Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-19

the United States authorities get around
to them for robbing the postofice.
What He Thinks.
Senator McGillivray, who has been in
the city attending the session of the
Commissioners of Railroads, said last
night: 81 am neither fooled or surprised
at the non action of the board. The
commissioners are playing horse for
political effect and the companies are
playing their same old game of fighting
for time. The commissioners pretended
to learn for the first time yesterday that
the coal shipped from Lehigh was ship
ped in cars that had been brought west
loaded with freight, and would be haul
ed back empty if not loaded with our
coal. If they have just learned it they
have been grossly negligent in their
duty, as an inspection of the books of the
railroad company at Dickinson would
have shown it any time for two years
past. They have been talking of build
ing the 500 to Bismarck for a long time.
I wish they would. I would make a con-
tract to ship 1000 cars of coal over it the
first year, and am certain I could more
than double that number the next.
There is neither reason or justice in the
Northern Pacltic's failure to meet the
rate of the 500 at Valley City and other
competitive points. It simply beats the
western part of the state out of furnish
ing cheap fuel to the eastern portion.
Seven out of ten cars of coal we ship are
put in cars belonging to other railroads
than the Northern Pacific, which have
come west loaded with through freight
from Chicago and other points. In
every instance in which the coal men do
not furnish a load for them they are
sent back empty. But this the railroad
would rather do than to give us a decent
rate, as they are in that name enabled
to help the coal men who bring their coal
by water to Duluth out of the hauling of
which they make a greater profit. The
idea that the commissioners have been
doing all they can is all fol-de-rol. That
pop board hasn't and won't do anything
to assist the people in obtaining cheap
fuel. They say they have got the 500
to lower rates. Yes, they have got the
500 to furnish a cheaper rate from their
own mines, which was an advantage to
them to do. That is all. I tell you the
agitation about obtaining cheaper fuel is
growing; the people are getting about
tired of electing men to Office who will
wait until time for reelection before
they act in the matter"
In speaking of the election in his dis
trict, he said: "We are safe to give a
good round republican majority. At
the coming election Simpson will be re-
turned as member of the house. Stick
ney, his competitor, has lived there for
eight years, and it seems funny that he
should o have to publish the fact
that he is a republican. I am mistaken
in saying fact, because it is not. He is
now and always has been a democrat
and is only run in the interest of a lot
of cattle men who are willing to put tip
stuff to escape, as they do now, taxation.
The conduct of Stickney and other
cattlemen in the past give the lie to his
letter about annexing territory and so
forth. When the votes are counted you
will see that Doodle campaigns don't go
with the people and that Simpson, one
of the brightest members of the last
house, and who labored so diligently for
the interest of his constituents will again
be chosen to serve them.'