, 1906-06-13
WYOMING SENATOR INSISTS ON
THE RIGHT OF THE SHIP
PERS OF LIVE STOCK
IN COUNTRY.
Pleads That They Be Allowed Free
Transportation Going To and
From Markets-The Producer the
Man Who Bears the Burdens of
the Community and Legislation
Should Be in His Interest.


rate bill, through the efforts of Sen
ator Warren and others, shippers OF
live stock were allowed to apply for
and receive passes, while going for,
with and returning from live stock
shipments. In conference all free
passes were cut out.
The conference report was rejected
in the senate, and the bill was sent
back for a new conference. Just at
the close of the debate Senator War
rem addressed the senate as follows:
Senator Warren's Address.
Mr.. President, in view of the appeal
made by the senator from South Caro-
lima (Mr. Tillman) for haste and a
final vote on the conference report, l
shall occupy but a few moments, and
shall speak upon one part of the bill
only, and that the anti-pass amend
ment.
II seems to me, if we can judge from
the atmosphere of this chamber, that
there is not a senator who does not
believe that the employees of railroads
should have free transportation for
themselves and their families, and the
conferees must insist Upon this to the
very bitter end and until accomplished.
l do not believe it will be denied by a
single senator that men in charge of
live stock travelling over the roads
should also have free transportation.
Railroads Also Interested.
1t seems to me that the senate's anti
pass amendment, agreed to very nearly
unanimously in the senate, should be
now adhered to in preference to the
one that is presented by the confer
ence report, or in preference to leav-
ing the bill with no provision in regard
to the pass question.
The live stock men are not alone
interested in the matter of free trans
portation for those accompanying
stock. The railroads also are inter
ested; but, most of all, the consumers
of meat products are interested.
These are pretty strenuous times just
now in the endeavor to cleanse and
purify everything relating to u meat
products. 1t is a time when all the
sensitiveness and all the examinations,
no matter what may be the good re-
suits hat may follow, bears very heay-
lily upon the live stock grower. All
of this excitement is lowering the
price day by day of the live stock of
this country 1t seems to me that I'M
der the circumstances we canno be
too liberal toward the live stock grow
er, nor can we be too careful in the
way the stock is shipped to market.
No Pleasure In Trips.
Who, then, shall go with this live
stock? Shall it be the pick-ups and
hoboes without experience that a rail
road may be obliged to send, or shall
it be those who have an interest in
the stock? The men who accompany
live stock do not ride for pleasure.
They are there in their overalls and
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trains with cattle, getting in the cattle
cars a tevery station to care for them.
1t is a laborious and hard service. 1t
is a service that no man wants for the
sake of riding yer a railroad, and is
no wise a favor or a discrimination for
or against anyone. No man pleads for
a pass to go with live stock, unless he
has an interest in that stock.
So whatever the conference com
mittee may do, it seems to ne the
owners or agents in charge of live
stock should be put upon the plane of
highest privilege as to transportation
next to the railroad employees, and if
there are any exceptions whatever to
the prohibition of the issuance of
passes they should be included, for, in
deed, they are practically, for the time
being, railroad employees.
Producer the Under Dog.
Mr.. President, the producer-the
farmer-if l may use the SMILES al
ways the under dog" In a fight his
back is upon the rock, with the weight
of the world upon his breast. All the
pressure, the wear and tear, and the
tug of war of the business world comes
upon one side, with no give way or
relief on the other. The consumer
wants low prices and bears down upon
the retailer; the retailer bears down
upon the wholesaler. the wholesaler
upon the manufacturer, and the manu-
facturer upon the raw material, and
there is where the farmer-the pro-
ducer-is caught. Whatever is done
in injury of the matter of meat pro-
ducts the poor farmer gets the entire
weight of the burden and has the
losses to bear.
1 noticed just now in the afternoon
paper some testimony that is being
taken in another place in the capitol
and l will ask the secretary to read
the paragraph 1 have marked. 1t is
a statement under oath of the manager
of one of the great Strengthening estab