The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-03-20

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Grain and Warehouse Bills.
DONNELLY's AMENDMENT.
Senator Donnelly's bill as recon-
mended to pass reads as follows:
Section /. That the constitution
OF the State of Minnesota be and the
same is hereby amended by adding
thereto an additional article, to fol-
low Article XIV, and to be entitled
"Article XVI, Warehouses and Rail-
roads, which shall be as follows:
ARTICLE XvI.-WaREHOUSES AND RAIL-
ROADS.
Sec. 1. All elevators or storehouses
where grain or other property is
stored for a compensation, whether
the property stored be kept separ-
ate or not, are declared to be public
warehouses and their rate of charges
may be fixed by law. The right OF
any person, company or corporation
to erect an elevator or storehouse
for the storing and shipment of grain,
upon the right OF way OF any railroad
corporation with a capacity for stor-
ing 5000 bushels Of grain, or any
greater amount, on any side track,
shall not be denied or abridged; the
railroad company to select a practi-
cable sitefor the same, and the refusal
of any corporation to receive grain
from and ship it to such elevator or
warehouse, in car load lots, at the
usual price paid for such services, or
to discriminate against it, in any
parti ,ular, shall operate to work a
forfeiture of the charter of such rail-
road corporation under such rea-
sonable regulations as the legislature
may present.
Sec. 2. All railroad companies and
other common carriers shall weigh or
measure grain at points where it is
shipped, and receipt for the full
amount, and shall be responsible for
the delivery OF such amount to the
owner or consignee thereof at the
place of destination, less an amount
not exceeding one quarter of one per
cent for wastage in the transporta-
ton OF grain shipped.
Sec. 3. Railroads heretofore con-
structed, or that may be hereafter
constructed in this state, are hereby
declared public highways, and shall
be free to all persons for the trans
porta+ion of their persons and prop
erty thereon, under such regulations
as may be prescribed by law. And the
legislature shall from time to time
pass laws establishing reasonable
maximum rates of charges for the
transportation of passengers and
freight on the different railroads in
this state. And the legislature shall
also have the right, in it's discretion,
to delegate the power to prescribe
such reasonable maximum rates of
charges to a board of railroad COM
missioners, or to such other agent or
agents as it may by law direct.
Sec. 4. No railroad corporation
shall issue any bonds or stock except
for money, labor or property, actual
ly received and applied to the pur-
pose for which such corporation was
created; and all stock dividends and
other fictitious increase of the CAPT.
tai stock or Indebtedness of any such
corporation shall be void. The cap
ital stock OF any railroad corpora
ton shall not be increased for any
purpose, except upon giving sixty
days public notice, in such manner
as may be provided by law, accom-
panied by the affidavits of the presi-
dent and general manager of such
railroad corporation, that the full
value of such stock has been actually
paid in, or deposited, to await the is
sue of such stock.
Sec. 5. No railroad corporation
shall consolidate it's stock, property
or franchise with any other railroad
corporation, owning competing or
parallel line. A majority OF the direc-
tors OF any railroad corporation, now
or hereafter to be in
corporated by the laws of this state,
shall be citizens and residents of this
state.
Sec. 6. The exercise of the power
and right of eminent domain, shall
never be so constructed or abridged
as to prevent the taking by the
state, of the property and franchises
of Incorporated companies already
or hereafter to be organ
lied, and subjecting them to the pub
lie necessity, the same as the prop
erty of individuals.
Sec. z. The legislature shall pass