The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-22
mo. 25 ]

No. 25
! AUSTIN Feb. 14.-[Special corresponds
ence. THE railroad commission bill is
still in the hands of the subcommittee,
ard will probably be reporrd on " .hem
to-day, with the blank sd out and
otherwise perfected, so ia. 10y are .vle
| to perfect 1t.
For long time the 'fair-mlhued legisla-
tors and impartial citizens have been aware
OF the great difficulty OF enactlng law oil
| this commission character, establishing
maximum rates, etc. so as to regulate rail
road corporations within the true intent
and meaning ofthe constitution. The most
liberal, expert and intelligent railway Off
! cials have deemed the difficulties almost in
superablo, and for reasons familiar to them
All. But while many persons, lar fewer to-
day, however, than ayear or two ago. nave
similar to that existing in some OF the
states, yet the people of Texas never will
countenance or permit wrong done TO
these institutions that in ten years nave
| swollen the population from SuU,O to near
| 2 1000 900 now, whose existence within our
| borders almost alone brought TINS vast In
crement of souls, and corresponding Access
sion OF wealth to this by them weli-adver-
tised state, and without which institutions
they would not be here; and, which blotted
out, they would quit us almost forthwith,
depopulating cities and towns and villages,
and thus rendering almost Valueless the
millions of our teeming acres, ana our vast
public domain and school lands as well.
The author of bill, however speclous the
wrong q; first, would soon discover that
curses unnumbered would come to plague
and torment the inventor. This is an ex-
IRENE view. but a corresponding public
condemnation awaits that legislator who,
by vote, voice or effort tastens upon them,
or any other developing industry i'll this
progressive state, any incubus that abridges
or retards true growth. Like all other tidal
waves of unaccountaole popular feeling,
tins railway ebullition agitation has long
since reached its topmost flow, and is now
fast receding, and that politician who
hopes to float to glory by
buifeting upon the ebD tide
is destined to be henceforth engulfed and
buried out of sight of his, happy land OF
Canaan. The people of Texas are too cos
mopolitan and broad-guaged and too just
to permit the infringement OF great prin-
good might issue forth. 1t is through this
regulating and permeating sentiment OF
stern and honest justice that some have
witnessed with disapprobation the course
pursued by the internal improvement
committee of the house of representatives.
1t is the public wish, let us assume for the
sake of argument, that some railway I1gis-
public desire and will be
satisfied with the practice Of no wrong. in
the work. Their wish is that everything that
can possibly shed any light upon the ques-
ton in hand shall be had, no matter whence
II comes, or in what shape, whether from
disaflected persons or the most intense OPP
ponent ola commission bill or other rail
la.s ,ia 10 eli pFNl 10
the shutting ont of such testimonies wound
smack so much OF star.chamber one-sided-
ness and the dark inquisition methods at
Whose very mention the American
mind instinctively revolts. do
not charge against the house
internal improvement Committee the DE-
NAL 20 hear both sides, but | have beard it
said that they are adopting wha: is known
to lawyers as putting under the rule"
practice, /. e., excluding from the one side
The testimony of witnesses who have been
arrayed 1ainst him. Surely it would seem
that the committee "in search of more
lghtn would not only de-ire, but solicit the
fullest data given in the fieest way, their
intelligences to sit in judgment and make
assessment of their value. When one is
charged with a crime, he has right 10 be
confronted by his Witnesses, and surely
this rule ought to obtain without restric-
ton when the representatives of the people,
sent TO legislate for the best interests OF the
people, are necessitated to obtain intorma-
ton in order TO frame fair and equitable
law of one OF the grandest developing inter.
ests the people ever knew. Any other
course would look as though the commit
tee were in love with some especial pet bill
rather than with right and justice, and
feared, lest in tne unOOstruCLru iignG Ol ia.
quiry their castle in the air would fade
away and dissolve like the baseless
fabric Of "a vision vision, But the
such lop-sided investigation, aud would
naturally enough suspect the soundness of
an effort that closed its doors and ears
against a defendants plea TO be heard as 10
the character OF the accusations mace. To
have won the general confidence that com.
mittee, IL seems 10 me, should have sum
moned, within the scope oil the resolution,
saw a dozen, or a dozen dozen III need be,
ofintelligent, unbiased merchants, farm
ers, stockmen and other railway shippers,
heard their views on the subject within
said scope; and then something like y SINH
lar number OF railroad experts and with
these respective bearings, : made up
their CONCLUSIONS. But have they done
this thing2 Alas, rumor says something
worse for them than mo-" For, as above 1
remarked, it says they have even declined |
70 possess themselves OF proftered informa- |
tion. or denied 10 the other side, the oppor- |
tunities and required data to enable them |
10 possess the committees and the publics |
minds Of possibly some very valuable intel |
ligence, 70 hello escape the doing ola wrong. |
Il seems they have made up their Bill, ." or
rather have IL "halfmade up" TO send |
10 the house, and which, could II 90 talk, |
miRht say like that other tyrant, I
scarce bali-made mp and rudely |
stamped. deformed, unfinished, sent
before its time, 10 lame aud 20 unfashiOn- |
able. with immense cots upon the state.
have been led 70 tItae reflections IN
view of the fact that | unde-s'H-d the sub |
committee, having in charg &c. sHamina-
ton Of witnesses, and looking Isuard the !
final combustion OF the railroad bin, are
about ready 10 report 70 the whole com
mittee. and il seems strange 20 an outsider
and a mere citizen that While 90 many Of
the ablest and most exDefienced Of railroad
ohicnls are In the city here without cost 10
the state, usdy and willing n contribute |
al the light they can, and yet uncalled. |
Indeed, the error seems 20 be that they
were not called in the first instance. Il
SENS rather late 81 this moment, 20 say Il
u TOO late 70 call them. 4.
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