The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-19
WASHINGTON.
PROCEEDINGS or THE INTER STATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
REPRESENTATIVES, ar SOUTH
ERN RO1DS To BE HEARD.
BATCH OF PRESIDENTIAL
NONiSATIONS.
The Case Of Gross and white the North
Carolina Embe1xlers. 10 ne Argued
Bsfore the United states su-
preme Court this Week.

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WASHINGTON. March is.-fhe hearing
in ihe matter of trunk line export rates
was conducted to-day before the Inter.
Stale Commerce Commission \ number
OF witnesses were examined, and one oil
Them MI Hayes, general manage of She
Wabash and Western road, frankly adj
mitted having cut rates, thus violating
the Commissions order requiring ten
days notice OF a reduction in export
rates.
When the Commission had finished
the examination OF witnesses to-day.
Judge Cooley read all present a pretty
speech and continued the case two
weeks in order 20 give representatives
of some Southern roads. who were not
invited % this hearing. an opportunity
tO he heard ON this export rate question.
lie said. # made the statement awhile
ago that we propose, ~ the request OF
gentlemen here presenting toe Southern
roads. 90 give them a hearing and they
have named for that purpose TWO weeks
from tomorrow We should be glad 10
name au earlier datcif practicable but we
do not find that 10 is. 90 not know
that there is any reason why IL should be
ear.icr. excepting on tha. this sort Of
thing which has been going on at the
North. of which I think the evidence is
abundant, may perhaps continue unless
the Commission makes some deliverancc
on the subject now We DO not want 90
be compelled to- announce an opinion ON
so important q matter, which requires
careful deliberatiOn, nor until these
Southern gentlemen have been heard.
But 10 is very manifest that there
have been things going on here that
should stop at once They never ought
20 have been done, and il they should
cease forthwith there would be no reason
why we should not take two months, or
even q longer time. for final expression
Of opinion As to what has been
Going on, We must compliment
Mr. HAYES for coming forward
and stating frankly just what the
fsc;s were as regards Bis own road.
We should have been better satisfied If "a
Ike course had been taken by all Others.
They must all be satisfied now that
what they have been doing has not been
justified by lhe law, and there should be
no more Of il. They ought all now TO do
what. no doubt MI HAYES Will do.
namely in manly manner en-
deayor TO comply with the law. Our
purpose is not 10 hurt anybody but 20
be OF service 10 the community IN seeing
that the law f. observed. and while We
have fixed two weeks from tomorrow
for the hearing of these Southern gen
tlemen in the meantime we expect the
parties 90 take up the law and study iL
and see that so far as their own roads
are concerned il Is lived mp o.
Here i- the law. and it is not for you
hereafter 90 sag 20 Us that there are
practical obstacles in the way Of COM
plying with il; that YOU would lose busi-
ness by so doing, and an that sort OF
thing We are not concerned in that.
We d0 not wish 10 do anything % make
Won lose business, al the same time Wo
cannot accept it as "A valid excuse,
that ID YOU obey the law You Will
thereby lose business The thing De
considered when manager can come %
us and saw [ named this rates, and } dld
10 regardless of law, because my c0mpet-
itor had done The same thing There is
no excuse for that practice. II o wrong
is done by one road 10 The injury OF an
other the proper method OF redress
is not to duplicate the wrong,
but 20 before common author whether
il be Tie Commission or the voluntary
association, with complaint OF the wrong.
One crime in railroad circles is no more
10 be excused bv another than one theft
is 10 De justified by another, and ii ought
10 be Just as desirable 10 violate "a crim.'
nal law. which affects railroad managers
In order 10 make money for their roads,
as il is TO violate criminal law in the
appropriation or private property. ]
say these things in view Of the
fact that We think in justice
10 these Southern gentlemen we ought
10 give q continuance Of this inYesiila-
ton for a couple Of weeks in order 10 lci
them show what there is that is peculiar
in their case. We do not want 10 cx-
press an opinion that will affect their
interests until they have been fully
heard. but in the meantime practices in
the North that have been justly com
planned OF, and which have all appeared
TO De unlusiifable. should not be con-
unued. That should be distinctly
understood. | trust that after saying
30 much we shall not two weeks hence
have complaints brought TO US that these
states have been going on in the
meantime Parties must not take the
redres, OF wrongs into their own hands
when the legality of what they complain
Of is, 10 say the least. very doubtful. |
trust after what has been said we shal. not
hear complaints ike these we have been
hearing All along while this inyesti-
cation remains over. ] trust also that
IL there is occasion because of what has
been done TO make complaint that ,he
parties will not take the remedy into
their own hands One of my brethren
remarks very properly that while We
continue this case Tor two weeks the law
is not suspended. That remains in force
and its specialties remains in force and
the law speaks with the same force and
will during these two weeks as 1t viii