People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senator Pettigrew, S. Dak" j has been leading the fight! against the Pacific railroad steal®* He urged the appropriation of 1 $10,000,000 to take up the trust * notes and explained fully hof|« the branch lines are being used! to divert business from the ma|jj| line, on which the government. | holds a lien, that the road is not 1 insolvent, as it is claimed, but I that the floating debt was created! to complicate and embarass the! government liens. The samel disgraceful methods of bribery! and corruption that character*! ized the Credit Mobilier have I been and are being used. On 1 the other hand Senator Thurs-i ton of Nebraska, urges that the| government would get more by 1 passage of the Pacific Funding I bill than by foreclosure. A-I measure can be judged by it£d| friends as well as by its enemies®!