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BIDE THEIR TIME
JRillroad Conclude Hot to Press Pooling
Legislation.
A BETTER CHARGE NEXT YEAR
Reason* Why Congressmen Are More Lib
eral Turing the Short Sesslen-Culloms
Views on the Pooling Question.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 20.—[Special. I—The
railroad people have about concluded not
to press their bill authorizing pooling at
this session of congress. When the session
first opened, the pooling bill champions
were for action right away, but they have
discovered that their chances are very slim,
so far as this winter is concerned, and that
they will do better to wait till next session.
People who have legislative schemes to
push against which there is a popular prej
udice always discover that the “long” ses
sion of a congress is not the one most fa
vorable for their plans. The “short” ses
sion is much better. The difference is in
this: After the long session every member
must go immediately back to his constitu
ents for renomination and re-election.
After the short session there is a wait of a
year and a half before he has to go before
the people.
There is another advantage. After the
elections are over and a certain percentage
of the members know they are beaten and
can't get back, no matter how good they
are, they are more willing to vote for
measures which their home people may
have a prejudice against. It is an axiom
in the lobby that the short session is the
time for active work in their line.
There is no more important subject be
fore congress than this one of permitting
the railways to make pools on competitive
traffic. Some of the best men in congress
think one way and some the other. It is
not fair to set down every man who favors
pooling as a friend of the railroads or of
monopolies. It is a business question. On
the one side the railroad managers say that
•without authority to make pools rates are
■ cut so low the roads cannot live. The re
sult of this is to rob employees of fair
wages, the service suffers and the people
do not get the best work of which the
roads are capable. Besides, they claim,
Stockholders and the millions of people
who have mon :y invested in railroads in
one way or another have some rights.
The railroad managers claim with truth
that freight rates and passenger rates are
both lower in this country than they are
in Europe and that we give a better serv
ice than they do across the water. It is
also true that few American roads have
made any money during the last ten
years, while many of them have gone into
the hands of receivers.
Senator Cullom’s Views.
Senator Cullom, the author of the inter
state commerce law, which is supposed to
regulate the railroads, but which does not
do so to any great extent, has explained
the situation to me in a most clear and in
teresting way. ‘ ‘ Between the two extremes
on this question,” ho said, “I believe there
is a happy mean. It is there, I believe,
that I stand. One extreme is represented
by the railroad people themselves, who
say the roads should have the right to pool
and fix rates without any check at all.
The other extreme says there should be no
poolings and that the roads should go on
cutting one another’s throats. My posi
tion is that the roads should have the
right to pool and to fix rates that they
may protect their rights and their share
holders, but that there should be some
check on the rates so that they may be
kept within bounds. The tendency in the
era of keen competition has been to put
rates too low. If we go to the other ex
treme and give the roads full swing, the
tendency will be to put rates too high. Be
tween the two the lower rate is better for
the country, even if not so good for the
roads.
“For this reason,” concluded Senator
Cullom, “I favor, and I believe a major
ity of the men who have carefully studied
this most important question favor, giv
ing the railroads the right to pool under
wholesome supervision as to rates by the
interstate commerce commission. The
commission should bo given actual power
to enforce its decrees in protection of the
people. It would sit as a sort of court of
equity between the roads and the shippers.
I believe there are wisdom and honesty
enough in the public life of this country
to create and maintain such a court and
to mete out something like exact justice
between the two interests, but if the rail
roads are not willing to submit to this
check I, for one, am in favor of letting
■them stay where they are.”
Spofford’s Vindication.
Ainsworth R. Spofford, the former li
brarian of congress and still connected
with the library, has been vindicated of
the charge of taking money that passed
through his hands. No one that knew Mr-
Spofford ever supposed he had been guilty
■of any wro igdoing. His friends were not
surprised when it was discovered that he
had forgotten to cash a lot of money or
•dsrs sent in for copyrights and that the
a>h-j;*agq. his .accounts was to be ex-
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Mr. Spofford's case is a notable example
of how great a mind can be in some direc
tions and how weak in others. His phe
nomenal memory concerning the books in
the library has become celebrated through
out the world.
Every book and pamphlet in that great
collection he knows as well as If it were
his Bible or his favorite book of poems.
Public men consult him as they would a
catalogue, and he rarely fails to tell them
not only the title of the work which they
seek, its apthor, the date of publication,
etc., but a good deal of its contents. There
are 700,000 books in the library, and yet
Mr. Spofford could not remember to get
all his money orders cashed, nor does he
know where a large supi of money still
unaccounted for went to. He long ago
made up all his shortage, no one suspects
him of anything but a poor head for busi
ness, and he lives on amid his books se
cure in the enjoyment of them and of the
respect, and love of the men who have
known him during the thirty odd years he
has stood guardian over the nation’s liter
ary treasures.
The movement to change the name of
the great library from the Congressional
to the National library meets with general
approval and will probably go through
congress without opposition.
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MODIFIED FOOTBALL,
Organization to Eliminate the Brutal
Features of the Game.
The action of the Georgia legislature
in voting down football, but which
was, after all. vetoed by the governor
has had one very wholesome effect at
least. All over the country there is
a strong movement to eliminate the
brutal features of the game.
A very important meeting took
place in Birmingham last week and
the following dispatch explains its
purpose:
The committee appointed at yes
terday’s annual meeting of the South
ern Inter Collegiate Athletic associa
tion to formulate new football rules
for next season with a view to affect
ing radical modifications met at mid
night last night and organized by
electing Dr, W. L, Dudley, of Van
derbilt university, chairman, and Dr.
C. H. Herty, of the University, of
Georgia, secretary. An advisory
board of football experts was selected
to aid the committees. The board
consists of William R. Taylor (Yale),
Birmingham, Ala.; Charles McCarthy
(Cornell), Athens, Ga.; W. R. Connell
(Vanderbilt)J Nashville; A. G. Black
lock (Sewanee), Austin, Tex., and
Porter Parker (Princeton), New Or
leans. The secretary instructed
to send a copy of the present rules to
the members of the committee and
advisory board and to send out a cir
cular letter to all concerned, stating
the objects of the committee. The
chairman was instructed to write to
experts in the north and east and ask
for suggestions for modifying football
rules by eliminating rough features.
The committee will meet next in Bir
mingham, probably in March, when
it will adopt the new rules. The
committee has full power to act and
what it does will bind all the mem
bers of the Southern Inter-Collegiate
Athletic association. It is thought
that co-operation will be sought with
the athletic associations of the north
and east with a view of affecting a
general modification of football rules
all over the country. The leading
spirits of the game in the south seem
to fear from the recent action taimen
by the Georgia legislature that unless
the rules are changed so as to render
the game less dangerous that a whole
sale legislative crusade may be insti
tuted against it.
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Rug* and Moving.
A certain man who owns a row of
dwelling houses over in the northwest
quarter of the town has learned wisdom
by bitter experience. A friend of mine
went to him not long ago to rent one of
the houses.
“Do you lease it by the month or by
the year?” she inquired.
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“No,” answered my friend; “we
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There are seven houses in my row, and
six of them haven’t kept a tenant longer
than two years at a time for the last five
years. The seventh house—well, the
people in it had carpets made and laid
for it five years ago, and they haven’t
thought of moving. Carpets, I’ll rent
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TBE ROME TRIBUTE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 1897.
UNCLE JOE TALKS. '
He Tells About His Prize Fighting and
Bull Fighting Bills.
Mr, Mansfield, the democratic war
horse of Mclntosh who represents that
county in the legislature, spent yesterday
i Macon, says the Telegraph, and he
was not at all in a good humor over the
manner his bill to legalize poker playing
in Georgia was treated by the legislature,
“They’re a lot of couiftrymen who got
nearly scared to death when the preach
ers at home began writing them letters
to vote against my bill or when they saw
a paragraph in the little paper at hon e
written by some cracked brain editor
calling on the representatives to vote
against such a ‘pernicious measure.’ The
legislature is composed of the rosiest
apples on the tree,” he said.
“What we want is to have prize
fighting, bull fighting and poker play
ing in Georgia' and we’H bring some
money into this state. Mind you I’m
down on the professional gambler.
1 believe in driving him out of busi
ness, but when gentlemen want sport
to amuse themselves, they should
have it aud blame me if I don’t have
it. Take my county, for instance;
down there we raise these bulls that
if put on the market and sold do well
to bring $2,50. Now, suppose some
gentleman wanted to have some sport
and at the same time make these bulls
worth something? Why, the thing to
do is to put up a hundred dollars or so
on the bull of your choice, put two of
them in a ring and let ’em fight. Is
there any harm in that ?
“Now, take prize fighting, for in
stance,” said Mr. Mansfield, warm,
ing up to the subject. “Why I had a
prize fight up there in Atlanta and
gave them people an exhibition of
sport, right. We could get Corbett
and Fitzsimmons down here and Show
the people something, besides it
would bring hundreds of thousand of
dollars into the state. I believe in let
ting gentlemen have all the sport they
want.
“As for poker playing, I don’t believe
any law against it will hold good if
fought to a finish in the courts, as other
wise it is interfering with a man’s eonsti
tutional rights. ’The police had no more
right to arrest those Savannah people at
the Kimball than they would have to
come into my house and stop a game I
was having with my friends and I would
just like to see a policeman or anybody
else do that.”
Mr. Mansfield is a genial, whole-souled
gentleman with an abundance of origin
ality and wit. He has the reputation of
nearly always voting on the right side of
every question and is one of the most
popular members of the legislature.
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The Southern Railway has resumed its
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Jacksonville, Tampa and Florida Points,
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Teiphone No. 39.
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