The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-15

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and rejected the commission bill In
which tie amendment which was 70 the
first three sections Of the original Dill IN
Guided, that 10 was not pertinent.
The chair sustained the point OF order
and ruled that the first three sections oil
the commissioner bill could not be In
cluded In the substitute.
Chenoweth appealed from the ruling OF
the chair.
Upton moved call OF the house.
On motion the absentees were excused.
The Speaker-"The question L., shall the
ruling Of the chair be sustainedi' ayes
43; nays IS, ana the speakers decision was
sustained.
Foster offered an amendment TO section
relating to the transportation OF freight,
reducing the rate OF freight from fifty cents
to thirty-five cents per hundred pounds per
hundred miles, and from thirty cents TO
twenty cents, for fifty miles or less
Foster said: 1--WE have worked on this
subject, and have shown that companies
are not charging what the law allows, but
that they are discriminating. What does
this house do after we have worked mole
than week on the bill, and it has become
| the property of the house? Those who
have assisted by their amendments TO per-
feet the bill, have turned with paricidal
hands and have thrust the dagger through
the heart OF the prodigy. have
heard it said that there was nothing in this
substitute, and | am constrained to be-
lieve 1t, for when the railroad lobbyists
| favor bill it is sure indication that
it will prove dead letter upon the statute
books, and be useless to the people,"
Uravens-" The gentleman has heretofore
said he did not wish to enact any law which
would prove. oppressive to either the peo-
| 10 t,n nil ~. ahs VAT n nj
amendment directly against the railroads,
and, that too, regardless OF the fact whether
the rates presented by the roads are honest
to the people and honest to the roads,
Swan opposed the amendment and con-
| sidered it uulust.
Cnenoweth-''It pains me to differ from
|my friend from Limestone. L know that
there lies in the bosom OF no man truer
heart, and it, too, is warmed by principles
of true patriotism. l believe that if the
| amendment which is proposed should be
adopted, that it would be destructive to the
very purposes which he attempts to relieve.
l believe that if the legislature should de-
crease the rates it would compel the rail-
roads in selfdefense to raise the rates on
ali necessaries of life, the evil
we desire to correct. IL is
the Determinations made by railroads. 1t
| is not SO much the question OF the high
rates as that of DETERMINATIONS, overcharges
in certain cases, rebates and pooling. The
fact also exists that the limit of distance is
too great-hence the charges are excessive
for short hauls. The limit of distance
should not be greater than twenty-five
miles, and freight charges should be regu-
| lated by scientifically graded scale, and in
| Justice then could be done no one. When
the legislature convened believed knew
the disposition of the speaker OF this
house, and came here bent
| III ala In mt n
people, not that l loved Rome less, but that
| / loved Cesar more. The work we have
done has been blasted and broken. Keen
| are our pangs, but keener far to feel, we
bore the pinion that impelled the STEEL !"
The amendment was lost-ayes, "A, nays,
81.
The house then adjourned till Monday, at
$3.50 1. m.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Rosenthal
to the appropriation bill making an appro-
priation of $1,000 for a monument was not
Tor the Johnson heroes, as reported, but for
the Dawson heroes.
CAPITAL oHRoNIcLINGs.
The discharge of committee clerks by the
house this morning causes much sorrow in
camp.
Rev. J. @. Cowan, of Mckinney, was
placed in the lunatic asylum to-day.
Quite number of members went on an
excursion to San Antonio this evening.
The comptroller paid into the treasury
to-day 500
The Second Presbyterian church, OF Dal-
las, filed a charter to-day; also tue Taylor
opera-house, at Jefferson, capital stock $780,
900.
Colonel George w. Hynson returns to
| Dallas to-day. He has made many friends
here as manager of the Raymond house.
He was recently the recipient from the pro-
prletors of handsome pair of gold and
a o. x..ke and urf
from him with regret. The Raymond house
has been full the entire season, and glad.
dened the hearts of its proprietors, j. +.
Thompson e. Co., who are the most efti-
Gent and genial OF hosts.
| HoUsR.
AUSTIN, March 12.-[Special. 1.-The regu-
lar order was the substitute railway bill,
Wurzbach In the char.
Frank moved that the substitute be con-
sidered section by section.
/ Upton raised the point of order that such
a course was prohibited by the rules.
The chair sustained the point of order on
the ground that there was an amendment
pending.
out the word injured in section 7 and
inserting "thus unlawfully discriminating
against.n thereby making the sentence con-
form TO the rest of the bill.
Hill offered q substitute TO the substitute
and the amendment embracing the orlgi-
nal committee bill as amended by the
house, with The exception OF Plaslns Wy
roads under the inspection OF a state en-
gineneer, and reducing the penalties
against roads for making Determinations;
The chair announced that under the
rules the vote would have TO be first taken
on Stagner's amendment.
Stagner withdrew his amendment, and
the question recurring upon the substitute
1 ~ a Al. All
/ city was anxious for the passage OF Up.
sons substitute, because they know II Will
be equivalent 10 no legislation at all. one
man had expressed himself as follows: II
wish Won would pass Gibson's substitute, 80
that may go home" Continuing, hill
said that he offered this substitute as some
thingsthat would have more in IL than tink-
ling brass and sounding cymbal, and re
; peated the celebrated saying OF President
! Garfield, that unless We control monopo'
lists they would control rs.
Cayen moved to lay the substitute on the
: table. The ayes and nays were demanded
and the house refused TO table-ayes, ~
' NAYS, AZ.
Frank said that members should lay
, aside all personal interest and feeling In th'
; matter aud should all cooperate in the sup
mort Of measure Just aud equitable alike =
the people and the roads; that he was viii
: ing 70 remain here II necessary unit
; August in perfecting the bill, and hopet
the members would no. seek 70 cut OF de
bate BY motions 70 table
, Acker said that he was not here 20 ioilov
: the plume Of any particular knight, bu
!. here 10 advocate what he conceived ~
!; best interests Of the people. IL has bseI
stated Mr.. Speaker, and II hs
= been insinuated that the mover
4 of the substitute adopted had not come III
D 10 the Standard that had been accorded hin
9 bv the friends Of the commerce. bill VIII,
!, am not intimately acquainted VII
Speaker Gibson. yet RON my short $3.50 :, J !.
o tiSn v-ifh him here know In Offering TIN
!, substitute be desires 10 gain Tor himself ~
J, laurels. nor desires 70 pluck rom the oro'