The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-07
SEABOA.RD' Bill
IS CONSIDERED
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reasonable terms with other lines. s
Mr.. Carter then pictured the Seaboard
Air Line as starting way down South
in Dixie" and gradually crawling up
North, gobbling up. all railroads In It's
way and stockholders, too, except pos
sibly ''old man Ryan, = who was hol ding
on by his eyelids and appears to be the
only man saved out OF Sodom, j even II ne
be saved. This great system !. has now
reached Richmond and coils Itself q up
like great boa constructor and demands no
that the great monopoly'"'-a niue
Virginia road-be struck down. @ q, /.
Mr.. Carter went on to tell what m1sntc
happen If the Great Big Seaboaro mon 1noii-
opoly should get Its line to ~ shang ION
he contended that there could3De Due.one $.
result and that is the big monopoiy
would crush out the small Virginia road.
IT did not come, Mr.. Carter sald, with
good grace from the Seaboard people to
charge the Richmond, Fredericksburg ana
Potomac Company with trying TO Dr1De
the State by offering twelve per. cent
when they followed upon the heels or tnat
proposition and increased their oner. ZOE
the stock In the hope of securing the char
ter.
Mr.. Carter said every time Virginia
had sold out its holdings in railroads
the mistake had been discovered too late.
Now only the widows mite was left
to Virginia. North Carolina has interest
in her roads and Georgia in her public
works and he urged the Legislature not
to part with stock that is so valuable
to the State.
Judge Watts replied briefly to some
legal points referred to by Judge IeaEe.
COL. ANDERSON.
S Col George Wayne Anderson made an
earnest and an eloquent address in behalf
OF the Seaboard bill. He denied thar
Richmond was the only patron OF the
State intended in the proposed road And
he denied with emphasis that Richmond
would see the interests of the state
sacrificed He contended that there could
be no sacrifice of interest when an offer
was made to pay for the stock far more
than its market value. He said that
Richmond paid nearly one-seventh of the
States taxes The committee was re-
minded that in days not long passed,
Richmond had been the Gibraltar OIL
Democracy. Nichmond deserved con-
sderation at the hands of the Legislature
because of the handsome support Sne
gives to the government, and she deserves
we'll at the hands of the Democrats pc
cause of her fealty to the party
The Colonel argued that the dlfference
beytween the offer of II per cent. to the
State and the proposition to buy out the
Commonwealth holdings, was as wlde
as the poles.
If the State wanted to go into the mo-
ncpoly business, the Colonel said, ne
could produce many men who would
guarantee u per cent and even more
for. some special privilege.
Replying to what Mr.. Carter had salo
about the resolutions of the Petersburg
and Richmond Chambers of Commerce
Colonel Anderson said the Petersburg
resolutions simply provided that the
states interests should be saved harm
less Mr.. Carter SCOTS proposed amend
ment to the Richmond resolutions was
to the effect that the Board of Sinking
Fund Commissioners should approve. of
the terms of the sale of the stock. These
commissioners, the Colonel said. We're
opposed to the sale of this stock. Had
Mr.. SCOTS amendment been offered in
Petersburg it would probably have been
rejected as it was here.
AT the close Of Colonel Anderson's re-
marks, President E. T. .. Myers, Of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
rose to address the committee, but an
adjournment was taken until tonight
Major Myers, President Williams. Hon
IS. L. Kelley. and. possibly, others. vii.
speak tonight.