Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-09
RAILROADS ASK FOR DELAY
0, ]. Greene to Lsk Court to Held Tar
Case for Pull Bench.
TRAFFIC MeNAIts Al THE CAPITAL
MeetinR with Interstate Commerce
Commission TO settle ON CUES
ton ofPSstins the Tarin
Schedules.
CFrom a stan Correspondent


(From a Stan Correspondent
WARRINGTON, Oct S-tSpecial Tele-
m.)-Thsre will be no argument of rail-
road tax cases II Charles j. Greene of the
Burlington railroad can prevent it, Mr.
Greene, who with Mrs. Greene. arrived in
Washington yesterday and registered at
the Willard, said today. speaking OF the
forthcoming argument before the supreme
court in the cases brought by the Union
Pacific and Burlington against certain
tr asurers OF Nebraska counties restrain
ing them from collecting the tax, that he
would ask, when the cases were called In
the supreme &C urt, for q hearing before a
full bench and that the case may go over
without losing its position on the call,
pending the appointment Of a successor to
Justice Brown. Mr.. Greene stated there
had been so many cases decided on vote
of five TO four that lawyers had about
reached the conclusion that important
cases should be heard by a full tribunal.
In event Of the argument before the pres
ent court OF eight Justices and they should
divide four to four it would affirm the
decision Of the court below without APP
peal. This, Mr. Greene said, would be
entirely unsatisfactory to. both plaintiff and
defendant and said he believed he was
III dShinb d pOSlpOneHltnl VI lDt
oral argument until the president should
nominate Justice Browns successor.
Briefs in the railroad tax cases have
been filed by both parties to the suits.
Maxwell Evarts, assistant general ooun-
sci of the Union Pacific, with headquar-
ters in New York, will represent that COM
pany is the argument on the tax cases.
Railroad Mapnates at Capital
The laantuu iul,f tb.,
impression of meeting OF gentleman
agreement the high hats" as the Cen
trail Traffic association was at one time
called, the Western association, and in
fact all the railroad associations rolled into
Qnel by reason of the number of big rail
road men present in, Washington today for
the,purpose of learning from the Interstate
Commerce commission what. the railroad
managers must do regarding the publca-
tits of railroad tariffs and complying with
the recent rate bill as passed by congress
p. S. Eustis of the Burlington, George o.
Somers. assistant to the vice president OF
the Burlington;SJ. II. Hyland of the MIL
waukee. C. Ws@Cook, assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe were among
the Chicago RAILROAD men seen about the
Hobbies ]. c, Stubs, traffic manager Of
the Harrimas lines, aud Elmer II. Wood
OF Omaha, general freight. agent of the
Missouri Pacific, eweFs rpueh in evidence
4. NJ. SchumacheFs general traffic man
ager of the FL Paso e. Southwestern, with
headquarters in Chicago Is also here
Mr.. Stubs. speaking Of the mission
which brought him to Washington. said
that there was no disposition on the part
of the railroads to resist the law enacted by
the last session ofsepngress. but, he said, the
rules laid down. bysthe Interstate Com
merce comrnissiohi that xouid be applicable
to the railroads.&c. New England where
railroads are very close together, would
not be applicable in states like Nebraska
and Kansas, where there are thousands of
miles OF railroad vet to be built before
they will be as close, together as In New,
England. Them again, each railroad is a
law unto itself 80 far as it's accounting
and auditing departments go, and II there
fore requires on the part Of the Interstate
Commerce commission an understanding of
the business methods OF the railroads in
order. that the rules to he promulgated
shall DO comprehensive in character and as
nearly Just as il il possible to make them.
II is for this purpose that railroad men
throughout the country have met here to
talk over with the Interstate Commerce
commission the best plan to he pursued in
carrying out the provisions Of the law
which went into effect on August y
stubbs Doubts story.
During the course of the conversation
1t suggested to Mr. Stubbs that he
would shortly have considerable more work
to do, il reports are correct when the
Hartman interests have an committeeman
line of rails, To this Mr.. Stubbs replied
that while he had no knowledge of MIR.
Harriman's intentions to establish a line
OF railway from Omaha east. for himself
he said he would not do It.. and explained
the reasons why. He believed It would be
bad policy on the ground that he would be
compelled to fight for east-bound business
from Omaha. whereas now he. had prefer
entail rights with the Northwestern and
the Milwaukee.
Mr. A. y. Stickney. president OF the Chi
cago Great Western said: II am in Wash
ington TO attend an important meeting of
the Interstate Commerce commission re-
garding the publication of uniform tariff
schedules on the part OF the railroads,
This fs a huge job, and the freight officials
are trying to tell us it is an impossibility,
but It can be done easily enough. Speak
ing Of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion. reminds me that IL is now time for
that respectable board TO demonstrate
whether IL Is going 10 he OF any real use
to the country. For twenty years II has
been giving us opinions and editing reports
that nobody cared a pin about The ques-
ton is whether we are to be fed still longer
on opinions or whether the commission is
going to give the country the results that
are looked for under the new law. The
demand goes up for bread, and If the public
gets a stone, the responsibility will not be
hard TO locate"
Nebraskans at Capital.
c. r. Weller Mrs. Weller and Miss We'll
Ter OF Omaha are In Washington TO at
tend the National Wholesale Druggists
association, which convened here today,
Mr. Weller was formerly president of the
association and is now a member Of the
board OF control which, he says, has been
especially created for ex-presidents.
Taft May Come TO Nebraska.
James Sherman. chairman of the national
congressional republican committee said
today that his advices were that the re-
publicans would carry every congressional
district in Nebraska and lowe. That IL
Secretary Taft returned to the states be-
fore the nth of October N was his inten-