The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-02
THE TRAFFIC. SCHEDULE.
Attorney Martin Of the Southern Pa
Cif;c on Leeds Figures.

Cific on Leeds Figures.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.-The Senate Com
mit'ee on Constitutional Amendments held
another meeting this evening to hear fur
tier arguments on the Traffic Association
amendment.
5. NJ. Buck, president of the Eel River
and Eureka Railroad. was the first TO speak.
He gave a history of his road and made the
same showing that the other small railroads
have made, to the effect that if the amend
ment should go into the State constitution
it would mean bankruptcy.
j. NJ. Fulton, representing the California
and Nevada Railroad. said he had been
waiting here since last Friday. hoping that
MI Leeds would appear before the commit
tee again and back up some of his state
ments relative to the cost of operating
railroads in this State. He declared that
he was prepared to show that Leeds had
misstated these statistics. and he read a
number Of figures of recent purchases Of
material for his road in New ork. Chicago
and ST. Louis to prove bis assertion. He
said he hoped the committee would not ac-
cept Mr.. Leeds figures without subjecting
them to an analysis and investigation.
William Collier of the Los Angeles Ter
minal Railroad Company put in the same
objections as the others have done.
j. c. Martin, attorney for the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, next addressed
the committee. lie attacked the Leeds
Gesford amendment, and characterized it as
ridiculous. The amendment, he said, that
il was proposed to put into the constitution
exempted all roads earning less than $1,000
a mile as shown by the thirteenth annual
report of the Railroad Commissioners. If
one OF The railroads that is now earning less
than $4,000 a mile should in after years run
MP to $1,000 a mile nothing could be done
with il, for would not the owners say that
according to the thirteenth annual report
Of The Railroad Commissioners the road
was not earning $1,000 8 mile. and conse-
quently did not come within the provisions
of the constitution Then what would be-
come OF the competing road of the future.
the popular road that everybody loved.
when that road came into this State. and it
was said TO the new company that it was
charging 90 much, would they not say that
there was nothing in the thirteenth annua al
report of the Railroad Commissioners to
show what their earnings were?
Nj Martin startled the committee some
/ Ntldt u9 suoAllk tildA A4ccuSs WINS Ciaithlue
to have copied the Kansas distance tariff.
had really cut it down. He showed that in
/ merchandise Of the first class the difference
was as follows: Kansas. five miles Is cents,
California So ten miles and over. Kansas
10. California ~; fifteen miles and over
ten. Kansas IS. California S; twenty miles
and over fifteen, Kansas 20, California u
twenty-five miles and over tweny, Kansas
-, California 10; thirty miles and over
! twenty-five, Kansas q, California IS.
Mr. Martin rested for the evening after
making this disclosure and left the members
to study the matter over. The committee
will meet again tomorrow evening, when
the Southern Pacific will put in further
evidence.