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agreed thnt tlioro'wlll be
! jewlon of congress, it is
l that thcro Js no gonoral
the- report which will be
lie senniu cuuiuhhw ib
idut) of Investigating .tho
Ktuation. In orrtor that- tho
Bf Bpprcciuiu wuo miuutiuii
lets from tlispatohos prlntoil
Republican newspapers- nro
i from a dispatch from wnl-
Washington correspond-
tho Chicago :BocordHeraldrt
jilwavs mado no (secret) of
that tber havo"capturotWtho.
mmittee on interstate com
1 will bo nblo to sccuro a ro
de autumn mainly fnvornblo
Me of tho contontlon.
lennto commlttco closed Its
today and announced that no
Bcs.ics would bo hoard. An
session was hold, but no con
rived at savo that tho for-
of n report and of a bill will
eJ until tho nutumn. Tlio
oa tno committco reel tnnt
e worked hard enough during
g and that they nro ontitlcd
Jo rest.
railroad attorneys who have
reful attontion to tho sessions
ommlttco, and who know as
tho mombors themselves as
tho commlttco stands, express
t whatovor as to the outcome.
( perfectly suro tho report of
mlttco will bo a final triumph
railroads. By thlsiatliey-doHiot
o commlttoo will report against
ion whntovcr by congress. In-
t is not tho railroad wish. Tho
is to mako a protenso of doing
ag, but to mako Jolly eure4baf
tg, if it bo cmnnimcn in inw,
a tno rniiroatis no narm. ai.
t of slop-moutr:- legislation,
really effects nothing of Impor-
ml yot shuts oft agitation, tho,
attorneys and their many
in tho sonato nro rccognlzod
tvr that tho sonato committee has
finished lis hearings, it ig important
tho peoplo should understand just why
those sittings .of tho commltteo were
hold, and tho methods pursued in this
supposedly impartial, investigation. Tho
noanngs woro proposod in tho first
iplaco os a railway schomo of dolny and
ns a- campaign of education. Tho ros?
olution providing. for tho sittings was
propared by tho attorney of nn oastt
orn railway company and Introduced in
tho Bcnnto by Mr. Kcaa of flow Jcrsoy,
who is nothing moro nor less than a
railway lawyer temporarily occupying
a scat In tho upjKir branch. This is
not saying that Mr. Kcan is a bad
fellow. Ho moves according to his
lights and training. All his associa
tions bnvo been with corporations, and
lid thinks ho is doing right in looking
nfter tholr interests. Ha is not by any
means tho only man in tho sonato who
rcprcsonts both a sovereign and a corporation-
which owns that stato. Jn
pointing out tbeso facts it is not neces
sary to throw any bricks at tho indi
viduals thomsolvcs. Thoy nro within
tholr rights, as politics goes. But tho
facts should bo "known, nevertheless.
Throughout tho longi series of hoar-
jrigs'-now sbroughtj.tooa cloBoUhcrai
roau attorneys uavo.uecn n ;;protty
complete control sof ' tho committee.1
Thoy7 lmvo run thcwholefshow. -'
"It nny one had entertained doubts
ns to tho sympathies of n majority of
tho committeemen it would havo been
necessary only to attond a fow moot
ings of tho commltteo to havo those
doubts removed" onco for all. Bvory
railroad man who has appoarcd boforo
the committee h'as boon treated as if
ho wore one of tho lords of croatlon,
and generally ho was. Nothing was
too good for him. No awkward uos-
tions woro asked. IIo was not subjected
to a rigid cross-oxnmlnatlon. His paths
lay through ploasant groves, lined with
flowers.
"But tho man who appeared for tho
pcoplo's sldo of tho contention was
treated in qulto another manner. Af
ter tho politeness had been properly ex
pended ho found himself under fire. Tn
fnctajho was almost an objoct of .sus
picion. It seemed to bo tho principal'
aim in lifo of arrufJorttypfihe?mcm
bora of tho committco to cxpoeo Vhls
ignornnco of practical railroading. A
concortcd effort was mado to show that
ho was nothing but a wlld-oyod drown
orj a. thcoristj.a domsgoguo; whoimust
go to pieces when confronted with tho
cold logic of facts nnuMflgurcs. And.
niter1 a,. half dozen- eminent senator
well vorscd in their art and long prac
ticed, had, picked and pulled nt . tho
witness to their, heart's content-, .thoy
would turn to ono nnothcr with a smilo
of eatlsfnctlon, as-much as to say; 'Another-
odo 'gono by. thoi hoard. v iDidn't;
HAXLt OAMEAI. 30WUML, SJJXMJ CflOWOlT, frATPSPAT, AtMWW 6,
1MB.
we do him up in fino shape! '
"The truth is, the committee was
with .them from tho first. It is what
may bo called a packed jury. Tho
frlonds of tho railways hnvo mhU It
their business to see to it in the past
that a majority of tho members of this
highly important commltteo wero
friendly to tho corporations. It was
tholr business to do this, and it was
riot nnyono's business to counteract
them."
Extracts. from a dispatch to tho Chi
cago Tribune by John Callan O 'Laugh
Hn, its Washington correspendent:
"No moro flagrant dlsroeard-'of tho
wishes of the peoplo has beon shown by
a congressional committco than that
displayed by tho ecnato commlttco on
interstate commcrco in connection with
tho railroad rate question. Tho com
mittco concluded its hearings this aft
ernoon after nn exhausting session last
ing fivo weeks, and will adjourn tomor
row without making tho slightest at
tempt to formulate a report of any
kind.
"Tho truth of tho matter Is that tho
commltteo deliberately tanglod Itself
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lEi'-stw W
tjp In a nor,.-skllfully wovorr by tho
railroad officials and agonts, for no
other purpose than to defeat tho". trill
id! tho'.prosidont and of tho people. Not'
nil tho mombers havo favored tho pro'
grain.
"Senator Cullom and Senator DollU
vor stand out as notablo exceptions;
But tho shaniofol way in which' Sona
to Elklnjt .Borrator Kean and 'Senator
Forator ondcavorod to blind thoeoun-i
try, tho flrifrroamed by 'packing' tho
witness, stand with men controlling)
railroads or in tholr pay, and tho oth
ers by -asking questions apparently do
elgnod to, draw-out statemcnts--'favora.
bio to tho railroads to discredit ther ef
fort toiehotr &. need of rato regulation
is a Bhinltigjtroflectlon upon the states
thoy woro eleoted to represent.
. " Any t ono familiar with railroad
conditions 4in -tho United States, who
makes an analysis of tho witnesses who
(have, testified, Ibef ore the committee,
"segregates' them promptly into three
classes:
"Railroad agents, officials or attor
neys. "Business men, either middlemen or
havlug their industries located -at ter
nala. "Interstate onrgmeree commission
ers and a few experts and shippers
whose evidence literally was swamped'
under the testimony of the prceodlng
classee.
"From the outset of the 'inquiry';
tho evident purpose of Chairman
Elklns has been to further the efforts
of the railroads to befuddle the people,'
Railroad agent followed railroad agent
and the scandal of it finally 7eaebod
a point where the members of the-.eonu
mlttee went to the chairman and told
him that if any impression were to be
made upon the country he would- have
U cbsg-U-tactlei.aad' sandwlohiin'
witnesses who were not knowaUo KV
connection, with railroads and who
mfghti evert support the president's
vIowm-
"Thit i-railroads tookrthe tlpi a ad
men claiming to represent the interests
and the communities affected by rail
road rates were baled bef orothe-com-
J mlttee and led by questions -put tp
them by Elklns, often at the instance
1 oWex-8en8tcr Tanlkncr, an .attorney
wferheJrallraids'it9fgive;iitteraaM to
f oplnioMl&Tmadojone wonderYtrny
the charge of rotate 'or unjost'dls. ,
crimination ovor was brought against
these guardians, of tho public's wel
fare '
After tho 'War, Whit?
Tho realignment of Eurdpo posslblo
or probablo as a rosult of tho Jnpa
ncso triumphis indlcatod by the
foregathering- of tho czar with tho
kaiser, which is viowed with uneasiness
by all tho ehancellorlos of Europo.
"With Russia being beaten to her knees
tho kaiser long, ago improvod tho op
portunity to create friendly relations
with Russia, which put that power so
much at oaso that ahe could withdraw
her legions from tho German frontier.
With contlnuod disaster in tho east and
at the same timo tho development of
most f rlondly relations botween Franco
and EnglandRussia's inveterate on
oiny tho German emporor seized the
ehanco to pick a quarrel with France
over tho romoto Moroccan situation,
not o much, probably, for any inter
est Oermany. bad in it, as for the pur
pose of menacing Franco into a closer
approach to England, or a more opon
acknowledgement of that approach
with tho 'effect of further, weakening
tho bond between -France and Russia.
Now, If ho abalUbo ablo to convineo
the czar that "Oodllu'r the friend not
Short," he will have drawn Russia to
his sido, will have isolated France, ex-i
eept for her English- support, which Is
Iftlwarai an uncertain, onantitv einetol
Englaudi by reason1 of her' "streak ofi
silver soa'' cannot bo dragged anyi
further into a quarrel than she chooses
to go and will havo mado his own,
rnnntrvj the dominant factor' in EuroneJ
His recent approach to Sweden is to
the same end in guarding-, against a
flro in tho rear.
Only one thing further ie needed to
set all Europe in . turmoil greater than
it uis hsswa ainea the day of the;
Crimea, and that is the- death- of Emi
peror Francis Joseph of Austria-Hunt
gary, an event that may occur at any
time and -that has been feared of latf
a imminent. With the warring ele
ments of his empire freed from the in
fluence of his ipersonallty, the fear or
expectation-of years has bees that they
wonld "resolvo themselves apart" in
a literal sense, and thai the pan-Amer-lean
element would revolt and form a
union. -with the German-empire, and so
the- Teutonic :peopIenouId indeed be
cpmo tho backbono of Europo, strotcli
lng from tho Baltic to tho Adriatic.
Clasping bands in friendship with Rus
sia, tho futuro would then bo ono thnt
ovory part -of tho world would bo vi
tally Interested In. This hasty vlo'w
'shows what may oaslly lmppon us a ro
sult of tho Russo-Jnpnucso war. Tn
'dlanapolls Nows.
(Lived Two' Xloars and Twonty Mihutes
With ins Heart Out. -I
With a knlfo "wound an inch 'wido
aqd four and ono-hnlf inches doop pen
orntlng tho wall nnd into tho loftaurl
ciilo of tho heart, Witliam MoBoo, n
ndgro laborer about 80 years old, lived
two hours and twenty minutes, Dr.
0. It Stemon, surgeon for Bethany
hospital, and Dr. D. Smith, assistant
pdlleo surgeon, attendod tho negro'
"Thero Is only ono other case oa roc
ord where a man's heart was pene
trated and ho 11 veil as long- as tho Met
Boo negro' euld Br. Stemon thir
morning, "liven In thnt caso an- au
ricle of tho heart was not penetratod
Tn tho caso last night a butcher knlfo
was thrust into tho nogro's hoart nnd
Into the left auricle, making; & wound
nn inch wido. Tho stabbing- occurred
at 8t20 o'clock. Tho tiegro was' taken
to Bethany hospital at 0 o'clock, whore
wo took several stitches in tho hoart
and stopped the homorrbage. During
tha greater part of that timo "he was
conscious. At each beat of tho heart
blood poured out, eventually causing
doatb from loss of blood."
"The negro was under the influence
of liquor at the timo of the cutting,"
said Dr. Smith, "and probably thnt
had something to do with tho vitality
shown."
JiIeBeft was cut by another negro 'in
an alloy back 'of the Fowler packing
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