Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-13

travel. Where rates from interior points to
tide-wster are found to touch the level OF
water competition, no reduction sheuld be
made. Whers, on The contrary, rates from
tide-wster to the interior, and between non
competitive points, are found to be exorbi.
tant, they should and will be reduced. And
so as to every class Of freight and passenger
trafficl; commencing with the highest, and
subject only to differing conditions affecting
ths cost of service, the highest and lowest
should be adjusted to each other and to the
limit of reasonable compensation.
In accordance with the purposes, principles
and processes which have been imperfectly
outlined, the much.abused Commission have
made what very large number of news
papers, until lately hostile, have admitted to
be very material reductions" of passenger
fares. We are confident that in practice and
upon fuller information the reductions will
be found to have been made where most re-
quired, as remedies for extortions and dis
elimination, and in the manner prescribed by
law. Maximums based on the differing con-
ditions and cost of service, are reduced from
fen cents to four and six cents per mile, over
all the Central and Southern Pacific Rail
road systems in the State. For the reasons
governing their adoption and without
repudiating the principle upon which
they rest, rates ranging below them are
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dereliction of official duty is in response
to multiplying and increasing protests
against discriminating and exorbitsnt local
rates, and to complaints and proofs of record
which have come down to US from our imme-
diate predecessors, showing the preponder.
ance Of places and persons demanding and
benefited by the reduction. 1t has also the
unequivocal official sanction of Commis-
sioner StonemaD, Doyle and Smith in their
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the Legislature of 1877, pspe "a, where they
say: "The rates of fare demanded of what
are called through passengers, have not been
so much the subject of complaint local
fares This is probably owing to the fact
that terminal or through points are few in
number, and the rates between them gener-
ally affected by the possibility of competition.
With local rates it is otherwise. and the COM
plant against them is not without founda'
tioa."
a schedule of reducsd fares based upon
principle and authority 30 convincing and
conclusive,
BODIED NO GOOD TO AN INsINcERE AGITATION
Intended to delay and prevent its preparation
and adoption. 1t seriously jsopardized q
low-browed conspiracy that could exist only
by bluster, false pretense and non-sction. To
deny that it had been prepared ard adopted
by the "recresnt Commissioners. while easy
enough for their lying trsducers, would be
believed by none but fools. By "a comparison
of the old with the new rates the materiality
of the reductions was readily ydiscovered and
almost universally admitted. The forlorn
attempt by few desperate demagogues to
make the figures lie wss finally abandoned.
The Democratic State Central Committee,
after the freest and fullest inquiry and inves
tigation, without the fear OF the Examiner
before them, and in defiance of its ostenta-
tious impudence, approved the progressive
and continuous work, vindicated the good
faith and rebuked the cslumniators of the
Commission
The Examiner was again frantic with
potent rage And while about to end the
farce by blowing its brains out with razor,
it came out with sensational after.piece
emulation of the Chronicle. 1t discovered
the handwriting of railroad clerk in the
corrections of a few proofs" 1t gave notice
in advance of the damaging exhibits by which
it would convict the unfaithful Commission
ers of colusion with the protesting railroad
companies. Stripped of their Sunday attire
the naked facts are these. The Secretary
was directed to prepare the four and six cents
schedule, which. being completed. was
adopted by the order now appended thereto.
Both were printed at the Office of the State
Printer, and as the proof sheets came down
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schedule conform in letter and spirit to the
order of the "unfaithful Commissioners. '
If this was done in the best and most expedi-
tious manner, subject to his supervision and
control, as he says, and | believe it was, he
is blameless. A faithful compliance with the
governing order was a one material. By this
test bis work has beensverifed and proved by
a detailed statement to be correct. This
vindicstion of the Secretary, the conductors
of the Examiner, with characteristic mean
negp, have refused to publish.
The truth ia land here is go)d place to
tell it,, the law should never have required
the Commission to draft schedule or to
serve printed copy thereof. But in the in
terest and for the convenience of all con-
cerned, subject to orders of the Commission
duly served on the companies to be affected
thereby, they should be required TO draft and
post their own schedules. The last order in
troduced by me, and unanimously adopted,
relates to this subject, and intend to make
it the basis of recommendation to the Gov
ernor for change in the law. Had the law
been what il ought TO be, the Examiner would
have had no pretexs for its last illustrated ex-
hibi.ion of ignorance and malice and q few
scrub conspirstors would have returned to
the obscurity from which they came, with
nothing to read but the prearranged resolu-
tions of the Alameda Committee and the
loving palinode of White to the Democratic
party.
The foregoing statement may be an impru-
dent notice to the enemies of the Commits
sion, ANY law to subserve its legitimate
purposes or to deter
A NEWSPAPER FROM MAKING FOOL OF ITSELF
Will doubtless be fercely opposed by the
Examiner If it were like the Chronicle, a
brsjny blackguard, and an accomplished liar
int nd
not so often abuse the privilege of making it.
self absurdly ridiculous. 1t would not have
been so vain of its late sensational Sunday
edition. Il would not have given away whole
columns of fslsehood in the two sentences
following: "The net profit must be enor-
nous when compared with the small sums
which enter into the calculation. Thirty
thousand dollars year will not express one
half the money the railroad will pocket
through its corrections of few proofs" 1t
would not have stupidity suggested
how much more enormous must be
the whole amount of reductions, which
il had so often denied, than the small
fractional "sums which enter into the
calculation" 1t would not have admitted
that all its idiotic slobbering was over tae
correction of few proofs" 1t would not
have insinuated the absurd fslsehood that
Slows friendship for me, or his hostility to
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known to me, had influenced corrections cor.
recsly made. by Secretary Andrus. subject
to an order of record previously and properly
adopted by myself and Humphreys. It would
not hate invited the statement, clearly shown
by the official vote of all the railroad stations
in my district, that however largely my ma
jority may be owing to the contributory hos
tility of the Erdmner, there ia in it no ele-
ment of railroad or corporate support not
presumably and strictly partisan. 1t would
not have challenged the reminder that hsv-
ing. without my fault gained by its positive
meanness what was lost by railroad indiffer-
ence, to compensate for either it is quite un-
necessary for me to sell or compromise my
self, my family, my friends, my fellow Demo-
Gratis, or even my faithful dog.
Do you ask me if 1 have done so? You
say not for yourself, but for " the people who
are so often innocently mislssd." It is.
therefore, for them. and in Difference to your
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