The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-17
The Senate.


pending Spanish treaty would throw
out OF employment more citizens of the
United States than there are inhabitants
in Cuba and Porto Rico, and protesting
against the ratification. A number OF
other petitions against the ratification
OF the treaty were presented and re-
ferred.
A message from the House was re-
ceived, announcing the disagreement of
that body to the Sen ate, amendments to
the temporary naval appropriation bill
and asking a conference, and the chair
appointed confereeS.
The chair then laid before the Senate
the Interstate commerce bill
Van Wyck addressed the Senate. He
said that since 1872, all political parties
had demanded redress from grievances
in transportation. but the party Iuan-
ayers seemed to learn no lesson from
the disaster, and were still irving 10
amuse and cajole the people. The people
only demanded reasonable rates; no dis
elimination, no pooling, no rebates. no
greater charge for short than long
haul. This, lie said, sis no time to
delay; the work Of deception cannot
longer be carried on. You cannot pre-
tend Willingness to do something and
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Representatives refuses If the Senate
falters now to accept the House bill. an
indignant people will believe that
it falters in a double sense, and
is seeking by disagreement to pre-
vent the legislation SO long sought
and long denied. The roads owned and
controlled the elevators. and the farmer,
if he desired, could not possibly ship his
own grain or cattle to market, for he
could obtain no rebates. The power of
absolute control by the railroads was
not always exercised in sanity man
her. To illustrate, the Union Pacific
became incensed at Columbus, an active
interior city CT Nebraska, whose citizens
were enterprising, and aided to
secure another road. The com
pany determined that they should
be punished for such temerity and
rebellion. So the rates were changed
and more was charged for car load
from Omaha than to Kearney and points
farther west. So the Central Pacific,
without excuse of revenge, or Furnishing
rebellious subjects in their territory
actually charges to persons east of San
Francisco, through rates to San Fran
cisco and then local rates back Was it
not evident that the railroads should be
restricted from exacting more for a
short haul than long one2" VanWyck
quoted from letter written by VIM.
! Walter Phelps, in which he said the
sentatives purchased railroad shares on
the basis of one to three. Certainly, I"
he said, stocks and bonds, according
to this evidence, are owned in this
chamber, and in the other end of the
capitol on that basis; that is, you put
down one dollar and take up three. So
itwould appear that even members of
Congress learn where the little
joker is. No Iwonder there is here
manifested some contempt for public
clamor, as Vanderbilt is said to have
exhibited in language more forcible,
but not so reverential, as by the dis
tinguished Senators. According to the
written and printed statement of one
New Jersey statesman, and Po0r's Man
UGl, 81, zoo, 900 in fictitious watered stock
was represented in the stocks and bonds
of railroads. On this, interest and divi-
dends were collected from the people.
1t made a mortgage on every acre of
land in the Republican imitation para
Lying industry, laying a tax upon the
producer and consumer. Yet, we must
remand all this to the national laws OF
trade. Jay Gould had greater wealth
than the assessed property, real and
personal, of both Kansas and Nebraska,
and Vanderbilt could buy both States
and have $4O,o0o,0oO left. Were these
millions honestly acquired? The Sen
ator from Iowa (Wilson) trembled
lest too much should be done, and the
Senator from Kansas, Qngalls) said he
did not stand as an advocate or cham
pion of that cheap demagoguery thai
appeals to public opinion against rail
roads. Railroads were entitled to the
protection of law. In Kansas and Ne
braska fifty bushels of corn will MOI
purchase one ton of soft coal One
hundred and fifty bushels Will not buy
one ton of hard coal. Your sympathy
expands for the pauper labor of Europe
and India, while your hearts seen
steeled against the cry for bread from
Americans, who are forced to work a
starvation wages or have their places
supplied in the mines, by specially pro
, tected mine owners, by pauper and con
vict labor, imported under contrac
from Europe. 1t is the toiler, seekin:
= labor in the furnace heat, in-the under
ground labyrinth, the settler in tn,
dug-ont on the frontier of Kansas anC
Nebraska, whose wives and children ar
drawing warmth from corn DecdaS
the great corporations refuse to reduc
! the rates of freight so that the Goa
of Pennsylvania may be exchanged
for the corn of the west. For twent,
years these corporations have grow
rich, strong and defiant, in violation o
law, and now let US see to it that tn,
protection law shall be given to thos
who are the victims of their extortion
E Mcpherson and Mitchell opposed
! Slater's pending amendment prohibit
] ing railroads from charging more for
{ short than long haul. Also ingalls,.
: Van Wyck, addressed a question o
4 the Senator from Kansas (Ingalls): 81
e NJ right to charge the same rates from
e Chicago to Kansas City as to Leaven
worth?''
ingalls, made no reply.
The inquiry was repeated, but stii
without elicting response.
: Van Wyck said that while the Sena
t tor from Kunsas was bordering owe
e his reply, he would PROFOUND the sam,
g question to the Senator from Iowa (Al
t lison).
S Allison said that he did not want t
, get into colloquy with his friend fron
!. Van Wyck-"No, I should thin
e not" Iaughter)