The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-13
intends to pauperize this road, as he has
pauperized twenty-three others.

intends to pauperize this road, as he has
pauperized twenty-three Others
This gentleman is starring 1t down here,
and rather overdoes his part. / have heard
many men talk on many occasions-grave
occasions-but never, on my honor, Mr..
Chairman, have ever heard any man talk
on grave matter whose discourse remind
ed me so little Of Solomon and more of Jim
Fisk Jim Fisk, who has it conveyed to the
French opera girls with whom he can't
converse, that we have no Lords nor Dukes
in this country, but we have I" Fisks," and
that New York will soon be called &C Fisk
ville." E@s
EXPOSURE OF THE FAsT-rREIGHT LINE PRO-
r. POSITION.
Mr.. Hulme, the witness of Philadelphia,
may be an old man, and he may have had
the misfortune of losing his place in di-
rectory in Philadelphia, yet he told you
words of wise warning. He told you that
parasital, "fast freight" and "express
companies preyed upon these great north
ern railroad organizations, and now carried
nearly all the first and second-class freights !;
and still more, that the officers of these
great organizations were working in league,
with these parasites. He told you that
these facts had weakened the confidence In
the Pennsylvania Central railroad, and for
this reason he had withdrawn from it; but
lately have these great trunk companies,
(this road and these in New York; proposed
to make grand pool, in which rates can
be put up and divided, and thus cut off
all competition, and they will charge as they
please; and the plan was only defeated by
railroad, who bravely fought against it.
This sort of thing produces corruption
everywhere, and it is said, with how much
truth we cannot tell, that the Pennsylva-
mia Central Company has the Pennsylvania
judiciary sitting in it's back parlor. In New
York both Legislature and judiciary are at
the beck and call Of their monster compa-
nies, and Congress, too, sllccumbs to them.
The Legislature of Ohio has seriously taken
up this matter of fast freights and express
freights. A letter addressed TO the chair
man of that body by John Garrett says the
Baltimore and Ohio Company entirely dis
approves of fast freights and express lines
separate from the company, and that they
are injurious to the public and corrupting
to railroad organization. The officers, &C.,
the roads take part in them. There is
drawback of 30 per cent. which goes to
these fast-freight lines. On this road rea-
sonable rates are charged.
Mr.. Daniel here read the following ex-
tract from a letter written by Nh. Garrett,
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, to q
committee of the Ohio Legislature:
"But these evils do not stop here. The
public suffers in another form, perhaps al
most to an equal extent for unless their
freights are sent by these Fast-Freisht
Lines" and an advance rate is paid by the
shipper (Which it must be borne in mind
does not 20 into the treasury Of the railroad
company performing the service, but, to-
gcther with the allowances made by the
railroad company, goes to the stockholders
of the Fast-Freight Lines" and thus, in
many instances, through this illegitimate
channel, into the pockets of the officers and
employees of the railroad company, their
goods and merchandise are delayed and put
upon slow-treight trains. The equal rights
Of the public are thus postponed to the
special accommodation Of the shippers by
the -" Fast-Freight Lines and the em-
ployes of the railroad companies. when i'll
toI i,,t tInro oy>f
cd, and tempt others, to furnish special
accommodations, without scrupulous re-
CARDS as to the means employed.
The denaordllzing tendencies of these
fast-freight lincs," which are being so tho
roughly investigated by your honorable
body, are attracting marked attention
among parties in Europe, interested in
american railways, as well as in this coun-
try.
Satterthwaitc's Circular of June 27, 1866.
published in London, whilst presenting the
points of discussion which had taken
place between the Pennsylvania and Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Companies, in a
convention of the Atlantic Trunk Compa-
nies in regard to "flst-freight lines," re-
marks
Owe are glad to find that railroad man
ayers in the States are becoming alive to the
loss the shareholders sustain by giving to
fast-freight express companies the extra
ordinary privileges they enjoy-in fact, to a
European visiting America, who is at all
conversant with railway management, ii is
the thing that strikes him first as being most
Uicious."
1t is certainly true that no part of Ameri-
can railacay management tends more dt-
rectly to the denoralization Of the service,
and it must be condemned and regretted,
therefore, by the many upright gentlemen
| acho are connected nth our rdilray system.
We believe that the projectors and
principal stockholders of many Of the Fast
Freight Lines are frequently officers rep.
| resenting the railroad companies over
| which the freights are transported, and the
temptations to use their official power and
influence for the pecuniary advantage of
such organizations, instead Of for the bene-
fit of the railroad companies which employ
| them, or the puDllc, nave douotlcss often
| proven too great to be successfully re-
sisted"
CONCLUSION.
90 for Mr.. Hulme. l think he pictured
the Pennsylvania railroad in its true light.
1t is company of wild, adventurous, dis
solute spectators. 1t catches up these
other roads, subordinates them, and pau
perizes them. Is Virginia ready to give up
| cnntrnl Of har rnads md allnv them To be