| Show I 1 THOSE HOSE resolutions by a vote of 4 to 2 at the last meeting of the chamber of commerce directors it was wag decided not to endorse the resolutions introduced at a former meeting and directed against the pacific railways railway funding bill under the circumstances it would seem to be about the best beet gourse course to pursue when the directorate of the chamber was to finally pan upon the matter it was pointed out that the chamber had no specific complaint corn plaint against the central pacific toward which the resolutions primarily were directed and that it was favorable to the union pacific which also would be affected by any op pol position tion to 10 the funding bill under this statement it appeared improper for the directors to unnecessarily strike a blow at either or both of the railways railway but the fact that the four director did not want to engage in a fight which they regarded as none of theirs and preferred a more conserVA conservative LITO course does not indicate that the chamber of cow commerce ceroo meroo as an a body looks with spy any degree of favoron favor on the funding to gbill bill instead of this the act of declining to submit the resolutions to a vote ot of all the numbers members is in an intimation that the bill would be antagonized by that body it if it gave full ex aprea crewson aloa to its ite views view and the reason assigned for refusing to place t th resolutions before the whole that anything against tile railroads would go through with a is an explicit declaration that if given ao an opportunity the chamber would have adopted the resolutions by bj an overwhelming vote there is a great deal involved in the attitude suggested by the resolutions and in the first place it is a plain business busi nees proposition as to whether the government is to enforce an obligation against a great corporation as readily as it does where an individual with lose less money power Is concerned there are many incidental qu questions which should be studied before there to is muot of resolution pawing passing on the part of public bodies bodice in our condition although the proposition placed before the chamber perhaps was waft untimely so far as committing that body to the beas suggested to coh 1 earned yet it has been thus brought to public attention A continued agitation of the subject is in likely to follow in indifferent different ways and the public wih her be thus more thoroughly informed on the issues involved and be pre prepared whenever the occasion shall arise to declare themselves intelligently and emphatically upon them |
