The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-27
Report That Certain Cattlemen
Were Favored at Conference.
Four Counties May Have Re-
ceived Rate Concession.
MIR. WHITES CHARGES.
Said That StOckmen Had Been
Betrayed.
Pasturage Provision viii Not
Help Mass of Shippers.

There is a story going the rounds that
the counties represented by the men
who voted to accept the proposition
from the railroads in the cattle rate
controversy are to receive rate of one
and one-half cents less than other ship
pers.
1t is said this reduced rate applies to
Greenwood, Butler, Lyon and Usage
counties. The other shippers on the
committee say that they receive no
special rates but that they accepted the
proposition from the railroads as the
best solution of the problem.
This revives the charges made by J.
I. White and T.. M. Potter, who opposed
the compromise.
Mr.. White charges that the PROPOSE
ton which formed a basis for Settle-
ment is valuelesS and means nothing.
He says that the railroads maintained
their advantage and added thereto only
concession with reference to pastuI-
age rates which will not benefit the
cattlemen to any extent worthy of con-
sideration.
1T is very mysterious said Mr.
White discussing the subject, and [
cannot understand what secret inf1u-
ence permitted the cattlemen to be
swallowed up by the palaYer and mean
1ngless propositions submitted by the
railroads It is a shame that such q
meritoriOus cause should end in such
infamy.
It's a sellout on the part of the cat
tlefnen's committee declared Mr..
White.
Asked for an explanation of his views
Mr.. White said:
THE proposition which the railroads
submitted and which was adopted car
rles no benefit to the cattlemen. No
change is made in the fat cattle rate.
The railroads are to go on with the I'M
fair charge by the hundred pounds
which makes the rate exceed the old
carload rate. The railroad men told US
they did not intend to increase the rate;
that the old rate was meant to be left
the same but to be readjusted to the
cents per 100 pounds basis.
Despite all of these promises the cat
tlemen got up in the meeting and ac-
cepted the proposition which does none
of US good. The conditions are not
changed and the cattlemen are just as
bad off as they were before the confer
ence was held
ITO what do you attribute this sur
render of the cattlemen's interest by the
committee?' was asked Mr.. White.
1t looks to me like somebody had
been bought up he said emphaticaIly.
DO you believe this agreement was
reached by unfair methodist" asked the
reporter.
I certainly do. It looks to me like
the railroads had captured somebody.
It's a sell OUT replied Mr.. White.
Mr. White was asked if he would
make a specific charge against an indi-
vidual He replied by saying:
No, will not. but it is mighty
strange to me why the majority of the
committee accepted a proposition which
they knew meant nothing"
Mr.. White told several gentlemen that
in his opinion the cattlemen surrendered
to the railroads and was not slow to re-
iterate the charge that the cattlemen
had surrendered absolutely to the rail-
roads in adjusting the differences.
Those concessions which the rail-
roads made, meant nothing. here is
not a cents worth of benefit to u.s.
Mr. White was asked if in his opinion
the men on the committee who voted
to accept the compromise were to re-
ceiVe special concessions on future ship
ments of cattle.
This he did not answer directly but
said:
1T looks to me like sell-out of some
kind. I don't pretend to say what the
nature of it was but 1 cannot under
stand why men would accept a, PROPOSE
ton which on its very face is unfair
and has no benefit to any one connected
with it,
The members of the committee named
by the Kansas Cattlemens' association
at a meeting in Emporia, to take this
subject before the railroads and into the
courts were as follows:
President, J. w Robson, FL Dorado.
Secretary, George Plumb Emporia.
H. B. Miller, Usage City.
T. H. Landrigan, Eureka.
). Il. w mite, Ada.
w. J. Tod Maple Hill.
T. NJ. Potter. Peabody.
Mr.. Potter and Mr.. White before the
conference adjourned announced their
disapproval of the adjustment which
the remaining five members OF the COM
mittee had accepted
MAEGLEY ENTERS DENIAL
F. c. MaeSley, assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe, seen to-
day by a Journal reporter, said:
1.-The charges that the railroads and a
majority of the members of the com
mittee representing the cattlemen ar
rived at an understanding as the re-
suit of the influence of unfair methods
or the use of Doodle, are absolutely IN
true.
THE concessions made by the rail-
roads will make a material reduction
in the rates which the fat cattle men
are paying, as time will prove.
The charge that the members of the
committee were Influenced by other