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The North Carolina Railroad Com.
mission Gaze Was up before the Sup
rene Court last week. No arGunpe nj
vas made on either side by the atior.
neys.Iudge Avery and Capt. Day, re-
presenting the new Commissioners
and Mr.. X. o. Burto-. the Wilson's
Col. A. Is. Andrews, Vice President
Of the Southern and his Private Secre-
tary, Ii. w. Miller, were here last week.
The southern, road 10 endeavoring 10
secure again tie special subsidy of
tl96, 900 TO increase ~ the mail facilit-
les OF the South.
Hon. r. d. Sutherland (Por.. Neb,)
made . very interesting speech In the
House on the growth OF Populism in
Nebraska. In . colloquy with his
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| state. MIR. Switzerland, with great
| force and cieArness upheld the posi-
ton that the cause Of financial reform
and good government Was growing
rapidly l.: Nebraska. He produced
the record Of the vote in that State and
showed thereby that the Populisfs In
the last election gained l25 more Of
| fees throughout the State than they
had previously held. Mr.. Sutherland
was heartily applauded when he said
that: "Old oceans waters may cease
to roll, the moon may stand still, but
the State of Nebraska will continue to
stand for William J. Bryan and BIZ
metallism."
Hon. J. E. Fowler Pop. n. c. in
speaking Of the subsidy TO the South
ern railroad said: 81 am thoroughly
convinced that it Is an OutrageOusly
useless expenditure Of the peoples
money-agreeable to the reports Of the
Post Office officials 1t has not caused q
| single extra train to be put on, nor
has it fastened the mail . minute. IL
I get an opportunity expect to make
q speech against the outrage when il
comes up in the House. We have been
working against it before the Commit
tee and hope to defeat it there"
The article. written by Senator But
sr for the March Arena and repro
duced In the New Y,rk journal Of
Feb. goth, has attracted much atten-
'entiOn. He wrote about the "trusts,
their causes and the remedy" A lead
ing North Carolina Democrats who is
now residing in the city. remarked to
cal fight were not made on the line of
the Issues therein set forth the battle
would be lost"
Hon. A. c. Shuford (Pop. y. Co. in
formed your correspondent that from
his investigation of the Post office Ap-
preparation Bill he is satified that ut
least twenty million dollars each year
could be saved without impairing the
nail service: and to illustrate to the
public the extravagance with which il
g now carried on, $3,sOO.O 900 Is paid for
rent OF mail cars when all the cars in
The service today could be bought for
wO million dollars. We are paying to
abroad corporations annually nearly
iOuble the cost Of al the cars now
furnished by them to carry the mails.
Each car lasts about twenty years, and
IN that time the government will have
paid the railroads for car rent $4,000
600, when their whole cost does not ex.
coed 100000.
The Daughters Of the American
Revolution were in session here last
week, and there were large delegations
in attendance from all parts Of the
country.
Judge 7. B. Womack, now of New
York, Mr.. Frank Fuller, Of Durham,
and Col. T. n. Hill, of Halifax, were u
the city last week.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, pop. Kan.) AL
ways makes hit when he speaks in
the House. On WashingtOn's BIRTH
day, be took occasion, in discussing
the bill to create commission to rep
resent this country at the Paris Expo
sition to say something about the in
iquitOus and unjust laws that make
millionaires on one hand and millions
OF paupers on the other. The bill pro.
vides for the appointment of nine com.
missi0ners, and Mr.. Simpson said they
would all be millionaires who desired
to 60 abroad to Lob-noh with the lords
and dukes and marry off their daugh-
ters to the titled gentry. He con-
demned the system of laws in this
country that discriminates against
any individual, and said that Jeffer.
sons idea and purpose were that there
should, SO far as the laws are concern
ed, be absolute equality, that the vast
accumulatiOns Of today by few men,
at the expense Of the millions were
contrary to the Jeffersonion idea of
equality before the law