Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1899-06-23

the Standard Oil company into sec
ondary place in a short time. There
would then, he asserted, be no more
shooting down Of striking miners, for
the miner could send his product TO
market as cheaply as the mine monop-
olies. So in all other lines of business.
If the government did not control the
railroads, the railroads would control
the government He ADVOCATED the TAX
ing of the roads under the right Of emil
nent domain, paying the owners the
actual value of their property.
The.afternoon session Of the COM
mission was Characterized by the de.
velopment of difficulties among lnem-
bers Of the com mission as to the kind
of testimony that should be admitted.
Mr.. Lockwood made the statement that
Judge Albert Haight of the New York
court of appeals had been elevated to
his present position by tho corpora
tions, through the use of corruption
fund, because Of his action in what is
known as tho Matthews case'-a pro-
ceeding of the railroad combination
against the independent refners. He
afterward said that while convinced
the facts were as he had stated he had
not actually seen the fund, and, there
fore, the statement was an inference
only.
At this point Mr.. Farquhar of the
commission rose to protest against the
charater of the testimony, saying that
Judge Haight was his next door neigh
Dor and one of the best men he had
ever, known. He had never before
heard an imputation upon his charac-
ter. He appealed to Mr.. Lockwood to
have the statement stricken out Of his
testimony. The statement" he said,
"was not testimony, but it was pure
libel"
Mr.. Lockwood said that he also knew
Judge Haight, and that he had been
surprised at the apparent development.
The issue had been raised in the cam
palgn and he understood that he ran
behind his ticket. E
After few general remarks by few
others of the commission as to the ad-
visibility of striking out the entire
statement, Congressman Bell arose and
made vigorous protest against the
proposition to eliminate any of the tes-
timony. It was not, he said, the pro-
vince of the commission to tell wit
ness what he must say. He said he had
noticed that some members of the COM
mission were very sensitive when some
thing was said which did not entirely
fall in with their predictions. It was
perfectly competent for any man com
ing here to entertain opinions upon any
of these subjects and to advance them
or to criticise public officials. In this
connection, he said, Governor Larrabee
Of Wyoming had said that there were
two judges on the supreme bench who
we're put there for the purpose Of secur-
ng the notification of the Granger law.
BE also instanced other cases in which
he railroads had secured the appoint
nent of judges whose sympathies were
With them. II this was so, said Mr.
Bell, why should man be barred from
aging so? And if the commission were
lot going to permit such testimony he
would be compelled to say when it
anne to making the report of the COM
mission it had not been non partisan
IS another illustration of the manipula-
ions on the part Of the railroads, he
Iuoted the republican member of the
postal commission as say
ng that its proceedings would come
0 naught because the second assistant
ostmaster general, who had charge