| Show DEFECTS OF INTERSTATE LAW Pel I eb 3 A B D of or at HI president of or the Chicago Great Western railroad tonight de livered nn all address on The Defeats of or Interstate Commerce Jaw before tho regular monthly meeting of tho Wash ington society Among thon tho In III the Iho audience were and Clements of ot the In Interstate commerce commission Mr point wn s sAs As Ae nil all tho purposes of or tile the law I to the of rates and nd aa liS none I of or the tho purposes can be accomplished without a 1 it Mima evident I that the most defect In the law h Is Its failure to authorize the commis commission sion to make a 11 of or Interstate rates After enumerating the defects of or the law Mr took up the nonon of that part of or tha Interstate commerce law which forbids frea transportation of passengers and de declared declared that the of ot tha tho states many of ot thorn many of or tho In fact nil all officialdom from the tho highest to 0 the lowest clergy collego editors bankers lawyer are guilty of or a 1 misdemeanor In riding on nil free treo passes While district courts prisons may copo with Uie Ule outCAsts of or said Mr Stickney y they powerless the clues classes which have been mentioned Think of the of ot committing these classes lIell to Think of ot a n sheriff or 11 resting a district attorney prosecuting pro and anel a 1 Curt court committing tu to the penitentiary In England where the l w against discriminations arc enforced these theu dis discriminations criminations do not 1101 exist The mem members bers hert of ot parliament who enacted tho laws have ho obeyed the laws even the Judge when traveling on railways pays the scheduled rates ratel for or Its use URe Kor 01 IB 15 years the public has apparently been beell In a n sort Mort of hypnotic trance of ot an nil expectancy which can never neer be namely that tho virtues of ot the railway companies will render It for the Indi Individual vidual to offend tho law What the country needs to break the trance tranco Is II nn Illustrious example like the tho example of the king of o ling Ing land lilli There Is h one Clile man and hut but one man whose hose example would be effective and nn unless the American people misjudged his character It he realized that ho was transgressing tran tho law in accepting the courtesy of o free rec trans transportation Theodore would have th thA virtue virtu tho courage 11 iii I the to 10 net Ad trift Ihl which shall and all good food citizens to a dense of ot the Individual du III duty ty to 10 obey oblY this No one e Mr cnn can too strongly Insist upon Iron the that you ou cannot build the tho superstructure of ot public vir virtue tue tup save on private virtues n of the tho Interstate commerce In n speech plech ex expressed pressed his hl concurrence In the fundamental view on th 1114 tIto t tin 1111 tinder der Mr n as thole enunciated by b Mr He thought thAt hut nl corporations phon be 1 under the eon on nf n A commission I to 0 examine heir nf 01 noM to see Ice that they thc were not flooded with Block and to supervise their con conduct conduct duct Ho He said tha tho wore not tho only corporations open to criticism that they were not as had bad aa ns other corporations Helena Mont Feb 3 aThe The house houM to today t day adopted tho concurrent resolution nuking Congress to extend tho powers of ot the tho Interstate commerce along the lines provided In the bill In Introduced Introduced by Iy Congressman of ot New York i |
