The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-07
SHIPPER OUGHT
TO HAVE A SHOW
And | Am Going to Vote
to Give Him One.
Says Lamb.
LOCKS HORNS WITH
MAJ. j. H. DOOLEY
War Veteran and House Member
Emphasizes His and Other
Virginia Representatives
Familiarity With
Railroad Rate
Measure.
War Veteran and House Member
tFrom Cur Regular Correspondents

(Erom Cur Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., January 81
Members of the Virginia delegation wer.
Interested in an article published in Til,
Times-Dispatch Of today, written by
Major James II. Dooley, OF Richmond, in
opposition to rate regulation by the gov
eminent Every member bf the delega-
ton will vote for a bill tcAfcr.iug on Tho
Interstate Commerce Commission author 5
ity to regulate railway charges.
II think Major pooley.s assumption
that the members of Congress have rus
studied the question of regulation OF
rates Is unwa.rantable.p said Repre-
sentative Lamb to-day II have studied 1T
with diligence, and have reached tie
deliberate conclusion that the interests
of the shippers of the country demand
the enactment OF some legislation which
will give to a governmental body ati-
thority to fix railway charges. i can
say, speaking for every member of the
delegation from Virginia, that tile Vir-
giniu representatives have given this
subject more attention. believe.
than any other which has come lip in
years. If not during my term OF SER
vice.
Representative Lamb Is disposed to
criticise some of the conclusions reached
by Major Dooley.
Knows Shell and Pea Game.
MY friend. Major Dooley. assumes
that there is a combination between the
North and the West to do us down
South" he said. II have been here /. $.
long time and have not discovered any
such combination. An old Confederate
leo iS inc to-
be. on the lookout for thing of this
kind. The false premises on which Ma
jor Dooley's article is based compelled
false conclusions.
But suppose he is right" continued
Captain Lamb. and suppose the North
ern men do want to do us harm in the
South. do not Northern capitalists con-
troll the railroads OF the South or many
of them. at present? Is not the Chesa-
penke and Ohio controlled. by the Penn
sylvania. Northern capital: The Nor
folk and Western is also controlled by
the Northern capital which Is invested
in the Pennsylvania.
There may be some disadvantages
connected with a law regulating rail-
way charges" concluded Captain lamb
But these, in my opinion, are far outs
weighed by the advantages which will
accrue to the shipper, He ought 10
lave q show. and L am going to vote
to give him one.
The other nine members Of the Virginia
delegation and tho two senators will do
likewise. All of them probably realize
that rate legislation will not prove an I'M
mixed blessing. But the volume OF com
5plaints from shippers from all over tho
State Is so great that it cannot he re-
sisted. The same Is true generally re-
garding allstle States, and the representa-
ition in the two houses OF Congress.
where is Swanson?"
Where is Swanson?" Is a query heard
about the Capitol. "a thous-
and people have asked inc that question:,
said Joe Sinnott. a Democratic empoye
at the House to-day. Il could not an
swerit, l guess he is hiding from Office
seekers' None of Mir, SwanSon's col
leagues know his whereabouts.
Representative Lamb saw General Nc
ISenzie. chief OF engineers az the army,
to-day. relative to the removal blythe
government OF the coffer-daln in the X
James River, erected by the Trigg Ship
building Company. The freshets carry
down portions of the dam and deposit tl,.3
debris In the channel of the river. Cap
tain Lamb says that ms the 'rrlgs Com 1
Riny is defunct. it Is q hard matter 10
flS the diity OF removing the dam, G;e-
erll Mckenzie was not sure he, ilnd ,ttl-
thority to order the dam removed by tIlp
United States engineers, but will hives
tigate the matter. 8aES e
Virginia Bills.
OF the 1OO6l bills introduced In NE c9;
House and the a,4s1 bills INTRODUCED ii, !
The Senate, Virginia Representatives .i,i-
$40 bills In the House and VIII h,
ginia senators introduced slxty-tw9, bilts
In the Senate These figures cpYer the +.
session prior to the Christmas .recass: I, 7
OF the $40 bills introduced BY tho Var n
ginia representatives in the House jSst HI
them, or 40. were introduced
p.t Representative Rlxey, VI che Eighth