iu compelling the road running 
 through Missouri and Kansas, to make a detour of two 
 
MISSOURI DEMOCRAT. 27 
 
 liiindred miles northward, and to become a mere switch or 
 feeder of the Nebraska road. 
 
 But when a company, backed by the first cai3italists in the 
 country, proposed to spend some twenty millions of dollars, 
 in order to build a road through the State its entire length, 
 and make Kansas the great State, lying at the gates of the 
 overland commerce, it was surely not to be expected that a 
 Senator from Kansas would be the active worker to defeat it. 
 But so it was. Mr. Pomeroy went to the Secretary of the 
 Interior and raised objections to filing the survey. Only too 
 eager to have such backing, the Secretary decided against it, 
 and when the question was sent to the Attorney General, 
 it was submitted in a way that rendered it difficult to obtain a 
 decision in its favor. The Attorney General decided sub- 
 stantially that too long a time had elapsed from the passage 
 of the supplemental act of 1864, to attempt to file the survey, 
 and that, in fact, the supplemental act had "^ expired by 
 limitation." 
 
 It is not necessary here to criticise such decision. It was 
 believed that a legal tribunal would have done the company 
 justice, but legal tribunals are proverbially slow, and Mr. 
 Perry went to Congress. As all the railroads delayed by 
 the war had extensions of time given them, it was naturally 
 supposed that it would be given in this case. Not so, how- 
 ever. The rival interests saw in the future of this great 
 enterprise an overwhelming power, and determined to kill the 
 enterprise by prohibitive legislation. In both House and 
 Senate committees the battle still raged ; every foot of ground 
 was contested, and in the strife those who were truly natural 
 allies sought and found each other, and were arrayed on a 
 great local question on great and just business interests. 
 
 But there were exceptions, and among them Mr. Pomeroy. 
 He had succeeded in getting for the road of which he was 
 President, amid the din and sacrifice of war, a subsidy of 
 more than $1,600,000, besides lands. He determined either 
 to load the Pacific railroad bill with an amendment o-ivin"- 
 a fresh subsidy of money, or failing therein to kill it. As 
 the Senate had determined to give no more grants of monev 
 
28 
 
 MISSOURI DEMOCRAT. 
 
 at this session, the purpose was clear. Appealed to in com- 
 mittee, the Senator agreed to bring in his amendment as 
 a separate measure, but with singular insincerity afterwards 
 introducing it while the bill was struggling for its life in the 
 Senate. The other Kansas Senator was gone. Anderson, of 
 Missouri, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, Guthrie, of Kentucky, Con- 
 ness, of California, and others, met all the cavilers, and 
 Pomeroy, beaten in his amendments, dodged the final vote. 
 
 In the House the Senate bill met a new opposition. A promi- 
 nent member of the House Committee on the Pacific Piailroad, 
 deeply interested in the Omaha branch, opposed it. General 
 Dix, agent for the Omaha road, was working hard against 
 it. The representatives of the Atchison and Pike's Peak 
 road got up a memorial, alleging that it impaired vested 
 rights. The committee was tied. It was too late in the 
 session to get it from the committee, if hostile. 
 
 At this stage Mr. Perry might well have been excused for 
 relinquishing an effort beset by too many difficulties ; but 
 he and the other friends of the road made another grand 
 effort, and the result was that by the necessary two-thirds 
 vote, and ten to spare, the bill was d;.'agged out of the hands 
 of the Committee and placed on the Speaker's table. Its 
 passage was then an easy task. 
 
 But not yet did the enemies of the enterprise abandon their 
 opposition. A terrible effort was made to induce the Presi- 
 dent to veto the bill. Again the road had to fight for its life, 
 and again it triumphed. 
 
 Not satisfied with their defeat, Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, intro- 
 duced an " explanatory bill," which, after discussion, was 
 first amended so as to take the string out, and then over- 
 whelmingly laid on tlie table. 
 
 In this struggle the representatives of the great central 
 States stood side by side with the California and Nevada 
 delegations. Nor was this all. Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, sensi- 
 ble of its just merits, and foreseeing its future real advantages, 
 earnestly supported it, as did Mr. Howard, of Michigan, and 
 a proper examination will show that tlioy gave a careful 
 business survey of the (juestion. 
 
JtUCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. 29 
 
 By the terms of the bill the California company are per- 
 mitted to come cast until the roads unite, and by removing 
 the unjust restriction against them, the field is open to 
 enterj^rise and " the largest pole will knock down the 
 persimmons." 
 
 And now, by the removal of short sighted and partizan 
 obstructions, the three great lines strip for the race. If this 
 new direct route is not the best, then the Omaha branch will 
 prevail. Pioneers are even now seeking the mountains. 
 Adventurous bands of engineers Avill thread the valleys and 
 forks of Colorado, and seek through its rich mines and long 
 valleys of " wliispering j)ines," for the route to tlie great 
 States of the far West. The spirit of American enterprise 
 draws a long breath, and girds her loins for the struggle. 
 
 Note. — This letter ■\vas republished in the Rocky Mountain Ne\v.s, of July 24. 
 
 COMP. 
 
 THE EOOKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. 
 
 SENATOR POMEROY. 
 
 It will doubtless surprise our readers to learn that a Kansas 
 Senator lias been one of the chief opponents of the Kansas 
 valley branch of the Union Pacific railway and its continuation 
 to Denver. Yet we are assured that such is the fact, and 
 that the Senator in question is Mr. Pomeroy. The Atchison 
 Champion is the chief organ of Mr. Pomeroy. This fact ma}' 
 account for that paper's opposition to Colorado. Time and 
 time again it lias gone out of the way to abuse and slander 
 our people. Whilst its master was working against us in 
 the Senate of the United States, it was laboring in a like 
 cause with the people. 
 
 It seems unaccountably strange tliat Kansas men and a 
 Kansas paper — more especially at Atchison — should be so 
 jealous of Colorado. The entire State has been vastly bene- 
 fited, and Atchison has been made by the trade of this 
 Territory. But for Colorado, Atchison would have been yet 
 an insignificant village, and its Chamjyion would have been a 
 starveling beggar for the crumbs that fall from its neighbor's 
 table. 
 
THE IRON AGE. 
 
 THE TARIFF AT THE WEST. 
 
 We doubt not that Senator Pomero}^, as well as other 
 Senators from the Western States, supposed they did a 
 shrewd thing in voting against the tariff, which was the 
 ])ractical significance of their voting for its postponement. 
 The truth is, that the people of the West begin to understand 
 that they are as much interested in the establishment of 
 manufactures and the development of their mineral resources as 
 the people of the East, and the politicians will very soon learn 
 the same lesson too. 
 
 It is just possible that Mr, Pomeroy's vote may cost him 
 his senatorship. 
 
 Senator Pomeroy voted to postpone the Tariff bill until 
 December next, thereby delighting our British rivals. There- 
 fore we vote to postpone Mr. Pomeroy's return to the U. S. 
 Senate until — say 1896 — by which time, if he shall have well 
 studied political economy, we may then, perhaps, if we can 
 find no other man to take it, favor his election to the Senate 
 for another term. Meanwhile, we would recommend to our 
 entire Congressional delegation, a work evidently unknown to 
 them, entitled " Principles of Social Science, by H. C. Carey, 
 LL. D." 
 
 We have heretofore shown how the half-naked barbarians 
 of South America, Africa and Asia were permitted to send 
 their wool and hides to this country, nearly tax free, to 
 compete with our own over-taxed farmers. 
 
 We have advocated in season and out of season a higher 
 tax on the products of foreign industry, and a lower tax on 
 home industry. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy, by voting for the postponement of the tariff 
 bill, opposes us — therefore we oppose Mr. Pomeroy. 
 
 It is true that the money-lending land shark — he of the 
 five per cent, per month brotherhood, is greatly benefited 
 by the partial or total prostration of the industrial interests, 
 by the inability of unfortunate farmers or mill-owners to 
 pay off the mortgage on their real estate. 
 
 in voting to postpone the tariff, Mr. Pomeroy favors the 
 money-lending land shark ; therefore it is that we oppose Mr. 
 Pomeroy. 
 
31 LAWRENCE TRIBUNE. 
 
 Neither will the British cry of monopoly silence us. We 
 well know that a profitable business breeds healthy compe- 
 tition, and competition brings prices down to a reasonable 
 standard. — Nemaha Courier, (Kansas.) 
 
 The truth of the matter is, that Kansas now needs a 
 protective tariff far more than Massachusetts does : and all 
 new Western and Southern States, which have not got manu- 
 factures started to any considerable extent, stand in far greater 
 need of a tariff for protection than do Pennsylvania and the New 
 England States, which in the manufacture of many articles 
 have got so well established that they can defy foreign com- 
 petition, and only fear competition at home, which an increase 
 of duties would render all the more formidable. — Wyandotte 
 Gazette. 
 
 If Senator I'omeroy, of Kansas, voted against the Tariff, 
 with the view of securing his re-election to the United States 
 Senate, we apprehend he will find that he has made a fatal 
 mistake, as we find from the above extracts from two of the 
 influential journals of that State, and from other sources, show 
 that they are wide awake there as to the efiect which the 
 free-trade policy would have on the progress and prosperity 
 of Kansas. They see that what they want is men, and that 
 the way to get men is to pay them well, and make labor 
 pi'ofitable — ^which is utterly impossible, except by the en- 
 couragement of mining and manufactures, as well as agricul- 
 ture. We hope this subject will be fully discussed in the 
 ])iesent campaign in Kansas, and that the facts will be 
 brought clearly before the people of the West. We are tired 
 of the constant repetition of the story that this is a matter 
 affecting the interests only of Eastern manufacturers — it affects 
 in a very much greater degree the interests of the farmers of 
 the West. 
 
 But on this subject we shall not now dwell, but refer to an 
 article we publish from the eloquent pen of Dr. Robert H. 
 Lamborn, which will be found in another column, and also to 
 an extract from the able address of Gov. Andrew, delivered 
 at Brattleboro, Vt., a few days ago, which is printed on the 
 first page. 
 
 mo 31 
 
 THE LAAVRENCE TRIBUNE. 
 
 "CHEEK." 
 
 We have received a note from one William K. Sanford, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., under date of August 8th, asking us to 
 publish an article from a country paper printed somewhere 
 
32 
 
 MARYSVILLE ENTERPRISE. 
 
 in Massachusetts, nominatinsj Hon, 8. C. Pomeroy for the 
 next Vice President of the United States, and to send liini 
 (Mr. Sanford) two copies of onr paper containing the same. 
 
 We do not know who Mr. Sanford may be, hut are willing 
 to concede that for all we know to the contrary, he may be 
 a natural President and Vice President maker ; Isutwe Avish 
 to caution him against his premature attempt to impregnate 
 the public mind, lest the expected result should prove an 
 abortion. AVe would inform him that it will be consider- 
 ably more than two years before a Vice President will be 
 elected, and we respectfully put it to his intelligence, whether 
 the womb of time would not be so weakened by this long 
 period of gestation as to justify at its delivery the application 
 of the old Latin witticism, " 3Io7i(ef! parturiunt et nascitiir 
 ridiculus miis." 
 
 But we do not intend totally to refuse compliance with 
 the gentleman's re(|uest. On the contrary, we will cheer- 
 fully give his recommendation a place in our advertising 
 columns, at the usual rates. Our account with him would 
 stand as follows : 
 
 Lawkenck, August — , 18GG. 
 Mr. Win. K. Sanford, 
 
 To Kansas Daily Triuune, Dr. 
 
 To iidvcrtising nominatou of Vice President — 3 squares, one insertion, $2.50 
 two copies of Daily Tribune 10 ■ 
 
 S2.G0 
 
 THE MAEYSYILLE ENTERPRISE. 
 
 THE HON. S. C. POMEROY. 
 
 The Honorable gentleman whose name heads this article 
 seems to be stumping the State, for what purjjose the voters 
 of Kansas can easily conjecture. 
 
 The Hon. Senator had better come up in northern Kansas 
 and let us know how faithfully he has served us during the 
 last four years in the United States Senate ; how he got the 
 Hannibal & St. Joe branch of the Pacific railroad via, Atch- 
 ison ; whether Atchison is immediately opposite St. Joe, and 
 upon a direct line west. We would like to hear from the 
 Senator upon the local interests of Kansas. 
 

 
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