Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-09

. organization or acorporatOn IN Whlch
the government holds all the stock. \
railroad is a public carrier and as such
is subject To rules and regulations such
as are put on individual carriers.
Ii took the British Government over
forty years OF
Bluudering Legislation
10 find the mistake of the statement oil
the Duke OF Wellington that they were
the Kings Highway. They at last
learned that railroads were a thing OF
it's own kind, and that is what this
country must learn. Alter continuing
| for some time in strain something Ike
the above. and after these few re:utrks
about the State and railroads, lac at
tached tue bill in the first section, say
ing that ii he and "the United Sta' )
authorities were wrong, vet mt VertheiesS,
be would consider il impracticaOle and
impossible; bat the crudest part OF the
| bill was in the second part, fixing the
| classification and graduated scale OF
/ prices. The most
Apparent Inconsistency,
however, was the fixing OF the rates, max
/ ing it less in proportion, to carry car
| Of coal or lumber a longer than shorter
/ distance, and then in the close of the
section it expressly prohibits exactly
| what It provides for.
Like every other business there is a
/ hexibility about the same and contin-
| gencies are apt to arise any day that
| cannot be controlled by a Legislature.
! The idea of State regulating railroad
/ that does not end or commence in tine
/ State,
The penalties, continued the gentle
man, were OF the most extraordinary Sc
/ verify. The amendment proposed by
| the committee relieves the original some
what, but it was still inconsistent and
incongruous. After having made dis
ordinations with regard 10 the distance
| freights are TO be transferred the bill
denies the correctness Of its own prin-
ciples by adding that clause prohibit
ing.the railroad from doing so.
Gentlemen who patrOnize this bill
are in the habit of speaking OF railroads
| in this State as
Giant Corporations,
which are crushing out the life OF our
industries" Let us examine aud see
! whether the language is correct or
whether it is sound and fur signifying
nothing. Make a comparison Of the
/ days when there were no railroads along
the present line of completed roads
/ when il took YOU over three weeks TO
carry your produce to Baltimore at q
| cost of say $50 on pack horses and con-
/ pare with to-day when 1t costs you ABOUT
S75. and the money is in your pocket
inside of three DAYS Is that crushing
out the life and industry? Look at the
colleries from Greenbrler TO ONO and
then say il that is crushing life out.
Again look at the little
Town of Wheeling
and see what il was. But 10 get down
to more specific localities, let us go to the
kanagha Valley Here the speaker
graphically described that fruitful land
with it's rapidly increasing population,
and asked the same question.
"All this was not SO until railroads
were started and thus rapidly developed
the country that a decade ago was q
bowling wilderness. Task in all candor
If the energies of that section or any
other have been paralyzed by this giant
| corporation? And further, | would have
you remember that these developments
| have all been made during period OF
time when the country was sinking un-
/ der the financial depression resulting
/ from
BLACK Friday"
Thus Mr.. Mofat continued speaking
| for nearly two hours in his usual elegant
and chaste style. Every word fell clean
cut and carried weight with it. tie was
/ listened to with marked attention by
/ every one. He referred 10 nearly all the
cases mentioned by Mr.. Wilson the day
| before, and explained them as he under
/ stood them. besides quoting many mod
/ ern authorities as regarded the constltu-
tioual right Of the bill. lie also reler'
red 10 the State Constitution with the
provision that the State shah no such
and such things, as having been framed
after the road was built.
In closing he referred to the outside
| capitalists as follows: Everything in
/ vites them 10 invest except bitter and
/ uureleuting hatred on the part oil the
/ people OF the State. They find q COM
| munity hostile TO all such enterprises.
Shall this be the proclamation that We,
| the representatives of the people, Will
send forth by the passage Ot this bill, or
shall wc, by declining to accept the bill,
give the assurance to these parties that
the state stands ready 10 extend an open
hand and pledged 90 liberal policy to-
ward all enterprises looking TO It's de,
vrlOpment? The proposition is plain
practicable and common sense one. The
hour has arrived when we are to de-
/ - A a. 4 ~
back TO a cOnjitiOnO Of
"Re.rogress,on and Extinction
| o. industrial life or whether We will az
| vance in the spirit of progress and hD
erality 10 the high destiny which awaits
| US II wisdom shoulI control our coul'
sells"
While Mr.. MoF,tt was referring tc
some of remarks oi Mr.. WiIson in rcla'
tioa to Mr.. Faulkner's testimony he
sent to the clerks desk and had reao
the two following
Interesting Dispatches:
RIcnNoSp. VA February 4.
-. IT, Ho7emln, McLure House
am perfectly certain that | never
wrote Faulkner any letter in my lilt
| that hy any pOsSlOIlllE Cou'u w w"
strued into an intimatIOn that he couIu
not yet transportation tor coal unless
shipped TO the agency.
w. G.. WICKHAM,
Second Vice President.
NEw YORK, February s.
! ". n. HOgcnII":
Statements quoted in your telegram
that said to any ybDdy that ii they dlt
not buy the lumber from the agency IN
stead OF parties owning lumber in Wesi
Virginia that they would freez|
them out, are utterly unfounded. Or
the contrary, have frequently givcr
letters of introduction and direction,
how to find classes of lumber wanted
and always told buyers and customer
if they preferred direct purchase from
mills every facility would be given tha
agency. simply proposed to deyel