The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-14
BREATHING DEFIANCE.
RICE OF MASSACHUSETTS SHAKES
HIS FIST AT JOHN BULL.

Camden amendment and add to the words
thus restored (''and from the same original
point of departure1 the words, "or to the
salne point of arrival" Tho question OF
long and short hauls the veNed
one in this bill, and up to the
last moment was the subject of debate. The
di.i srencr between the bill as it is. and rs 1t
would have been with the Camden amend
ment left in, is thus illustrated The original
bill said to the Lake Shore road: "You must
not charge more from Chicago to New Al
bany than from Chicago to New York"
The Camden amendment said: you must
not charge more from Ashtabula to Al
buny than from Chicago to New York.
Tho Edmunds amendment and the bill as
| passed say: You must not charge more
from Chicago to Albany than from Chicago
TO New York, nor more from Ashtabula TO
New York than FROM Chicago to New
York"
Thu votA on adoption of the measure was
| yeas, a.; nays brown, Colquitt, Nor
| gan, and Ransom.
The bill provides that all complaints shall
| be made in writing to the commission
| The commission shall send the complaint to
the common carrier and require either sat
| isfactioa OF the complaint or TN answer In
writing within reasonable time specified.
| II reparation is not made within tho time
stated the commission shall investigate the
complaint The commission shall also In
vestigate all complaints forwarded to it by
| state commissions, and may institute ill.,
| Qniries on its own motion. Complaints
| shall not be dismissed because of the alb
sence of direct damage to the complainant
| The reports of the commission shall
| be in writing, and its decision shall lie
| made pTima-fac evidence in all Judicial
| proceedings
Whenever any common carrier shall re
| fuse to obey any lawful order of the com
mission it is made the duty of the United
| States circuit court, sitting in equity, to
| issue after hearing writs of injunction or
| other process mandatory or otherwise, to
| restrain further violation of the orders of
| the commission by the common carrier
| The bill requires that all charges for any
service in Transporting passengers or
freights, or storing goods, by common car
riers shall be reasonable; it prohibits all
rebates and drawbacks and all I'M
| just discrimination, requiring that all per
sons shall lie charged and treated alike for
services rendered under substantially
| similar circumstances and conditions.
| Every common carrier subject to the bill is
required 10 file within sixty days after it be-
| comes q law with the commission copies of
all its tariffs If fares aud freights, including
| its classification and terminal charges and
10 make Them public so far as the commis
| sion may deem practicable. No advance on
| such published rates shall be made without
| ten days public notice
| I'm. rIuIiSp That nrnVtPutiyt nF Sp
much debate, regulating the rates for lon
and short distance Transportation is, as
adopted, as follows; "That it shall b. UNI
lawful for any common carrier TO charge or
receive any greater compensation in the ag
gregate for the transportation of passengers
or OF the like class and quantity OF property
subject to the provisions OF this act for Il
shorter than longer distance over the same
line in the same direction and from tue same
original point of departure or to the same
| point of arrival, but this shall not Q con
strued as autho linz any common carrier
within the terms OF this act to charge and
| receive as great compensation for a
shorter as for longer distance; pro
vIded, however, that upon application to
the commission appointed under the proyi-
sions of thi, act such ommon carrier NAV,
in special cases be authorized TO charge less
for longer than for shorter distances for the
transportation Of passengers or property
| and the commission may, from
time to time, make general rules
exempting such designated common
carriers In such special cases from the
operation of this section OF this act, and
when such exception shall have been made
and published they shall, until change by
the commission or Ivy law, have like force
in the effect as though the same had been
specified In this sectioa Violation of the
| provisions of this section is declared extor-
| tion
On Thursday the senate passed a bill
| creating n new judicial circuit of the
United State to comprise Minnesota, Iowa,
and Missouri to he known ms the north cir
cult The bill to give military trlegrapher,
| of the late war n certificate
| of honorable discharge on an
"assimilated' rank propogtionate to their
| pay was rerommittod and the general service
pension bill was taken up. 1t provides a
pension of not more than S2i per month for all
soldiers who are dependent on their own
labor or on others not rcgally responsible,
for their support, and who served three
months or more, and became disabled since
the war The bill will require an outlay OF
$3.50 900 per year.
Rice of Massachusetts, in the house
Thursday, from the committee on foreign
affairs reported favorabIy, and the house
adopted, the resolution inquiring of the
president what steps have been taken tC
have investigated the sei%Te of the David
j. Adams"
In the morning hour, the committee OF
the whole resumed consideration oil
the resolution appropriating Sl41,-
0OJ to indemnify Chinese sub ject.
for losses sustained IN the Rock Springs
massacre Rice OF Massachusetts strongly
supported the resolution. He said that the
obligation Of the United States government
to pay these damages rested not on good
will or spirit of benevolence, but upon
international law. He cited many prece
dents in support o. his proposition, and dur
ing the course of his remarks, said thai
when England, through her carelessness
had let loose the cruisers which had driver
our commerce from the sea, the United State
had exacted indemnity, and he trustee
that there would lie now an arm as lonl
and voice as strong to exact indemnity
from England for the injuries her subject
petrate upon American fishermen. Lou,
applause
The morning hour expired before action
on the bill was taken, and the diplomats
and consular bill was resumed iii committee
reported to the house and passed The bill
enlarging the powers and duties of the de
partnient of agriculture was then consid
cred IN committee Of the whole
1t is stated on good authority that the
Rev DIR Phillips Brooks, Of Boston, will
decline the appointment OF assistant bishol
of the diocese of Pennsylvania, recently
rendered him by the Protestant Episcopa
church convention.
The average length OF life is on the in
crease. The science of medicine has mad
great progress; many diseases are nov