The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-15
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The RAILROAD War sun ProgressIRg in
the House and Senate.
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ToPEKA, Feb THE senate mss
recommended for passage bill regard
ing registraliOn in cities Of the second
class. which provides that the fact q
Registration shall not be conclusive
evidence of tie right Of any man TO
vote and that any man who is registered
can be challenged. and when so chal-
lengsd shall bring evidence to show
thsahe is correctly registered and has a
legal right TO cast his ballot. Several
other bills passed the senate, but none Of
very great importance.
In the house the time has been taken
up with the railroad bill. and with the
exception of the introduction of few
bills nothing has been done.
THE RAILROAD BILL.
The house has had one day the start
of the senate in the matter of the discus
sion of the railroad question, but at the
rate at which the house has been going
the senate will soon pass it. Everything
gives way 10 the railroad matter BOW.
The members think of nothing else
and talk of nothing else In the senate
the debate was opened by Senator Ware,
who spoke upea the merits of the bill ss
compared with that of &eaator Kelley.
the latter having been reported favor.
ably by the committee on railroads.
Senator Wares bill was really the
choice of the minority of the railroad
committee. though the minority
made no report. In opening
up SENATOR Ware said he
thought the commissioner system the
most flexible that could be devised, and
SO far been adopted. Eleven states in
the union had had good deal OF expe-
rince in railroad Legislation, but the two
pGst prominent INSTANCES were those of
Iowa and Massachusetts. West of thu
Mississippi the Iowa law was more in
favor with RAILROAD men; east OF the
Mississippi the Massachusetts, law was
the most IN favor. The Iowa law was
modification of the Massachusetts
law, and the Kelley bill was a sort of a
modification of the Iowa law, with the
best pant of the latter left ont. He
further characterized the Kelley bill as
being simply the Iowa railroad commits.
siUner bill without the incorporation OF
the Iowa railroad law, and hence but
half the Iowa measure i'll reality. lie
claimed for his bill several points
of superiority over the Kelley bill and
then proceeded to uams them. AL this of
course served u raise the iFs of the gen.
tleman from Coffey and when he got the
chance he went for" the gentleman
from Bourbon, and they had it hot and
heavy for time. Nothing was done in
connection with either of the bills and
the debate will be continued from day
to day nntil something is done,
There was lively time in the house
though the time was really wasted for
nothing. The whole afternoon was
wasted upon the proposition as TO
whether infanls shoniG be carried on
the cars free or not, and it was finally
decided that they should be Several
ofthe members appeared to be engaged
in an endeavor to talk against time and
it can be SAID that they succeeded very
well, provided that was their object and
it could have been no other. There was
also more or lsas fun got out of the
debate, but at a time when the time is
so limited fun would be more approprl-
ate somewhere else. Statistics showing
various things weEe produced, to the
reading of which nobody seemed TO
pay any attention whatever. There is
really no telling how long the railroad
debate will last