Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
7. P. A..
Instructions From the National Presi-
dent of the T. P. A. to the Various
Legislative Committees.
Work Done by the Kentucky Railroad Com.
mittee-The Boys Urged to Work Up
the Club-Personals.

NC pIouu VI anu IL Will De I'LL HollOT u
our city. Live, energetic travelling men
can do more for a town than most any
body when they try, and we. hope the
donation so generously made by the citi-
zens of Fertworth is sufficient evidence
of their good will towards the fraternity
and we would like to see the compliment
| returned, so start the club. Work for
| Fort Worth and her interest wherever
| You go: Your work will not be in vain
The Kentucky railroad committee are
doing some fine work, as the following
will show. Texas will get there after
while i'll the same style. The following
| correspondence is the kind we like to
| publish:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 9, 1888.
j. c. Van Pelt, Chairman Railroad Committee,
7. P. A, Louisville, KY:
| DEAR SIR take pleasure in advising
you that within the next ten days there
viii be placed ON sale at princi-
pal stations of the Jacksonville
Madison and Indianapolis and the
| Chicago, St. Louis and PittSburg rail-
roads new form of 10O0-mile tickets
which will be sold at $40 @ cents per
mile
| This ticket viii be good ON all divisions
and branches of the Jeffersonville, Mad
ison and Indianapolis, and Chicago, st.
Louis and Pittsburg, embracing nearly 900
miles, covering our lines between LOUIS
Vile and Chicago, Cincinnati and Chi
cago and Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis
and Chicago. The 2000-mile ticket at
| $40 covering the entire Pennsylvania sys-
| tenn west of Pittsburg viii still remain on
save. Very truly yours,
A. ANDERSON, D. p. A.
- The Road.
The following instructions were issued
! by the national president of the T. p. A {.
to the legislative committees throughout
the United States, and it is to be hoped
| the president S instructions will be fully
| carried out, for it is point the business
| interests of the whole country are inter-
ested in, and if the committees do their
work faithfully they can place the strong
est petition before congress that has ever
been presented to them, and it will with
out doubt meet with success:
PHILADELPHIA, Pa; Nov &c, 1888.
| Instructions to Legislative Committees:
DEAR SIR-In view of the sudden resig-
nation of the chairman of the national
| legislative committee and pending the
| reorganization of this department of our
association, would earnestly request the
| prompt attention and undivided effort of
! yourself and your colleagues in legisla-
| tive committee work in behalf of the at
tainment of the object indicated through
the following
INSTRUCTIONS
To one who has carefully studied the
Interstate commerce act, and who has
given the slightest attention to the de-
bates in congress incident to the passage
of this act, it must be apparent that it
was most emphatically not the object of
| the trainers of this law to, in the slightest
degree, restrict or hamper the commerce
| of our country but on the contrary, af-
ter studying the history of this now ia
nous law, from its inception as a bill
in the house of representatives, care
fully noting the remarks regarding 1t,
pro and con, in both the house and SEN
ate, following u studiously through COM
! Iaitt5e until it received the approval of
the president, experimenting the knowl-
edge thus obtained by opinions expressed
by prominent members of both houses of
the congress which gave this notable
| piece of legislation so much time and at
| tention, 1 am forced to the
conclusion that the incentive for
the passage of the act was an honest de-
further advance the interests of the bust
ness community generally by affording it
protection from the unjustifiiable and in
consistent discrimination in rates so often
INDUCED in by railroad monopolies in the
interest of favored shippers, thus bring
ing ruin and disaster, or at least sub
stantially decreased profits, to many
business enterprises which were not for
tunate enough to bask in the sunlight of
railroad fayoritism.
We cannot logically believe that the
statesmen who so carefully framed this
law contemplated blow to the interests
of the commercial traveller, and thus in
directly to every business interest in the
United States. We have yet to meet a
single legislator, irrespective of his polit-
zeal affiliations, or the constituency he
represented, but who conceded in the be-
lief recently expressed by distinguished
railroad official who truly says that
every travelling representative of
business enterprise, be it ever so small,
is of value TO all interests, and this value
to the general prosperity of the land can
not be measured by money alone.'
The salient features of the act, so far
as it affects the interests of the CONNER
cial traveller, are to be found in the fol-
lowing sections of the law:
Section declares: l. That eff any
common carrier subject to the provisions
of the act shall, directly or indirectly, by
any special rate, rebate, drawback or
any other device, charge, demand, COL
lect or receive from any person or persons
a greater or less compensation for any
service rendered or to be rendered in the
transportation of passengers or property
subject to the provisions of this
act than it charges, demands,
collects or receives from any other
person or persons for doing for him or
them like or oontemporaneous service
in the transportation of like kind of
traffic, under substantially similar cir
cumstances and conditions, such common
carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust
discrimination which is hereby prohibit
ed and declared to be unlawful. -
The twenty-second section provides for
the following exceptions from the opera
tons of the act; That "nothing in this
act shall apply to
l. The carriage, storage or handling
of property free or ut reduced rates for
the United States state or municipal gov
ernments.
2. Or for charitable purposes.
8. Or to or from fairs or eXpositions for I
exhibition thereat.
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