The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-03-27
THE RAILROADS. IND LEGISLATION

Yesterday Senator Maoy introduced bill in the Senate
napos requn the railroads the State to place extra
under few days before
Senator introduced bill providing for the taxation of
and bonds held by railroad companies which taxes
paid Yesterday the Interstate Commerce Commission band
decision the effect that the railroads be required to
carry of freight at loss existing rates
enable small dealers compete with their larger rivals The rail-
way engineers lines Chicago preparing for
demands for higher pay acceded Mean
while the railroads not permitted increase of their rates
any classes of goods
Isn't it about time to give railroads
per dividend their ock Doubtless they
ALL less snned grevousy against God and They
granted rebates they wared Stock they showed discrimination
their high officials took graft from the supply companies and made
public pay and there health in them But the
have certainly been The Interstate Commerce Com
keeps pretty firm hand upon them the matter of stock is
and discrimination and proper Through the
the Government has taken hand the of
crbng rad and probable that will increase its
activities this respect in the future Wages III fact have
enormously and the supplies has increased
tremendously Yet when the Eastern roads asked the commission
months for permission increase their freight rates they
met with polite refusal.
The time certainly when halt be called this
system increasing expenditures decreasing revenues
great many students of the problem think has arrived
The railroads pay dividends otherwise they will not be
able the capital that necessary for them maintain their
and equiv proper condition and increase their c
ties for caring for additional business If the present tendency
Dues the result will re cheeparng that will prevent
proper handling traffic and that the railroads will be
the only sufferers the business the country generally will uf
fer Is much more than they
Senator Naoys bill providing for increased
emneny proposition that should be submitted the Pub
lie Service Commission for gation and action has ample
power and it is much better position to reach
cuson than Legislature that sits for ninety days and whose
busy with detail during that time The
formed and given large authority that
We have Senator Macys bill and in posi-
pass judgment upon it, but recalls of the foolish results
the regulation force if the pokes
the railroads be believed Everyone knows that the
Government through the Interstate Commerce Commission requires
the railroads nowadays equip all their freight with automatic
brakes In the old days the bakg done by hand and when
afreght train be brought the brakeman had
from putting the brakes The equippng the
with brakes left these bakmen with nothing much
and cocden with the enforcement of the national law requr
ing the automatic brakes several of the states of the
land thempaed laws requiring the railroads add another
brakeman the of train consisting of than speci
fed number of The practical result of this is said be that
when reaches the border line of these steps
into the caboose remains there until the reaches other
border lie has work do but his goes pay
roll Here certainly bad economies Waste labor is profitable
neither to employer employee.
OF corporation should be obliged pay its
share of taxation be decent its employees and fair its
and regard the just rights of the public The railroads of
Maryland have offended in these respects the have the
railroads of other But the time has believe
stop be put upon punitive legislation Bati-