Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-24

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The only method, he thinks, whereof
passenger and freight rates could b
made uniform all over the country is TO
all the roads to be under one OWNERSHIP
and management. To attempt any legis
lation prohibiting rebates would be ruin
GUS, not only to the railroads, but to tn
whole country. The rates on shipment
should be based on the volume Of busi
ness and the locality. If 1t is meant Ii
the question asked that all corporation
should be required to keep the same sys
tenn OF bookkeeping, he would answer no
but IL to make their annual reports sim.
liar, yes.
1t would depend on what kind of legs,
latlon Is required to tell what kind could
bsst regulate the transportation.
NAT the close of Mr.. Kimballs' statement
the committee announced that its in.
vestigations here must cease, as they
were compelled to be at st. Paul, MINI.
to-day. They left for tina. city last
evening.
MIR. RosEwATER's STATEMENT.
The committee Monday evening took
q recess, In the midst of Mr.. Edward
Rosewater's testimony, and what he said
subsequently is continued as follows;
As an illustration of the telegraph busi'
ness. When the Pacific telegraph war
chartered, congress provided that In con-
sideration of a subsidy of SAC, 600 pei
mum no message of ten words should
cost more than So from the Missouri
river to the Pacific ocean, and from that
day to this there has never been a higher
rate charged, but we have charged from
Omaha to Salt Lake City as high as
50 30, and from Omaha to Halens, Mon
tans, Sc. 10, because 1t was not within
the line chartered by congress. This
shows that regulation by congress has q
very good affect, 1t prevents extortionata
discrimination, and extortion generally
against places and persons.
Q. Have you stock yards now In this
lccality2
A. We have now on this side of the
river, established about nine months.
q. Who are they owned by2
A. Ky a syndicate of citizens Of Omaha
and Chicago. The railroad men have
nothing to do with that.
Now, In regard to the atate law-the
Doane law. The law is undoubtedly eff
cient as far as 1t goes, although the pro-
Visions say they shall charge no moro for
a short haul than for a longer one, yet
what 1 have cited yesterday would in
dictate they do charge more. Asa mat
ter of fact the railroads have ignored the
law and have made a farce out of 1t. In
the first year they started out with the
statement that it was a Grand piece of
folly to say they should be regulated at
all and to undertake such control. They
called 1t the club Law, ''the tub thrown
to the whale" and their papers, their
f%avorite shippers, and parties who were In
with them generally, in politics and out
of politics, all set up a general howl or
guffaw at this law. 1t wss the best
thing that could be done at the time,
and if 1t were In force to-day 1t would do
away with a great many of the abuses. l
have enforced 1t so far as I am concerned.
Now at a certain time the Union Pa
ci6c refused to convey our papers on
freight trains that carried other papers,
and l had no remedy, at least thought l
had none. They said that owing to the
time they went out they could not bill
them, and after that law had gone into
effect and 1 called on Mr.. Vining and
asked if he was going to send those
papers out, he replied 81 don't know,
guess we will have to send them out" l
said you will have to, if you don't / am
going to enforce my right. There is an
illustration that law is better than a com.
mission. EThere Is q telegraph lay in
our state to-day that prohibits dis,rimi.
nation and rebates. This telegraph law
Is on the statutes and provides exactly
the same thing with regard to short and
long distances and all that, and I found
out last January hat l was paying q
good deal more for M special dispatches
than other papers who were In the Asso-
clate press. / inquired Into 1t and they
said If l would sign q certain paper which
I had refused to sign, which would bind
ME or the publishing company not to pat.
ronize competing telegraph companies,
something could be done and
finally 1 notified the telegraph COM
my 1 would sue them for the over
G 1arge they had made and insisted on
their giving me exactly the same rates.
was going east and saw their general
manager at Chicago. who thought | ought
to sign that paper, and l said 1t was
against my principles to sign such papers
and refused to sign 1t, but l said [ shall
certainly prosecute you under our stat.
utes IL you do not refund the ovarcharge.
Well, he rays, I don't like threats; we
do not generally sccede to any threats.
Well, l says, 90 far as that Is concerned,
l have no threats to make; | have stated
q fact.
The final outcome war that all we had
paid in excess of what Others had paid
was refunded.
Now the Union Pacific actually refused
to sell my travellers mileage %transporta.
ton. Last summer l concluded, after
reading that bill through and seeing there
was something In It regarding passengers
as well as freight, L took a package OF
bills Of lading for q carload of paper
transported over the bridge and showing
we had pald 800 freight, and went to aee
the agent of the Union Pacific and asked
him to sell me mileage transportation,
and, / sayr, l hold In my hand receipts
showing we have been a patron and q
entitled to the aame treatment
as other shippers. Well, he telephoned
down to the headquarters and they sold
me the tickets.
l think Mr.. Adams has endeavored
with the present administration to rem.
edy O great deal of these abuses and ]
think that he intends to remedy them a
fast ss he san. l have had O talk with
Mr.. Adams and he said he would do what
he could to bring about a better state o
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