The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-08

commerce committee in its hearing on the
anti-scalping bill. He supported the bill
and said the railroad companies would not
make any effort to reply to the ticket brok-
ers but for the fact that the representa-
tions made by the ticket brokers Were false.
lie represented, he said, not only the New
York Central, but practically all the rail-
road lines of consequence in the country.
he presented specimen forged tickets sold
by the brokers, which represented accord
ing TO his claim, a loss of at least $4,000 to
the railroads east of Chicago. He also filed
affidavits from thirty or more railroads as
10 how Scalping was carried on; how the
| brokers induced conductors and Others to
steal tickets
Senator Teller asked how it was possible
that tickets could be stolen without the
immediate spotting of the thief
Mr.. Daniels explained that one plan was
70 2pproach brakemen who handled FOR
conductors the tickets of sleeping car pas
sengers during the night The plan was TO
lkyet the. tickets which would be stolen and
, sold. he cited a case, saying that a brake
man on the Michigan Central had been ap-
preached by a broker and melted to this
theft.
Does the broker admit this?" asked Sen
ator Chandler.
mo, sir" responded Mr.. Daniels, ''he lies
about it,
Mr.. Daniels also presented an affidavit
from Charles II. WoOley, now of Cincin-
natl, who stated that last spring he was
employed by the ticket BROKERAGE firm of
Mulford & Co., of Chicago, giving a de-
tailed account of the method of manufac-
| turing tickets. A favOrite method was. he
said. to prepare a skeleton ticket on 4 road
Whlch mad no existence. Mr.. Danials said
Cincinnati and that Wooley could be
Drought before the committee if necc ssary
rs ne sun loose and roaming around,
Yes, sir responded Mr.. Daniels land
lneTe are lots more just like him. There is
no law for their punishment"
Mr.. Daniels also presented a list of thirty
CRIMINAL indictments against ticket brokers'
On Ihese there had not been one conviction.
a. % the poor railroads have not been able
Tillman ' . asNeu MI
They have not" replied Mr.. Daniels.
mot for twenty-five years. Contin1,inp
he said their purpose was to secure the
passage of q bill that would prevent the
licensing OF bribery, counterfeiting and
thlevlng and everything else wicked. He
SAID that half of the five hundred and more
ticket brokers in the country ought to be
IN the penitentiary. A railroad man seen
going into one of their offices, he said was
beneath the contempt of decent men,
Milford Spohn, of Washington, represent
ing the Building Trades Council and the
Central Labor Union, appeared in opposi-
tion to the bill. He said that all the labor
organizations of the country had taken q
position against the bill. He claimed that
in doing this they We're representing the
people at large and not the ticket brokers
lin defense of the principle that 4 man has
right to buy where he pleases and to sell
where he pleases.
Paul e. Morton, of Chicago third vice
president of the Atchison, Topeka q Santa
F'e road, said that if the discrimination now
allowable in passenger business continued
1t would naturally be allowable i'm freight
business. Now, however. there are few if
any violations of the interstate-commerce
law so far as it relates to freight business.
Senator Tillman asked about the Standard
Oil Company and Mr.. Morton replied that
the Standard Oil Company was one of the
big corporations of the country that had
taken no rebate on its business from the
railroads since 1887.
George w. Boyd, assistant general pas
made a brief Statement similar To thai
which he presented to the House commit
tee He also filed a number of cases with
the committee showing how tickets had
been fraudulentiy obtained and dishonesty
used by the ticket brokers. Mr.. Boyd had
not concluded his statement when the
time of adjournment arrived, and the COM
mittee requested him to appear before it at
the meeting next Thursday in order that he
might go more into details of the scalping
business, and give the committee the benefit
of the knowledge he has on this subject