The Mena weekly star., 1908-09-17
GOY. DONAGHEY
 IS OPTIMISTIC
Relieves That Arkansas Can Make Showing in the Fight With Rail roads Over Rates That Will
 Convince the Courts.


 ;ree for governor, late yesterday afternoon gave cut an interview ou the St. Paul injunction n wbich he stated was by no means foreboding of tue state goiug .o lose on the final hearing. He expressed himself as be ing bitterly opposed to any com ,romise with the railroads, say mo he did not know whether they were making any money in Arkansas or not, but as Arkan- sas has many sources which are awaiting development, and capl- tai seeks places where invest nent is safe, the law must be SC all business interests will be orotected in Arkansas. Gov. Dona ohey classified the St. Paul hearing as a oue-sided affair all railroad, and impossible for the state to present it's side of the case. in that 1t had no experts to dissect the railroad testimony, He said destimonv by men who have spent their life in the rail- rad work. Is needed for the final hearing, on behalf of the state, and gave as his opinion that 1t can be gotten. Gov. Donag hey said he believed the legislature will provide the money for the getting of the experts. The state will be oD an equal footing with the rail- road, in the final hearing ac,or- ding to Gov. Donaghey, as 1t will have to produce witnesses instead of afhdavits, and tbe state will have right to cross examine these witnesses. Gov. Donaghey commended the men who represented the state. but said they were in St. Paul te workmeu without tools.
 Taking the density of the DO u. lation the number of miles f railroad to the hundred squ Ie miles, and the mum Der of miles of railroad to the ten thous nd people into consideration, and showing just how much milea C of railroad must be maintained by a given number of people, all living inside the state, Gov. D. he says Ak usas wui shoe that t will impose less burd DO he railroads by a ? cen tafe shso aay other sta ( nov h,vi 2 similar rate in fore H ssid ie hts beliei, Arasrsss would impose less burOen or the railroads by the enforcement of the 2-cent rate than N " York.
 Govtrnor Donsghey says every time he railroad attorneys al St. Paul undertook 10 show details oi operation on freight rates as a basis for injunction, the result was unfavorable to them. He showed this by the rate on cotton from Malvern tn Little Rock be- ing Il ceuts; from Little Rock tc Boston, SC cents and from Ma vern to Boston, S5 cents. IL Was also shown the railroads agreed 10 this rate. Gov. Douaghey next took up the claims of tn, railroads that 1t cost more tC maintain the roadbeds in the low lands of Arkansas than In tho mountains of other states, ths ties rottiug faster, aud othei complaints He answered thi' by saying that while the ties TO faster here, they are secured II Arkansas at one-third the cos they are in other states. AS tt tue claim of the railroads tha sickness Tn Arkansas made th' cost of labor greater, Gov. Don aghey said such statements migh have weight in Minnesota, bu would not in a courti in Arkansas where the mortality rate in hele ra, one of the lowest towns II the state, makes a better showing than Denver or Colorado Springs Gov. Douag hey said the falling oil ot the price of lumber inll. one-thrd was an effective repl. 10 the statement of he railroad that II cost more 10 maintail woodou structures in Arkansas