Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1906 — A Great Pull With Congress. [ARTICLE]

A Great Pull With Congress.

Does the Pennsylvania railroad own congress? Is asked by a Washington paper. That corporation is supposed to have had a great pull with the Republican majority of the lust six congresses and has managed to have laws passed donating to it large sums of money, land aud other valuable considerations without any apparent return for the same. If the report is verified that the Pennsylvania and its allied railroads will distribute no more free passes to the legislators it Is probable that the Republican majority of congress will not be so liberal in the future, but on general principles the railroad will still have a lien on them. A Republican congressman without a free pass is a rara avis, but as there are other railroads paralleling the “Pennsy” that have not yet decided on the pass reform it will be difficult to discover one of those rare birds roosting around the capitol of the nation.