Show TICKET BROKERS congressman aberman baa introduced a bill in congress to make railroad ticket brokers criminals in the jayes of the law the bill should be defeated A railroad company sells a ticket to a traveler the transaction simply i meina that for value received the company agrees 0 o perform a certain duty and that duty consists in carrying a passenger oyer a certain number of miles of railroad in a designated class of cars often only a portion 0 a ticket ie used by the original purchaser in which case the traveler goes to a scalper and bargains for the sale of the remaining mileage ton his ticket which the railroad company ie in all fairness duly bound to recognize as part of a contract that must be carried out to the last mite congressman sherman ie endeavoring not only make scalpers criminals but to force purchasers of tickets to beell their surplus mileage back to the companies at their own figures instead of allowing them to go into the open barket and get the beat price possible oos sible for their property by vertna of the cona petition among the ticket brokers this would be equivalent to depriving american Ame citi zene of the right 0 diep osine of their property to the best advantage an abridgment of alie privileges of a arec arn american which should never be enacted into law instead of attempting to kill off the brokerage business we believe the pera should be encouraged the is not only en honorable one but a blessing to the traveling public |