The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-03-11
SAYS SOUTHERN is DOMINATED
BY FINANciERs WHO WRONG
SOUTH ATLANTIC PORTS.
DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION
Asserts that the Road Is not Allowed
by the so-calIed Trust to Move Coal
to Ports from Nearby Fields Pene-
trated by the Line.


that the Southern railway was domi-
mated by men not financially interest
ed in coal mines in it's own territory,
but in mines elsewhere, and that for
this reason the Southern was not al.
lowed to move ccal through the port
OF Charleston, 5. c., Senator Tillman
today introduced resolution for
special investigation by the naval ar-
fairs committee into advantages of
Charleston as a permanent point for
coal distribution as compared with
Norfolk and other Chesapeake bay
ports.
The committee would be directed
TO investigate the character ana prox-
unity of the coal supply; rates obtain
able en- cCal from fields near Charles
ton and Norfolk; relations between
railroads leading into Charleston and
ether South Atlantic ports and De.
tween these railroads and owners of
bituminous fields in Virginia, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
Kentucky; and conditions of owner
ship of Wharfage property in Char
lesion and Norfolk,
Senator TiIlman set forth that it
appears from numefous complaints be
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion, as we'll as from other sources,
that the power and Influence of the so
called coal trust is being persistently
used through the management of the
railroads reaching Charleston to pre-
vent the free movement of coal not
belonging to the trust practically all
OF such roads being actually dominat-
ed by the same financial interests that
control the great coal combines find
ing outlet chiefly through New York
harbor, Philadelphia and the Chesa-
peake bay ports"
Mr., Tillman declared in his resolu-
tion that in view of the early compile
tion Of the isthmian canal and of its
Importance to the United States navy
and the national defense generally,
to the development of an American
merchant marine and to the develop
ment Of trade with Central and South
American countries, the estimate of
adequate coal supplying facilities
south of Cape Hateras is deemed i'm
perative and the only available harbor
having sufficient depth for the modern
battleships and larger merchant YES
sells as well as extensive water front
age for proper handling of coal, IS
located at Charleston, S. c."
Arguing that the efficiency of the
Americon fleet and the usefulness of
Charleston as coal distributing cen
ter depended upon facilities of pro
dueers for reaching that port, Senator
.Tillman declared
THE Southern railway is dominated
by financiers who are not financially
interested in the coal mines Of the tet.
ritory traversed by the Southern rail
way, but who are interested in coal
properties elsewhere, and due to the
power and influence of these men, /.
is believed that the Southern railway
is not allowed to move coal through
the port of Charleston, which coal
might become competitive to .nsir
larger interests elsewhere.
1T is believed that efforts are now
being made by individuals acting for
the so-called trust to acquire the right
for coal docks and terminal facilities
in Charleston, SO as to monopolize the
terminal facilities there in tho came
way that the big interests nov domi-
nate New York harbor, Philadelphia
Baltimore and other ports on the Ches-
apeake bay.
1T is believed that these railroads,
all being dominated by the same In
fluence, maintain secret rate-making
body OF men, In defiance of the law,
who farm out the territory and mike
freight tariffs in such manner as to be
free from every element Of compett.
ton, and who have practically destroy
ed the usefulness of the interstate
commerce commission in so far as it
affects the average shipper and the
small shippers, on account Of the
great expense and extraordinary de-
lay brought about by the tactics Of
the railroad, whose agents reso It to
every method known to political tT!cK.