The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-18
Railroad Commissioners Refused to Rssclnd
It's Order Reducing Rates.
PEARSON VOTED TO oVERHULE
The New Ratio becomes Effeetiye Next
Wcdncsd y Unless tho Railways
Secure AN ADj -Populists
in Conference utier Rnd Sk inner
WGro Absent.

Ralaigh, y. c., March 17.-(SpcciaD-
The Hallway Commission ts1k uD the
matter of the exceptions of the South
ern. Atlantic Coast Ll:p. and Senboard
Air Line systems 10 th:, tw',, and tvs
and Il half cent per nile pass niger u.r,cs
ordered 20 go in3, fiG>t March I'D on
certain lines Of these systems. Tbs, first
exceptions voted on was That of the
Ssaboard and Roar,ke railway Pear
Sc: moved 10 .-NSrrulc IL, the vote MAS
put, h, rO,cd eye. Abbott voted no,
saying law an devidence sustained the
exceptions and rs Il conscit.IIous man
ana Gfiic.al IL must so vote Chairman
Caldwell votsd n. Then the exceptions
or the RalS.Sh and GaspG hSietgh ana
Augusta, Atla':t..c COas; Line and South
ern were read a:,l voted on in die same
way. So thu new rate Of cents p<r
anile second class, and 2ia cents first
CLASS becomes effective March sd unless
the l'zrlWays affected SeCurI, Iniuractinns
Iedrs0n, after all the exceptions had
mus been accepted, rCls,l the following:
In the matter of Passenger rates ,sf
SeabGard AID Roanoke Railroad com
lany uhe commission last July assessed
me Faiuc OF the enIrc property OF the
Seaboard ucid Roanoke Raiirli.,l cam
paEE a. AIi,ol5 2iS its true value us
required by law Its officers appeared
ana stranuously Unlisted thau said sum
was more than the true value IT All its
property. The report OF said Scabcurd
ana Roanoke Railroad uln,y:c,y far IN.
year end'"E June 30, 1897. shows that.
Us mel earnings was $iS0,G3. The re.
a"ctitEi 81 Passenger rates 10 . and ~.
GEMS is r'ri over all It's division. hui
"EIS on th'-t done in this STATE. The
IcuuciCr' VIII. thcr2aNSc be only ahnut
81 ut 'here was nothing 10 nuke
w ioF me reduction IN pr!ccs). lcuvi,s
:, go, ~ Sioo''-Z ~; earnings, which Is
tnr''''i IN excess Of per cent. on the
tiue N;due, 10 which rant numerous
NELSON'S n the E.'tcl Statcs; gu
pFeme Cnura would autkrrize the com
MISSION 10 reduce rates But we are
" the op'hic,i that even this reduction
Gan ne more than made g.r,l Hv
"he Ecr'ased travel :nducad by rca-
s@ha DE rates more in &rcOrtlau0. with
,ne reduced prices nf products and
iahor AID the enhanced value Of
money. ?. by observance of The law
lN;b:o6'lS the use If free passes ny all
"'ieFs man railway officers and en-
IlSJes. The number II these Illegal
iaVors Is - great :hau tn IS comr,:ny
nus refused w. report The "llmher. Now,
th:re!ore, 1t is ordered that the cXcep-
ions OF the SeubCard and R-lnlkc ro IL
ioau 90 the passenger rates established
Fpn-
FuarS. lS'S, are Oye!ruICl"
Pcar:ItLi said these figures were from
sworn statements. Abbott s,,,d: as il
Isccssify t1 have anything Gf uhis
KIND? Chairman Caldwell said: "No.
W" have simply allowed the exccp-
1.fl"s. Pearson said: 81 simply CON
Sier this Judgment rs proper. am
50 informed The motion was nut.
bears'An voted aye, Abbott ard Cald-
-nl
1rd.0W!ng reason: Thau III" same is
uncertain in meaning a,.i .cNccuratc in
statement m"d fails to correspond TO
the law and Is not sustained by the
law. Pearson wanted i, know what
was mu.t:t by inaccurate" Caldwell!
said th2s, the judgment did not con-
Hrm 70 the UEnted States Supreme
Courts decision ic tn. Nebraska maxi
mum tnse, which he recognized as the
law Of the land; that the Judgment
PearsoH had offered found as facts
things which were not k,row,a to he
facts. He added that It WIS not nee
'sssary to prolonS argument. Pears !.
sad that She law in the Judgment WAS
The ornic'l Of an em!nen: lawyer. Cald-
we'll said. with some heat, thai: he al
lowed no lawyer in North Caro!!m, 10
dictute 10 him. Pearson sad there
was H. dic.2t.C,a. Caldwell therr or
dared the same entry made as to the
judgment offered by Pearson The lat
Ter uhfG! made statement. saying The
railways had had their day in court
January 2S.h-hut then said they could
not separate State from inters IA H.
business. but that row. since thc Ne
Draskn decision, they came forward and
separated il.
session hare h? the Senate chamber