The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-17
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know Is, When that point sYas conceded

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few thousand dollar, they can hny suen Asi
steamer as that and run if down tt Clfyg;
Point with their freight and sase the 6t1al
paid for that transpo siioH, if they deean s
excessive uow. What Is the reais al i6scnlE9.
| in the way, if they are really III oarnest fpss
get their freight along BY that route Z rbexo
Is none II the parties were heartily deslf6dg
Of accomplishing that end and Dbiect.
Mr.. Lyon: Il rise to ash the prixileK ofss
asking Judge Crump a question he4nse
want to understand distinctly where we All.
Judge Crump Il don't object, sir. ,s
/ Mr.. LYon:I want to haveit distinctly an.
derstood by thi. COMMITTEES that never before
until the last five minutes bas any human
being ever heard that &c was possible to buy
with money the Robinson control of tte
Powhatan Steamboat line. 81 81 -
Judge Crump: Sir, Ar. Robinson never
| did have any control Of the Powhatan Steam.
| boat line. He has told you he owned hut
| one-third OF It's stock. ;S
Mr. Lyon: Then ! don't want TO treat
with him. &;
Judge Grump. OF course you don't, for
your object Is not TO get to Baltimore by
that route. But Sou have been charging
before this committee, with your usual rcck-
iessDess of assertion, that be did control fhkt
line inspite of the fact stated by alr. Robin
son again and again that he owned bat Que
third interest IN that line that it was .unpfc-
titable; that It had nearly ruined itself by
running an opposition with another limo be-
fore he became connected with II. and tIiat he
did not value the stock as proftabl BILE now,
but as stock that might respectively become
profitable. He has not the control Of the
line, and he told you in response 10 your
questions that that ire ire had had not attended meeting
OF the directors for six months: lie RH99ws RH99ws
no more of its management than that it car
rics freight OF precisely the same rates us the
| Bay Line. cali attention now to these
| facts, aIth0tgh they have been adYertcd TO !
before this committee. when the gentleman
in bis figure of speech, with eyes in fnG
| frenzy rolling" and with pucticed rhetori.
cal art, pointed them to the tournt4net
upon the vein of Virginia's commerce at
| City Point, placed there by DIR. Robinson
through his control over the Powhatan
Steamboat Company. He might have prac.
ticsd that speech before the glass, II was 50
well delivered, and its elocution so club.
crate.
Dir. Lyon: I would, Judge, only you took I
me on the sudden. 49,, s.sS$
Judge Crump: No, sir that speech was
as carefully conDed rs any ever made. It i5
composed Of the iIagmentary speeches made
by you III ddudnce OF each piece of testt.
mony. / have never heard you make
speech upon the evidence after it Was ins
Nor do / expect to hear you discuss the
proofs in the case. ,4
Mr.. Chairman, what Is Mr.. Rohinson,s
4 position with regard to this powhatan liflef
1t is demonstrated That he has had no such
connection with on control over 1t as has
been imputed to hiln-that the rates are
perfectly fair and just. What does the Pc.
tersburg road payY No MORE THAN IssRAID
DY THE SEABoARD R0AD-Dota u hrthfng more
It has been demonstrated before this CONF
mittce, time and again, by figures Of arttt-
n,etic, and not by fg1tres Of rhetoric, that
cotton coming from Weldon to City Point
pays to Dir. Ragland, after the chdfg3 IS
taken of for carriage from Petersburg to
Cty Point, precisely 11tdt the Sedboord road
acts for the same distance! In other words,
/ Mr Ragland gets for his sixty.f0ur miles
precisely the rate 1lr. Robinson gets on the
Seaboard road for The same distance, mile
for mile. Both get one dollar and twelv6
cents to deep water. One carries 80 mics,
being the whole distance to deep water BY
rail, and the other carries 64 miles by rail,
within nine miles of deep water. Tie boat
on the Appomattox gets one-ftth ofthe Sls12,
inst exactly tchdt 1t is entitled TO-. Mr. Rag,
land does not lose that 'one-fiftb, as he sup
poses; he does not pay it a. q tar, but II is
paid for transportation from Petersburg to
City Point, because he has not facilities for
transportation himself
shall net take the liberty Of reading to
the committee, unless they desire Il, the cai.s
culations that have been made before you 30
often to demonstrate that. repeat 1t. these
roads are running at precisely the same rate,
mile for mile. What is paid for transporta-
ton from Petersburg 10 City Point Is the re-
suit OF the fact that the Petersburg ROAD mas
no transportation of its owD, rs IL ought TO-
have, and it is obliged to pay somebody for
| it. The preposterous idea that ID ought to
be paid for t.ansportationit it does not furnish
Is one of the most extraordinary ever assert
ed, and could onIy;haVe geruinated nndera
policy which Ars Sprigg describes as GOV.
erning the Petersburg road-Yizs
TO GET AL. THEY CAN.
How does the Petersburg road hope to be
relieved from the payment for the Hane-
fer OF its freight from Petersburg TO City
Point? 1t is obliged to pay soae6odyss
If 1t will not build road or
employ steamer Of its own, this u iI.s
evitatle. The amount it low pays for s!lch
transfer is the precise amount to q. farthingE
which it ought to pay, leaving it all 4 e en-
titled to, and pro rating mile by mile Win
the seaboard road. The;sum OF Si.12 Is Iaid
per bale upon cotton from Weldon either To-
CITY Point or to Portsmouth. The Seaboardi
road and the Petersburg road each recsigss
the same proportion OF tie $l.12 Tor u
miles-yiz., 80 3-5 cents. For the remaining
l6 miles 10 Portsmouth tile Seaboard reaa.
running to that point, receives the residue
or the 81. .12-yiZ, - 2-5 centS--and the PEI
tersburg road, running only 4Iie W mics,
7 and not beyond Petersburg, pays the resldue'
Of the Si.12 il receives at Weldon TO another
carrier-yiz., the sum Of ~ 20 cents " iS
] thus paid at the same rate per nile tue sea..
board road Is paid for all tue transp
il furnishes. s.. ~ Ets5s'.s y. :. ~
But they and their counsel persist in elafrn.
Ing that the % rs cents Just naDed Is Eaid
by them "out OF their own p0ekets ,,-sas
. their counsel says--aGd, haunted by tue lasa
that II Is a tar, they proceed TO-
ypgus1rY THEMSELVES OUT OF TIE UEoF-
pEspisa AsD, As VIE LRAsR yEox srRI6d,.
THE UsREssrigs MERCHANTS OF PE3sHsBuRe.
-Racland aud 1s,is associates make them pay
sl.I2 freight yer bale for every base az col
q ton that comes from Weldon TO Peter sbHrg.
Totis they are made 10, pay for fransporsg.
ZION they do not need, and cant ENJOY; aNa
the Petersburg road, by This uDJrst nn posi.
T ton, discrins:,adtes against aaeyn m fssor q
Z the northern merchant. who pays no mora
for transportation to Gty Point tlan aseB
nav to Petersburg. This is sample 0f the
). Development Of Virginia Cifses pro.
missed By Ragiand II this Din snasses. y tae
original and ancient friends ot the fslestss-
burg road are SO iressteu, s.s