The Dqlles Daily Chronicle.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLES CITY.
AND WASCO COUNTY. f
SFEEtH OF 8BNATOK DOLPB.
(Continued from lt page.)
Let my record epeak for itself.. When
the improvement of the cascade locks
had got fairly under way, with the pros
pect of liberal treatment from future
Congresses, I turned my attention to
the obstructions - to navigation at the
dallea of the Columbia. Major Jones
had proposed a boat-railway as a means
of overcoming the obstructions at this
point. The boat-railway scheme was
new to me and I offered in the Senate a
resolution directing the Secretary of War
to cause the obstructions at the dalles
to be examined and to report a plan of
improvement. I saw the chief of en
gineers concerning the matter and
learned that there was no fund out of
which the survey and examination could
be made, and that such examination
could not be made without an appropria
tion for that purpose. I therefore
dropped the resolution and proceeded to
examine the question with care, and
elaborately presented the subject to the
Senate in a speech which I ent!tled,"An
Obstructed River." In the next River
and Harbor bill, fearing that the scheme
of H boat-railway might prove imprac
ticable and not being willing to entrust
the matter of recommending a plan for
the improvement, as is ordinarily done,
alone to the engineers in charge, we
secured a provision for the appointment
of a board 01 three Army Engineers to
make a survey and report a plan for an
improvement to overcome the obstruc
tions at the dalles, with an appropria
tion of $10,000 to defray the expenses.
This board was appointed, consisting
of three eminent Army Engineers, who
spent 14 months in examining the ques
tion, during which time they visited
similar works in Europe. They reported
in favor of a boat-railway as the most
effective and economical method of over
coming the obstructions.
Mr. Mitchell, being chairman of the
Committee on Transportation Routes to
the Seaboard, upon the receipt of the
report to Congress, introduced a bill to
provide for the construction of a boat
railway, which he had referred to his
committee and which in due time favor
ably reported it, and by .our united
efforts it was passed through the Senate.
We believed that there was a chance to
secure the passage of this bill through
the House and asked for and were prom
ised, ahearing before the House Com
" mittee on Rivers and Harbors and were
surprieed at the action of that com
mittee in reporting the bill to the
House with a substitute providing for
an ordinary portage road. I immedi
ately investigated the matter, to see if
there was a prosjject of securing the
passage of the substitute through the
house, and was then assured, and I
have recently been assured by the
chairman and members of that commit
tee, that the report was made under an
agreement that the bill should not be
called up in the house, and to get rid of
importunity concerning it, that no
member of the committee was commit
ted to the pioject, and that the com
mittee was not prepared to, and would
not make the new departure of entering
upon the construction of ordinary rail
roads, a work upon which any citizen
might enter.
At the last session of congress Sen
ator Mitchell again introduced his bill,
which was again referred to the senate
committee on transportation routes to
the seaboard, reported from that com
mittee, pas-ed through the senate, and
sent to the democratic house to sleep
the sleep of death.
In the meantime, knowing that a
separate bill providing for the prosecu
tion of this work under the contract
system would not pass the house, I was
working up my proposition to incorpo
rate in the river and harbor bill a pro
vision for the work. While domg so,
the Seattle canal project wa.s brought
before the senate committee on com
merce and pressed with great energy and
perseverance by' the Washington senat
ors. I felt compelled to oppose this
measure, on the ground that it was not
in the interest of general commerce and
because I knew that the proposition to
expend so large a sum for this canal
would necessarilv interfere with and
prevent me from securing an appropria
tion for the improvement at the dalles.
By my presentation of the importance
of the proposition for the removal of the
obstructions at the dalles, as compared
with the beattle canal, an improve
ment which I considered of vastly
more importance to the people of
Washington than the canal, I became
embarassed with the Washington sena
tors and was put in the position by the
public press of complaining of them.
The appropriation for the Washington
canal prevailed in the- committee with
out my support and it was only by a
great effort that I secured a provision in
the bill making an appropriation for the
commencement of the boat-railway and
for its construction, under the contract
system. Then the real fight commenc
ed.
The opposition to the work which had
been going on all the session appeared
at once on the surface. Paul Mohr and
the lobbyists in the interest put in an
appearance. ..The-Washingtoixcanal and
the boat-railway were straightway con
nected together. Mr. UUnchard, chair
man of the house committee on rivers
and harbors and the house conferees,
assailed the boat-railway project most
bitterly and quoted Gov. Pennoyer's let
ters and read in the conference com
mittee extracts from democratic news
papers in Oregon opposing a boat railway.
With his, (Mr. Blanchard'a,) approval, if
not at his instance, a paper was circu
lated in the house and quite numerous
ly signed by members threatening to de
feat the river and harbor bill unless the
Washington canal and the boat-railway
project. were eliminated.
I knew nothing of Paul Mohr's scheme
prior to the adoption of my amendment.
I supposed his project was still upon
paper only. He wrote a letter to Sena
tor Squire, which was turned over to the
committee, in which he stated that his
company had already expended $420,000
upon his project, that it had three miles
of track and were ready to proceed with
the work. I knew this was an exaggera
tion ; but when Mr. Mohr came to see
me about the matter, I told him that I
did not desire to interfere with any iin
provement or the Columbia river
and would have my proposition
amended so as to do him and
his company as little harm as possi
ble ; that I would have the secretary of
war authorized to agree with his com
pany for a right of way over the right of
way secured for the boat-railway or for
a right to use the tracks of the govern
went road. He said that would reduce
their damages compensation, for loss of
business on the Columbia by reason of
the construction of a boat-railway. I
told him that such a claim was prepos
terous. He said he would go to New
York and consult other parties interest'
ed with him, about my proposition but
he never reported.
In his letter to Senator Squire he
claimed that his company had purchased
the work done upon the north side of
the river by the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company, and had become the
successor of all the rights of the Wash
ington Railroad Co. I think that was
the name of the company an organiza
tion created and maintained by the old
O. S. N. Co., and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Co., to hold the right of
way at the dalles upon the north eide
of the river.
I concluded, and I leave it to you to
say whether the conclusion was just,
that Mr. Mohr could never have secured
those interests for the purpose of the
construction of a railroad and that his
scheme was simply in the interest of
those who desired to prevent the open
ing of the river, and I probably said so
to the conference committee.' Some
member of the committee told him this
and he sent me a letter threatening me
with his indignation, which I read in
the senate and said in my public speech
that if he bad anything to say about me
he could say it on the house-tops.
In violation of the rules of the senate,
the morning the report of the 'disagree
ment of the conference committee was
to be considered in the senate, he placed
upon the desks of senators and repre
sentatives a document full of falsehoods
and misrepresentations and it became
my duty, to answer it. This brought
out the malicious and scurrilous letter
circulated among senators and represen
tatives, which, he tried to have published
in eastern papers without success and
which was published in a paper in this
city. This was the penalty I paid for
my fidelity to the interests of the people.
Mr. Blanchard, urged on by Governor
Pennoyer, succeeded in defeating the
measure. It was constantly asserted in
the committee that the project would
defeat the bill in the house and that
further delay would defeat the bill. I
held on to the measure until I began to
fear myself that there was danger of th'e
defeat of th'e river and harbor bill and
until I could not ask my colleagues
louger to stand by the measure.
I then, in order to remove all possible
objection to the plan for this improve
ment at another congress, secured a pro
vision for the appointment of a new
board to consist of seven engineers,
three to be taken from civil life, in or
der to overcome my prejudice against
army engineers, to examine and report
a location and plan for the improvement,
with an appropriation of $15,000 for the
payment of the expenses of the board.
What more could any one have done?
I will examine very briefly the grounds
of attack against me. First, it is said
that a boat-railway is impracticable and
will result in! keeping the river closed.
The answer to this is that a board of
eminent engineers from the army have
reported that a boat-railway is not only
practicable but the most economical and
efficient improvement; that I did not
trust a single army engineer to pass
upon the question but had the survey
and examination made by a board ; that
I had nothing more to do than any of
you with the determination of the char
acter ot the improvement : and that con-
Kress will not authorize an improvement
of any other character until the plan is
chanced bv the encineers.
Again, it is said that I selected the
norm side ot the river so as to destroy
the nronertv of Paul Mohr's com nan v
and not to hurt the Union Pacific Com
pany. It is sufficient to say that I had
nothing to do with the location of the
boat-railway, which was a matter wholly
for the Board of Engineers, and that
Paul Mohr's company was not in exist
ence when the location was made. .
Lastly, it is asserted that I am .the
attorney of the O. R. & N. Co. and there
fore I must be working in their interest.
Every one knows that when I entered
the Senate I severed all connection, not
onlv with the O. K. & JN. Co. but with
all corporations and other clients. My
brother's firm, with whom I never had
any connection, some years ago gave up
the business of the O. R. & N. Co. and
the Union Pacific Company as lessee of
its road.
Paul Mohr claims that I appeared in a
suit to prevent the government from
getting a right of way for a canal and
locks, and so attempted to defeat the
project. Every one knows that the suit
to condemn a right of way over the
lands of the O. S. N: Co. was brought
many years ago, before I had any con
nection with the O. R. & N. Co. and
while Judge Strong was counsel for the
O. S. N. Co. The suit referred to by Mr.
Mohr was brought to condemn addi
tional land which was desired for the
canal and locks while I was a member of
the firm of Dolpb, Bronaugh, Dolph and
Simon and before I entered the Senate,
and was never tried. It was settled upon
my advice to Mr. Prescott to take the
amount offered by the government, to
show that the company was making no
factious opposition to the improvement,
although neither he nor I believed the
amount offered was the value of the
land.
But I did once figure in a suit for a
right of way over the lands of the O. S.
N. Co., now owned by the O. R. & N. at
the cascades. I appeared with Col. W.
W. Chapman in the suit of The Dalles
and Salt Lake Railway Co. vs. the O. S.
N. Co., to secure a right of way at the
dalles, and spent nearly a week in the
trial of the case without compensation
or hope of reward, my services being a
free gift to the enterprise for the benefit
of the people of the state.
Another charge is that I have repre
sented the O. R. and N. Co. in the su
preme court in some litigation. Al
though other senators take suits in the
supreme court for land grant railroad
companies, I have always refused them.
I have not sought legal business, pre
ferring to devote my time to the busi
ness of the peop!e"of Oregon. I was
vice president of the O. R. & N. Co.
when it leased the narrow guage rail
road lines of the Oregonian Railway Co.
The lease was executed under the direc
tion of the president and executive
committee of the company in New
York by the Portland board with much
hesitation. We believed it to be im
provident. When Mr. Yillard failed,
and the management of the road chang
ed, the execution of this lease ' was the
cause of great complaint against the
Oregon board, The other members of
the board acted largely under my ad
vice. I defended them in correspond
ence with the officers of the company,
and informed the company that in any
controversies with the Oregon directors
I should defend them for ail acts done
while I was connected with the com
pany. I gave an opinion that the lease
was void, and the company repudiated
it. The Oregonian Railway Co. brought
suit for the semi-annual installments of
rent, and the litigation was carried to
the supreme court. In the first suit in
the supreme court. Sidney Bartlett, the
great Massachusetts lawyer, and Mr.
Carter, the leading lawyer of New
York, were employed. The company
desired me to file a" brief, setting forth
my views of the validity of the lease :
and having, as you will "see, mor e than
a pecuniary interest in tne litigation,
on account of . the part I had
taken in the execution of
the lease, I did so. The
fact of my employment and the decision
in the ca6e was telegraphed to Oregon
and no one thought I had committed
any great iniquity until Paul Mohr un
dertook to make a mountain' out- of a
mole-hill. This one case settled! the
question involved. No other suit for
rent was ever argued; no opinion was
written in any other case. Being on the
ground , as a matter of accommodation r as
the subsequent cases were reached, I filed
copies of my brief in the first case in the
supreme court.
I think I should ask pardon for taking
so much time upon so trivial a matter r
but I felt that some statement was due
to my friends concerning the attacks
made upon me.
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NOTICE. .
- All Dalles Citv warrants registered
prior to October 7, 1890, will be pafti if
presented at my office, s Interest ceases
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- Dated July 7th, 1892. .
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