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on the evening OF February 2stli. and
have Invited the Virginia Senator's and
Representatives to meet them.
Experiment Station. TAFT Butler, veter-
Elkins's Flop.
Not in long time has there been
such general surprise over the announce
ment of a Senator's views as there 's
here over the statement of Senator Elk
ins that he has been from the first agl-
tation of the railroad rate question, IN
hearty accord with the views of The
President on every phase of the subject
This declaration he gave to the WASH
ington correspondent OF the wheeling
Intelligencer. He has always been rateh
by the friends of rate legislation as be-
ing against 1t. and also by the opposi-
ton. There is no doubt that this declara-
ton came from a change of heart. Inc
Dawson letter to Senator Tillman has
brought out favorable comment all over
West Virginia, and the statement from
here that It portended the crystaii'zins
of the opposition to Senator Elkins 70
Governor Dawson seems to have brought
'Uncle Steve" to his milk. and he Is
Everywhere in washington rated as one
of those late Corners trying to get a
front seatin the band wagon. FROM the
tone of the West Virginia papers which
have come to Washington. there IS no
doubt Cbut that had he persisted IN MS
course in opposition to the adminlstra-
ton programme he would have found
things onlH tolerable at home-he is
to be reelected this year-and 1T was
only this knowledge that sent him
scurrying for dear life to the admins
tration band wagon. Representative
Hughes said to-day that knowing the
temper of the West Virginia people as
he does he verify believes that had Sena-
tor Elkins continued hostile to the Presi-
dents views 1t would have meant the
selection Of Governor Dawson to sue
coed him.
"There Is no doubt about it." said Mr..
Hughes, that the troubles complained of
by Governor Dawson and the Red Rock
Fuel Company do exist, and that there
has been no remedy found in the courts
for them. know of my certain knowl-
edge that they exist. The roads will not
ship coal where the shippers desire 1t to
20. For instance. no matter how much
we want to send coal to Baltimore not
n pound of it can we get there for thu
reason that the roads will not provide
us with cars. A shipper ought to have
the right to ship his goods wherever he
wants to. But would like to come across
the independent operator'in the Kanawl,,i
field who can get a ton of coal into Bal
timore. We have to ship 1t to Philadel-
fphia, New York, or Norfolk. but we
cannot go to baltimore. That is territory
dedicated to the PENNSYLVANIA.
"And then we cannot force n connec-
ton. I. myself was the contractor for
tho construction of n little line to a
mine In the Kanawha District from an
other line tributary to the Norfolk and
Western. And before a connection could
BIZ established with the Norfolk and
Western the owners of that little line had
to deed and dedicate 1t to the Norfolk
and Western. And then there was found
to be little defect In the title. Be
fore the connection was allowed to re-
main the little road has to enter into
an Identifying bond for fifty thousand
dollars to guarantee the title. Now, call
that what you please, but If It is defen-
able cannot SEQ how nor why. And to
my thinking no man will do himself any
good who declares to the people of West
Virginia that there Is a remedy in the
courts OF West Virginia for this sort
of thing. They have sought that remedy
and hnya failed tn find It,"
~ hope the Tllman resolution Will
naaa the House. asked the speaker to
allow mo to- call 1t up by unanimous
consent but l,he would not allow me to-
an 40. 4 think, however, that the Inter
ptnfa Commerce Committee will soon re-
nort n back favorablX. do not see how
NAV can afford to do otherwise, If the
matter ii thoroughly Investigated 1t will
he found that Governor Dawson has put
things In the right light and that the
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