The advocate., 1891-02-18
CONGREssTONAL.


providing for the payment Of $500 for
1901 copies Of the eighteen contested
election cases in tho House for tho Fifty
arst Congress.
In the consideration Of the sundFy
civil appropriation bill In the committee
OF the whole, the table showing appro-
priations for public buildings, showed
an aggregate Of Ss,BOOOOO.
On the Item to appropriate 8875OO for
the salaries Of the interstate commerce
commissioners, Mr.. Anderson, Of Kansas,
spoke at length. He said:
We have heretofore In this country a.
sumod with respect 10 tho railway business,
that tho great law OF competition was not
only operating, but chat II would continue
TO operate and 20 operate eiisOtually. The
great railway pool which has recently been
formed, goes beck Of anything heretofore
proposed In the long noEious line Of rail-
way rascalities.
THB MODUs oPERANDI OF THEIR 0P-
PRESTON.
Mr.. Anderson thus explains their
work.
Az tho very outset 10 tsk0s tho whole Of
tho traffic Of an entire region and distributes
II tamong tho competing lines, according 10
the percentage or ratio which has boen
agreed upon by the pool, or, II not mutually
agreed upon, which has been determined by
the pool, for 10 has tho power 30 determine
finally and absolutely just what proportion
Of the total freight each Of tho roads shall
carry SO that out OF my town of Manhat-
tan, say, with three railroads, the Union Pa
oiHC, the Santa Fe and Rock leland, undor
this arrangement, the agent Of the Union
Pacific receives freight from me consigned
TO New York, not do facto, az tho agent Of
that company, but under this new pool
agreement no reooeives II 40 tho agent OF
the Western Traffic Association, and the
association may send that freight over the
Union Pacific, the Santa Fo or the Rock
Island, as IL sees 49, The board Of ok COM
miseioners, coming from the country west
OF Chicago and 50. Louis decide whether
the rate on corn from Manhattan to Kansas
City or TO Chicago shall DO 30 much or so
much more. Mem from the southwest,
men from the Pacific, men from tho south
ern states, men sold, hired aud bought by
kkn .si1vBoy,Y v,,nv, ,bhn hava M mara vsi0hA
20 say whether Che Union Pacific or any
other railway can reasonably carry lbs
freight az a lower rate than the Santa F0, or
the Santa Fe at a lower rate than th0 Union
Pacific, these men settle 10; but II there be
differences In this board, then Che question
goes TO those high and mighty presidents Of
railways, who, in the city Of New York,
Gnally say what every railway from Chicago
and 50. Louis westward, every railway over
half tho continent with 1900, 900 people on
IL, shall charge for hauling any and every
class Of freight and every passenger. Not
week and the inevitable effect 10 that you
are on the very verge Of the formation OF
one universal iron-ClSd pool which will
enable few railroad presidents 10 deter
mine precisely what every man in the United
States shall pay for fare, what overy farmer
shall pay for the transportation of his cot
ton, bis sugar, his corn, his wheat, his bacon,
his cattle; what every merchant shall pay
for the transportation Of freight.
LAwLEss LAwLEssNEss PERsoNIFIED.
Mr.. Anderson thus arraigns the bar
Ons:
These men do all this, not only outside Of
the law, without law, in spite OF law, but
they exultantly trample Che United States