Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-04-30
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Let it be further understood that in our
suggested rates on furniture, we expressly
say in our basis, furniture packed and at
ence when at. carriers risk. From a
schedule OF tariffs furnished us by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, it will
be seen that their charges upon furniture
per 100 pounds at ''owner's risk" for fifty
miles is fourteen cents, and the charges
on same for same distance at Carriers
risk" is 81 25-that the charge on same for
100 miles at "owner's risk" twenty-one
cents, and at carriers risk" 81 so, thus
showing what difference the roads them
selves make in the rate of charge when at
Owners risk" and at Carriers risk" +"
Our proposed rates for said distances, fifty
and 100 miles, '.packed and at owners
risk" are, respectively, eleven and ten
cents, as against fifteen and twenty-five
cents charged by said road at owners risk
of rubbing and ordinary breakage.
The Comm sssioners Acted Fairly and
Hoaorably with All Lines.
And now, fellow-citizens, and especially
farIaers of Tennessee, as it is evidently
sought by the aforesaid publication to
prejudice you against the Railroad Com
mission and the law creating it, we here
take occasion to say that we have endeav-
oTed, as far as we have been permitted, to
serve you to the best of our ability, and
we have the pleasing consciousness of
knowing that We have done so faithfully
and honestly. And just about the time
you would have seen and felt the effects
of our efforts in your behalf we were en-
joined by some of the leading railroads in
the State and our hands tied by the
decree of a Federal court. In all that
We have done or were about to do in the
line of our duty we have not intended,
and still less desired, to favor any class
or individual whatever, but to act justly
and impartislly, as we are sworn to do,
toward all concerned-to the roads and
their patrons alike. And certainly not to
discriminate (as the aforesaid publication
implicitly chareed) against the farmers,
who above all others, heretofore, have
perhaps had the hardest burdens to bear
One of our members is himself farmer,
and surely he, at least, would faithfully
guard your interests. The truth is, fellow
citizens, we have been, and will continue
to be, impartial toward all interests. And
in so far as the aforesaid publication in
the Anaerican, by implication, insinuation,
or otherwise, impeaches our integrity,
impugns our official action, or reflects
upon our character and fidelity as public
officers or private citizens, as by natural
Interpretation and popular construction it
is understood to do, it is false and SANDER
Gus. And why such groundless imputa-
tons should have been cast upon us by
said newspaper, or what influence in
stigated them, we leave you to conjecture.
And we leave to you to divine the object
of the petty persecution thus waged
against us. We also leave to you to say to
whose interest 1t should be and to what
influence is due the attempt to thus break
down your commission. Twenty-three
States in the Union have estab-
lished commissions to regulate rail-
roads, and in nearly all war has Teen
yaged against them, but in every
instance the people have stood by their
commissions and sustained the law Gre
ating them, and we do not believe the
people OF Tennessee will be less true to
themselves.
In conclusion, we respectfully ask, as a
matter of justice to ourselves, that the
newspapers in the State that published
the Aforesaid editorial from the American,
or extracts therefrom, will publish this
notice thereof. JOHN H. SAVAGE,
G, W. GORDON,
J. A. TURLEY.
NASHVILLE, April Is, 1854.