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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 7
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Head and Front of Railroad lobbyists
Washington, Feb. C In the lineup
of the forces for and against anti-rebate
IcKlHlnllon, Chaunco M. Dopcw
HtundH prc-oinincnL ns the most influ
ential force On tho side ot tho rail
roads. In tho light to a finish that is
to be fought out at this and subsequent
KffHHloiiH or conirrcss. lie is looked on
as the leader.
Up to within a few days ago ho was
chairman of tho board of directors of
eight Vanderbilt railway lines. His in
come from this source is extraordinary.
His powers and responsibilities are
also enormous. For reasons best
known to the directors of these eight
railway companies, Senator Depew re
tired from tho chairmanship of two of
them.
It was given out that thi3 was done
to combine more closely tho Vanderbilt
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systems and bring them under one
management.
These eight roads belonging to tho
Vanderbilt family, to which he may bo
said to owe his great wealth and pres
tige, extend over JG,000 miles and their
annual earning approximately $158,
000,000. These earnings are divided
as follows:
Now York nonlr.il. West Shores and
I Boston and Albany lines $75,000,000;
Lalto Shore and Michigan soutnern,
$25,000,000; Big Four, $23,000,000; Nick
el Plate, $8,000,000; Lake Erie and
Western, $0,000,000; Michigan Central,
$21,000,000.
Chauncoy M. Depew is the individual
representative of all these railroads
in Washington. Every president of
these roads, every general counsel,
every lobbyist, every votary who comes
here, must report to Depew or to one
of his handy men.
Depew has fifteen persons employed
here as an office force." He has four
secretaries.
Ono man in his emnlov fa south
erner, formerly in the railroad busi
ness) receives a salary of $300 a month
for his "Influence" with members of
congress. He is allowed also extrava
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other purposes.
Nearly every railroad man who has
appeared here as a witness in tho
hearings on tho tvaffic-rate legislation
before the committee first had a talk
with Depew.
Men known as "general counsel" and
who receive salaries from $25,000 a
year upward, frequent Depew's con
ferences, and not since the "palmy"
days of the Huntington Southern Pa
cific contest have so many of this class
had reason to visit Washington as
havo thi3 winter.
Most of them have left the capital
now, having dono well their work, and
uonnuenc that no traffic-rate legis-
muuii wouict ue likely to cause their
return or require their presence again
before March 4.
They are able lawyers for the most
in re anu clever iranipulators as well.
Ihe Gould system had Winslow S
Pierce and John F. Dillon; J. Pier-
vuui. iuuiBuns interests, Francis L.
btetson; tho Moore system of the couth
west, Robert Matthew; the Bur
lington, James W. Blythe; the Chica
go, Milwaukee and St. Paul, George R
Pock; the Baltimore and Ohio, Hugh
Mor ndt' 3l" fai western lines' Victor
All 4-1. J -.
u lutob unu many others are in
close communication with Depew. He
a regarded as the head of their "Wash
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Depew's influence and power in rail
road circles was shown, it is stated on
good authority, by the resignat on of
M. p. ingalls a few days ago as presi
dent of the Big Four, his retirement
it isid ted lS DTW' from wSSl!
t is said by railroad men Triia
would not take "orders " g 8
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he senate committee on "revision of
the laws of the United States'' nnJ
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