Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-27
HAMMERING GOULD.
Van Wyek Steps Aside From Interstate
Commerce 10 Hit Hin.

Van Wyck Steps Aside From Interstate
Commerce 10 Hit Hin.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Interstate
Commerce Bill was taken up and Mr.. Van
Wyck addressed the Senate on it. We
were, be said, in the midst Of depression,
yet all pursuits mus. be laid under contri.
button 30 that full dividends shall be de.
clared by railroad companies on watered
stock and fraudulent bonds. Grain, beef
and pork might be reduced one.half, yet
there couM be no abatement in freight
charges. Railroad and telegraph rates
west Of the Missouri river were
about four times grester than rates
east of that river. For years capital
had been organized, usscrupulous, and ra.
pacious. Moving, as Gould has moved,
according to his sworn testimony, and as
Huntington according to his own written
history had moved on State legislatures.
the courts and Congress, unblushingly
purchasing Judges aud Legislators. But
the crisis was coming. There was an ire
pressible conflict between right and wrong.
Could the nation be made to believe that
the four millions of watered stock and
bonds were honest property, desefv-
ing protection from the courts, or
legislatures, or that the three hundred
mlilisn n claimed By Vanderbilt and the two
hundred millions claimed by Gould were
honestly obtsinedP The owners of these
fortunes should &C ord decent treatment to
the remainder of mankind, from whom
they expected to force dividends and in
terest. Ii the industries were only required
to pay fair diyidebds on the real cost Of
railroads, the nation would be prosperous
The Senate could take an example from
Jay Gould. The Senate Committee on
Education aud Labor had industriously
obtained from that worthy q complete
history Of his life, probably
for the youth Of America
to initiate. The committee had trembling
ly and bessechingly implored him to give
a minute account OF his daring exploits and
be consented. Early in life when
hard pressed for dinner he adopted his
sisters method, and went behind the black
smith shopt to pray. The blessing came
in great measures. In few years the
tanning business, in which he was engss-
ed, was in financial straits, go overwhelming
that his partner was driven to suicide while
he himself bought railroad. The wrong
partner had committed suicide. The
com naittee was doubtless daaed as much
By Gould's recital as by reading the ex-
poits of Jack the Giant Killer, or Kidd,
tbs Pirate. Modesty induced Gould to
refrain from telling one feature OF the
history Of h.s time. 1t Kansas City pc
was once overtaken With another religious
spasm and wrestled a second time in
PRAYER. telling the people how happy he
was, and that he wanted no more money.
BE had purchased the Missouri Pacific
only for the good of m mankind, and should
use it only for the glory OF God and the
bsneft of the people. AS he was contem-
plating another raid lie lelt the necessity Of
another ipstallment Of divine grace, 30 he
went "short" on the promise oy pretending
that he would not benefit himself By the
blessing. 1t was to be hoped he would not
indulge in o third prayer on earlh.
Should he, in tie end secure an en-.
trance into the New Jerusalem, he would
soon be conspiring there, from force Of
habit, to buy a rsilroad-and when be
should haze torn -p the shining avenues
the angels could not retain min trom steal
ing the golden paysments." Laughter.
The strong arm OF labor, Mr., Van Wyck
added, had always protected the Nation i"
the day of peril. Tlers need be no fear
Of the Republic. from the organization Of
labor. The ranks Of the Union army had
been recruited fro n the men who had
been delving in mines.
Questions OF ds.ail, involved in Mr..
Camden's pending amendment to the Inter.
State Commerce bill, as to the long and
short haul, we're then taken and discussed
By Messrs Camden, Harris, Platt, Brown,
Wilson OF love, and Cullom, after which
the Senate adjourned.