The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-05
RAILROADS PAY
STATE EXPENSES.
Wisconsin Has Increased Tax
able Values to Quarter Of
Billion.
REASON FOR FIGHT ON PENNsY
Interesting Bulletin OF Killed and
Injured for Three Months.
Other Notes.

The Wisconsin Governors simple plan
Of increasing the States revenue BY
raising the tax on railroad property -
working. The tax commission, which last
year Increased the railway valuation by
s1O0OO.0oO. has added another s10WO.000
for this year. making the total valuation
S2,S. 900. AT the rate OF s1.l3 per $1,000
the railway tax will amount to nearly
81, 10000, but this it is stated is only the
preliminary valuation, and it is thought
that the final figures will show still
higher boost The increase may not
reach the 100000 which Governor La
Toilette set out TO raise. but 1t will prob
ably satisfy, public sentiment for the
present. 3-ar7 ssf
a telegram from Washington says.
There are two reasons for the at
tack made this week In Congress on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. In the Senate the
real seat of the antogonism Is on the
Republican side OF the chamber, Mr..
Tillman being merely a more or less
unconscious tool, The feeling against the
Pennsylvania dates from the visit of
President Cassatt to Washington and the
subsequent announcement that the two
Pennsylvania Senator's were TO support
the Roosevelt rate programme. Senators
Elkins. Foraker and Aldrich were in
censed There have been mutterings ever
since.
In the House of Representatives the
antipass order is largely responsible.
Members like Grosvenor, Lands. Davis
and Cooper, of Pennsylvania, who sup
ported the Democratic resolution, are
among those who have been fomentlry
revolt since the new order went into
effect With many Of them it Is anything
to get at the Pennsylvania Railroad. Tile
resolution offered by Representative
Gillespie, of Texas, calls on President
Roosevelt for any information which may
be in the possession of the Interstate
Commerce Commission relative to a
merger between the Pennsylvania, the
Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Norfolk and Western Rail
ways. The language of the resolution,
which was first introduced on January
IS. is as follows:
That tile President hereby is requested
to report to the House all the facts
within the knowledge of the Interstate
Commerce Commission which show. or
tend to show. that there exists at this
time, or heretofore within the last 12
months, has existed, n combination or ar
rangements between the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company Pennsylvania Com
pany, Norfolk and Western Railway
Company, Baltimore and Ohio Railway
Company, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad Company. Northern
Central Railroad Company and Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railway Company, or
any two or more Of said companies, in
violation of theac of July 2, 1890.
Promptly on the passage OF the reso-
luton by the House. due to the leaders
hnt,,
Philadelphia that full information would
be furnished by President Cassatt. 1t is
claimed that there is no violation of
law in the fact that the Pennsylvania
owns stock in the roads named. Senator
Tllman has broadened the scope of his
inquiries to include the alleged rate dis
elimination against the coal fields of
West Virginia. 3
| Accident Bulletin No. IL, which has just
boen issued by the interstate Commerce
| Commission for the months OF July,
| August and September. 1905, shows that
there We're 1853 killed and 1886 injured
| among passengers and employees of rail-
| ways, an increase over those reported
| in tho three months last preceding. when
SS6 were killed and 1873 Injured. The
number OF passengers killed In train ac-
| cidents was 43. In the same three months
| of 1901 there were 22S passengers killed
In collisions and derailments. The two
most notable accidents in the present
report are collision. killing 10 persons.
and derailment. killing Is. The total
| number OF employees reported killed in
coupling and uncoupling cars is ~. and
tho number injured $40. being an increase
Of % in tho number killed and IS in tho
number Injured over those reported for
the last preceding quarter. The total
Number of collisions and derailrents
was s,l35 Q,6o5 collisions and 1880 derail-
ments), of which 30 collisions and Ill
| derailments affected passenger trains.
The damage to cars, engines and road
way by these accidents amounted to
s2,54o,aoS. IN
Passenger brakenlen of the Rock Island
have been granted scale Of so per
month for runs aggregattng 5000 miles,
with ;l.40 for each 100 miles additional.
! The previous scale was $3.50 per month