Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-01-19
LIGHT FROM THE SOUTH.
Interested Observer Tells of NurdOcks
Talk to Legislative Committee.

An interested Observer n the hearing
before the joint railway committees i'm
the Senate chamber ~ Montpelier last
week Informs the Free Press that in
addition to the new light thrown upon
the Rrattleboro situation John $ Mur-
So,k If Providence made f. plain 20 bis
hearers that this attempt upon tho parj
Of the New Haven 90 pet control Of the
Bratt leboro pass was NOT because Of the
rcce= tiles OF the situation. II va,
evident thu the expenditure of all ,his
money in Brattleboro could not be
Justified as a business proposition. II
was, Mr.. Murdock declared. a part Of the
New Havct's program to (here Mr. Mur-
dock quoted President Mellenl take care
IF the Grand Trunk outside of Rhode Is
land MI Murdoch harked back TO the
DAYS when the question of the New Eng
land 1ifferentials was up before tho
trunk line presidents When the vote for
the destruction of the difrerentials which
meant the ruin Of many New England
industries was sixty to one. The one,
tho only trunk line voting for a continual
tton If the dlfferentisl basis OF rates,
was the Grand Trunk Newspapers all
over New England hailed the Grand
trunk as the saviour Of New England
Industries Many of these Industries have
grown up and have developed under and
because Of the dherental rate They
We're established and developed with the
belief that this basis OF rate making was
permanent. To take away from these In
dustries this advantage would be
virtually 70 work their ruin
YELLED WAR HAS FOLLOWED.
From that day there was velled war.
often only slightly yelled, between the
New Haven and the Grand Trunk,
The next aggressive move upon tho part
OF tho Grand Trunk interests was the ar-
plication for a charter to build to Provi-
derce. Tho charter. though strongly OPP
posed hy tho New Haven, vas itpmedi-
stely granted. Then appeared the sug-
gestion that the road would never be
built. that the Grand Trunk had Interior
motives
While there was never any possibility
OF tho New Haven acquiring the Central
Vermont or the Now London Northern.
the New Haven officials, or parties ter
ested speaking for them. kept pushing
into the press yelled hints that the oh
ject OF the Grand Trunk was to unload
these New England lines on the New
Haven
sketchins the history Of all this, Mr.
Murdoch referred to the Grand Trunk s
application for a charter or for certih-
cate Of exigency, which would permit
them to build across the corner of Massa-
chusetts from Palmer to the Rhode Island
State line, Here again they were OPP
posed by the New Haven, hut here again
the New Haven was defeated as they had
been defeated in Rhode sland
Mr. Murdoch also called the attention
of his hearers that two days after the
application 20 the Rhode Island I.egis-
lature for charter, an article appeared
in newspaper accompanied by a map,
showing the real situation in Vermont
and arguing the impossibility OF the
Grand Trunk getting through to Provi-
dence
What Is taking place in Vermont to-
day is only carrying out the program
limited at at hat time, That was the ar
gument of Mr. Murdoch.
The speaker also asked the railway
committee not to be fooled into The belief
that TINS was a phianthropic act of Mr.
Melen, this separation Of a grade cross
in2 at Brattlehoro. There IL IN ProVi-
~~nce," he declared. "a grade crossing