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ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, I894
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Vol. I, No. 36
AN INSTRUCTIVE, ARGUMENT,
A Complete Report of the Argument and Vote
on House Bill Number 3606, Before the
"United States Senate, August I, I894.
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the people shall rule.
great measure rosp.
tlon of property and for
riition which exists, and take this occasion
to s:iy to you that I think your company lias
gone us far as it ought to go in withholding
from tbe people of those county-seat towns
what, 1 do not hesitate to say, they are
clearly entitled to upon equity and fair
dealing between a corporation and citizens
of a town.
I wish to call your attention to the further
fact that the mayors ana common council at
both liound Pond and Enid have passed
ordinances regulating the spi
traiiy through their corporat
for the destine- The Vice-President. The chair, of eesslty than we at that time believed It is very well understood by ttw
ourse, is compelled to sustain
point of order.
Mr. Berry. 1 ask unanimous >
sent to withdraw the report.
The Vice-President. It will be
ordered.
tho to exist for the action that the sen-1 people there that the company
ate has taken. i very strong, [t is true that they wit
But the issue can not be beclouded i probably wait live years under exiat-
nor disguised. Those people, accord-1 ing law, under a statute passed by.
ing to the opinion of the best lawyer- the legislature of that territory, yet
who have examined the subject, will j if there is a desire to have the conrU«■
Mr. Berrv subsequently said: t now j not have the right for live years to seat changed the people can Jo in
send to the desk the conference re-1 come by a vote of theirown, although through the legislature by amending-
port on house bill StiOti and renew my ! it should be a unanimous vote to the statute.
motion that the senate rtcede from | choose and select their county se;\ts. 1 lus railroad company is an ali -
its amendment The amendment of the senate simply powerful organization. It is one o'
The Vice-President. The report proposes to give them that right, and the great railroads of this country
f railway ! will be read. i goes on to prescribe the term
So Saieth the Congress of the United States
and the President-Copied from the
Congressional Recora.
AN ACT
To require railroad companies opera-
ting railroads in tbe territories
over a right of way granted by the
government to establish stations
and depots at all townsites on the
lines of said roads established by
the interior department.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
' senate anil house of representatives
of the United States of America in
. ongress assembled, that all railroad
companies operating railroads
through the territories of the United
* States over a right of way obtained
under any grant or act of congress
giving to said railroad companies the
right of way over the public lands of
1 lie United States, shall be required
t< establish and maintain passenger
" stations and freight depots at or
within one-fourth of a mile of the
Aaundarv limits of all townsites al-
ready established in said territories
<«n the line of said railroads by au-
thority of the interior department.
Section 2. That said railroad com-
panies are hereby required, within
three months from the passage of this
act, to establish at or within one-
■ lurth of a mile of the boundary
limits of all townsites provided for in
ti, • preceeding section, passenger
stations, freight depots and other ac-
commodations necessary for receiv-
ing and discharging passengers and
freight at such points, and upon fail-
ure of such companies to establish
« such stations and depots within said
.time, said companies shall be liable
"to a fine of $500 for each day there-
after, until said stations and depots
shall be established, which shall be
recovered in a suit brought by the
United States in the United States
courts in any territory through which
*said railroads may pass.
the amendment
Provided, That the selection of
any lands within the ownership of
the United States by said railroad
* companies for station purpose at
said towns as heretofore reserved by
the commissioners of the general
land office for such put poses, and not
exceeding the area allowed by law
therefor, and as shown by the plats
thereof, filed by said companies in
the department of the interior, be,
and the same are hereby confirmed.
Provided however, "That within
twenty days after the passage of this
•act, the Governor of Oklahoma shall
give thirty days notice of an elec-
tion of the qualified electors of the
counties of L. and O, in the territory
' f Oklahoma for the purpose of de-
termining the location of the county
seats of said counties and the
location having a majority of all
"the votes in each of said counties
shall be the county seat of said
'county: and said election shall be
conducted and the result determined
as provided by the laws of Oklaho-
ma.
Mr. Berry. Mr. President, I rise
.for the purpose of presenting ^ con-
ference report, a privileged question.
The Vice-President. The chair will
recognize the senator from Arkansas
to submit the report.
Mr. Berry. I submit a conference
• report, which 1 ask may be read.
The secretary read as follows:
j The committed of conference on the dis-
agreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the senate to the bill <H. R.
3HIH1I to require the r:illroud companies
I operating railroads Inlhe territories over a
I rlglitof way gr'.nted by the government to
I establish stations and depots at nil townsites
I " on the lines of said roads established by tl-e
I Interior department, having met, after full
and free conference have agreed to recom-
niendand do recommend to their respective
houses as follows:
They have been unable to agree.
James II. Berry,
Jo. C. 8. BLACKBURN,
Mnnagers on the part of the senate.
C. 11. KtUHHlE,
Manager on the part of the house.
Mr. Berry. The senate will remem-
ber Mr. President, that several
months ago a house bill came to the
^•nate which required railroad trains
to stop at government townsites in
.Oklahoma. The bill was discussed at
■ length and an amendment was put
v&\ •upon the bill by the senate requiring
I an election to be held within thirty
I days thereafter to determine the
Wication of county seats. The house
of representatives refused to agree
to the senate amendment, a confer-
ence committee was appointed, and
the conferees have had various meet-
ings. There is no longer any prob-
-ability of an agreement, and we have
disagreed. 1 desire now to enter a
motion that the senate recede from
ft he amendment, which will pass the
bill as it came from the house of rep-
resentatives.
1 do not propose to go over the dis-
cission of this matter again. I will
state, however, that the failure of
the senate to agree to the bill as It
came from the house has caused in
Unite trouble in Oklahoma Territory.
The Hock Island railroad company
has still refused to furnish the depots
to the two towns of South Enid and
Pond Creek.
The Vice-President. The question
is on the motion of the Senator from
Arkansas.
Mr. Berry. I wish to make a state-
ment. This motion will be opposed,
and I wish to finish my remarks.
The committee are not agreed
limits. That ] The report was read as follows:
trlctly within the statute. That, 1 am Tlie cemmlttee of conference on the
! Informed, your company unhesitatingly agreeing votes of the two houses on the
i violates those ordinances: have made no ! amendment of the senate to the bill (11. It.
! pretense whatever of obeying them, and yflOO) to require railroad companies operating
publicly defy the lawful authorities of those railroads ir. the territories over a right of
cities. | way granted by the government to establish
As acting governorof this territory I now stations and depots at all town sites on the
respectfully call upon you to see to II that | lines of said roads established by the Interior
your company, by Its agents, cease violating department, having met after full iiiul free
the ordinances of the cities of Round Pond j conference have agreed to recommend and
and Knld, through which your trains run, | do recommend to their respective houses as
I and thereby set an example to the people | follows:
who are disposed to Injure your property of
obedience to law. And I will take this oc-
casion further to cull your attention to the
fact that It is commonly reported, and I be-
lieve the same to be true, that your comp-
any, for the. purpose of subserving the pri-
vate Interests of a few of the parties who are
managing and operating the line which runs
through oklahoma, have undertaken ti; in-
obllterate from exlst-
They have be.
Managers
• . , , u " ' |ure, and if possible obliterate from cxist-
tlns subject. I make the motion that : ^ (|r, ,.oumy seilt towns of Round Pond
the senate recede from the amend-; d Kn|(, fnr th(. „nly „urpo,
ment requiring an election to be held. , hlnK themselves by the s*le of town
These towns under their corporate
mil Enid for the sole
enriching themselvei
lots In rival towns.
I do not know whether you are a party to
this scheme or not. 1 have always been of
the opinion that the Rock Island railway
ompany was a corporation primarily
created for the benefit of the public and not
for the benefit of the private Interests of a
few of Its managers. Its stockholders can
obtain no advantage whatever by pursuing
tbe course which It has been pursuing In this
territory. Its best interests are unquestion-
ably lost sight of In the further carrying out
of the policy so far Inaugurated and carried
on.
While as acting governorof this territory I
shall do everything In my power tc, uphold
law and order, yet I deem It my duty to say
to you as president of the Rock island rail-
way company that the action of such comp-
any toward the couuty seat towns referred
to, is an act of gross injustice which the
company itself ought to correct and which
the people of this territory will correct as
soon us the legislature convenes, unless you,
jf your own motion, shall do away with the
evil.
The people of Round Pond and Enid have
repeatedly offered to bear all the expenses
which your company will be to In putting In
depot facilities and side trackage in their
cities. Those towns were laid out by the
government and the good faith of the gov-
ernment pledged to those people who would
settle within the limits of such towns. In
most Instances they went there with their
all. They have built their homes and es-
tablished their business with the view of
spending their days In the town where they
have settled. Round Pond is a place of from
1,200 to l.GUtl inhabitants; Enid Is a place of
from 2.0UII to a,1100 inhabitants. Both of them
are established county seat towns; both of
them have post offices and a large trade
ceuters at both places and why the officers of
your company should perndt a few of Its sel-
flsli managers to attempt to destroy such
cities is beyond my comprehension and must
unquestionably work disastrously to the
Interests of your company.
1 appeal to you as president of a great cor-
poration to do these people justice, and 1
demand at the hands of your company an
observance of the luws of the cities through
which your company run Its trains.
I address this to you personally In the be-
laws passed ordinances regulating the
speed of the railroad trains through
the respective towns, which they had
an undoubted right to do under the
territorial laws of Oklahoma. The
railroad disregarded the law and dis-
obeyed it. The company treated it
with contempt and scorn. The re-
sult was that the excitement con-
tinued until certain lawless parties—
.not the entire citizens, because the
great body of the citizens are as law-
abiding and as peaceful as any citizens
in the country—became so exaspera-
ted at the conduct of the railroad,
the citizens having offered to pay all
the expense of the erection of the
depots and the road continuing to
refuse, disregarding the ordinance
and overriding the law, that they
destroyed a large amount of railroad
property—burned it.
I do not think any lives were lost.
but there was great tumult and
great commotion, and there is today.
A large number of citizens were ar-
rested. United States troops have
been there, and there has been great
feeling and great excitement, all of
which would have been avoided but
for the senate amendment, the adop-
tion of which the railroad forced, re-
quiring an election within the terri-
tory. It had no place on the bill. It
is not a matter as to which the rail-
road had a right to dictate. In my
opinion it never should have been
adopted here as an amendment, al-
though a majority of the senate dis-
agreed with me.
I believe now that the proper thing
in order to give peaca to that com-
munity and that there may be peace
and order throughout the territory,
is for the senate to recede from the
election amendment and pass the
house bill, and thereby force the
Hock Island railroad to give those
persons depot facilities for freight
and passenger trains.
As I have before stated, the citi-
zens are willing to pay every dollar
of the cost and will promise and agree
to do it. They have again and again
offered to do so and are now ready to
doit, but the railroad has refused all i lief that you have not heretofore had this
accommodations and all compromise,
and absolutely refuses to stop the
trains. 1 tlieiefore hope that a ma-
jority of the senate will recede from
| the position of the amendment and
compel the railroad to give those
pt >ple the depot facilities that they
require, and thereby restore peace
and order to that community.
I ask to have read as a part of my
remarks a letter written by the act-
ing governor of the territory to the
president of the Rock Island railroad.
The Vice-President. The secretary
will read as requested.
The secretary read as follows:
Territory of Oklahoma, Secretary's Office.
Guthrie, July 111, IHtW.
Sin: A state of facts exists in this terri-
tory which is calamitous to the best Interests
of Oklahoma and to your railway company.
To accurately locate the responsibility for
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matter before vou In such a way that you
understood the gross Injustice which your
company was perpetrating upon these peo-
ple, and in the hope that you will at once
take steps to correct such Injustice.
I hope to bear from you at once upon this
matter. I am, sir, very respectfully,
Thomas J. Lowe,
Acting Uoverner of Oklahoma.
1{. R. cable,
President of the Chicago and Rock Island
Railway company, Chicago, 111.
Mr. Blackburn. I ask for the read-
ing of the conference report.
The Vice-President. The secretary
will again read the report.
The secretary read as follows:
The cotnmlttee of conference on the dis-
agreeing votes of the two houses on tbe
amendment of the senate to the bill (II. It.
3606) to require railroad companies operating
railroads In the territories over a right o
this state of affairs Is not the purpose of this [ way granted by the government to <
letter, but 1 desire to call your attention to ) stations and depots at all townsites
1 he conditions which do exist and for which
conditions you have 1 he remedy within your
power to relieve.
When the Cherokee Strip was opened to
settlement, your company was operating a
line of railway from Caldwell, south through
said strip. It had located along Its line a
few stations which were primarily built for
the convenience of the railway company,
and such stations were not Intended or ex-
pected to be of a permanent character, or to
control the building of cities and towns
along the line of your road In the Cherokee
strip.
Prior to the opening of the strip the secre-
tary of tbe Interior, In accordance wuli the
act of congress opening such land to settle-
ment, laid out two county seat towns on
your line of railway, known as Round Pond
and Enid. Your company, or the managers
who control the operation of your road in
this territory, refused to give to such county
seat towns depot facilities. Vou knou the
result of the attempt of these people to pro-
cure legislation from congress to aid them Iti
securing proper depot facilities for the!
towns. Of late many acts of violence ha
been perpetrated by Irresponsible people J thought two of them had signed it.
connected with the towns of Round Pond
and Enid, causing groat destruction of your
property, Impeding United States malls and
Interstate commerce, and endangering life,
and as acting governor of this territory I am
lines of said roads established by the Interior
department, having met, after full and free
conference have agreed to recommend and
do recommend to their respective houses as
follows:
They have been unable to agree.
James H. Behky,
Jo. c. S. Blackburn,
Managers on the part of the senate
C. B. Kiixjore,
Manager on the part of the house
Mr. Blackburn. I make the point
of order that that is not a conference
report. It is signed by but one of the
conferees on the part of the other
house: and by only two ol the con-
ferees of the senate. It is not signed
by a majority of the joint conference
Mr. Berry rose.
The Vice-President. Does the sen-
ator from Arkansas desire to speak
to the point of order?
Mr. Berry. 1 was not aware of the
fact stated by the senator from Ken-
tucky until the clerks told me after
Uin the report was sent to the desk. I
*"sent it to the house conferees, and I
f no- It is one of the strongest institutions
| tkTe that tfie governor shall give, the in the United States, reaching our.
s-! conditions under which tin- election from the cltv of Chicago to the GuJ"
shall be held, the qualifications that of Mexico.
every voter shall possess. If the ' It has vast influence and vast pat*
senate recedes from its amendment, er. The people of that town know*
it simply means to declare that it I very well that it will make no differ
will not permit the qualified voters ence what their vote is on the ques-
and legal residents of those two j tion of the location of a county seat ,
counties to select for themselves by the railroad company is powerfu
popular vote their respective county enough to change it, and 1 have ru -
' | doubt it is powerful enough to change
Mr. Teller. Mr. President. I can | the legislation and give them a vote-
not permit the senator from Ken- That is not the reason why till;
tuckv to obscure this issue in the way amendment is pressed here. It j
he is apparently doing. The con'- pressed so that there shall be n<
troversv lu re is simply whether the : legislation upon the subject; that th<
railroa 1 company shall give to the matter may be kept here in confe
people of these two towns the accom- ence, and the company shall not
modations that they are required to | required to build a depot at
give by the common law of the land. I station.
Mr. "Blackburn. Will the senator
from Colorado allow me to call his
attention to the bill?
Mr. Teller. Certainly.
Mr. Blackburn. If the senator will
just read the bill exactly as it came
from the other house, including sec-
tion 1 on the first page and section 2
on the second page, down to the word
••pass" in the 13th line, he will find
that everything which relates to the
accommodations to be furnished by
the railroads stands precisely as it
passed the house of representatives
without a word of change.
Mr. Teller. I thoroughly under-
stand that. 1 have no hesitation in
saying that the proposition for a vote
to change the county seat is a device
of the railroad company to secure
delay and nonpassage of this bill.
The "secretary of the Interior wat
authorized by law to establish the
county seats of these two counties.
He did so, provisionally at least.
Thinking afterward that an undue
advantage had been taken of the
knowledge the people had to acquire
the land for the purpose of specula-
tion and monopoly, he moved the
county seat from where he had otigi-
nally placed it to a point from two
miles and a half to three miles below.
I think it was unfortunate that he
did so. I have no doubt the secretary
was moved by proper motives, but I
think it was a mistake.
At the new place where the land
office was located u town grew up
very much larger than the one
originally designated as the county
seat. The railroad company having
located at this new town and some
officials of the company, if I am not
misinformed, having become inter-
ested in the townsites, they have de-
clined from that time to this to give
a population estimated at from .'5,00(1
to 5,(100 at least the accomodations
of a station. The senator from Ken-
tucky says they ought to he re-
quired to go to the expense. Mr.
President, the senator from Kentucky
can not be ignorant of the fact
that the people of these two towns
repeatedly offered to give bonds to
the company that all the expense of
building a depot and establishing a
station would be borne by them.
Last spring, when in the Indian
Territory, a committee of the citi-
zens of one of these towns came
across the country a hundred miles
to see our committee and to induce
the committee, if possible, to go to
that place and examine this question.
We declined to do so, it not being
within the purview of our inquiry.
Later we passed on the railroad
through the towns. It had been as-
serted on this floor with great empha-
sis that the town of South Enid was
so located that the railroad company
could not put a track there without
great expense and great trouble and
great danger. Standing upon the
rear of the car as we approached
that town, I am prepared to say, as
one having had some experience in
such matters, and some acquaintance
with them, that there is not a word
of truth in that statement.
At either of these towns there can
be put in without any great expense
a station which the people are and
have been for a year ready and wil-
ling to pay for if this railroad comp-
any willdlscharge the duty that not
The press of the country has advised only the statues of the country but
every senator and every citizen of ! the common law puts upon them to j
what Is going on in these two coun- | .rive to the community a station. nf rp,llltaK|t
ties by reason of this controversy. | understand by the press that by this committee of reputable
unable to agree.
James II. Bf.hky,
Jo. C. s. BLAGKBERN,
in the part of the senate,
C. It. Kilqore,
Jno. Avery,
Managers on the part of t be house,
Mr. Blackburn I have no doubt,
| Mr. President, that the senate is
i tired of this bill. 1 am sure that I
am. We have had it under consid-
ation since the early days of De-
cember last; in fact, I think, earlier
than that. The title of the bill
shows the purpose of it. It reads:
An act to require railroad companies ope-
rating railroads in the territories over a right
of way granted by the government—
Not to stop trains, as stated by the
senator from Arkansas, but—
to establish stations and depots at all town-
sites on the lines of said roads established by
the interior department.
The history of the disagreement
between the two houses must be too
well remembered by the senate to
necessitate my going over it again.
There is no longer any question in
the bill that involves a railroad
company. Everything that the in-
terior department asks for as against
the railroad company has been agreed
to. The railroad question is abso-
lutely eliminated from the bill; and
that phase of the question stands
precisely where it stood when the
hou9e passed its bill, which the sec-
retary of the interior wanted. There
is but one question left between the
two houses, and that does not at all
effect'the railroad company nor its
requirements to establish depots and
stations. The house bill fastens that
and has taken it out of this contro-
versy
The only question pending between
the two houses now is an amendment
that the senate put on the bill giving
to the people of the two counties, the
counties of O and L in the territory
of Oklahoma, the right after legal
notice to hold an election, and by
the votes of the qualified electors
and citizens of those two counties to
locate those two county seats. That
is the only question left in contro-
versy between the two houses. Every-
thing that was demanded against
the railroads has been agreed to in
the bill. They are bound to estab-
lish the depots and stations. The in-
terior department has won its fight
so far as its controversy with the
railroad is concerned. I repeat that
the only issue pending between the
two houses is as to whether the quali-
fied voters, the bona fide citizens of
these two counties, shall in confor-
mity with the law, as provided in this
bill, ha-vc the right by popular vote
to select and determine their respec-
tive county seats. You can not bring
anything else into this controversy.
The senator from Arkansas insists
that they should not have this right.
The senator from Arkansas knows
that it is an open question, and that
the trend of legal opinion is to the
conclusion that unless the amend-
ment put on by the senate is incor-
porated into the bill those people will
not have the right by vote to deter-
mine their county seats for five years
to come.
If there ever was a time when the
senate ought not to recede from an
amendment of such a nature as this
one it is now, under the present con-
ditions existing in that territory and
along these roads. There are two
railroads affected instead of one. I
(tablisb have any number of telegrams and
on the letters that I will not weary the sen-
ate by having read. It is not needed.
Mr. President, of all the indefensi-
ble things that have been done bj
railroads in this country in the last
twenty years, there is not a single
case so indefensible as the conduct
of the K ick Island railroad companj.-
with reference to that community .
and they have no business to he her',
appealing to us in the interest ct
their pet town or for any other pit-
pose. If there ever was an occa ior«
in t , ■ world that required the action
of the senate in receding from an il -
conceived and ill-considered propos"
ti ':i, this is one.
Mr. President, I do not blaine the-1
people there for being indignant
When the town ordinance provide
I'rst that the trains should stop, an.,
then that they should go through th«.
town at a rate of speed such as a!
municipalities everywhere havw ra.-
quired, and have been upheld! litr-«
luiring, this railroad company ig-
nored it as if it had never been pass-
ed, and they go through these townt-
as they go through the open prairie-..
I repeat, of all the outrages nhici >
have been perpetrated by railroad*.-
in this country thiB has been tht •
grossest, the most unreasonable, au.
the least called for of all.
So far as I am concerned, I shoult'
like to take this railroad company t>>
the throat, if it could be done, ar . '
teach them that the senate of th-
United States is not to be used i(y—
the purpose of enabling them to tyr
annize to outrage communities which
have the rights possessed by alt com-
munities in the United^States. Their
have their franchises over the pobMc.
land, and those communities have
privileges that the company ought
to be bound to live up to. On tfte -
contrary, they have denied them •
these thriving and growing town*
that can not have a pound of freight
delivered, that can not buy wheat,
this coming fall at their station,
but all the wheat must go to a neigh
boring station. There :annot b^ ...
pound of wheat or freight of an>.
kind shipped to this center of popi -
lation.
No passenger can stop there: ever,
one must go to the neighboring oy
rival town and then return. As ■ ;
came through the upper town, Pen '•
Creek, it was raining, and I heart*
the passengers on the train -taJkint;
There is a stream that runs between
the two stations, and the passenger
said, "we shall he unable to go dowr
tonight; we shall be compelled t<
stay at. the station, because it will N
unsafe to cross that stream tonight
Now, that might not occur often, bis*
it occurs sometimes. There is r<i>
reasons and none can he given by th* -
senator from Kentucky nor anvbod ..
else, why this case should be compl
cated with the county seat question .
Let this railroad company build tht -
stations, and if they do not build —
compel them to do it.
I repeat, for a year the communft
has been anxious, if the railroa/
company would establish a station
to bear every dollar of the expend'-
and yet they decline; and now tlu
whole question as to the railroad: •
wiped out and the only question :
whether those poor people shall haw
an opportunity to vote on the count),
seat matter. A petition has bee-
sent here by more than three-qiKUt
ers of tin people of each of tli"-'
counties in favor of letting tbe mm
ter rest as it is so far as the count;.
seats are concerned. We were tot.'
Ifett-
tictnen which came to us, that nnii-
spirit of anarchy which seems to
have pervaded other sections of the
country has not been lacking there,
and all because these railroads saw
lit to object to going to the expense
of from $10,000 to $20,000 at each sta-
tion to build station houses and de-
pots every time that the caprice or
whim of the interior department
should change. They have stations
and they have depots at the two
towns of Old Enid and Round Pond,
and were required to build other
stations and other depots less than
three miles from these sites.
I repeat that the senate should
not recede from the amendment. It
is fair to presume that the senat
evening at a rate that was dangerous
to human life, and knew that every
man who was destined for that vil-
lage had to go to another station
ano then return over the same ground
which be had traveled, because the
railroad compary had declined to
build a station at that point or allow
it to be built at the expense of oth-
ers, 1 felt indignant myself, and 1
think any fair-mitnk:d man would
feel Indignant. "T
Mr. Bate. What I the popula-
tion there?
Mr. Teller. The population of the
town where there is no station is
variously estimated at from 11,000 to
4,non. ft is undoubtedly more than
,000.
If the senator from Kentucky makes u, hUi m |m>- - —, ,uu. i ,i,.,,w
any point about it. I have sent for put the amendment on the bill de- .1,000. and perhaps .
Mr. Avery and I will ask to withdraw iberately, for it was put there by a Now, 'tilerts U ino rieaso . ..
the repott until 1 can see hint. yea-and-nay vote. Afterwards an cotnpatn I th not put
I wish to give notice now that as effort was made to have the senat. J ®*. '. '.lHl,milt v thefo idiall be
I upon dally for protection to your soon as 1 get the signature, at any recede from this contest, and the should "ttem| >
property. hour, ;lt any time or at any moment, senate refuse.!. This was as far back a vote.to .fth^,'e_r1^L/0VtEpthe;!
This dltl affairs Is lamentable In when I can get the floor I shall pre- as the early vv'-"u'r tnonths No < . ■ ' j f nt . st.. ^
the .'xtreme, and I wish to say to you, sent the report. I thought the re- change of condition has occurred11a. qiiertlM rt CMnt^• ^
president Of the I lock Island railway comp- port had been properly signed until since theni except t.. dcmonstrati t other house sent to W
any, that1 believe your company to be In a the clerks called my attention to** « ■■■ .-bit.-the tfreatet ne tion tnt otnir
ntil since then except to demonstrate to
it. I us find to the public the greater ne-
question. The question is whet Iter
we are golr.g to compel a railroad
company to build the stations, '
whether we shall let them cscai"
under cover <>f a county seat lign.:
from doing the duty that is lnctu *-
bent upon them.
Mr. Blackburn. Before the senat u-
from Colorado takes bis scat will h
allow me to ask him a question':' ''
the senator believed the report tha ■
was brought by that committee •
gentlemen, that more than thrc
quarters of the people out there wei <
opposed to any change or even to a •
location of the county seat, why i.t .
that the peaceable people of th.-.
town, who use dynamite to de'.irc*
railroad bridges and burn up tv;u -
and loaded cars as they stand on thy
track, are afraid to let a vote be baa-
Mr. Teller. 1 have lived on tl t
frontier half of my life, and I
here that there is nothing in ti.-
west which gets up bad blood like .
county seat light. There Is trom -'.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 18, 1894, newspaper, August 18, 1894; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111564/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.