The morning call., 1891-11-10
BLOOD ON THE MOON.
Railroad Commission Versus the
Southern Pacific.
The Company Will Contest Recent Order
Reducing the Rates on Livestock On
the Placerville Division.

War has been declared. The Railroad
Comm ssioners have dropped hot-shot in
the camp Of monopoly, and Chief Gunner
Stubs has returned the fire with Raymond
canister. Great CONSERVATION prevails
among the ill-advised supporters of the
Legislative Act of 1880. Rea is in San Jose
and refuses TO be comfOrted, Lltchttld is
clinging TO his yard-Stick and trembling at
his own audacity. and Beckman is hiding
behind Secretary Kelly, consoling himself
meanwhile by repeating again and again !:
81 didn't propose it,"
| In the meantime Stubs is loading again,
The discharge will take place on the 23d
| inst, when the board is down for anoth er
conference. Mr. Rea did not attend yes
| terday's meeting of3the Commissioners. He
has not attended a meeting for some time,
| on account of private business in San Jose,
| his home. Wien he can come down to San
! Francisco the Santa Cruz lumber case and
other important business now before the
commission will be attended to.
The board could do nothing yesterday.
and so Secretary Kelly read letter from
| j. G. Stubs concerning the recent order
declaring q Sc per cent reduction on live
stock rates on the Placervile division of the
| Southern Pacific. The communication said :
Tie Southern Pacific Company Is advised oy
! counsel, and believes your board cannot legally
| fix the rates 10 be charged for TRANSPORTATION
| over any OF Tie lines of railroad operated by that
! company, and therefore respectfully protests
/ against your action Ill
| AND THEY ADJOURNED.
| Hold on" interrupted Commit ssioner
| Litchfield. IF we have gone wrong let us
know it. Hear this. for instance. Article
MI, Section %, Of the State Constitution
| says that the Commissioners shall have the
| power and it shall be their duty to estab-
! lish rates of charges for the transportation
! of passengers and freight by railroad or
! other transportation companies,
| and for this purpose they shall have
| the power to issue subpenas and all other
! necessary process, take.testimony
and punish for contempt OF their orders and
| processes in the same manner and TO the
same extent as courts OF record; and en-
force their decisions and correct abuses
| through the medium of the courts.
! Any railroad corporation or transportation
company which shall fail or refuse to con-
/ form to such rates as shall be established
/ by such Commissioners, or shall charge
rates in excess thereof. shall be
| fined not exceeding 10000 for each offense
and every officer. agent or employe OF
any such corporation or company, who
! shall demand or receive rates in excess
! thereof, or who shall in any manner violate
! the provisions of this section, shall be
fined not exceeding 5000 or be imprisoned
in the County Jail not exceeding one year"
| what shall we do?" asked Lltchheld
| when he had finished.
adjourn" answered Beckman, mourn
! fully. They adjourned.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
The through passenger traffic over the
! lines of the Southern Pacific system for the
month Of October was as follows:
First Second Grand
! Glass. Glass. Total
e rd..............'.33197 $S3ss S,4s5
rOtals..........,522I $500 i4-O2i
! For the same month in 1890 the arrivals
were $3.50 and the departures 1907. For the
first ten months of the year the totals COM
pare as follows:
hrrlNhls 100 s. loe
departures ..............-..-...,..o5 o3'sos
! 1alh ..,.....'..-..-.....- ......lZ'Go4 ~, ZU-
A Phillips Rock Island excursion ar
rived yesterday with 129 lGud-seekers. A
number will settle in Southern California,
while the remainder will go north at once.
| 5. W. Eccies, formerly of the Union Pa
cific freight department in this city, but now
assistant general freight agent OF the road
| at Salt La Ike City, IS in the city.
w. NJ. Ranke. general manager of the
! California Railway, has returned from the