Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-02
THE PANACEA.
Provisions of the Substitute for all the
Railway Commission Bills.
An Educated Colored Man on the Race Problem
Need of Laws to Invite Actual Set
tiers to Come to Texas.
Special correspondence of the Gazette.

Special correspondence of the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. Jan. 81 The chair
man of the internal Improvements COM
mittee to-day reported to the house a
substitute for all the railway commission
bills referred to that committee. 1t fol-
lows closely the Brown bill, liberal
synopsis of which appeared in THE GA
zETTE some days ago. Stripped of legal
phraseology, the bill provides:
/. That railroads shall not charge or
collect unreasonable or extortionate rates
for the transportation of freight or pas
sengers.
.. That they shall not charge more for
a shorter than for longer haul.
8. That no railroad shall give prefer
ence to any person, firm, corporation
locality, or to any particular class
freight.
4 No two OF more railroads shall form
a pool of their earnings for carrying
freight or passengers between points ly-
ing wholly within this state.
5 The maximum freight rate between
points in Texas shall not be more than 40
cents per 100 pounds per 100
miles for transportation of first-class
freight, and charges for other classes
shall be fixed on this basis. The commits
sion created by the bill to fix maximum
and minimum rates, the maximum not
to exceed that fixed by this bill
g. The governor shall appoint five
commissioners, neither of whom shall be
interested, as stakeholder or other
wise, in any railroad in the state or out
of it Each of the commissioners to re-
ceiYe salary of $500 year, and the
commissioners may have two clerks at
salaries of $500 and $1,000 respectively.
The bill prescribes the duty of the COM
missioners and defines their powers. 1t
gives them the right to examine the
books of the various railroad companies,
and tells how their commands may be
enforced.
The substitute has been made the spe-
cial order for next Wednesday at IL
O'Clock, and from time TO time thereaf-
ter until disposed of. 1t may, there
fore, be safely predicted that on Wednes-
day next things will begin to sizz.
[ met few days ago Professor L. G..
Anderson, who has charge of the colored
normal school at Prairie View. He re-
ports the school in flourishing condi-
ton, with 100 students in attendance, all
of them boarders. Professor Anderson
is an intelligent colored man, who is
striving earnestly for the betterment Of
his race, and with what success
the hundreds of well-equ1pped
teachers turned out from his
school can testify. Speaking of the
race problem now absorbing so much of
public interest he summed the whole
thing up as follows:
''The curse of the negro is politics The
race problem is not political, but educa-
tional and industrial. -
Hele is hint for the man who would
really help the negro. Wean him from
politics as a business; give him employ
ment for brain and hands; make of him
an intelligent and useful citizen, and he
viii be troublesome no more.
Something of the reason for the need of
laws to invite actual settlers to come in
and take up the public lands is found in
some figures that 1 ran across the
other day, accidently. The Matator land
and cattle company all residing in Scot
land own 695 square miles of land in un-
organized counties in Texas in acres,
IA 1858.
Uncle Isaac Parker is again Il high
hopes of favorable committee action on
his bill to work conYicts on the public
roads. 1t was referred to a sub-commit-
tee, and reported adversely, with num-
Der of similar measures, but the commit
tee refused to receive the report, and
another subcommittee was put in
charge The matter will probably not be
acted on until the joint committee APP
pointed to investigate the penitentiaries
returns with its report.
GEO. BYRNE,