Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-03
INTERSTATE COMMERCE..

"The Senate. as in Committee of the
Whole. resumed the consideration of tn,
bill Is. l532) to regulate commerce, tho
pending question beng OH the amendment
proposed by Mr. Camden in section I, line
). after the word direction TO strike out
the words "and from the same original
point Of departure"
"Mr. Riddleherser Mr. President, | dc
not proposo t. ask Of The Senate more in
dulgence than IL necessary to explain
the reasons for the vote which ~ Sena.
tor shall cast on the pending bill. In its
importance to the people this bill tran
sends, perhaps, most Of those We have had
under consideration this session.
"Simlar measures have been pending in
the Houses Of Congress for the last six OF
eight years at least, and probably much
longer. There ia no measure before this
Senate. and possibly none before the House
of Representatives, which attracts more
attention from tho general public than
this one to regulate Interstate commerce..
81 may be permitted to say here, too,
that much Of the discussion that has en-
sued upon this bill has not been of the
kind that we had right TO expect from
Senators Too many stump speeches have
been ingrafted into it, 10 * this which
makes it quite proper for Senator who
proposes to vote upon it to give n why
aad wherefore.
"Now, sir, il we leave in this bill these
few words, "and from the same original
point Of departure, we do more, "a tho
Senator from West Virginia has said. than
legalize discrimination We come IN here
at this time 20 approve and indorse the
railroad iObbery and railroad robbery gem
orally for the last fifty years, and partic-
nlarly for the last twenty-five years. II
il legalixng the very evil from which the
people Of this country have suffered at the
hands Of the railroad corporations.
"Who is hero 10 assert that shipments
from terminal points are not carried fire.
quently at losing rates : Who Is here to
assert that the intermediate shipper does
not only have to pay profit upon what
no ships, but must make mp the losses that
accrue from reduced rates from terminal
10 terminal, and make NJ also the profits
that ought 10 have accrued 10 the railroad
company from those shipments
"This question has been argued here ~
II there we're but two terminal points In
the United States, the one being Chicago
with her lakes, aud the other New York.
can account for it 10 my own satisfaction
very we'll. This might a. well have been
entitled bill to cOerce all shippers into
sending their products to New York llar-
Dor. There aIe other cities W tins conn
try there are other haTb0rs In this conn
try there arc other towns in this ooun-
try, and those who want 10 transport their
products from one terminal point to an
other under this bill should know that
there are more people living between these
terminal points than th0ro arc at tho ter
mini which they propose TO accommodate.
81 want TO illustrate the effects Of this
bill upon the State that in part repre-
sent here. There are four lines OF rail
road, grand trunk lines Of railroad travers-
ing three or four, aud one Of them five,
States, passing through the state of Viz
ginia. A man who does not know that
this bill says they may ship from the ter
minal points south OF us and can not dis