The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-21
,!For the Gispatch.L
The New RafaEnad.zaW.

Tbis inquiry In its progress has come to
r. 20. fifth and last sentence of the much
q, sesde u section % of chspserG Of the Code
Of Virginia of 1873. The meaning of this
sen tarae is ineligible, but tits purpose is
nre, Spsser ous. 1t reads as EoloWS:
1" Xor shall any such company or other
comm Ion carrier attow through tickets or
tbroul ,h-b a.,gage checks TO be issuef over its
line nv any company or transportation line,
its apen IS, or agencies, not incorporated by
this Stat G, " hich such company oriliEe shall
refuse o. in. hibit by any means any other
such com pan,v or transportation line .incor-
porated b,7 this State. the privlege 'of'issuing
BY its own loca agents, and such agents or
agencies as it n ,ay establish in ansv CITY or
elsewhere, t.hrou, gh tickets and baggage
checks over such compaby's ROAD @rtfans-
portation line NOT Incorporated ay "nis
State" :, -.
This does not tou CD frelghts at all. Hhe,
lates exclusively TO through pasSenSef' "'h"
their through bag gat e. .L o.,
monwealth of Virg mia projected beyond Der
boundaries. warming and commanding sal
railroad and other t. raps portation com an'es
incorporated bv and doing business in any
other State of the VIII ale Union as follows:
"You and each of 70 shall estabtlsh and
maintain through.pas. eager tickets ana
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS checks oyer every trans
portatilu line and With Tesy company 10
corporated by or doing bu aheSs "llnin tnls
State. And more than that you ana eacn
of you shall allow and permi t&ny ana every
company or transportation liz sHolpofated
by or doing business within hg State ana
carrying aSsengers-railroad, essmDoat, or
canal. rich or poor, long or shorl soNent OF
insolvent, public-spirited or SELF ID. all tns
same-to sell and issue through ii 'hss ano
through checks over your lines, a. " W re-
ceive and handle your money Their, to.: no'
only at their local offices within thi StaIe'
but also in your own city or else WHERE,
wherever they may see ft to Apo, ~ au
agent, with or without security, or est o',sn
an agency as big as peanut-stand, In 'uer
to compete with you in the sale OF ticl .eIs
over your own lines"
The reply to this is obvious, and all L .e
more impressive because silent. The parth I"
addressed are beyond the jurisdiction of to.
General Assembly, and too fur for the reach
of the Executive arm. Therefore Virginia, !,
with humiliating sense of impoteBce, turns
upon her own children to find victim upon
which to expend her wrath against contG-
macious foreigners $50 called), and, address
ing the companies created by herself, or dong
business within her territory by her permits
sion, fretfully enacts in substance as fol.
lows:
"Uness these outsiders shall consent to
allow and pei NIT you, and every one OF you,
TO hire desk.room and establish agencies IN.
der the shadows Of their palatial DEF 0tS, and
sell tickets for them, and receive and handle
their money for them, then ! tell you you
shall not allow them to issue through tickets
or through-bsggage checks over your lines.
1ou shall make the passengers Take up, and
eal:ge cas-, ard CAIN add recletk baggage, '.