Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-09
New EnggandSaysNo
To Int difference with Canadian
Railroads.
THEY LIKE THINGS AS THEY ARE.

Numerous Protests Against Laying Any
Legal Burdens on the Canadian Ameri
can Railway System Received by the
Senatorial Investigating Committee
Local Interests Subserved by the Present
Arrangement.
Boston, July 9-The senate committee In
vestigating the relations of Canadian rail
ways to commerce in the United States ha.
struck a lead of information which is in d.
rect opposition to that heretofore given to
it At Saturdays session numerous repre-
sentatives of New England business pro
tested vigorously against national interior
ence with the business of the Canadian roads
aud on yesterday this line of action was con
tinued. A delegation from Bangor, Me,
was present. and its membere were unanf
nous against interference Resolutions
adopted by the Bangor board of trade were
presented by President Neatly in which il
is declared that good faith requires non inter
ference, TO say nothing Of the advantage:
obtained for New England ports by their
connection with Canadian roads Ths
Canadian Pacific having built a road through
Maine under a charter granted by the state
legislature, the resolutions claim that said
railway company should be granted all the
privileges now allowed by the laws of the
United States for the transportation OF
merchandise through the state to and from
points in Canada and that all facilities
should be given for the transportation OF
bread stuffs and other merchandise to and
from all ports in Maine and connecting
roads
History of the Road in Question.
Corporation Counsel Stetson addressed the
committee. He said Bangor began many
years ago to build the Bangor and Piscatog-
ins railroad, ninety miles northwesterly to
Moorehead lake to connect with CON
templated road westwt / which was to con
meet with the Canadian roads to the west,
and had put over 81 ,000, 600 I'm the enterprise
Bangor completed its road, but tho origin.
ators of the connecting link failed, and later
the Canadian Pacific got the charter granted
by the state, completed the road and con-
nected it with the Maine Central, the prin-
cipal railroad in the state thus establishing g
route from Minneapolis to Bangor and St
John, the distance between Minneapolis and
Bangor being about the same that be
tween Minneapolis and Boston. 1t was the
desire OF Bangor's citizens that the city be-
come distributing point for north and east
ern Maine. The interest of the entire Sec
ton imperatively demanded that nothing be
done to limit international commerce as it is
at present The Bangor and Pscatogins is
protected by state charter from ad-
verse influence from the Canadian Pacific.
The new Canadian branch is expected to
make a material cheapening in western
rates
Further Objections to Interference.
j. NJ Devereaux, of Bangor, Me-. repre-
senting Csstine, Me, read set of resolu-
tons passed by the Castine Railroad and
Navigation company. also protesting against
interference, on behalf of Castne
Ex-Governor Smith, of Vermont, and
James Eurber, manager of the Boston and
Maine railway, thought that the Grand
Trunk and Canadian Pacific were comply
ing with the interstate commerce law in
every point and believed that any legisla-
ton looking to non-intercourse, if certain re-
strictions were not obAyed, would be far
more disastrous to the very roads now ask
ing for it. The subject, they thought, was
one for treaty regulation and amicable dis
cussion, and the solution of the problem lay
in such friendly intercourse and negotiation
between the two governments as to bring
their policies into harmony.
Resolutions from the Lowell board of
trade were read, protesting against hostile
action against Canadian roads, and Presi-
dent Borden, of the Fall River board of
trade, talked to the same effect.
Jerome Jones and Ex-Governor Clafliu tes-
titled that the merchants of New England
desired to have the competition of the Cana
dian roads continued. F. F. Emery for the
New England Shoe and Leather association
Hon. Jonathan Lane, president of the Mer
chants association, and Others spoke in the
same vein The committee adjourned to
meet at Detroit