15/36 The road must be taken by a receiver until the public is repaid--the public indeed! Then those priceless grants are to be repealed. Northern Consolidated is to be stabbed with a score of knives at once. Beautiful! What a trap they have set for themselves!" Richard, not knowing what reply might be expected, smiled to fetch his countenance into sympathy with Mr.Bayard's, and retreated to his usual refuge of a cigar. This report, as I told you, may be weeks in finding its way into the Senate. Stocks opened the year very strong; the markets are upon an upgrade. |