The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-01

lotf anti-prohibitory senators characterize
the bill as entirely too arbitrary in i
IN provisions and not affording the defent
w ants a chance, and Clark, of Montgon
I'd cry, took the floor to talk for two hour.
&c rel.erating every previous assertion
n statement aud argument he had mad
during the session, defining the position
II he held now and the one he had hell
4 two years ago. He was eyidentl,
e talking against time, but his
effort was of no avail
!, as the bill passed as soon as he sat down,
should it pass the house it will be the
only measure having reference TO the
enforcement of the prohibitory measure
that will have become law this session
provided, of course, that the governor
would sign it, which may be considered
as somewhat doubtful All the other
6ills-Buchan's license law, the bill Of
the committee on temperance. amenda.
tory and supplementary to the prohibit
tory law; the act 20 punish drunken
ness; Everest's proposition to repeal the
prohlhitory amendment, or rather to re-
submit it to the people at the general
election in 1SS4-will go by the hoard.
They have served the purpose Tor which
they were introduced, that is to saw
some of them, which was 10 give sena-
tors and representatives the opportunity
to air their oratoFy upon the subject
as MAS EXPECTED
As was 10 have been expected the con
ference committee on the railroad cues |
tion did not agree. though they came
nearer to it than anybody really suppos-
ed they would. The three senators and /
three of the five members CEN posing the
House committee. after lengthy and ex-
citing argument, finally agreed to agree,
and their report was accordingly sub
mitted on Saturday evening. The twn
members OF the house, Messrs. Hoffman
and knappenberger, who disSented from
the opinion of :he other six, contentcd
themselves with submitting protest,
which the senate permitted to lac read
hut not spread upon the journal. Thcyet
is no such thing as the m;naTiJy report
OF conference Go.ngniiJee, which nre-
vented the two diSsenteTs from filing n !
report of their own, and il was in the
carrying out of this principle that The {
senate refused 10 make, or allow 10 he
made, the protest Il part Of the record
When the report of the conference COM
mittee was read in the senate Saturday {
(thc report was not mcssaged I,
TO che house until today the stiffness
that prevailed in the room WAS in strange y
contrast to the .umult that usually
prevails. Many of the senators took .
seats Immediately Ia front of the sccrc-
tary's desk SO as not To lose a word of
Tue reading and the most complete al.
tention WAS paid 30 the docuMcnt. AS
ported ny the conference committee was
founded upon the Kelley hill, nine
tents of which was preserved and the
other one-tenth supplied by the commit,
lee. The text was changcl IN several =
places but thc intent was preserved.
The Changes OF importance made were
hat in case of complaint being made by
I shipper the board of commissioners
'hall examine into the matter aud then | X
tx what they consider 10 he reasonable =
ate, such rate to stand There is All
Ither provision which specifies that Il V
inc of 81 900 shall bc imposed for cx- =
orlion and $4,000 for discrimination. {
Should the three gentlemen Sc fortunate,
" unfortunate, DIS Ia bc appointed
Is t.Ie board of commission. =,
rs perform The duties imposed upon 70
hem by this bill they will without IL
loubt be the yaTY hardest worked in
ividlais In the state, ar the west, for
hat matter. Twenty four hours per
lay Will be too small IL number them
nd three hundred and sixty five days
yer year too limited. These three men
re not only expected 10, in Il measure,
egulatc the railroads of the state, but
hey are 10 constitute themselves as
curt OF complaint and listen Ia every -
barge, frivolous or Otherwise, that may
&c made against the railroads, and there
will be enough OF them. Still there are =
aany selfsacrificing patriots who will i
ccept the position of commissioner, and 49,
IOl only that but ask for H. C.