The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-14
HOWL FROM HOME'' KILLS
 AMENDME ENT Correspondent Shows How Plan to Mulct Bridgeport
 Lost It's Skates Col1oquy Between LaFol- lette, Bulke1ey and Gal finger About New Ha-
 ven Road
Especial to the Farmer.)

l ing round among those fine old gentle
 men who constitute the Senate of the United States, today. It is over the 1 plight in which the Connecticut dele 1 gation finds itself as a result of tin i kering with the resolution providing 1 an appropriation for Bridgeport har- bOr.
 Such little jobs occur right along in 1 Washington They are not usually discovered promptly. There is no mystery about the Bridgeport matter. | The only surprising thing connected with it is that it was so promptly dis covered by the home folks. and that 1 the howl" thatwent up was so 1 prompt and noisy.
 1 There is not the slightest likelihood l that Bridgeport will be finally called
 upon to pay $45,oo0 as a condition of having it's harbor dredged. inasmuch as Senator BuIkeley comes up for re- election to one branch of the Congress, 1 and that other sturdy patriot, Eben- | ezer J. Hill. to the other branch A loud s'howI'' from the nome folks 1 is pretty effective in Washington, es- pecially around election time. It is impossible to fix the respons1- bility for the amendment upon any one person. But generally it is pretty we'll understood why the thing Is done. and how. A matter purely local in its nature usualy will not be disturbed tatives of that locality. But nobody is to smile because Sen aIOH BuTTOn rom a Tar OH 0CdlG SUQ- denly displayed a great hostility to an Improvement in a harbor in Bridge port, Conn.,, although that improve ment had come up to the committee commended all along the line by the government engineers.
 And of course when Senator Gal11n- ger of New Hampshire moved to put in the clause to make Bridgeport pay $45. 900 he did it ito save the appro- priation."
 And it fis equally certain that when Senator Bullxeley favored this change in the bill he also did it Ito save the
 But those who understand the little ways that Senators have are sadly howl from the home folks'' the Gallin- ger amendment would have gone through on skates.
 There is really mystery about ments in harbors and inland water ways that the railroads adjacent to ments nuSn % @uch railroads do ai not desire. M
 The kind they want are those that increase facilities used by the trans portation lines which they. as rail- roads. control. The kind of harbor improvements they do not want are those which will convenience. shippers
 Now the New Haven railroad has done something more than get mo- nopoly of railroads and trolley lines in its territory. It has practically monopolized water transportation.
 Today the New Haven company con- trols directly or through subsidiary companies:
 Fail River lines-Fall River. Mass.
 Providence lin-Providence, R. IT,,
 New Bedford line-New Bedford. Mass. to New York city:
 Norwich ine-Norwich. Conn. to
 New Haven lines-New Haven, Conn. to New York city
 Bridgeport line-Bridgeport, Conn.,. to New York city.
 Block Island line-Connecting with Norwich, New London, Conn. Watch Hill, Providence, Block Island, R. l., and New York.
 Hartford line-Hartford. Conn.,. >to New York city.
 Joy line-Providence. R. T.. to New
 The Merchants and Miners Trans rortation Go. Chalf interest-Boston News, Baltimore and Norfolk.
 Maine Steamship Co-Maine to New York city.
 Cedar Creek and the proposed IS foot channel in the Pequonnock river are neither of them improvements that will benefit the steamship lines of the New Haven Railroad, running into Bridgeport. On the contrary they will give convenienees to certain n shippers the freight handled by this great mo- nopoly.
 As to senator GaInnger. who 1ntfO- duced the $45.0Oo clause. ito save the appropriation, it was no later than Tuesday that he arose in the Senate to defend the monopoly of transpor- Haven system, making reply to the speech by Senator LaFollette.
 But Senator Gallinger's defense of the monopoly was neither so warm, nor so extended, as that made upon the. same day by Senator Bulkeley, who also replied to Senator LaFol- lette.
 AS showing the attitude of Senator Bulkeley where the interests of the New Haven railroad are involved, take the following from the Congressional
 LaFollette had been showing that the New Haven company had monop- oIized the trolleys in Rhode Island and Connecticut and large portion of those in Massachusetts.
 He then proceeded to show the in- jury caused by the merger of the New Haven company with the Boston & Maine company The conversation began:
 The Presiding Officer: Does the Senator from Wisconsin in 5 yield to the
 MT. LaFollette- TT do.''
 MT. Bulkeley: Twill the Senator from Wisconsin be kind enough to in dicate any locality where the lines of & New Haven Railroads are compet- ing lines?''
 MT. LaFonette: '.I think, MT. Presi- dent, if the Senator from Connecticut had n6t been engaged in conference with his colleague from the time mentioned the New Haven company ask me to repeat the large number of towns which I have just enumerated in which those lines are in competf- 1 ton, and are show n to be in competf- 1 tion by the railway map of the Rail road Commission of Massachusetts"
 CCont1nued on PaEe 2.)