Evening journal., 1897-05-15
FIGHT OYER DETECTIVE BILL.
SENATORS SUSPECTED A SCHEME
BACK OF THE PROPOSED EAST
ERN INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION" ."

BACK OF THE PROPOSED EAST
ERN INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION" 20
Stan Correspondence Evening Journal.
Dover. May 15.-Chairman Meredith,
of the Senate Committee on Private
Corporations, reported favorably the
House bill to incorporate the Eastern
Inspectors Association, of Whining
ton, in which Harvey b. Vandegrift,
Horace Vandegrift and DR.. e. G. Short
lidge are the incorpOrators.
1t was reported with an amendment
giving the association the right to in
spect appliances for registering fares
on railways and railroads.
Senator Pyle said that the railway
companies were able to attend to their
own business in their ownsWaY He
| thought that there was a scheme back
of the bill.
Mr.. Handy echoed his sentiments
and said that the bill was designed to
put a hound at the heels Of the work
ingmen, who work sixteen hours a day
and who will be bounded to make a
job aud money for this man.
Senator Pierce explained that it was
simply an act to incorporate a detec
tive agency.
Senator Pyle said that the railway
company seemed to be able to look
after its own interests pretty well. Il
had been able to keep everybody six
miles out of Wilmington.
Senator Fenimore objected to tho
provisions Of section 2, which he re-
garded as too broad.
Mr.. Handy moved that further con-
J sideration Of the bill be indefinitely
postponed. His motion was lost.
Il am here to do the best l can for
the citizens of Wilmington" said SEN
I ator Pyle. THAT railway to-day pro-
J scribes anything and everything and
everybody. No other railway dare
come into the city of Wilmington
; Everybody is shut out. This bill is far.
: reaching. 1t proposes to. prescribe GER
tain things that shall be done. II
would enable these inspectors to &c
: into Jackson & Sharp's works for in
: stance, and say: You must build cars
conforming TO certain forms. They
! could do il under that very bill. Work
e ingmen must come on their knees un
e der that bill in order to secure a posi-
I tion on the Wilmington City Railway
e They will dictate that certain cars anC
certain forms Of cars shall be used i
. anybody dare come into or within
cl6ut VI nAdAAnE VI w llluAnElbI. Du
e there is no danger of them coming in
s | have always claimed that it would b'
e an advantage to the old railway L
have new ones bringing people to tn
city by the thousand. Other peopl
n get 70 rights or privileges. On. no.
4 believe i'm some kind of equity myself
- 1 believe that other people are entitlel
j. to the same rights and the same con
> siderations. IL is the business of larg
, cities to absorb the small ones. II al
L ways has been and always will be. Bu
= these new roads are excluded. One ha
d already come from the city of Ney
!. Castle to the city limits of Whining
I, ton, and there it must stop. Undo
S this bill these inspectors may &
= aboard those cars and impose restric
tions on these people who are suppose'
). to be able to manage their own bust
o ness. Here we have had a road want
u ing TO come in from Chester; anothe
: from West Chester and another from
Brandywine Springs. If they could ge
Z any rights TO get in the city under thi
s bill these men could prescribe condi
4 tions that would entail a hardship.
e have not 4 word to say against any o
!. these. incorpcrators personally. The.
i are all fine men--l know them yer.
e well. have no personal feeling what
! ever. j am only looking after the bes
interests of the city Of Wilmington.