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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3? J
four being daughters o such soldiers.
Mrs. Damon is 91 years old."
The Western. Negro Press associa
tion, in session at Muskogee, I. T.,
adopted resolutions demanding suf
frage for the negro in the event the
territories are given statehood.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Havana, under date of September 22,
follows: "Ofilcial dispatches received
thin afternoon from Cientuegos an
nounced the killing of Congressman
Enrique Villuendas, leader of the lib
eral party and the most able orator
in the lower house, and the chief of
police of Cienfuegos during a con
flict between the two political parties,
the liberals and moderates. The gov
ernment advices say the police had
information that within the hotel in
which Villuendas resided a quantity
of arms had been deposited, and they
went to tho hotel to investigate the
matter. As the police ascended the
stairs they were met by a party of
liberals, who fired on them, killing
Cbief of Police Illance. The police
returned the fire, killing Villuendas
aud wounding several others. In
tense excitement prevails at Cienfuo
gos and Havana."
' Francis H. Pcabody, a well known
financiov, died at his homo at Bever
ly, Mass., September 22.
Charlos T. O'Farrell, former con
gressman and former governor of Vir
ginia, died at Richmond, September
22.
The Nebraska populist state conven
tion met,, at Lincoln, September 20,
and nominated the following ticket:
For judge of the supreme court, Wil-'
Ham G. Hastings; for regentg'of the
state university, Loui-tightner and
D, Gole., JEhis. ig'ttie same ticket
"nominated by tho democrats.
It is said tho bureau of forestry of
tho agricultural department will be
the special subject or inquiry by Sec
retary Wilson during his trip through
the west. It is supposed the immedi
ate object of his trip is to rectify
alleged irregularities in the Black
Hills forest reserve. Actual graft in
connection with the administration of
the forestry bureau has not been sug-
gested, but there are ugly rumors
concerning the doings of some of its
agents in the west and northwest,
where a majority of the forest rc-
- serves are situated. Tho utmost se-
- crecy is maintained about this,, as
.with all other matters pertaining to
the department bureaus. Tho belief
, Is gaining ground that on tho return
of President Roosevelt to Washington
he will order a thorough investigation
of the departments in general and es-
pecially of those against which there
are . charges of graft.
Smelting and Refining company de
clared a quarterly dividend of 1 per
cent on the common stock. This is
an advance of Vi to 1 per cent over
tho last previous rate and increases
the dividend rate from G to 7 per cent.
The regular stock was also declared.
Daniel Guggenheim was elected pres
ident of the company, succeeding the
late Edward W. Nash. Tho chairman
ship of the board previously held by
Mr. Guggenheim was abolished. Mr.
Guggenheim also succeeds the late
Mr. Nash as president of the Ameri
can Smelting Securities company. Ed
ward Brush, secretary of the smelting
company was elected assistant to
President Guggenheim.
sary concessions to enter Yokohama,
Japan, and Shanghai, China. Tho
last step in a series of diplomatic ne
gotiations, which were begun at the
wish of President McKlnley, and
which have extended over a period
of about three years was taken, when
Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minister
to the United States, a few days ago,
affixed his signature to Japan's agree
ment with the Commercial Pacific
Cable company for landing rights at
Yokohama. An agreement for landing
rights at Shanghai was signed by
China several weeks ago. The work
of manufacturing and laying the new
cables will begin at once.
Through American enterprise, the
way h.as been won to connect the
western continent by direct subma
rine telegraphic lines with the empire
of Japan. Clarence H. Mackay, pres
ident of the Commercial Cable com
pany, makes the announcement that
his company has secured the neces-
A semi-official statement states that
notwithstanding tho denials from
Christiania of the report published in
the Dagblad September 13 that the
second to the sixth year classes of
the Norwegian conscription had been
mobilized, the Swedish government
regards the report as conforming to
tho facts.
1901
A MARKED CHANGE OF SENTIMENT
The directors of tho American
Why
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"Why? Because when any other organ Is in
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refuses as lorn as It has power to move, but
continues to do the best It can, getting weaker
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because It will work you let It.
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and I am very grateful."
MISS EMMA J. BARTON,
No. 1 Sill St..Wutertown, N. Y.
The first bottle.wlll benefit, if not, the drug
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Before the Round Table club at
Lincoln, Neb., Mr. H. M. Bushnell read
the following paper:
"The topic which I have selected for
discussion this ' evening, 'Increased
Power for the Interstate Commerce
Commission,' appeals to me as the
most important question in national
politics that has arisen since the re
peal of the silver purchase act in the
administration of President ClQYeland:
It is to the commerce between the
states a proposition of as widespread
Interest as was the other legislation
and of at least equal if not more im
portance. "One thing to remember in this
question is that railroads are public
highways of commerce to be open to
all on equal terms, that roads are
servants of the public, existing for
public convenience, with no rights in
imical to -the public welfare.
"The interstate commerce commis
sion act dates from February 4, 1887.
The act in its relation to rates cen
ters, around this- clause : 'All charges
made for services rendered in the
transportation of persons or property
shall be reasonable, and just, and
every unreasonable and unjust charge
for such service is prohibited and de
clared to be unlawful.'
"Tho act creating the interstate
commerce commission was originally
and in intent directed against the
wrong-doing, both in the fixing of tar
iffs and the observance of tariffs. It
is neither new or radical legislation
that President Roosevelt is asking of
the congress of the United States.
"The question of the right and the
power of the government tO' regulate
and control commerce between the
states no longer is doubted or denied.
It is one of the fixed and settled prop
ositions of government that this right
exists. It was originally recognized
and conceded that the commission had
the power both to determine and to
enforce a reasonable rate, and from
1887 to 1897, when the supreme court
of the United States decided that the
power to fix and enforce a reasonable
rate did not lie in tho commission.
the railroads very gonerally recog
nized the claim of tho commission to
this power, and followed their find
ings.
"When, therefore,, the president of
the United States asked congress to
give the commission the nowor wHnh
mo original act clearly intended it
snouiu nave, he was aslciner rnmnHni
legislation, to put into rorco and ef
fect the plain declarations in tho inter
state commerce law. This is the lan
guage of the president in his mes
sage to congress one year ago
ant'IlLfnHUdgmG1Jt he mosfc imPrt
ant legislation as regards the regula
tion of corporations is this act to con
fer on the interstate commerce com
mission the power to revise rates and
regulations, the revised rates to go
at once into effect and to stay in ef
fect unless and until the court of re
view reverses them.'
"In the year 1888 action was taken
under the interstate commerce law
which has made Lincoln a wholesale
center .in the state. In May of that
year cases brought before the inter
state commerce commission to require
the roads to give this city In and out
rates reasonable with Missouri river
rates, were lieard in this city, and
voluminous testimony was taken. So
conclusive was the evidence, and so
self evident the facts, that the com
mission could find for the city, that
a reasonable rate was agreed upon
and given before the commission had
time to formulate its opinion. It was
a rate question, jind the railroads be
lieving power rested in the commis
sion, granted them. It has made this
city what it is in the wholesale line
today, and affected all values since
that time. About the same time Oma
ha wholesalers found their rate to
Texas points was as great as the Chicago-Texas
rate. They went before
the commission and the roads, be
lieving the commission had power to
reghlate rates, gave Omaha its proper
differential. These are home illus
trations of the fact, that the roads ac
cepted the public interpretation of the
law that the commission had power
to regulate rates. After 1897, when
the court found differently results
from hearings before the commis
sion have grown less and less. What
a difference might have been made
regarding Lincoln, if the roads in 1888
had known the limitations the court
would place on the commission.
"Congress recently passed the Elk
ins law which prohibits the giving of
rebates and which has had a whole
some effect in this line upon trans
portation. The Blkins law alms to
remedy one clause of the original in
tent of the act, against wrong-doing
in the observance of tariffs. That
which is now asked is legislation to
prevent the wrong doing in the fixing
of tariffs.
"The magnitude of interstate com
merce and the growth of the railroads
is scarcely appreciated. In the year
1904 the railroads of the nation
through their car associations handled
twenty-five million cars. They em
ploy a million and a quarter men,
more than all the soldiers of the Civil
war that were enlisted in tho armies
or the north. The wealth of the rail
roads in 1904 represented by their as
sets was over sixteen billion dollars,
more than the entire wealth of this
nation at the time of the election of
Abraham Lincoln, The income of the
railroads of the United States in
wnn nvfir fwn hllHnn ,t,.n '
.,w ..wu ulnars enoiif)i
to pay twice over the national ,S
Five of the leading roads earned
1904 over $50,000,000 each T t
Pennsylvania system headed the im
earning $238,000,000. On the o her
side, the farmers alone produce an
nually over six billions of dollar,
worth of products. In 1901, Nebras
ka produced out of the ground S2-,
000,000, while the entire gold produ t
tion of the United States wim w
$80,723,200. A recent estimate places
uio vaiue ui me grain crops alone in
Nebraska this year at $18:;.ooo,O00
"The power of the corporations
and the wrong-doing which occurs
through power unrestrained stands oa
the one hand, and the entire Interests
of the production of this nation oa
the other. The longer tho power is
unrestrained, the more powerful tho
trend is toward government owner
ship; and the railroads will ultimately
recognize that they confront present
government regulation or ultimate
government ownership. Individually,
I believe in the competitive system,
in the control railways rather than
ownership of railways. It Is not in
tended either in the original inter
state commerce law or in the proposed
legislation, to make of the commis
sion a schedule building body. Not in
the creation of rates, but in the pass
ing upon their reasonableness and
fairness to both the shipper and the
common carrier is where power is to
be .vested, subject to appeal to tho .
supreme court of the United States,
to whose findings every citizen and
corporation should acquiesce.
"To prevent discriminations be
tween localities, transportation
charges are required to be both rela
tively reasonable and reasonable in
themselves. The supreme court has
given great elasticity to the long and
short-haul clauses, but the position
stands that similar conditions between
cities and 'Similar conditions between
firms and individuals must command
similar transportation charges. Addi
tional power to the interstate com
merce commission will make this ef
fective. That this power given tho
commission would be of direct value
and great importance to Lincoln aud
this state may be suggested, in a few
rates as they discriminate now. Tho
corn rate to gulf ports is six cents
higher from Lincoln than from Oma
ha, though corn in this section is theo
retically shipped through Lincoln to
Omaha and then back through Lin
coln to Galveston. Such a rate is ut
terly indefensible. Colorado ana
oming coals cost a dollar a ton less
laid down in Omaha than in any city
or point east of North Platte Con
sumers of western coal in Nebraska
living between North Platte and Oma
ha must pay a dollar a ton more urn
Omaha, although the coal is hauleu
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