Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
RAILROAD RATE HEARING
LUcIUs FUTILE, OF 3. & M. ROAD
BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE.
Texas Congressman Shot to Death
o. A. r. Elect Mrs. Donald Nc
Lean President General - BANK
Panic in Milwaukee.

the senate committee on interstate
commerce at Washington, Saturday
April 22, questioned In regard to ions
and short haul charges, lie sac
railroad men did not often meet Il
agree upon rates. He declared ina
railroads often made long hauls at .
loss to maintain business. III ran
roads were compelled to make rates
for intermediate points equal &c
greater distances, the roads wouio
have to make the long haul rates SC
high they would not get any OF -the
business, or the local rates so 10"
that the business would be unprofit-
able. He said that railroads would
carry raw products, such as cotton
from the south to the New England
mills at very low rate. because II
was necessary to Keep the people IN
the New England mills employed or
the towns would be abandoned. The
roads made UP the difference In
TRANSPORTATION of necessities. Mr.
futile said the idea that great finan-
ciers controlled railways to the disad-
vantage of the public was erroneous.
He believed the arbitration of labor
troubles was impracticable, as en-
ployes were opposed to compulsory
Arbitration. He said that II the gov
eminent owned all the railroads he
(Tuttle) probably could manage them
all If given absolute control. but in Il
political government ii would be i'm
possible to have that absolute con-
troll
Attorney Walker D. Hines of Louis
vile, whose practice for several years
has been devoted almost entirely to
interstate commerce cases, and who
has been making an exhaustive study
of the present law and of the pro-
posed additional legislation, appeared
before the committee Monday, April
"a. He contended that there was in
the present law definite provision for
the correction by the courts of every
unreasonable or unjustly discrimina-
tory rate, with special provision for
the speedy disposition of all such
cases. Mr.. Hines asserted that the
numerous failures of the commission
in litigation had not been due to any
defect in the law; but due invariably
either to the commissions adoption
of Illegal methods or to the commits
sion's mistaken condemnation of
practices not prohibited by law.
Four trans-A Atlantic steamers which
arrived at New York city Monday
April "a, brought 9,675 Storage pass
passed In quarantine in one day. Up
to Thursday night, April 20, 62,70l
had been landed this
month, compared with 42,447 up to the
same date in April last year.
Senator Orville II. Platt of Connec-
ticut died in Washington Friday, April
p, of pneumonia He leaves a wife
and son, Judge James p. Plat of the
U. S. Circuit court. Senator Plat
was one of the abest and most con-
servative republican leaders in the
senate, and a champion of the presi-
dent. He was rs years old.
Thirteen lives were lost by the /
burning Thursday night April 90, /
Of the convent at st. Genevieve. Que. !
There We're eight girls from IA to IS |
years, one nun and four old ladies' |
there, one being 90. The
convent was conducted by Roman |
Sisters. The fire had gained |
great Roadway when 1t was discov-
,red and the inmates were bewildered
~ smoke.
As result of the investigation be-
ng made by a commission into the I
'pread of cerebro-spinal meningitis
n New York city, Health Commits
ioner Darlington states that he be-
ieves the communicability of the d.
ease has been sufficiently well es-
ablished to warrant the placing of
ii cases in quarantine, under the
anne rules as apply to scarlet fever,
iphtheria and other contagious dis
asses.
Fred II. Wilson, acting superin-
endent and seven clerks of the IN
ian warehouse in New York city have
cen summarily dismissed from Of
ce by Secretary Hitchcock as the
esult of revelations made on an in '
pection of the office by Indian IN Y
peetor Nesler, who preferred charges c
irregularities in the conduct of the a
flee. A number of persons were on
lie pay roll, 1t is asserted, who were
OF performing any service for the
overnment.
A murder and suicide occurred at '
reene, Maine, Tuesday April %. c
lille eating breakfast Ell Rogers and IL
man named Mckenzie quarrelled. Ia
ckenzie drew revolver, killing
ogers instantly, and then went up g
airs and shot himself dead. This is d
e fourth murder in Maine within W
Town in as many days. This crime m
Cured at the Standish farm con- W
lcted by II. L. Keiser by whom the Ia
% men were employed. al
Mrs. Donald Mclean, regent of Sc
wv York city chapter of the Daugh- y.
IS or the American Revolution, was e,
'cted president general of the ma pi
mai society, d. A. R., at Washing ne ne
last week. She received 362 Id
ties against 1929 for Mrs. George w. Sc
The total number of s oI
les cast was $50, six being blank. s ne
e election was made on the second va
lot, the first having resulted in no Wp a
$. Mclean has nron,,s.a trnt @ lat
" Continental hall shall he com
ted and has given a substantial
of money toward that end. ]
]. M. Pinckney. his
Their Thomas and ]. N. Brown. a to
ling -prohibitionist, were shot +
death at Hampstead, Tex, Monday Wis
Mt, April "a. at a mass meeting Nc
ed to petition the governor to send y.
gers to enforce the local option =
In a heated discusSion Ppor,, riff
an shooting and was foIiouad ~, for
~ others Several men were go
nded. There has been bitter F
Ing in Hampstead for several Mrs
IS over the prohibition question wei
the recent election when the cou
It's failed to gain the victory thew ret,
expected. added to this. The will
lie county has been divided into
ons as result. Recently Tucker
kney, brother of John NJ n
kney, was shot to death by ne n,
s. M
H.
NJ
e financial troubles of Frank q. swa
low. former president of the q,