Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-14

ss@t AAO hut
lie regulation of railway rates ha
sought to do more than to ellminat
secret rebates. and to guarantee tina
rates shall BIO reasonable per Sc, 1
has arrested the decline Of railwa,
rates and has led to the adoption
OF the distance tariff.
"The conflicts Of interest betwee,
rivalry producing regions, manufac
turing and trade centers. are 8,
fierce" he said. that no government
that permits itself to be drawn int,
them q stand up under the sectiona
feelings thus aroused. unless that gov
eminent shall settle these conflicts up
on some hard and fast mechanical ba
sis. which permits Of no exercise O
Judgment or discretion. The inter
state commerce commission develop
ed certain mechanical and hard an(
fast rules for settling conflicts Of 10
calities and OF interests, the doctrine
that railway rates must be baset
on commercial considerations q.
well as the doctrine that no person
may be deprived of the advantage,
accruing TO him by virtue Of his geo
graphical position; or conversely. thai
no person may be relieved Of tn, dis
abilities under which he iabCrs bv sir
tue Of his geographical position. These
doctrines result In rates made on the
basis of distance. Therefore the i'm
portant decisions of the commission
have generally been made the means
of the application of the distance
tariffs"
Santa Fe Employees Buy Texas Land
Early in the year the general man
ager of the Santa Fe lines in Texas
issued a circular to employees strongly
urging them to buy land in the Lone
Star State.
He called attention to the desirable
ity of saving something for a rainy
day. He alluded to the tendency
among railroad men to spend their
salaries up to the limit, He cited in.
stances of steady increase in Texas
land values and the safety of that
form of investment. =.
It was a fatherly talk to the boys
The offer was made that the com
pany would attend to all the details
the transaction. After the employe
had picked out the farm he liked
which must be within eight miles of
the road, and made his gargain with
the owner, the company would under
take to make the payments by month
ly deductions from his salary.
AS the Santa Fee has no land of it's
own to. sell, and would not realize a
cent of profit. it may be asked why
they should do this. The answer is
that an employee who has a stake in
the place where he lives is a better
workman and less liable to change
around than he who has no home ties.
1t is not profit sharing, but good
advice backed up with the offer to
make the experiment just as easy as
possible for the man on the train or
on the section.
The plan Is working well so far,
and it is confidently expected that be.
fore the end of the year scores of en-
ployes will have taken advantage OF it.
Four Railroad Men in Serious Trouble.
The four Southern Pacific railroad
men who were recently arrested at
L%ordsburg, New Mexico. on the
charge of aiding and abetting the
smuggling of Chinese into the United
States, must face a second charge be-
fore they get out Of it. They gave
bona IN the first case in which theT
were charged with helping to smuggle
Cinnamon into the country in the sum
of five hundred dollars each, says an
Ell Paso paper.
New charges have been filed against
them all, however, and this time they
are charged with aiding and abetting
in smuggling of twenty-four more &C.
lestials. Only n of the four has
been arrested, c. A. Wise. formerly
a S. P. conductor, 10Y a G.. H. brake
man. The other three have not been
arrested, but warrants are out in New
Mexico and Texas for their arrest.
Since the first arrest G. o. Cow
ley, a special immigration inspector
from New York, has been quietly and
carefully working on the case. His
mission has been kept a secret, and
It did not develop until Saturday when
he appeared in the United States COM
m%issioner's court at FL PasO with
warrants for the arrest Of w. B. Akin.
c. A. Wise, A. w. Howell and ]. God
dad, the same four men who were ar
at Lordsburg.
Since a New Mexico warrant, even
from a federal officer cannot he SER
we'd in Texas, it was necessary to
have new warrants issued. They Wee
Placed in the hands of Deputy United
Marshal H. II. H~ildebrand of
service, and he soon arrested Wise
and locked him up, where he will re-
main In the federal ward of the coun-
ty Jail until he has had a hearing at
Ell Paso. Since the Information
him was originally filed in
Las Cruces. he will likely be taken
there for his final trial. That is also
the place where the four men will be
tried for the offense for which they
were first arrested.
The immigration officers decline to
discuss the case, simply saying that
Wise is arrested for the district at
torney in New Mexico. and Is wanted
there, "along with others in connec-
ton with violations of the immigra-
ton laws"
The whereabouts of the other three
men is not known. Two are said to
no in Tucson and one in Kansas City,
but they will all have to be In Las
Cruces for the next term of court or
forfeit their bonds, and they will then
be arrested.