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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- Strong Nerves just as surely come from the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla as does the cure of scrofula, salt rheum, or other so-called blood diseases. This is simply because the blood affects the condition of all the Nerves bones, muscles and tissues. If it is im pure it cannot properly sustain these parts. If made pure, rich, red and vital ized by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, it carries health instead of disease, and repairs the worn, nervous system as nothing else can do. Thus nervous prostration, hysteria, neuralgia, heart palpitation, are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla Because it is the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills pills, plained, at least in part, by this oversight. 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. Walteb Wellman. • a- Everybody Suys So. Cascarets Candv Cathartic, the most won Jerful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant aud refreshing to the taste, act gently i and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels: ■leans'ng the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipatiot and biiiousno<-». Please buy and try a bo, nC. 'J. C. to-,lav; 10. 25. 50 cents. Sold an ruaranteed to cure ot al 1 druggists 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. It is easy to catch a cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you com mence early to use One Minutes Cough Cure. It cures coughs, colds,' bron chitis, pneumonia and all throat and lung troubles. It is pleasant to take safe to use and sure to take.—Curry- Arrington Co. 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. “That depends on what you are going to have on your floors, ” answered the landlord. “Are you going to have car pets?” “No,” answered my friend; “we have rugs. ” “You’ll have to sign a year’s lease then,” the landlord made reply, smil ing craftily. "If you bought carpets and had them fitted to the floors, I know you’d stay in the house as long as you could, but these rugs are too easily ad justed to any sized room. You’ll have to sign a year’s lease if you have rugs. 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 by the month; rugs, a year’s lease.”— Washington Post. When bilous or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10, 25c 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. A Clever Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he cm cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. 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