The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-02
a National Qucstion.-An Explanation OF
ths Rongan Isill for Regulating
Railways.


A bill is under consideration ut Wash
ington, which proposes to apply stringent
regulations to Ill freight business conducted
by railways III this country, in or through,
two or more States.
Representatives. of some of the compan-
les Interested, have recently discussed its
provisions before the House Committee on
Commerce. They contend That its enforce
mcnt would 40 much more to create ,inlnir
unjust and injurious new Determinations,
than to abolish any Of the practices that
have occasiOncd complaint.
Railways which coniinc their operations
to ~ single State will not be affected by the
bill, and they can continue to make any
dcviations between through and local rates,
they may choose to establish, without be-
ing subjected to restrictions on penalties.
while the numerous railways that traverse
two or more States, arc to be governed by
cast-iron rules. Thus, discrimination is
made between two SETS Of railways, which
would be very unfnir to many of the conf
pnnics and their patrons. The bill also
lails to impose any restrictions upon water
carriers, who transport produce or mcrchnnr
disc on canals, rivers, tie Gulf Of Mexico,
ana coasts OF the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans; and thus an invidious and in niurous
discrimination is established between many
railways, or the districts they traverse, and
vessel owners and transpor,crs, whose loca-
non enables them to ship by water. As
there IL much competition for the carriage
OF western produce to the Atlantic sen
BOARD between Canadian and United States
lines, the bill would also have the suicidal
erect OF discriminating against the latter,
ana lnfavor OF tho former in reference TO this
lmn0rt nd
for earning many millions of dollars annually
on tho through business would be taken
away from our citizens who are now en-
ploycd in railway service, or who own
American railway securities, and trans
ierred, by injudicious law making to Cana
dian railways thus compelling our Amcri-
can roads to tax their local business more
heavily to meet the interest on their debt.
IL ls alleged that the general tendency of
tho bill would be to nilict vital injuries
upon many communities without matcri-
any benefitting any important interest or
section; the bill, instead of being one to
prevent determinations, lcgaliZcs and cs
taDlishes, lst. discrimination in favor Of
the Shippers by one road against the shin
pers ny another road from and to the same
points; I'd, a discrimination in favor of
one locallty against another; 3D., n DIS
criminatton in favor of Canadian roads
against our own railroads; 4th, discrimi-
nation In favor of water routes as against
railways, and, 9th, rs a natural consc-
quencc of this, a discrimination against all
local business in favor of through business,
as tho bill compels the roads to cut each
others throats on the through business and
make up for their loss,s by taxing their
local traffic.
Another serious objection made to tho
proposed bill, Is that it prohibits the only
practical methods railway managers have
even yet devised for preventing discrimina-
tions between individual transpor,crs. and
putting small shippers on an equality with
large ones.
1t would certainly be great mistake to
pass law, which, IN addition to creating
many moro dscriminat ions than IL can
cure, would also prcyont the only6iSctivo
remedy for existing 'discriminatiofIsH from
being applied.
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