The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
A NEW FORCE BILL.
The Senate Substitute for Lodges
Plan.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. DECISION
The Santa Fe Is Defeated McCoOk
Goes to MISUNDERSTANDING Cavalry
and Infantry Regiments.

WAsHINGToN, Aug Among the changes
which the Senate committe made in the
substitute for the Lodge election bill, which
was reported to the Senate to-day, are the
following: All reference to that section OF
the revised statutes which it was claimed
provides for the presence of troops at the
polls was stricken out; the house 10 house
canvass provided for in the House bill was
stricken out, and the provision for drawing
juries by commissioners was also omitted.
The penal offenses were simplified and
made misdemeanors instead of felonies; the
punishments were modified, the highest
punishment imposed being three years i'm
prisonment and fine of 800, as against
Imprisonment for five years and a fine of
81 900, in the House bill. The Judge of the
circuit court before whom application IS
made for the appointment of supervisors
is authorized, as supervisor, to ap
point any persons he may see
lit, not being confined in his
selection to the list furnished by the chief
supervisor. In cases where ballots are
cast in the wrong box. they are not to be
counted, unless the talley sheet shows the
votes for Congressman do not equal the
number of names on the poll list. Then
enough of the votes so wrongly cast shall
be added to the talley sheet to make the
| total equal the whole number of votes
shown to have been cast Where election
officers refuse to administer the oath to
voters applying therefor, it is provided in
| the bill that the supervisors shall admin
| lister the oath but no effort snail be made to
made to have the vote thus refused cast the
object being merely to preserve the testi-
mony of application and refusal.
An Inter State Commerce Decision.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE interstate
commerce commission announced its deci-
sion to-day in the case of the San Bernar-
dino board of trade against the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa F'e and others IN favor of
the complainant The complaint alleged
that the railroad com panies charged more
on certain specified commodities from Mis-
souri, river points ST. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Detroit and New York to San
Bernardino, Cal, than for a longer dis
tance over the same line to Los Angeles.
The points decided are briefly stated
as follows: Where the complaint
in the aggregate for the Transportation of
live kinds of property is made for shorter
than longer distance over the same line
in the same direction, the shorter being in
Guided in the longer, and that unlawful
preference is thereby given one locality
over another, it is held the complaint is sui
ticient to put the carriers on proof that the
services were rendered under such dissim
liar circumstances as to justify the greater
charge. The water competition which VIII
Justify greater charge for the shorter dis
lance by railroads must be actual. Pos
sible competition will not justify sucl
greater charge under the provisions of tn,
, fourth section of the act to regulate com
MERGE The filing of schedule rates will
the commission as required by the statut
raises no presumption as to the legality o
t such rates, and no omission or failure t.
challenge or disapprove the schedules rat
of so filed can have the effect of making law
) fulrates which are unreasonable.
General McCook Goes to Arizona.
WASHINGTON, Aus.-General McCool
: will be assigned to the department of Ar
IONA with headquarters at Santa Fe, n. M
Reducing Cavalry and Infantry Regiments.
TUCSON, A. T., Aug. THE order of tn
secretary of war reducing the cavalry an
infantry regiments from ten to eight com
panies is being put in force in Arizona an
two companies of each regiment are bein
distributed among the eight companies
Army officers express considerable feelin
on account of this order, saying Congress
: is the only power that can decrease til
:, number Of companies in regiments