Morris tribune., 1885-01-21
r. w. RANDALL,
Law FOR RAILWAYS.
VAN WICK OF NEBRASKA TALKS TO
THE SENATE.
He Puts His Remarks Into Vigorous
Language in Giving His View of
the Necessary Thing To
Be Done.

WASHINGTON City, Jan. 1s-The senate
spent most Of Friday discussing the Cullou
Interstate commerce bill, and Senator
Brown, Of Georgia, made a long speech OF
the subject, most of which was devoted tx
opposing the idea of uniform rate per tor
per mile for all railroad companies in ths
country. The Reagan bill provides that the
charge for hauling a given quantity o
| freight fifty miles shall not be more than the
charge for hauling the same quantity 10t
miles
During the debate Van Wyck asked Sen,
ator ingalls, personally whether he thought
the charges from Missouri river points tc
Topeka ought to be greater than from the
same points to Denver. Ingalls, made no
answer Immediately, and the gentleman
from Nebraska turned on Senator Allison
next, and asked him if he justified the charg
ing Of higher rates from Chicago to Dcs
Moines than from Chicago to Council Bluffs.
After some lively sparring, in which ques-
tion was met by question, Messrs Allison and
Ingalls, admitted that as a matter Of justice
charges ought to be proportioned to the length
of the haul but circumstances frequently
arose thst compelled deviation.
FoA ySA AlielAO GhO ~ 1AlSAtehA oEtSOSh Va
the day in favor of regulating the roads by
act of congress. -
He said that since 1879 oil political parties
had demanded redress from grievances in
transportation, but the party managers
seemed to learn no lesson from disaster, and
were still trying to amuse and cajole the
people. The people only demanded reason
able rates, no discrimination, no pool
ing, no rebates, no greater charge for
Shn nY-t hon f0y.o lnr,rr ho1, ic haS said
"is no time to delay. The work of deception
can not longer be carried on. You can not
pretend willingness to do something and that
an obstinate or unwilling house of represent
stives refuses. If the senate falters now to
accept the house bill an indignant people
believe it falters in double sense, and is
seeking by disagreement to prevent legisla-
ton SO long sought and long denied"
The roads owned and controlled elevators,
and the farmer, if he desired, could not posi-
bly, ship his own grain ard cattle to market,
for he could obtain no rebates. The power
of absolut. control by railroads was not al
ways exercised in sanity manner. To il
lustrate: The Union Pacific became incensed
at Columbus, an active interior city Of Ne
braska, whose citizens were enterprising, and
aided to secure an other road. The COM
pany determined they should be pun
ished for such temerity and rebellion,
so rates were chan sed, and more was
CudTReu per CaT-lOdu Otiaud lut4tl W
kearney, and other points farther west. So,
the Central Pacific, with an excuse Of re-
venge for Furnishing rebellious subjects in
their territory, actually charges to points
east of San Francisco through rates
to San Francisco, and then local lates
back. Was it not evident the rail
roads should be restricted from exacting
more for a short haul than long onel
Van Hyck quoted from letter written
by the Hon. William Walter Phelps, in
which he said, the latter showed that sena-
tors and representatives purchased railroad
shares on a basis of one to three, Certainly"
he said, "stocks and bonds according to this
the other end Of the capitol on that basis;
that is, you put down 81 and take up So.
So it would appear even members of con-
gress learn where the little joker is. No
wonder there Is here manifested the same
contempt for public clamor as Vanderbilt is
said to have exhibited in language more
forcible but not SO reverential as by dis
senator's" 80
According to the written and printed
statement Of one New Jersey statesman and
Poore's Manual, 81, 600, ,000, 900 in fictitious
watered stock was represented in the stocks
and bonds of railroads On this interest and
dividends were collected from the people,
the republican imitation of paralyzi zing in
dustry, laying tax upon the producer and
consumer; yet we must remand air this to
the natural laws Of trade.
Jay Gould had greater wealth than the
2 amassed property, real and personal, of both
Kansas and Nebraska, and Vanderbilt could
buy both states and have $40, ,OOO, 900 left
We're these millions honestly acquireds The
senator from Iowa IWilsonl trembled lest too
much should be done, and the senator from
Kansas ungallsl said he did not stand as the
advocate or champion of that "cheap
demagogy that appeals to public opinion
against railroads. - Railroads were
In Kansas and Nebraska fifty
bushels Of corn will not purchase one ton Of
soft coal; 100 bushels will not buy one ton of
hard coal Your sympathy expands for the
pauper labor of Europe and India, while
your hearts seem steeled against the cry for
bread by Americans who are forced to work
1T starvation wages or have their places sup
piled in mines by specially protected mine
owners, by pauper and convict labor inl-
ported under contract from Europe
So, too, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, men
who elect representatives and senator's on
the theory that they will represent them and
protect their interests, must give nearly
,oal, or forty for ton Of hard. Corpora
ions behind a 0O0 600, 900 of stolen prop
erty, for years controlling state legisla-
lures, the national congress, and judiciary
IS remorselessly as did slavery, heed not
,he sympathy or active support Of SELL
,tors. It is the toiler seeking labor in the |
In the underground labyrin th, |
he settler in the dug-out on the frontier Of !
Kansas and Nebraska. whose wives and chill
iren are drawing warmth from corn because |
he great corporations refuse to reduce rates
" freight so the coal of Pennsylvania may
,e exchanged for the corn Of the west. For !
wenty years these corporations have grown |
ofrn on Iafionf in ui01o fio,, of 10
Ind now let US see to it that the protection !
# the law shall be given to those who are |
he victims of their extortion.
Rrown, of Georgia, then entered upon an |
Elaborate analysis and discussion Of the |
question of railroad charges and manage |
ition, was the solution of the railroad ques-
ion. The legislation proposed would greatly
discourage the building Of railroads. There
nay be enough of them in the north and |.
ves1 Those sections may have enough
,ame in the trap to be able to afford to pull |
he. trigger. It was not so with the south, II
which yet needed railroads. II the pres
mt bill passed, the people who
we're now clamoring for its passage would +
oon be found clamoring for it's repeal. It !
would either drive railroads into Bankruptcy
" else il would prohibit all interchange OF |.
Of q greater distance than SOD |.
howed that freight rates could not possibly 7
'ear the same proportionate rate for 1000
niles It would not only destroy Interstate
but by making long-distance
reights from the west to the Atlantic coast
o expensive as to prohibit shipment, IL
would also destroy our foreign commerce.
Death Of a Journalist.
BALTIMORE, Jan. e; William Montague
>onnsllyy aged ~ ,iieditor of The Woodbury.
1s..ly 5s~I -