Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-16
DOLL|VER IS GAUSlC
Junior Iowa Senator Thinks
Iowa People Have Shown
Themselves Ungrateful
CAESAR NOT GIVEN HIS DUE
Action Of the Corn Belt Meat Pro-
ducers In Prasine cummins, LalFoI-
lette and Van SAINT Criticized-Dele
cation Entitled to Credit For Actual
Results.
Special to Times Republican.

Especial to Times Republican.
Des Moines Feb l6.-7The letter OF
Senator j. p Deliver to Secretary
Milo Ward of the Des Moines CONNER
cial Club, has caused considerable COM
ment among politicians here, especially
his reference to the resolutions passed
by the Corn Belt Meat Producers in
which Cummins, Lal'ollette and Van
SAINT were praised. He says:
Judging by the resolutions which
have seen passed by various associa-
lions in Iowa. 1T would seem that the
speeches of our friends at home were
more entitled to the gratitude of the
community than the actions of the
members OF the house of representa-
tives on the same day.
Following is the letter in full:
Il thank you very much for your let
ter. l agree with you entirely that the
interstate commerce commission ought
to have the power to determine what
Il reasonable rate In a given case is
and to put the same into effect and
have labored diligently. notwthstand
ing the pressing of many other duties,
which could not be avoided. to bring
this rate question to Il final decision
in this congress.
What is true of me is true also of
/ my colleagues. although, judging by
the resolutions which l have seen
passed by various associations in Iowa,
it would seem that the speeches of our
friends at home were more entitled to
the gratitude of the community than
the actions of the members of the house
of representatives on the same day. 1t
seems it is easy to create misunder-
standing between q representative ard
his constituents. If l. have correctly
interpreted the publications of the
state, the people are demanding re-
suits rather than remarks.
In what said to you / did not
mean to imply that an extension of the
powers of the interstate commerce
| commission over rates was not desir-
able. I meant simply to point out. as
the president did in his message. that
the determinations between localities
and particular descriptions of traffic
can be corrected under the law as it
stands today. Take the case you give
of the feeding in transit rate If q
feeder in Nebraska can get rate that
| a feeder in Iowa cannot that is dis
| elimination against Iowa, declared II
be unlawful by section of the act OF
| 1887.
I'm order to correct that, it is only
necessary for the interstate commerce
commission whenever it has reasonable
ground to believe that any carrier is
! committing such a discrimination, to
| take the case to the nearest United
States court, whose duty it is to sum-
| marily inquire into it without formal
pleadings, and upon being satisfied of
| the truth of the allegations to enjoin
the determinations by a proper pro-
! cess"
THE same proceedings. in my judg-
ment, are applicable to discrimination
for or against any particular descrip-
ton of traffic, such as referred to in
your letter, or any rebate by what
ever device it is concealed. The inter-
state commerce commission can con-
duct these proceedings themselves or
the attorney general with or without
the request of the commission is re-
luired to conduct them, and in all
asses they are tried. from start to
finish, at the expense of the United
States.
ut is hard to imagine more dras-
tic or effective provision of law against
these or similar abuses and that, 1
think, is what the president meant
when he said in his message that the
legislation of the Fifty eight congress
must be inforced. I think that If the
| r1,;n hn
Roosevelt will see that 1t is enforced.
at is hard to imagine on what
theory the railroads have made many
of these rates such as you refer to in
your letter. Nor is it certain that any
commission would make all the
changes in them which most of us
think ought to be made. 1 think,
| however, that a good, strong COM
mission, with power to enforce its
orders, would be help not only to the
public, but to the roads themselves.
OF course it ought not to be forgotten
! that a good many complaints are cur
rent in the eastern states against the
railroad rates which carry products of
such states as those of Iowa to the
market. I have heard it said that it
is about as cheap to get butter to Bos-
ton from Manchester, IA, as IL is from
| Manchester, N. H., and our state cam
not be certain that In the general
readjustment of rates which might
4 follow the exercise of new powers by
| the interstate commerce commission
our last estate might not become worse
I than the first 1t might be, for ex-
ample, thought more equitable that all
freight in the United States should be
moved on some fixed principle might
not always operate to our advantage.
I think, however, that our people
would not suffer unless, as might I'M
| happily come to pass, American poll
! tics should become mere sectional con-
| troversy with commercial advantages
for the stake.
"Those things are worth thinking
about although, as 1 have stated, they
| do not disturb my opinion that the
commission, exercising its present
power to determine whether a rate is
reasonable should have also the power
| to determine what is reasonable rate
| in the case in hand and to put it into
| effect. Thanking you again for your
| letter, I am, yours very truly, ]. P.
| Deliver"
| Gerber-Ford Case Dismissed.
| Special to Times Republican.
| Webster City, Feb. 16.-The Gerber