Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-18
Depends on What Maker Of Affidavit
Desires to Prove by It
SENSATION IN COMMISSIONERS MEETING
Florida Man Makes Charges Against
the Attorney for the Louisville
a Nashville Railroad
Company.


mer assistant general counsel and now |
first vice president of the Louisville & |
Nashville railroad, as a liar and a perjurer |
He said Hines made a sworn statement of |
the valuation of the property of the Louis |
vile & Nashville railroad to the comp |
troller of the state of Florida for the pur- |
pose of taxation, for the year ending |
June 30, 1902 and that he later made |
another sworn statement to the commits |
sioners of Florida on the value of the |
property for the same year for rate max
ing purposes which was much greater.
Later he says, Hines made another !
sworn statement of the value of the prop |
erty of the same year in applying for
temporary injunction in the United States |
district court to enjoin the commissioners |
from enforcing a reduction in passenger !
rates, which was double the statement
made to the commissioners or to the comp |
troers. Burr asked the national
railway commissioners not to give any
credit to statements made by Hines be-
fore the committees of congress
Benjamin F. Chadbourne, railway COM
missioner of Maine, made hot reply to the
charges Trouble is looked for.
Opening of Session.
The first business session of the National
ANdh"dS dSSpNldllOu was Helu III Dtdu"OOu
this morning. After a short session
Wednesday afternoon the association ad-
journed until today.
A reception and ball was given at the
Franklin hotel last evening. The affair
was the most brilliant ever held in Dead
wood The grand march was led by n.
q. Franklin prominent banker followed
by Governor Elrod, United States Senators
Kittridge and Gamble. other notabes
present were Congressman Burke and Mar
tin of South Dakota, Lieutenant Governor
Brown of Pennsylvania, l. B. Brown, sec
retary of internal affairs or Pennsylvania;
J. c. Clements, of the Interstate Com
merce commission; Ira b. Mills, chairman
of the Minnesota commission and president
of the national association, and R. Hudson
Burch of Florida.
The meeting was called to order this
morning by Ira b. Mills and discussion OF
the report of the committee on railroad
legislation was heard as were reports CT
the committee railroad statistics. re-
port of the committee on enforcement of
commissioners orders and classification,
of the construction, equipment and oper-
ating expenses of electric railways.
After adjournment at noon the entire
delegat ton went to Lead. where business
session was held, after which visit was
ilduo " lllt unucIbIOuHu WOIhlUBS VI llic
Homestake gold mine.
Following those in attendance Virgil
c. Griffin of Alabama, r. r. Reese Of
Colorado, Andrew Gates of Connecticut
Jefferson b. Browne of Florida, r. Hudson
Burch and r. c. Dunn of Florida, II. War
ner Hill of Georgia, James S. Neville and
William Fitzpatrick of Illinois. n. s.
Ketchum and Dwight Lewis Of Iowa, ], w
Robinson of Kansas, NJ. d. Fergerson Of
| Kentucky, Benjamin F. Chadbourne OF
! Maine, Ira B. Mills, Charles F Staples,
/ William f. Young, A. c. Clausen of Mime
/ sofa, Thomas Yipp and Joe p. Rice of
| Mississippi, r. NJ Bradbury of Mississippi,
Franklin Mcneil, Samuel L. Rogers, f. c.
Beddlngheld and H. c. Brown of North
! Carolina, c. s. Desmen, John Christianson
and c. c. Hammond of North Dakota,
| Isaac B. Brown, secretary Of internal af-
| airs. OF Pennsylvania, w. NJ Morgaridge.
| assistant superintendent of Bureau of Rail-
way, of Pennsylvania. ]. II. Wharton. B. l..
Caughman and F. P. Weston of South Car
olina, Frank Lecaio, jr., d. II Smith and
/ w H. Stanley and w. G. Smith of South
Dakota. Fuller C. Smith and George T.
Howard of Vermont, II. A. Fairchild. John
! s. Mcmillan and ]. c. Lawrence of Wash
ington. j. w scher of West Virginia. Hal
ford Erickson and J. w. Thomas of Wis
touSlH' JuuSpl " NlSlHSHNSt W. II. NpH-
molly and J. T. Marchend of the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Interest in Taxes
| Discussions of the questions of railway
| taxation in various states aroused the
| greatest interest thus far manifested in
the conventions. Charles T. Staples Of
Minnesota presented a report which showed
that the valuation per mile of railroads
on which taxes are levied varies in diff
ferent states from S94OO in South Dakota,
TO Sl36, coo in Massa chusetts and that there
are over a half dozen methods OF arriv-
ing at a basis of taxation in the various
states The methods of taxation in Con-
necticut, Pennsylvania and other states
were considered.
Judge Robinson OF Kansas called atten-
ton to the fact that such railways as the
. Illinois Central and the Santa Fe road had
special reservations in their charter which
prevented taxation the same as other
roads.
| The convention decided that uniform tax
alton of railways in all states was so i'm
/, portant that the matter should be handed
over to the committee on railroad taxes for
the ensuing year with instructions to report
such a uniform plan to the next meeting of
the National Railway association, which
will be held at Washington. d. c., Feb
ruary p. 1906
Election of Oncers.