The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-27
rae .BAILRlAD oUEsrIoN
Discussion IN the senate 81 vFare's Rss@


THE RAILR lAD QUESTION.
Discussion IN the senate 81 vFare,s Res.
olpsl6n.
TOPEKA. March 2O.-The feIlowI6s
resolution, offered BY Dir. Ware, va
called up and read Tor adoption in tAs
senate:
Whereas, A man named Touzallp
purporting 10 be manager of the affairs
and policy OF the AtchIson. Topeka &
Santa Fe RailIo.d Company, came 70
Kansas, and has recently, in an imperti
nent manner, sought - place his road 10
antagonism 10 the State of KAnsas, and
has endEAYored 10 raise aiI insurrectlou
against and 70 break down the efficiency
OF the railroad laws OF said stale: now,
therefore, be 1t
Resolved. BY the senate, the house OF
representatives eoncnrTiDg therein, thai
We do hereby direct the board OF rail-
road commissioners - prepare and sub
nit to the next session of the Legislature
the draft OF proper aad reasonable
maximum rate bill, especially applica
BILE and adapted 20 the traffic of SAID
road, its branches and leased lines with.
IN the state.
Senator Collins Offered the following
as an amendment:
Resolved further. Taat until such
time Is the intent aud purpose of this
resolution can be carried IBlo effect that
the railroad commissioners are instruct
ed 10 continue in their Interpretation
and enforcement of the said railroad law;
and we do approve the spirit in which
they have discharged their duties here.
tOfOre in furnishing the relief 10 the PEG
pie which Yves guaranteed by the pas
sage OF said law, and that the commits
siOneFs IN making tariffs under the pres
ent law, make them as for q single haul
over one or more lines of road, and
where the roads cannot agree upon q
fair division for the same that the com
missioners appOrtIon and adjust the
same between the two or mere lines OF
road.
Senator Buehan thought that the Sen.
atOrs with q railroad bug ia their Ears
were trying to make such slabs at the
railroad law as will work an injury not
warranted by their actions. lie objected
to the amendment because il proposed
to legislate by resolution.
Senator Blue thought IL perfectly
right 10 SIT down on any manager who
proposes To come intO this state and tell
the people they don't know what they
want He also paid Mr.. Nettleion, man
ager OF the Fort Scott ~ Gulf road, q
tribute for the very law abiding manner
in which he has conducted himself to-
wards the law and the board of commits
siOners. He believed That the Santa Fe
company had in all OF its Efforts at
tempted TO bring the commission into
disrepute and to break down The effects
of the law. He believed the law to he a
sr.d a l.
been as good as any other law.
Senator Buchan-I am glad the gen
Ileman got chance To discharge his
TRADE against the railroads of the state
have net objected TO the original reSo-
LUTON, but to this amendment. What
right has this senate TO instruct any
state officer to enforce the law! Have
these railroad CmmissIoneTs refused to
enforce the law? Why should we insin
uate by these resolutions that tine COM
missIoners are not doing their duty?
Senator Clark was not wiling JUS
now 10 support any such resolu ions
He could not see hut that Manager
TOuZalin had perfect right TO discus:
through the public press the railroad
law or any public question He haC
never heard any disproYal OF the com
missioners' actions, and thought that thu
senate was taking the first step back
ward.
Senator Coll rs spoke AT considerable,
length 10 favor of the amendment.
Senator Finch thought that the sen
ate had already gotten To that poin
where it had be ter adjourn 1t has lie
| called the old tut last year-legisIatnr,
ON maximum rates He had failed u
hear OF anybody living along the lin
of the Santa Fe Railroad receiving an,
relief
| Senator GlaSse felt that the resolution
placed dIm in a peculiar and embsrrass
! ing situation. To yo for the TT solution
would be acknowledging that tue CON
missIODers were not DONG their duty
and. on the other hand, to vote agains
| il certain class would condemn him a
being here voting for the railroads.
Senator Ware, ia speaking, claimet
that the resolution was not lnstructin
the commissioners how they should IL
terpret the law, but TO continue in theI
interpretations and enforce the law I.
Interpreted. He thought it much bette
to spend the time In discussing thes
matters than to be telling stories IN til
ante room or hunting the place dow
town where gentleman is given ke
on the curbstone. All other railroad
|
the law, and down on the line OF the r
Scott j. Gulf everything is hsrmOniou.
The discussion OF Senator Ware
railroad resolution WAS continued b
Senator Sexton. He oppos ed the Who'll
thing.
Senator Thacher-When this law wa
al opted we settled the point that we di
not deem 1t wise To take the managemeI
OF these roads out OF the hands of th
companies. by adopting maximum
freight bill. This resolution and amenC
ment proposes what the senate befor
declined to do. He had been publicl
denounced tor voting for and acting wit
any law against the railroads at all.
The commissioners went on and mad
a maximum freight bill for the SAINT
Fe road, hut before it went into effe(
discovered that 1t would desIroy every
thing they we're trying to build up. II
felt grieved TO think that sny senate
. should go far lose his digi;y as to sing
out any one III an, as had been done l
the res hutton, and attempt to btlittl
him
Asa matter of tact, said Senator War,
a maximum freight bill for all the IoaC
in the state is not what he wants 10 see
/ Sen tor AlleF felt the same as Senate
Thacher had expressed himself tt
people of his town, ii subjected t. an
maximum rates such as had been pr,
ssnted by the commissioners, wOul
have their business ruined, and he OF
posed any maximum rates on any raj
| road.
Il Senator Hackney Offered the followin
as q substitute for the whole subject:
Resolved, That the merits Of the col
iroversies now going on between u
board of railroad commissioners and OF
of the railroad companies of the stat
are proper subjects for the consideTatiO
OF future legislative bndies, who will /
able to judge from results, and not a
sertiOns, as must be the case with an
action we may now take
In support of this resolution Senate
Hackney declared that as yet the peopl
had heard nothing but assertions. A
the talk on the subject in the senate ha
been nothing but assertions.
Senator Metsker moved that the whol
matter be laid upon the table On tn
the roll was called, with the tullowin
result: Yeas, 81; nays, 13 The motto
prevailed.
OVER THE STATE.
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