St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-27

people He move to lay the bill on the table.
Lost, yeas %.
Mr. Lee thought the action proposed hast
and unwise. The house had passed bill
which the senate had refused to indorse.
The senate bill had been passed with
great unanimity, and the house before
acting on the bill should carefully con-
slider its position. He preferred the
adoption of the senate bill to than no
legislation, and he would therefore move to
reconsider the vote by which it was ordered
to third reading, and send it to the COM
mittee of the whole where, it could be fully
considered. Mr.. Pattee took the same po-
sition. For himself, he had not yet informed
himself rs TO the senate amendments. nor
did he know in what shape the bill would be
left if it was IAssed as now proposed.
Mr.. Burlingame thought the gentleman
was little of. The senate bill had been be-
fore the house for several days and should be
thoroughly understood. He then went on
and explained the differences between the
two bills as already given in the GLOBE.
The principal amendments proposed related
to the appointment of the board of commits
sioners, terms of office, examinations by
the commissioners, and the provisions relat-
ing to discrimination and extension.
The bill before the house did
not contain section 81, which gave
the commissioners the power to fix maxi
mum rates, and in this respect was less
Objectionable than the original bill. In other
respects it was essentially the original bill.
It's passage now meant its early consideration
by committees of conference, by which a
compromise could probably be reached and a
bill be agreed upon which would meet the
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Mr.. Durant said the bill was hybrid affair
and deserved careful consideration. He was
in favor of some provisions and opposed to
others, and he desired time to consider and
pass upon it.
Mr.. Hendrickson took the same position.
Mr.. Cornish said the house was
well informed of the general pur-
port of the bill. The bill was
in fact, the same in its main features as that
passed BY the house originally, and it might
as well be passed at once and sent to a COM
mittee Of conference. II some such action
was not taken there would be little chance for
any legislation at all.
Mr.. Pattee said if the proposed action was
to declare a deadlock and get a conference
committee, ne could vote for It.
Mr. Myers said while the senate had
adopted few features of the house bill, the
measure passed by that body was really q
new bill. The senate bill gave the people a
stone instead Of the bread the people asked
for. Their bill reserved to the railroads the
right to discriminate against places, and
ROBBED THE PEOPLE
Of the rights enjoyed under the common
law. The house bill contained no new
features, but with slight changes in the phrase
ologY was the same the house had al
ready Endorsed. For one he did not propose
to be dictated TO by the other house. If it
had got to come to the position that the
house must take such a bill as that passed
by the senate or nothing, he would take moth
ing and let the people decide between the
two bodies. The house had shown its will
ingness to deal literally by not insisting on
section 81, fixing the rates.
Mr. Warner was ready to vote and get the
bill into conference. An examination Of
the bills would show that there is not
such wide difference between
the two bills as many would suppose. it was
probable the house was a little extreme one
way and the senate the other way. The main
difference between them in the two bills was
section l6. He was not prepared now to say
which was the more desirable, but he believed
the senate bill would be worth a million dol
lars 10 the people of the state, and if voting
to-day, if house section 10 was added to the
senate bill, ne would heartily vote for it. All
the differences he thought could be settled By
the conference, and ne therefore favored pass
ing the bill as amended by the committee.
Mr.. Myers moved the previous question,
and it was ordered. The roll was then called
aud the bill passed. Yeas e., nays %, as