The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-22

His Views on til" Legislative Railroad
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PHrNTHTowN, TAYLOR Co., W. NA.,N
,., January 20 lS79. (
Editors lntcllgrnCer
! See in the reports Of the Legislative
committee on the Il. n u. K. H., that each
report gives its Interpretation ofthr rights
and privileges Of the company undrrthcir
chartered lSi7, both Of which | am salts.
ned are radically wrong. The controvcr-
sy between the company and the shippers
is subject over which the legislature has
no control, but is one for the courts to set
tie. It is Il franchise granted in thrrrhar.
ter, and isas sacred as the title Of proper
ty to any one. Ii it was liberal grant
upon the part OF Virginia, it was lawful
one, and one that the company has Il right
10 h. protected in. The Legislature in
granting that charter had but two ideas
one was, that lime and gypsum were the
great staples Of the State, therefore they
put the maximum rate Of freight on them
NJ four cents per mile, while on other mrr.
chandlsG they put it at eight cents per
mile. The other idea was. that NIL The
business Ut the company in Virginia would
h. done from Baltimore To the different
stations in the State. and from those STA
tons to Baltimore, They seemed To have.
no idea that there would br any business
done from Wheeling To the different
stations west Of Baltimore, and from
those stations hack To Wheeling, and
between the intermediate stations, for the
prUviSO in the 9th section does not protect
the shippers from Wheeling To Il any sta.
ton west Of Baltimore, nor from those
stations back 10 Wheeling. nor between
the intermediate stations west vi llarurr's
Ferry and East nf Wheeling The com.
pany can lawfully charge from Wheeling
10 any station west Ui Baltimore and from
those stations buck Ia Wheeling, and h..
tween all intermediate stations ives, of
IlArpnr's Ferry cents per ton, per mile,
on all merchandise, except lime and vvp.
sum, II th"rllruuGh rates were" cents nor
ton per mile. II their through rates from
| Baltimore 10 Wheeling were - cents urr
hundred pounds they ran lawfully charge
81 cents per hundred pounds from IIal,i.
NOR" To any station west ui lIarprr's Fer.
| ~ and more than five miles east ni the
Ohio river, and til" same from those sta.
] l''hN '' W ''llllUl'I'I Nlll llb more.
They could not lawfully charge from BAL.
tlmnrcto lNirm0nt 80 cents per hundred
pounds, and 10 Grafton - cents per hun.
'lrrl pounds. Look u' the proviso in the
GlI section Ut their charter and You will
see it only workS0nc way, The company
rHn bid defiance to the Legislature, Int
she isn't the mercy IT the shippers iruu
Baltimore t" the way stations and from
those stations back tn baltimore, uulcs,
she puts up her through rates, and tlicr
i" could isolate your rity hy charging
the maximum rates from it to the stations
which She hnS the right to do, If hrr
through inighlS were 81 cents per hun
drcd pounds,
There NJ" two sides IN this question
and ! think, while the discrimination
seems Ia" great in some rusra, there ar,
widows aud orphans who have ,hoi
Who'll" living IN the r"nd, and the cnlnpa
ny isronp"llrl tn carry through frrigh
nj rulnous "r unreasonable rates. Is