Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-15
A LIVELY MEETING.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY AND
STEAMSHIP ASSOCIATION.
Complaint of the Teaching Oh
DemagOgues-Some Plain
English.
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NEW YORK, January 1.-THE Rate
Committee of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association. which has been
in session for two or three days at the
Fifh-Ayenue Hotel, had alively meeting
to-day The committee has been try
ing to agree upon a schedule OF
rates which should put all the compa-
MICS on an even basis of competition.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
panv. which has been to some extent
a disturbing factor, was one OF the
topics under discussion, and President
Clark. of that company. was asked
plainly to agree to q proposition intend
Ell 10 DO away with any further trouble
from that quarter. A somewhat excited
debate followed, and in the end the
trouble was referred TO a committee to
be adjusted.
COMP ANIEs REPRESENTED.
The attendance at the meeting yester-
dav was larger than it has been at any
previous session. The following compa-
MES were represented Alabama and
Great Southern railroad, Atlanta and
West Point railroad, Baltimore, Chesa-
pcake and Richmond Steamboat Com
panv, Baltimore Steam Packet Compa-
nv. Cape-Fear and Yadkin- Valley rail
r6al. Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific railroad, East Iennes-
see. Virginia and Georgia rail-
road, Georgia railroad, Georgia Ia
cifc railroad. Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad, illinois Central rail-
road, Kansas City, Memphis and BIZ
mingham railroad, Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas railroad, Memphis and
Charleston railroad, Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company, Mo
bile and Ohio railroad, Nashville, Chat
tanooga and ST. Louis railroad, New
port News and Mississippi-N alley rail
road. Norfolk and Western railroad,
Ocean Steamship Company, Old Do
minion Steamship Company, Richmond
and Danville railroad, Savannah, flouda
and Western railroad, Soaboard and
Roanoke railway, Western Railway OF
Ala3amn, Western and Atlantic railroad,
and Wilmington and Weldon railroad.
roN-PAYING RAILROADS.
I'm the course OF discussion statements
were made that railroads il the South
which had once been on a paying basis
had paid no dividends III the last twenty
wears. The bonds, it was said, Of some
OF the companies representing simply
the actual cash invested in construction
had been productive of no revenue.
COMPLIANT was made OF the teachings
OF demagogues IN southern States,
with reference to the relation which
railroad companies bear to the general
prosperity of tho country, and these
demagogues were treated to some plain
English.
"The demagogue was born narrow,
he grows up narrow, he lives narrow,
and he will die narrow" said one Of the
speakers. who was complaining Of the
bad business which some Of the roads
represented lad experienced within the
last few years.
One Of the railroad-men said that the
reference to demagogism doubtless meant
the position against these railroad COM
panies taken by some Of the organizers
OF the Farmers Alliance, which had
helped to manufacture sentiment
against the companies that had inter
fered with successful business.