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

, Special Dispatch to TIN BxA.
ANOTHER IN vEsrIGATIoN.
LINCOLN, February 20.-Another
breeze was raised this afternoon by
the adoption OF the following resolu-
lions introduced by Senator Dock:
WHEREAS. II is publicly proclaimed
that a committee of'persons 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 1t
RESOLVED, by this senate, that o
committee Of three he appointed to
investigate as to what uses these funds
are employedi 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 b~lackening
reports %aresountrue Ne, and that the guilty
may be 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 'pended and the
resolution adopted. The president
appointed Dsch, Case and Nlley as the
committee so conduct this investige
tion which will begin work early to.
morrow.
As the close of the session mp.
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
nally the house went int
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 flibust
osing against the bill on the floor ant
l in the cloak rooms. Conspicuously
B -.-Atpnnk opnnnn thaoa -ava Sr.nr
intendent Holdredge, Charley Green,
Captain Phillips, Mr.. Dawes, of the
y. Il M and N. p. Shelby and Johr
John M. Thnrston, of the U. p, Mr.
=, ireland, of tho M. p. and the super
intendent of the Omaha Is st. Pau
road. y
j RATHER NOVEL SPECTACLE
was presented by the open communion
of these railroad men and members oil
the floor acting under their orders
The majority of the house got it's bacl
up against these obatruetonists arC
! = when Gray moved to make the bill the
l special order for tomorrow morninl
. Wolph oh. ected on the ground that
! FURTHER DELAY MEANT DEFEAT
Z for the only railroad bill that had any
virtue In 1t. The house by a 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 it was an experiment and If de-
fectlve the railroads could produce
8 proof the commission to show 1t wal
n unjust, whereas if no limit was fixeC
:; the people had no means of producing
= statistics to instruct the. commission al
. to the injustice of existing rites. i
: 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 a com
@ mission, and he quoted from Cooley
a constitutional limitation to sustain
that point. III tho Legislature coult
q estimate all the Losses sustaineS
by railways in consequence O
Academia, besides the opes
a ating expenses and first Goa
they could establish q just maximum
rate, otherwise the attempt to legis
late was wrong aud he therefore hoppe
Grsy's motion would prevail.
Franse-Now, "a not this reduction
: of twenty per cent. arbitrary q |
q a mere guess by the friends Of thi
h bill, They guess the railroads ar
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 a railway In Nebraska that Is
LOSING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
q year. If these men are already 10
ia 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 msnifestly wrong
close these roads. The U. p.
doubtless making money, the osh
lines losing money. If you adopt Il
- schedule rate you will confiscate Il
hit Sioux City and Elkhorn Valley roa
il. and the Omaha & st. Paul lines. Bsfo
nix we undertake TO leglslste ON tart
Int we want to know all about each roa
ne Jensen admired the self sacrifice
these railroad companies, who hs