The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-22
REFORMS.
THE Interstate Commerce
Bill in the Senate.
rHE RAILROADS TALKED OF.
. Sensible Report frOm the House
Committee on Ventilation
Acoustics-Etc.
FoRrY-SIYTH CONGRESS.
SENATE

So 4
,y,svry5rox, December 2l.-Morgan
,-s-s5 "a resolution, calling on the
Resident for the correspondence with
the Government Of Nicaragua relating
- the Nfearaguau ship canal, or the
t-s,tv on that subject, which was pend
5,g51 the senate on the 4th Of Mach,
TSs5. adopted. ,.5- -.--.
Tbereso.utiUE Tor holiday recess
s---, tomorrow 10 January 4Ih was
presented and agreed 10.
Gallon called up the conference re-
uo-r uuOn TIE interstate commerce
III r. said he did so for the
..,--rose nj giving the Senator from
- wilson an opportunity OF
80 s-rne remarks upon the bill.
,f-s- vTtieb. IT. accordance with the
s-..,-asriong OF many Senators on both
5;Ess as te the impractibility OF action
~ = before the holidays, he would
r. -bs hill 20 over until after the
ECg5,vs de announced, however,
So Eben the Senate resumed Its Ses-
siors h. -yould agsin call up the con-
fa-a0ce report and insist upon It's con
sfisration from day to day until II was
Among the papers laid before the
Senate to-day. was a communication
from the supervising architect OF the
treasury as 70 the necessity OF addl-
t9onaI vaults for the storage of silver,
s's0a communication from the assist
ant Secretary of the Interior, Mr.. Null
C-oE. with a report of the government
directors OF the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, and asked attention 10 the
suggestions contained therein concern
ing legislation affecting that company.
Among the petitions presented was
one signed by g party Of ministers OF
the Nebraska conference in favor OF the
Chinese indemnity bill.
Mr.. Allison, from the committee on
appropriations reported back the House
bill. making appropriations to supply
deficiencies for public printing, with an
amendml.4s requiring the money to be
expended Uatesbly. The amendment
was agreed 10 and the bill passed.
The debate On the interstate COM
meEce Dill proceeded and Wilson
IOwal continued his remarks. He
represented the railroad system of the
country as having steadily and IN
reasonably refused to recognize the
e=AA NAE.A DsA1AA4tao1 AAEAAAaA4t4s anu - AA1H
ing worked out lines of action for itself
which had excited the resentment OF
almost every interest which it had been
created 90 serve. II had made itself an
-utermecd.er IN almost every depart
nent o. business. Il had refused 10
admit that it had been created to serve
proper purposes and th5 interests OF
society. and II had assumed to
control ald direct those interests.
he managers Of the transportation
system. whie admitting great defects
u u, had resOlutely opposed all efforts
ot State and national governments 10
project and establish reforms. The
adoption 81 the conference report.
while % would not accomplish all that
re should ike. would afford the country
an opportunity To test the Hegulatiye
remedy, unless the bill should be vetoed
By the President. There must be i'm
mediate and affirmative action. Con-
greSs must enact law for the regnla-
non OF interstate commerce and (by
experience under its administration
come % q knowledge OF the right or
wrong q the matter in the war OF opin-
Ion nov Obstructing the way. Nothing.
said NJ. Wilson, had done more
20 demoralize railroad managers.
officers and agents than the pools.
IL had come TO be expected. indeed,
that the pool OF to-day would be dis
regarded by some OF its members to-
morrow; and this came to be the basis
u nope OF reward by railroad officers
anu agents Tor successfully enlarging
business oy violation OF such arrange
ments. Then came the rate war and
consequent loss Of revenue. Under the
present system, however. these losses
we're un.oaded on business intermediate
o. local points. This practice was in
-Lseu an outrage and 8 most fruitful
source Of complaint on the part OF the
people. y vast amount OF the rail-
road traffic Of the country was
done II rates less than half
q those charged on business
between local points. That was an in
guilty which ought not to be toler-
stedr aud which the pending bill Off il
becomes law would prevent. The
people were willing that the railroad
companies should prosper and should
oe reasonably paid for their services: :
odt they did not recognize them as
-nelr masters, for they know that the
-Allroao companies were created TO ne
servants, and It might be set down as
one Of the things irrevocablv settled
upon, mat the public demand which
lad induced the reporting of the pres
snt OIL would not cease until Justice
vas eHt:snched in the TRANSFORMATION
system Of the country. As an Illustration
q the injustice of the presengsystem he
stated that on the 10th Of this month
corn was selling in western Iowa (where
Z had been a good CROP, at from 2Oc. to
&c. bushel; in Chicago, at SEC. a
oashel, and in southeastern Iowa
where the crop had been a failure), at
+Ue- to i2c. bushel. So that western
iowa corn was being sold in Chicago at
nom &c. TO &c. q bushel less than in
eastern Iowa. Congress, he said. had
debated this subiec, for ten years; now
Mr.; Camden said that he regarded
-le oil as a wise and conservative
measure; that the country demanded
sle passage of some such bill, and that
4, y was the duty Of Congress to act upon
NJ CUllom said he would ask the
oehS'e 10 resume consideration of tue