The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-02
YIELDS TO GLENN
McF arland Changes Date
at His Suggestion.
Seeking Proof OF The Packing of the
Interstate Commerce Law Con.
vention bv the Railroad
interests
Especial to News and Observer)

(SpeClal to News ana observer
Washington, d. c., Oct. 31.-Hon.
Henry B. F. MacFarland, commits
sioner of the District of Columbia and
chairman of the national committee
on the proposed change of date of IN
auguration of presidents from March
fourth, has postponed the meeting Of
that committee from November Sth
to November 2Sth, at the suggestion
of Governor 4. b. Glenn. of North
Carolina. Governor Glcnns reason
for suggesting this change is that Il
meeting of governors of the South
ern States is to be held at Chatta-
noOga, Tenn, on November Sth to
consider questions of quarantine and
Immigration, and that if the commit
tee, meeting here were postponed until
November Goth he aud other South
ern governors could attend.
Commissioner MacFarland today
cXprcssel his viii ngness to comply
with Governor Glenn's suggestion, be-
cause in addition to securing attend
Ance of Southern governors it will
bring the committee meeting nearer
to the meeting of Congress.
This committee will pass upon two
questions as to what new date would
DC recommended for the Inauguration
Of the President, and as to whether
there should be any change of date in
he me ting of Congress- The last
Thursday in April had been suggested
as the date for the Inauguration, and
4 majority of those who have express
ed their opinion favor no change in
the date of meeting of Congress.
Governor Glenn has notified Com
missioner Mcfarland that he would
endeavor to be present at the meeting
% ~, he oh n gS
made to November goth.
There appears to be no doubt in the
minds of the officials of the Depart
nent of Commerce and Labor that If
DR.. E. b. Durand. who as special
agent of that department was in
Chicago, looking after other business,
when the Interstate Commerce Law
Convention met there last week, can
get at the inside facts in regard to
the statutes of delegates to the con-
vention, he will find some valuable
material for use by friends of Presl-
dent Roosevelt's rate regulation policy.
at the approaching session of Con-
gress 1t is we'll known here now that
many of the delegates were not the
type of men who had been invited to
attend 1t is more than suspected
that former railroad employees and
attorneys, who came with their eX-
penses paid by the railroads, were wei
represented among the delegations.
It is concerning the ids nifty of these
men and others. who ar believed to
be large shippers, favored in the past
by rebates from railroads, that DR..
Durand is directing his inquiries.
These favored shippers stand In with
the railroads as opponents to Presl-
dent RoCseVelt's rate regulat on policy,
and apec!fic instances have been
brought to light in which. as members
Of boards of trade and business as
sociations, they sent men of their way
of thinking to the Chicago convention.
1t is thought that proof of such pack
ing of convention, at Chicago, by
railroads would have an excellent
effect on doubtful senator's, and would
be extremely useful in preventing
lobbying by railroads interests this
winter
In addition to this move by the
administration against railroad
schemes for educating people to their
way of thinking, many leading MEM
bers of Congress are already prepar-
ing material. which they will ask leave
to print in the Congressional Record
as soon as Congress meets Copies OF
these records will then be sent, post
age free to all parts of the United
States for the purpose of counter
acting the influence which has been
brought to bear by the campaign of
education carried on by railroads the
past year by means of tons of literatuc
scattered broadcast by their agents
Justus J. Efird and Julius M. Efirc
| have been appointed carriers on route
! No l. at Albemarle N. G..