St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-26
CHEAPER CAR FARES.
Gallagher's Efforts to Reduce the
Income of the Street Hallway
COmDany

Gallagher's Efforts to Reduce the
Income of the Street Hallway
Company.
Mr.. Gallagher sent up substitute tor
House File 15S, a bill regulating the
fares to be charged by the city railway
company. He wanted the substitute re-
ferred 10 the committee on labor and
labor legislation.
MIR. Lynn suggested that Hennepin
| and Ramsey delegations should have an
| opportunity 70 consider the substitute.
| TneY had not yet done so.
Mr.. KingwaId said a majority OF Ram
! sey and Hennepin delegations had Op
| posed Mr.. Gallagher's original bill. The
| substitute was reported by the minority,
| and it was only fair that the whole of
| the members of the two delegations
should report upon the substitute. The
! bill was one which solely effected the
| cities of Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Mr.. Long argued that the Hennepin
| and Ramsey delegations had already
| considered this bill, that it was one OF
! great interest to the working people,
1 and that it should now be referred TO
| the committee on labor and labor legiS-
Iati0n. He maintained that for the pro-
lection of their wives and daughters
/ such a law was very desirable, and in
the name of common decency he Op-
posed its repeal.
Mr.. Gallagher favored the bill. He
could not see why special law should
| have been passed in favor OF the street
| railway. lie was opposed 10 such class
! legislation. Why should the street rail-
/ way company be singled out in prefer
! ence to st0rekeepers and others. He
! claimed that people who used obscene
! language. etc, on the street cars. could
he dealt with under the general law.
| Mr.. Lynn opposed the bill. and this
raised Mir. Tripp, who delivered Wig
| orOus address IN its support. Mr.. Trip
! said the law was originally posted
! merely for the purpose of making peO-
! pie pav their fare on the bObtail street
! ears. That was all; nothing more or
! less. This talk about preventing peO-
! pie using bad language, etc, was beside
/ the mark.
Mr.. Gallagher said the Ramsey and
| Hennepin delegations should not be
| allowed to decide upon such an import
! ant bill: it was a QUESTION for the whole
/ house. That was why he wanted it to
| go to the committee on labor and labor
/ legislation.
/ MIR. Stearns remarked there was q
constitutional question involved in this
bill. 1t was exceedingly questionable
if they could interfere with Mr.. LOwry's
! contract. so he proposed the bill go to
| the judiciary committee.
Mr. Gallagher opposed the reference.
! The judiciary committee did not pass
upon this questlon-let it go TO the
courts that was what the people wanted.
| Mr.. Stevens replied that few men,
| bers would care to vote for bill if they
did not know it would become valid
| law.
A vote was taken, and Stevens mo-
ton was carried, 80 yeas to 90 nays.
Mr. Gallagher, however, succeeded in
having the Judiciary committee in
structed to report upon the bill in four
| days.
Mr.. Reeve had moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill, and a vote was taken
upon this. The motion was carried
| 53 yeas. 26 nays.
Mr.. Gallagher's substitute provides
| that eight tickets shall be supplied for
% cents. These tickets are to be good
between and a. m, and $50 to 7:30
D. m. over all lines, but not good on
| Sundays or holidays.