Show SEN ATOIl VAN TAN WYCK ys vr f 8 ct kaies hakea al a ducly masterly Arraign arraignment ine at of grasping monopoly by aeed preen to the HERALD washington tan jan 16 in the sen ate the chair laid before the senate the interstate inter commerce bill van wyck addressed the senate he lie eaid said that since 1872 all political parties bad had demanded redress from grievances in transportation buethe but the party arty managers seemed to learn fearn no lesson fesson from the disaster and were still trying to amuso amuse and cajole the people the people only demanded reasonable rates no discrimination no pooling no rebates no greater charge for a short than a long haul thie this lie eaid said is no time to delay the work of deception can no longer be varrie zw u you pretend willingness willing t do and that tha au an oba obstinate or un 1 alouse of ri auses ruses if tho the Senate falefia now to am 1 t the lit house bill ao an indignant people peo jilt will believe that it fullers falters in a ilmis c and is seeking by lit dit to prevent the ao so long donghi and denied the roada roads owned and controlled the elevators and the fanner farmer if he desired could not possibly ship hie his awn own grain or cattle to market for he could obtain no rebate rebates the power of or absolute control by the railroads was not always exercised in a saintly manner to illustrate the union pacific became incensed at columbus an active interior city of nebraska whose citi zens were enterprising and aided to secure another road the rho corn com pany any determined that they should te be punished for such temerity and rebellion bo so the rates were changed change d and more was charged for a carload from omaha than to kearncy kearney and ki points n farther west Sot so the heCen central aral pacific e eifle without excuse of revenge or punishing rebellious subjects in their territory actually charges to persons east of san francisco franeisco through rates to san francisco and then local rates back it ie is now evident that the railroads should be restricted from exacting more for a short haul baul than a long one van wyck quoted from a letter written by wm walter waller phel phelps s in in which he said the latter showed that senators and representatives purs chased railroad shares on the basie basis of onoto one to three certainly he said stocks and bonds accordine ardina to this evidence are owned in this chamber and in the other end of the capitol on that basis that is you put down one dollar and tako take up three so it would appear that even members of 0 congress learn where the little jo joker kokeris keris is no wonder there isherw is here manifested some contempt cont emptor for public clamor as vanderbilt is eaid said to h have 3 v 0 exhibited in language more forcible for 1 e but not so reverential as by some distinguished senators according to the written and printed statement of one new jersey statesman and poors manual in fictitious watered stoc kwas represented in the stocks and bonds ot of railroads on this interest and dividends were collected from the people it made a mortgage on every acre acro of land in the republic an inflation para paralyzing I 1 izing ard industry laying a tax up WW 4 t we must remand all ali this r asi to ahe the na national laws of trade jay gould had bad greater wealth than the assessed property real and personal nalof of both kansas kaneas and nebraska and vanderbilt ailt buy both states and have 40 left were these there million milli one honestly acquired the sena senator tor from alov iowa va wilson trembled lest lost too much should bo be done and the sena tot from kansas ingalls euid faid he lie did not stand as an advocate or chami chams pion of that cheap demagoguery th that at appeals to public opinion against railroads i railroads were entitled en tilled to toe protection of law in kansas and nebraska fifty bushels of corn will not purchase ona opu ton of soft coal one hundred and fifty bushels N will ill not buy one ton of hard coal adur sympathy expands for the pauper labor of europe and india while jour your licarta seeni steeled against the cry for bread from amens are forced to work at starvation wages or have their places supplied inthe in the mines by specially P protected mine owners by pauper and convict labor imported under contract from europe it is the toila er r seeking labor in the furnace heat licit in in the underground labori labyrinth tit t the e settler in the dugout dug out on the frontier kansas and wives and children aro are drawing warmth from corn because the great corporations refuse tol to reduce the ralea rates of freight so that the coal of pennsylvania may way bo be exe exchanged hanged for fr the corn of the weid for twenty years these corporations haye grown rich strong and defiant in violation of law and now let ue us see to it that the tion law shall be given to those who are the victim victims of their extortion mcpherson sou and mitchell opposed slaters diuK amendment prohibiting railroads from charging more for a than a long ha haul ul alio also ingalla ganat van wyck addre addressed sied a question to the senator from kanaan Iii 0 galls Is it rl right ht to char charge 1 the same sain e rates rate from chicago torl to ansas city as a to instills made no deply the inquiry was repeated bit but t still till eliciting ft a response lse van vali wyck said that while abe senator from kaniah Kaii teas was pondering over his reply he lie would propound the s ame question to the senator from iowa lowa All allasen lsen Allison eaid sald that he lie did not want to get into a colloquy with his friend from nebraska van wyck no I 1 should t think not laughter allison said the rates boboth to both points ought to bo be reasonable ingalls fl thought that the compesi bation to the roads should be proportioned to the distance geor george 9 0 offered an amendment pro viding that slaters 11 proposed amend ment elfall not be construed to legalize charging as much for a shorter ae as for 11 a longer distance in any distance georges amendment was agreed to as modifying the tile slater amendment the latter however not being part of the bill but mill under debate brown of georgia said that soli li dation not competition was as the solution lution eo of the railway question the legislation proposed would greatly greaty y dib discourage courage the building of railroads there may be enough of them in the north and west those sections sections may way have enough came game in their heir trap to be able to afford top all the trigger trig ser it was vas not so with the south which yet needed railroads ds if jf tho the present bill passed the people who were now clamoring for ita its passage would alien bo be found clamoring amorine cl for its depeal it would either drive the tho railways into bankruptcy or else it would prohibit all interchange of commodities at a creater distance than or COO miles w statistics quoted by brown showed that freight could not possibly bear the same proportionate arste rte for 1000 milos it would not liot only destroy interstate inter state e commerce omme ree but by making long die dis tance freights frei ehte from the to the atlantic toast so expensive as to pro hibit shipment it would also destroy our foreign commerce adjourned until tomorrow to morrow |