The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01

freight than those handling the business in
/; the northwestern part. The Northern Pa
cifc is the one road not mentioned in the
! resolution adopted by the commission, al
though 1t Is said to have been notified of
| the hearing. That road has BEEN making a
lower rate. apparently, than the others,
although the Great Northern meets 1t at
| competitive points. If the purpose Of the
commission has been correctly learned, that
body desires the farmers to have a lower
rate on grain shipped into the Twin Cities.
and to have a lower rate on merchandise
shipped from the Twin Cities to adjoining
towns. The notice served on the roads
reads as follows:
Please Take Notice-That on the 25th day
Of January, 1900, the railroad and ware
house commission of the state of Minnesota
passed and adopted resolution, of which
copy is hereto annexed, and made part
Of this notice; that said railroad and ware
house commission now have under consid-
Grafton the reasOnableness of the tariffs OF
rates and classif1catiOns, under which rates
are determined, stated and specified in said
resolution.
A hearing of the matters stated in and
covered by said resolution will be had be-
fore said railroad and warehouse commits
sion at their ONCE in room 612, Endicott
building, in the city of st. Paul, in said
state, on Wednesday the 21st day of Febru-
airy, 1900, at o'clock p. m, at which meet
ing you are requested to be present and
where an opportunity will be afforded you
to be heard in said matters. BY order of
the commission.
A. K. TIEsBERG, Secretary.
The resolution reads:
At meeting of the board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners, held at their Of
fee in the city of st. Paul on Jan. %, 1900,
the following resolution was offered
Resolved, BY the railroad and warehouse
commission, that 1t do now proceed upon it's
own motion, under the authority conferred
upon it by chapter 10 of the general laws of
1887 and the various acts amendatory
thereof, to investigate the reasOnableness
of the tariffs of rates now in force for the
transportation of grain and faxseed to Min
neapOlis from the various stations in Min
nesota on the lines of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railway company, the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway company,
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma
ha Railway company, the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern Railway company, the
Chicago Great Western Railway company,
the Minneapolis & st. Louis Railroad COM
pany, the Wilmar & Sioux Falls Railway
company and the Great Northern Railway
company, and between the various stations
on the above named lines, and of the
tariffs of rates now in force for the trans
portation Of merchandise in carloads and
lots of less than carloads between the vari-
GUS stations on each and all of the differ
of the classification under which such rates
are determined; and be it further
Resolved, That the secretary of the COM
mission be and is hereby instructed to noti-
fy in writing each of the railroad companies
who are common carriers doing business
within this state affected by this resolution
that the commission has under consideration
the reasonableness of the tariffs of rates
and classificatiOns as above specified, and
that on Wednesday, the 21st day of Febru-
airy, A. D. 1900, at 2 o'clock p. M, at the
Office of the said commission in room 612
Endicott building, in the city of st. Paul.
Mimi, an opportunity will be afforded such
railway companies and common carriers to
be heard in said matters, as provided by
the above named act.
That copy of this resolution be served
upon each of said railroad companies, with
the notice above provided for, which reso-
luton was duly adopted-all of the COM
mission voting in favor thereof.
We hope Gov. Lind will not permit
Chis movement to end, as 80 many other
have done, in words and smoke. Let
the state do its duty and then, if the
people are overriden, by the courts,
great struggle will arise throughout the
whole country to deprive the courts
state and national, of all right to
abolish the acts of legislatures and of
congress, when there is not a particle
of warrant in the constitution for any
such power
Make the issue strongly, so that all
the world can see that we are no longer
free people, but are practically the
slaves of corporations, through their
1awyer-tOols, the courts. Thirty years
ago the whole nation rose up and a
bloody war was fought to demonstrate
that the Dred-Scott decision was wrong
If necessary another war will be fought,
equally great, to restore to the people
the right Of self-government, and crush
the attempt of the courts to negative
and repeal the will of the people.
Go on, Gov. Lind; the eyes of the peo-
pie are upon you. If you are in earnest
in attempting this reform, they will
stand by you. But if you are engaged
simply in game to blindfold and hum
bug the people they will see through it,
and you will sink into an obseurity
darker than that which has overwhelm-
ed your predecessors. Id.