, 1874-01-06
The Railroad Commission Fix
+" Reasonable Maximum Rates
Of Charges"
Arbitrary Classification OF the
Railroads by Groups.
Movement fer the Abolition Of the Ral!'
road and Other State Boards.
Appropriations for Charitable In
stitutions---Tfevis OF
the Statutes.
Investigation Of the Penitentiary Bath
The Mayors Bill.

Of the Penitentiary Bath
The Mayors Bill.
Special Dispasth to The CHICAGO Tribune
LEGISLATIVE SALARY-GRAB-
SPRINGFIELD. Jan. 5.-The members OF the
Twenty-eghth General Assembly VIII meet mere
tomorrow in adjourned session, and begin to
ti1av IS duy each from the State. This extra
session is violation of the spirit Of the new
Constitution, which provides fol- biennial and
not for annual sessions, but then this 'GenerA
Assembly never had any profound reverence Tor
the Constitution. That there exists no emer-
eeucy to Justify the expense OF session is
shown by tie fact that, if they we're not coming
of their own accord AMI without an invitation, the
Governor would never have called them together.
He could find no good reason for summonln6
them in e1tra session, and neither Tan the mem-
bers themselves. They talk of tho Railroad law.
when it PROBABLY will not be touched, and about
revising the statutes, rs if that could not be
done by tue next Legislature at least ts well,
and perhaps better. There is absolutely moth
ing that may be done that could not be post
poned for another year without derriment to the
uubIic welfare. But here they arc coming, and
here they will abide aud make winter OF 1t.
The FarmerS Mo cement Aas scatea uans VI
.hcm into 8 belief that they 6ill never come
back, and they Lave made up their minds to
make hay while the sun shines
Prolongius the session beyond tomorrow Ii
perpstrating sslary-grab on small ecsle.
There is no hope they VII leave here short OF
Two mouths. and it may be three or four. LeG1s-
lation moves in mysterious ways. There are no
I. Yfr1n It than GTAW1tT
their teeth to make them pay fare like their
constituents. They cannot g. home as often
Is of yorc, and they mas :.lck closer to their
work while here. but if they ever do so home it
will be hard work getting them back IN hurry.
They well be likely to remain tlree weeks and
adjourn for two mo.c, their pay during the
interim being sufficient to take them home and
bring them buck Then there will be three
weeks more WORK and nnother aoJou1nnlen''
and so On Until line weather ecattele tuen 1o1
good.
There are enough members IN town this even
ing to make quornn5 fo-morro"' 1ney 1alA
about sojourning here Three months. ano many
Of them will be disappointed tnes ~ nave u
leave sooner. Probably resolution WILL De Oh
fered, fixing the date OF adjournment ,n'ee ot
four weeks hence, but thero ls not LILO snsn'e7s
uOto ~ AA@ fe~-'"=Ss
TIE COOK COUNTY &Ea1"Eas.
Ferricr. Rountrec, and Scanlan are the only
ones m the rronntl from Cook County. Among
.a.,.+rr ,,s,e5er. ,bera 10 so,ne talk Of extend-
soo. -. so1,e.t;a- ta,.s
ing the 11ne 1or cone'1'ns 'aAe''
TIE GOVERNORS MESSAGE
The Houses will meet at noon, when the
f-overnor will send in e message. It will not be
1. 49, - - ,,, er+ro ,nassaca which II be
se1J 4onS: :. ~ % 90 ',. 1.s.a S,r;tto T. ia
hha not aheu' ne LIEU NV "1'o ". ~ ~
understood that ne WILL repols plostess "A 'ue
II he mt ueldlod with until it is tested in tho
..- s- .aIo,1 ~ ,vor,, of the Railroad Board.
courts ie'to" 10 .,.a 1r;aa;z ~. ;r,rrova,
give some ACCOUNT u tue An4ooio !A1'e4 1nPAo
ment 1T Copperas Creek, suggest amendments
In 1a;Re which le deems defective, refer to the
,.-;a;,, NJ tba atatntes. and treat of the conli-
te''S's1 :, ~ :-.t:.,,.;.r. - ,-b;,h In baa
uou o1 1ue o.A.o 1N7''''1''
maize grand tour
THE RAILROAD LAW.
It is not believed that the Railroad law WILL be
,~ncnded. In obedience to it the Commissioners
have prepa'eo ~" puoNeue1 ~
reasonable MAXIMUM fatcs OF cna1ges aol 1no
transportation OF passengers ana 11eisht Oh
..,., sea.t An The 15t1, inst.. when tile law pro-
'u.o 49,, ,-;-,o fa,;a ari-
V'ues 1nos 0D0'. f 80 ~
dence OF Teasouaole AaAl'4utA 1"'eo' -
construct q schedule for QUO road
tasks tho ingenuity Of railroad men who
have made the subject life study and are &C
ouainted with the peculiar conditions Of the
road 4'1 and even they frequently fail and their
work has to be modified as time develops errors
aud defects The Commissioners, who had not
been in Office eix months, had to begin and
frame echedules-not fo5 one road but all the
rcads-abont which they knew little o. nothing.
They had 60 experience in railroad matters, and
hardy knew where to l2ein. Long sessions
we're held uud the whole matter dehberatcd. At
inst it was determined to make ono
schedule for all the roads, but. tho
pnn was abandoned as impFacticable:
So .:e OF tie Numbers Of the Houze Special
Cymnittee woro summoned, and they said that
the Committee :ntcaded there shonld be
schedule fur each road. and that the Law e1-
p!icitly demanded it. The committeeman vent vent
own devices. The latter soon discovered that to
make separate for M fa9h thor 1oad
Then they proceeded to group the roads as fol-
lows: o. co,.,u,,,ru rs;..ro :. 1n
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