The evening world., 1921-03-17

what the traction companies do not
want.
1t was a red letter day, altogether, !
for the traction companies, which |
have been trying for years to get such !
measure passed. But II didn't get
through without being branded, and
burning invectives we're hurled at the
men who voted for ii.
Senator Marty McCue said that he
would be afraid 10 vote for the bill
and go home, fearing to be shouted at
in the street or awakened from his
sleep by the cry Of, Thief, thief,
thief"
Senator Karle said: els it the in
tention TO make this bill constitu-
tional by declaring 1t an emergency?I
Where Is the emergency? Are we
taking the figures of the celebrated
firm of Stone and Webster to prove
it? They can make the figures of the
b. r, T. jigg and even sing better
than Montgomery and Stone. To-
Gay the companies are overcapital-
lied because of Just such legislation
as we are now considering. 1t is the
old trick to change old securities for
new Is 1t feasible? l wish the
pulse Of the people could be felt by
those representatives from above the
Harlem River. We feel 1t deeply in
ANGW L Olk ana WISH We GOulu ldloN
our voices to make the men up State
listen to right or reason"
Senator Burlingame said: EVERY
thing Is set to put this across, but
yet | cannot allow this time to go
without putting a tag on the meas
ure. without saying to those who
have been whipped into line by every
known political pressure that they are
wrong. New York is almost unani-
lttt
are blind and deaf to the entreaties,
and the measure Is TO pass.
"You will put into the hands of
three men the right to saddle any
fare on any community, 1t was
never intended by the trainers of the
constitution that this should be done.
Speaking TO those from up State who
may be fooled and who say an scent
fare is needed, let me give you some
figures"
Burlingame then submitted figures
showing that the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company in sixteen years
had paid a dividend Of 1877 per cent
on an investment Of $S5,O0O,OOo, and
added:
You men up state do not know
the dividends were so tremendous.
| They formed a pool and started the
Interborough Consolidated, issuing
| $35, 200, 900 invested. That Is what
they now want to make good on.
$4,000, 900 of the $35,O0O,0OO is held
! by a single corporation, one trust
company in New York-pOor widows
and orphans"
'If you vote for this bill you are
| subscribing to the list Of the finan-
ciers 1 have read; you are paying
/ their dividends and releasing your
duty to your constituents to CON-
mission Of three"
Senator McCue said the one regret
Of his legislative career was that he
voted for the Hughes Public Service
bill, adding: For fourteen years the
Public Service law has been in ef-
feet. For fourteen years the prices
| OF gas, electricity and railroad fares
have been going up and the Legisla-
! ture has been buncoed with the be-
! lief everything would be all right
/ When l said buncoed l looked at the
Senator from Herkimer, who recently
said he did not care to sit in the
chamber and hear the same old
bunk Let me say you are only bun
Going yourself You are not living
up to your oath Of office. That is
pretty strong, but no man can vote
for this bill and believe he is living
up to his oath of office, even after
listening to the meagre explanations.
"One man told us fourteen years
ago he had a cure-aA. Now some
other man tells you he has come to
lead YOU out OF the wilderness. We
have been robbed and we are going
to be robbed again.
81 would be afraid to vote for this
bill and go home. l would fear my
neighbors, my friends, my constitu-
ents would stand in the middle Of the
H. ell nm
at night shouting, Thief, thief,
thief" .!
Senator Strauss said: There is