The Nebraska Independent
AUGUST 16, 1905
of Nebraska from extortionate freight
rates? I make the prediction that if
uus amendment is adouted and if th
legislature will confer upon the com
mission power to fix rates, and the
commission shall undertake to exer
cise this power, the railroads wil
plead your amendment claiming that
me legislature, under your amend
ment, could confer no power to fix
rates but that the powers that can
be conferred are limited to "regula
tion-' only.
In 1887 the congress of the United
States passed the original interstate
commerce law. Under it fi mmmk
sioners were appointed by the presi
dent and from 3887 until' 1897 the
commission proceeded upon the
theory that it had the power to fix
interstate rates. But on May 24,
1897, in the case of Interstate Com
merce Commission vs. Cincinnati et
al. 17 Supreme Court Reporter, 898,
me supreme court of the United
States held that the commission, un-
ier me act had no nower to fix ratps
After ten years of struggle this whole
law, in tnis respect, was annulled and
all because the language used in the
act did not expressly and unennivn.
cally confer this power. And we all
Understand it that the whole fieht in
congress this last year was to clothe
me interstate commerce commission
with power to fix rates, being the
power the supreme court said was not
conferred in thf 1887 law. In the
case above referred to Justice Brewer
speaking for the court, uses this lan
guage: "'The words and phrases efficacious
to. make such a delegation of power
(the power to fix a rate) are well un
derstood, and have been frequently
used, and, if congress had intended to
grant such a power to the interstate
commerce commission, it cannot be
doubted that it would have used lan
guage open to no misconstruction, but
clear and direct."
Why did you not use the words
fix' or "establish" instead of the word
"regulation"? Why did you resort
to doubtful language on so important
a law as this? Why didn't you write
the language clear and direct? Or
was it your intention that power to
fix rates should not be conferred upon
the commission? I say again that
this amendment is intended as a sham
and a fraud and of the same kind of
, legislation that has fooled the people
of this state for the last twenty
years. It is intended to make the
people believe that they, are getting
something when, as a matter of fact,
they are not, and enable a discredit
ed batch of politicians to graft the
taxpayers of this state a while longer.
We hear much of the square deal of
President. Roosevelt. Let us have that
square deal in fact and not onlv in
name all the time. Unless the people
will be on their guard, wrongs of the
gravest kind wili be perpetrated up
on them in righteous name of the
"square deal." I want to say, in clos
ing, that for a long time Ihave cher
ished the hope that we could give
the people of this state an effective
railway commission. I am anxious
to support a measure of that kind.
We dare not, however, pass another
law that is but a subterfuge and fol
low the route of the old transporta
tion law and the maximum1 freight
law. Time for trifling is past. The
people want a real law, one that will
Five them substantial jelief. Some
have suggested to me that what I am
saying about this law will injure my
political interests. I have no politi
cal Interests except the welfare of
the people of this state and I would
rather be defeated than win by false
pretenses and be compelled to throw
the people down after I am elected.
All there is to this amendment is the
election of three commissioners. The
people will get that much but no
more. If it should be found that the
legislature cannot confer -power to
fix rates, or if it can confer this pow
er and refuses to do so, then we will
have to submit another amendment
in which the commission will be
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clothed with the powers the house
wanted to give the commission and
which you should have put in this
amendment. Yours truly,
GEORGE W. BERGE.
BRYAN'S DEMAND IS APPROVED
Sangamon County, Illinois, Democrats
Endorse Call for Resignation
of Roger Sullivan
Springfield, 111. Democrats of Sang
amon county in convention endorsed
Bryan for president, endorsed Bryan's
demand that Roger Sullivan resign
as member of the national committee
from Illinois and instructed delegates
to the state convention to use their
efforts to depose Sullivan. The con
vention also endorsed Alfred Oren-
dorff of this city for United States
senator.
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