New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-03
NOTCAUSED BY" jim CROW"
Samuel Spencer Denies Chambers
Statement About Rate Legislation.

s,s,cer president Of the Southern
r,.t,-sv Company. replied yesterday TO the sts1e-
- -,sSe bv ex-senator Chandler OF New
-L.-.,i-e IN letters which Mr.. Chandler sent to
- I,+s-<+ate Commerce Commission Ex-sen-
- chandler denied that he had advocated the
--,,osed railroad rate legislation because II
.t5 he used 20 abolish the discrimination be-
-, the whites and negroes in the South.
.rtcr had resulted in the use Of Jim Crow
cars
President Spencer said when extracts from
ex-senator Chandler's letters were called to his
attention:
have not seen the letters but have seen
TO extracts Mr.. Chandler seems TO have made
: lengthy stump speech from q very small text
-Iei+F7e- the Jim Crow cars. as used in the
So,,+b nor his interview OF May p have ever
been in any sense factor In connection WIN
the proposed rate legislation OF last winter.
The railways have not resoTted 70 TICKS, -
indicated by Nj. Chandler. in opposltloh 20 ,I So
legislation. All that the Responsible Ta-i a.
managers Of the country have done since tlie
discussion OF this all important question: &c I
precipitated BY the Presidents message o.
Oernber last. has been TO insist upon Ihe 10
ough presentation TO Congress and 10 Lhe pun 3
Of aT Of the material facts and conolOois AZ
voIved in the problem. NIT
tees in the press and eIsewhere-no supslatiti ia
reasons have been advanced IN suppoIII % =
claim that the rate making power SIloU!4 y
s-1-e5 - the Interstate Commerce Commission
or 70 any governmental tribunal. Ol lIie me 90
hand most sober minded business men anu -,
dents Of transportation have pointed o'L -
gave dangers TO the industrial interests Q! l-I7
country which would arise from the rev
s-v DrOposai 10 fix the income OF the TAI" a. =
through such legislation as is pToposeo- Al LalI
z-ster1ents of facts which viii ala the puo4N ~
understand the transportation question ere We
come hut Sfr Chambers letters appaI eilly -
rzi7 no such facts. I am sure that neLIHeI L1-o
railway MANAGERS nor the members OF ooIlsI 80
7o- -ha olIblic viii be diverted from me 1neEIlS
~ the question BY baseless statements OF II :.
sir7Istior7s as 10 the motives ana rheLhoos %
-Loee who have frankly put forward Wlat llsS
[eIia1-a 70 be valid reasons against such enact
ment- -.....- oe +ba
zzo7ea a7d the Senate we're open 10 MI
chandler and the forum Of public opinion II
s+ITI o-,er to him. Il he has arguments . PIE
rsr-- and f he presents them. II VIII tleh De
+i-7e enough to answer him.
tn saving that defeated by the Jim crow car
s-g77r7ent Mr. Z 3. Pixies efforts to nave me
act1I-ers Association indorse the proposed
HESITATION of last winter Nj Chandler inaKeS q
direct charge. OF the untruthfulness OF WntIn ne
CorI5 easily have satisfied himself by TeIerehce
- the printed records Of all that SAID az me me
-oes+i-g Of that association in Atlanta on May
~ T6e Jim Crow car argument was not 20
~ t-rovIedge used before that conVeIa1ci' d
ali. certainly not IN my hearing ana pTsse1Ce'
sa-5 : have never used II or referred 10 Il as an
a-~-y-nent there or elsewhere.