Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-27
A TALK WITH BARNEY.
His Friends Claim Kaufman and Dallas
Counties Tor Him In the Con.
gressIonai Contest.
ms fNiitical Fences--He wants Certain
Railroads Taken Ont OF the Hands
OF Certain Receivers.
speciAI . lhe eA.e,,e


DALLAS, TEX, May se.-.it is pretty
We'll understood, in fact 1t may be stated
positively, that Lieut.-Gov. Barney Gibbs
Will be a candidate for congress. He Is
Just back from a trip 30 Washington.
where, as Is well known, he went 70 look
after the introduction OF a bill TO limit
the powers Of receivers Of railroad, and
ne liked the atmosphere up there so well
that ne has concluded 10 20 back again N
IL is the will Of the soyereigns THE GA
zETTE stated two years ago, while MIR
Gibbs was candidate for lieutenant. gov
ernor, that IN the fullness OF time no
would stand for congress, and TUX GA
NErTE generally gets its political infor.
nation straight. A GAzETTE reporter
had brief conversation with Mr.. Gibbs
to-day on the subject with which he has
become so prominently identified re-
ceiverships.
sim sure,n said he, "that the next con-
gress, II not the present one, win legle-
late so as TO define and limit the jurisdIo.
ton OF federal courts In the matter of
receiverships and contempts. While |
was In Washington | was informed by a
United States senator Of one railroad
that has been To the hands Of receiver
for twenty years. The very fact Of one
federal judge in New Orleans operating
1000 miles of railroad in Texas through
his friends on big salaries and
without any statute defining
his powers and duties Is subyersiye
OF every sound principle of government.
The people with damage claims are being
brought away ffom home and their local
courts and have their damages assessed by
an autocratic master in chanceIy instead OF
by jury, and they don't relish this pro.
cedure, especially when there is no tell.
ing how long 1t viii last. A speedy sale
OF bankrupt railroads is In the interests
OF the people, who want new parties 10
| get control Of the roads and fix the freight
tariff on the basis OF actual value, instead
OF upon a bonded Indebtedness OF $90,.
600 to the mile, one half of which repre-.
sents no actual investment.
"The railroads claim the right to TX 0
freight tariff high enough to pay interest
on bonded Indebtedness of $4,000 and
$4,000 to the mile, but pay taxes on 8
valuation of only $1,000 or $4,000 pei
mile, and 1t is to the interest OF the peo
pie for the courts to wind up those cor
porations which put on all the freieh
tariff that commerce will stand and ther
can't tnlull their Obligations. Several O
the papers have been going for me fol
agtating this question, but Justice Millei
OF the supreme court of the United State.
IN dissenting opinion charged that tn,
courts and the railroads under this doc
trine were virtually partners
He referred your reporter to the case o.
Barton VS.. Barbour, II otto, p. 1877
Bainey's friends claim that he will have
no difficulty in carrying Dallas and Kauf
man counties. He will inaugurate the
canvass at Arlington next Saturday week
speaking there in the morning and In For
Worth at night. There has been som,
talk-of Mr., Crawford's candidacy for the
place, built is understood that he will
not run.