Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — THE RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILROADS.

Charles Crockeb, the Pacific Railroad magnate, was examined by the Pacific Railway CommSssion at New York. Mr. Crocker’s

memory proved very treacherous, and the number of things he didn’t know about the affaire of the company was really astonishing. The witness answered the questions propounded him in a very flippant way; said he didn't know where the books of the Contract and Finance Company were, and told the Commissioners they “could bet their bottom dollar” he had made all he could out of the Pacific railways. He said the Central Pacific was now wholly unable to pay its debts to the Government, and thought it ought to be given a hundred or a hundred and fifty years m which to do so. Altogether, the commission got very httle enlightenment or satisfaction out of Mr. Charles Crocker. Magnate Huntington was before the Pacific Railway Commission at New York Wednesday, and in the course of his examination lost his memory and his temper too. He insisted that none of the large expenditures charged m the Central Pacific books to “legal service” had been made for the purpose of corrupting Congressmen, and paralyzed the Commission by the statement that “he had spent twenty-five of the best years of his life in benefiting the public and the Government, and had received nothing but kicks and cuffs in return.”