Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-16
WILL Be No SURRENDER.
Rumored Compromise Between
Railroads and Government
Has No Foundation

Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, April 15.-Persistent
rumor has for some time represented
that compromise between the govern
ment and the railroad interests was to
be arranged. by which the railroads
would be permitted somewhat to in
an arrangement that they should not
attempt to reduce wages of employees.
That any such arrangement has
| been made in definite terms is most
positively denied at the interstate COM
merce commission and also on behalf
of the superior powers of the admins
tration. 1t is declared indeed that
such thing has not been considered,
so far as is known to people who ought
! None the less the report continues
| in financial circles in New York and
! there is inSstence on information as
! to the arrangement that is alleged to
| have been made. Certain it is that the
/ Southern railway, the Louisville &
Nashville and the Chicago Great Wes-
tern, all of which at one time or an
other recently have threatened de-
crease of wages. have not taken the
| final step. and that apparently the dis
position to adopt such policy has been
/ discouraged.
| Whether there has been. at the same
| time. anything like a general tendency
to increase rates is difficult to learn
Many thousands of new freight tariffs
are filed with the interstate commission
each month. In March for instance
no less than 1922 We're filed. But
no commission official will venture an
expression whether there is any pre-
dominance OF increases in the new
tariffs. 1t is explained that the COM
mission tariff department has no force
of clerks competent to make eXamin-
alton and reach general conclusions as
to this aspect st would take prob
ably 500 more people than we now
have" said an official Of the commits
sion. ''to make such an investigation.
We can't tell whether there is a ten
dency to increase or not
But one new tariff recently filed has
DeGn regarded dS JuSillSiHS lle Hi
preston that increases of large im-
portance are afoot. This tariff relates
to rates on grain from the lake ter
minals to the seaboard: grain. that is, I
which has been brought by lake from
the northwest to such ports as Buff
falo and Erie. there to be taken by /
the railroads to seaboard points. The t
tonnage affected by such tariff is
immense, and examination Of this tar
if indicates that While some of the
rates are left unchanged, none is re-
duced and so many are increased as
to Justify the conclusion that it's pur-
pose was to secure an increase of rev.
enue.
The tonnage Of grain is unlikely to
be much affected by depression in bus
mess. Indeed the grain movement
since the financial stringency of last
fall has been phenomenal, foreign ship
ments being unprecedentedly large.
The increases provided in this tariff
are so small as not to attract great at
tention: vet they range from to .
per cent. and would produce that In
crease in gross revenue from the bus
mess. AS the increase would not af
feet the volume Of freight. the advance
would be added to the earnings of the
companies. and it is said would go a
long way toward meeting a deficit in
earnings caused b. reduction of freight
volume in other lines.
Iowa people appear TO have forgot
ten that one Of the most distinguished
men in New York political life. "Dea-
Proo &c
an alumnus of Cornell college at Mount
Vernon. and always proud of his Iowa
origin. Perhaps Deacon" Bracket is
days. as ne is in the east: but he is
the cnfant terrible Of New York pol
itics. He is either going to be exter-
OF else elevated to high po-
sition in New York one Of these times.
deacon Bracket comes from Sar-
atoga and he is the prince of indie
pendents He is as full Of trouble as
an egg of meat. Everybody In New
York politics is afraid Of him because
nobody can ever guess what he will do
next. except that It will be something
abhorrent to the whole theory of boss
ism and organization politics He is :
solid with his own constituency: to ]
make fight on his at home, whether
he Is running for state senator or for ]
delegate to a convention. Is to assure ]
that he will simply win another no.
table victory. So they have pretty :
much quit fighting him. and they try, :
with equally bad success, to placate
him.
Bracket is devoted Hughes man. :
He was handsomely trounced in the :
state convention the other day, but he
will come to the top again. simply
because he can't be kept down. He is
one of those refreshing people who
don't care for anybody or anything. :
who say just what they think with !
apparent disregard of the conse- !.
quences and who generally have their 4
own way in the end He is mighty
liable To be governor OF New York. or 1
'nited States .:ena tor--ndNDe both uf
them before. his political career l.
ended He stands for the. general pro-
gram Of better morals in politics anil
business: for the things that Roose
Welt Laf'olleit-, Hughes and Cummins
and like good many more
IF that class Of people. who are trying
to travel the same road that the pres
dent travels. he finds himself being
slhoWed ont Of II from time to time
by the nresidcnt But he manages to