San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-06
STATE LEGISLATURES.

oAhlE htI.
Senate meets and receives endorse
ment of Dallas board Of trade for KIM
brough's Incorporation bill.
After receiving the bill grist, the
Mrs. l.. 81. Davis relief bill passed
under suspension of the rules.
Glasscock's free school bill was
taken up, amended. and passed under
suspension of the rules.
Stephens bill validating county
seat locations under certain condi-
tions lie passed.
Senate adopts the Dallas incorpora-
ton bill; with amendment providing
for incorporation of private clubs Of
all kinds, sorts aud sizes except base
ball.
Senate passes act authorizing sale
and transfer of Kansas, Missouri and
Texas lines within the state, and to
brought by the state for forfeiture of
franchises.
Potter's railway bill, providing for
the Incorporating of companies to buy
own and operate railways within the
state advertised to be sold, Is passed
without comment.
Senate does not concur in house
amendments to the separate car act.
Senate passes house bill preventing
pugilism.
House bill exempting certain coun-
ties from operations of stock law pass
es senate; also bill excusing law grad
yates Of the state university from bar
examinations.
House bill requiring railroad COM
panies to erect depots at all railway
crossin gs passes senate.
Bill passes senate providing for
efficient collection of taxes In towns
and cities.
The following house. bill passed to
its third reading: Gan act to provide
for the sale of all lands in Greer
county heretofore set apart for the
benefit of the public free schools and
for the payment of the public state
debt, and to protect the actual settlers
on such lands in the prior right to
purchase the same, and for the lease
of said lands, and to prevent the free
use and occupancy, unlawful en-
closure or unlawful appropriation of
such lands, and to provide adequate
penalties therefor"
In the house the Terrell railway
substitute for the committee's COM
mission bill was the unfinished bu-
siness, and with certain amendments
it passed.
Brown, Of Grayson, sent up the
following relative to the Gresham
amendment to the railway commission
bill, allowing greater rates of freight
for short than long hauls in certain
cases:
We vote mo- on this amendment
for the following reasons:
/. We cannot see any instance in
which it would be justice to all the
people along the line of railroad to
permit such railroad to charge less In
the aggregate for q long than short
haul.
2. If the charges for a long haul
will compensate the railroad COM
pany for carrying the freight that dis
lance, the same compensation will be
sufficient for the transportation of the
same freight over the same line to
all points of shipment and the point
of destination. We cannot see how
1t can be possible that it will pay
railroad company to haul for dis
lance of 100 miles at q certain figure
and will not pay the same railroad,
at the same time over the same line to
transport like freights for o distance
of fifty miles for the same price.
8 1t it does not pay to transport for
o long haul at a given price, then the
railroad company must make up the
loss thus sustained by increasing the
charges upon consumers who live at
the intermediate points and upon
which the short haul charges fall.
8, L. This is power of discrimination
in favor of one place over another
which is one Of the evils that de-
mands the enactment of this bill.
The prevention of discrimination Is
one of the leading purposes of the con-
stitutional amendment and of the
bill that is now being enacted into a
law.
5. Giving the power to the COM
to make these discrimlDs-
tons will cause them to be constantly
worried with demands from COM
peting points, as they are called, for
such discrimination, and will sub
ject the commission to great annoy
ance, as we'll as to charges of having
made such Determinations unlustly."
TflsOn, Tolbert,
Murrell, Terrell, Rogers. Derden, Nc
Elwee.
Regulators.
New ORLEANS, La, March e.