National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-09-18
RAILWAY NOTES.

It is reported that the Burlington and Mis-
souri, railroad is building into the Union Pacific
country ut the rate of mile and q half per
day.
The joint western classification committee
has refused to grant the request of the Chicago
and st. Louis merchants TO abolish carload
rates
A story was in circulation in Wall street yes
terday TO the effect that the subsidy paid to
the Pacific Mail steamship Company
the Pacific railroads Is likely to be declared
illegal by Secretary of the Interior Lamar
A Fitchburg engine on its way to Jefferson
ville Mass, to work construction train, yes
tcrday struck an empty hand.car on sidin;
broke 1t W. and ran into some freight cars, pill.
ing them up. Engineer l.. y. Hawkins was
slightly, and Fireman George Pierce, severely
injured. The switch at the siding was set
wrong
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Is defendant IL blli Of equity liled In common
Railroad Company. The bill Is brought to en-
join the company from making grade crossings
within the city limits. Chief Engineer Brown,
of the Pennsylvania railroad, deposes that the
grade crossings can be easily obviated by rails
Ing the grade about thirteen feet and that tho
interest on the amount of money required odo
this VIII not amount TO much more than the
necessary expense of maintaining the crossings,
which expense should be wholly borne by tho
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. In opposition To
this view, the Baltimore and Ohio ROAD ny that
such course would involve the violation of It's
contracts with such OF the properly owners rs
save them the right Of way In consideration of
the facilities which the road would give them
for loading and unloading from their proper.
| ties. An examiner Will be appointed to take
| testimony.
The decision of Judge Brewer, of the United
| States circuit court, In the suit of the United
| States VS.. the Southern Kansas Railway Com
| pany, declaring 1900 acres oflands heretofore
| held by that company to be wrongfully held
and now n part of the public domain, has
| created the widest land excitement ever
| known In Kansas. As soon as the decision was
| made known in southern Kansas men in bug
Cies, wagons, aud on horseback came in great
| numbers and commenced stalking of claims
saying that Judge Brewers decision declared
all lands heretofore held by the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway to be government
quarters aud breaking sod so as TO perfect tho
claim. They have even struck their stakes
and broke ground on lands which were en-
tered by college scrip, aud the patents for
Be or Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways
| were organized.
The San Francisco Chronicle, IN an editorial
matter Is that the railway Is not, never has
| been, and never will be out of politics until 1t
| Is brought under subsection Of law and com.
| PEELED to obey the laws rs citizens do. Until
party i IN favor f of eompeing lie rSroads to
| obey, and they on the other hand VIII fight
| this party at the polls In order to maintain
| lIclt rIBnt 10 ulsODey. NOT Is the pOlltlunl ~"
| titude of the railway companies peculiar to
this state. We find tho same combination of
| circumstances in most OF the states of the
| Union. Here Is Pennsylvania, for Instance.
y But within three weeks tho railroad anl
anti-railroad war has broken out again with in
creased bitterness. Early last month the Penn
| sylyania Company bought up its new rival, the
South Pennsylvania, in plain violation of the
section of tho now constitution prohibiting the
| consolidation of competing lines, or the pur-
| chase of one by the other. People no sooner
| realized the full import of the transaction than
pressure was brought TO bear on the authori-
| ties, and Attorney General Cassidy brought suit
TO Gnnul the purchase. simultaneously, tho
| Democratic state convention being In session. u
| plank was inserted in the platform denOuucing
the action of the railroad. The Republican
state convention had adjourned some week
previously, or II would doubtless have adopted
u similar plank, IL may be taken for granted
that candidates for Office this fall in Pennsyl,
wanna will have to take sides on the question,
| and thus the old Pennsylvania Company which
by lis affiliations with both political parties has
run the state for so many years, will probably
once more control PENNSYLVANIA politics, Just rs
the Southern Pacific of Kentucky controls
politics In this state. The end of such conflicts
Is always the same, by tho power of money
and the employment Of able men, by corrupt
ing legislatures and buying up every one who
becomes formidable the railways Will protract
the contest for n long while hut the end IL
inevitable, and tho longer 1t Is deferred the
more overwhelming will be the defeat Of the
monopolies. There will come time when no
man in any party can obtain office except on
solemn pledges to take u definite course with
| regard TO tho railways and when pledge
breakers VIII expiate their crimes In the court
held by Judge Lynch Then we shall have
railway regulations IN real earnest And then,
and not III then, will the railways so out OF
| politics"