Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-21
TWENTY PER CENT OFF.
The Senate Iailroad Bill Under
Fire in the House of Rep
r0SGntatiVeS.
Several Members Engage in a
Lively Debate on the
Question.
Pauper Corporations Piteously
Plead Against Re-
duction.
Gray. of Douglas, vigorously wnxs
HIS Tongue For Trip Permits.
General Desire Evlnced by the Ma.
iority to Pass the Bill Unalterea.
Special Dispatch to TuR bxx.

, Special Dispatch to TIN BxA
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
LINCOLN, February 20.-Another
breeze was raised this afternoon by
the adoption OF the following resolu-
tlons introduced by Senator Dock:
| WHEREAS. II is publicly proclaimed
that committee ofpersons have been
raised and large sums Of money have
been placed at the disposal of said
committee for the purpose of fur
thering the passage Of the bill, house
roll No. 1S9; and
WHEREAS, Many rumors are rife
that for such bill cash funds are being
used for corrupt purposes; therefore
be It
RESOLVED, by this senate, that o
committee Of three he appointed to
investigate as to what uses these funds
are employed in, with power to send
for persons and papers, to the end that
aoy corrupt imputations as to the con-
duct of members Of this legislature
may DO dispelled if these blackening
reports areountrue, and that the guilty
may DO brought to the bar of Justice,
If any there be holding an honored
place In this Legislature, by which this
whole body is disgraced If such chang.
es have foundation in fact.
The rules we're su appended and the
resolution adopted. The president
appointed Dsch, Case and Filley as the
committee so conduct this investige
tion which will begin work early to-.
morrow.
As the close OF the session ap.
prosches members are beginning to
realize the
NECESSITY OF RAILROAD LEGISLATION
thal will at least in part redeem the
pledges made by all parties during the
late campaign. The railroad manager,
are massing all their forces
and making desperate and deter
mined efforts to defeat every
bill that seems In the least objection.
able. For two days the anti monopoly
members have been trying to get the
. senate railway bill before the house
Every motion was opposed by tn,
railroad attorneys and cappers. Fl
Q nally the house went into
7 committee of the whole thi
afternoon, and after grinding on
about fifteen senate bills reached tn,
railroad bill. BY this time a score O
railroad officials were actively filibust
, osing against the bill on the Aoor ant
in the cloak rooms. Con,picuously
|
intendent Holdredge, Charley Green
Captain Phillips, Mr.. Dawes, of the
y. & M a0d N. p. Shelby and Johr
John M. ThHrston, of the U. p, Mr.
+, Ireland, of tho M. p. and the super
intendent of the Omaha Is st. Pau
road.
j RATHER NOVEL SPECTACLE
a WAS presented by the open communion
of these railroad men and naembers oil
the floor acting under their orders
The majority of the house got it's bacl
up against these obatruetonists aiiC
= when Gray moved to make the bill tn,
special order for tomorrow morninl
Wolph oh. ected on the ground that
FURTHER DELAY MEANT DEFEAT
for the only railroad bill that had any
virtue In 1t. The house by larg.
majority sustained Wolph and amid
cries OF "Read" Gray moved to strike
out the section limiting the freight
y rate and 80 per cent OF the schedule
: rate of January l, 1893;
Cook of Nuckolls desired this bill
!, TO go through In It's present shape be-
= = cause il was an experiment and II de-
fectlve the railroads could produce
8 proof the commission to show 1t wal
n unjust, whereas if no limit was ixeC
:; the people had no means of producing
statistics to instruct the. commission al
= to the injustice of existing rites. = /
the proposed rate is.too high II can be
reduced
MIR. Dawson believed that the legis'
lature could not delegate it's power tt
establishing maximum, rates to com
@ mission, and he quoted from Cooley
a constitutional limitation to sustain
). that point. II, tho Legislature coult
q estimate all the Losses sustaineS
y by railways in consequence O
4 accldentH, besides the opes
a ating expenses and first Goa
they could ts5lish just maximum
rate, otherwise the attempt to legis
late was wrong aud he therefore hOpe'
Grsy's motion would prevail.
8. Franse--Now, "a not this reduction
: of twenty per cent. arbitrary Gt |
q mere guess by the friends Of thi
h bill, They guess the railroads ar
W making too much and propose to Gu
|. down oil this. Fixing of sckedul
ID rates is wrong, unless you classify tn
10 roads according tc their income. II
knew railway In Nebraska that Is
LOSING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
q year. If these men are already 10
is ipg money for the benefit of settle
re and farmers Ia the back counties an
Ie giving farmers o chanee to mark
their grain, it was manifestly wrong
close these roads. The U. p.
doubtless making money, the osh
lines losing money. If you adopt Il
. schedule rate you will coniscate Il
ht Sioux City and Elkhorn Valley roa
IL. and the Omaha & st. Paul lines. Bsfo
nix we undertake to leglslste ON tari
Int we want to know all about each roa
ne Jensen admired the ssli.aAorifcs
these railroad companies, who hs