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Mistaken - This.


this conference report.
Mistaken - This.
You deny that you voted for a
bill to permit drinking on railroad
cars. You are mistaken in this. The
bill which you voted for denied the
right to person in an ordinary pas
senger car to take a drink without
the consent of the conductor, but dis
tinctly exempted passengers in the
dining cars and Pullmans from such
restrictions.
Again quoting your speech: ''He
(Tuckerl says | introduced n bill
to prevent a man from crossing a
railroad from one part of his farm
to another. have never introduced
or voted for such a bill. or anything
like it, (This is another evidence
of the advantage of a joint discus
sion. which have been seeking from
you) | have never said you intro
duced such bill, and | have never
said you voted for such a bill.
have most emphatically said that you
were pressing bill before the Senate
making it misdemeanor, punishable
with fine or Imprisonment, for
man to be walking on railroad
track at any place except a depot 0,
public crossing, and that while you
were pressing such bill, Senator
George b. Keezell, of Rockingham.
arose and interrupted you. expressing
great surprise at your pressing such
bill, and said that as his barn was
on one side of the railroad ard his
house On the other, that IL such a
bill were passed. he could be fined
or imprisoned every time he went
over to milk his cows: and that Sena-
ter Keezel was. justly. 50 indignant
at the presentation OF such bill
that he jumped on 1t and mashed
1t out without ceremony. This state
ment ! have made over the state. I.
made il at Rockingham last week. IN
the presence CT Senator Keezei while
he presided az the meeting. and con-
rended him fer his action taken in
behalf of the people of the Com
monwealth. especially the people o.
the rural sections.
Doesn't Think IL Was Made. =,
In your Powhatan speech and al
your Bristol speech (which latter you
gave to some OF the newspapers I,
believe but which was never madep.
you criticiSe my voting on bill pro-
viding automatic couplers and air
brakes in trains engaged m interstate
commerce. This bill was passed in
February. 1893. sixteen years ago
These two devices were scarcely
known az that time, and one OF my
grounds for voting against the bin
was because the National Switch
mems Union. embracing all the
switchmen IN the United states. seat
up an enormous petition against u.
while the head OF the organization.
Frank Sweeney. was in Washington
working against the bill These
svitchmen coupled mere cars IN a
day than all the rest Of the railroad
men In the country In a month II
vas stated BY those In the discus
SIGN that evcrv empiove of the Louis
Vile and Nashville railway who han
anything 10 DO with COMPILING cars
opposed the biil These switchmez
believed that no effective safety de-
Vice had vet been invented. and tna-
few big railroad companies owned
device such a. vas described, and
were trying 10 compel the smaller
roads % purchase u. ! voted akaius;
the bill. and vas IN good COMPANY
The delegation from virginia vas d.
vided. but those who voted With me
were. Judge John A. Buchanan.
ncg of the Court Of Appeals 81 VIZ
Giria. Hon James r Eppcs. WHO
vas vour fiaf inrlsfchod representative