The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-05
The Lie That Senator Hans
brough Was the Champion
Of the Corporations, Clearly
Refuted by the Records.
SNYDER STARTS AN
INVESTIGATION
And Finds Plenty Of Evidence That
Syndicates and Corporations
Dislike the Senator.
(By e. c.. snyder.)

Washington, June 81 have been
examining the congressional record
in order to find where Senator Hans
brough stood when questions in which
the corporations have been Interested
were up for consideration. was
prompted in this investigation after
reading North Dakota paper, which
declared that the senator was "the
champion of the corporations" and,
after listening to the debate in the
senate the other day when the senator
explained his bill, providing for the
assessment OF additional taxes against
the street railways of the District of
Columbia. The charge of the news
paper and the senator's remarks were
not consistent, and so concluded to
find out for myself which was wrong
and which was right.
In 1890, Senator Hansbrough,
championed bill which broke up the
Louisiana lottery, which was cor
poratiOn whose operations were most
demoralizing. The lottery is no more.
In 1896, Senator Hansbrough advo-
eating a reduction in the price of gas
in the District of Columbia. The
price was two dollars per thousand,
and the company was making enor-
nous profits. AS result of his work,
the price was reduced to one dollar
per thousand.
In 1902, find Senator HansbrouEh
opposed to bill giving the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company money and
land worth between five and six mil
lions of dollars with which to build
union station in Washington city. He
fought this measure three days in the
in no int, ne
course. In the debate, he charged
that the Pennsylvania company had
swallowed the Baltimore and Ohio,
and other lines in. violation of the
Sherman law; that 1t was amply able
to build the station out Of its own
resources; that its stock was selling
at SIS above par and that there was
no precedent for such legislation. His
assertion that the Pennsylvania con-
trolled the Baltimore and Ohio was
strenuously denied on the floor of the
senate, but he persisted in the charge
and said that time would prove that
he was right. Time has vindicated
the position he then took; the fact is
no longer denied, and only few days
ago, Albert F. Won Bayenberg, an In
dependent coal operator, testified be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion, that the Pennsylvania company
controls the Reading, the Baltimore
and Ohio. the Chesapeake and Ohio,
and the Norfolk and Western Rail-
roads through the community Of in
terest plan. That combination is what
caused all the big favored coal COM
pantes to grow up and crush out the
independent operator"
~ find that In 1900. Senator Hans
brpugh struck hard at grasping pa
cific coast syndicate when he tried to
legislate against the use by that syn
dicate Of bunch of aliens to grab
valuable property in Alaska. In this
he failed. because the syndicate was
strong enough to talk his amendment
to death in the senate. The syndicate
got the land and got it through alien
locations. Did any alien ever get
government land in North Dakota?
No. because the law borbade such
thing. Was it not good public policy
to apply that law to Alaska? ~
find Senator Hansbrough charging
on the floor of the senate a couple of
years ago that the scheme to repeal
the land laws of the country was in
the interest of certain transcontinen-
tai land grant lines having lands for
sale. He furnished the facts to prove
that the so-calfed National Irrigation
association was behind the scheme,
and that the association's manager.
Geo. H. Maxwell, was receiving about
$4,000 a year from these lines for
his work in behalf of repeal.
All these things have resulted In
making Senator Hansbrough very un-
popular with the corporations and
syndicates. His unpopularity in this
respect, will not be diminished by his
present efforts to force additional
. taxes upon the district corporations.
1t may be suggested in this connec-
tion that, when the truth of current
history is finally revealed, It will be
found that all of the slanderOus stuff
written and published by the muck
rakers concerning Senator Hans
brough was inspired by the obsequious
promoters and paid representatives Of
the corporate and syndicated interests
whose schemes he has opposed, and
that the senator's political enemies In
North Dakota have taken advantage
OF this situation In the hope Of foist-
ing themselves into place and power.
T E. G. Snyder.
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