The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-12-01
AT WASHINGTON.

view ~ pCIDIttius UNDERGRADUATES WIN
NAV have on hand materials, time in
which to cover the losses which they
would otherwise suffer by the introduc.
ton of free raw materials. 1t will also
give the first hand dealers who rave large
stocks time before they are brought into
competition with articles which will have
to pay far less duty.
At first glance the deferring of the date
when the law becomes effective to April,
1895, appears to have much political sig
n~ifcance, as the entire new congress will
he elected before that time, and yet the
Fifty-f fourth congress-, which succeeds the
present one, does not come into being
until March 4, 1895, and will not be in
session, unless called in extraordinary
session, until December, 1895. For this
reason the new tariff bill, if it becomes a
law, will take effect before any express
sion at the polls can check the absolute
operations Of the law.
Two or three years ago a gentleman
having a grievance against one of the
sleeping car companies went to the inter-
state commerce commission to see if
something could not be done toward
forcing these corporations to recognize
the rights of their patrons. The COM
plant arose out Of a clear case of dis
elimination. A passenger coming to
Washington got on at a way station and
found the two sections in a Philadelphia
car, which were reserved for Washington
passengers, occupied. The rate charged
for o berth was So. He was informed
that he could get a berth half way for 81,
and that he might get a berth for the re-
mainder of the distance for an additional
81. He paid the 81 under protest and
secured for that man just what other pas
sengers had for half the money. Mr..
Morrison, of the interstate commerce
commission, admitted the justice Of the
complaint, but said: The courts have
decided that sleeping cars are simply
hotels on wheels, over which the inter-
state commission has abso-
lutely no jurisdiction"
1t was too near the end Of the session
then to bring the matter to the attention
of congress and for a year or two no
further attempt was made to remedy the
injustice. Lately, however, a western
member, who has been making close in
quiries for a year past, has come to the
conclusion that no good reason exists
why sleeping car companies should not
be controlled by the same laws which
govern the movements Of the other COM.
mon carriers, and this member is deter
mined to make a fight in the present
congress with the object of extending
the interstate commerce law over sleep.
ing car corporations He has gathered
together a great deal of data in which he
shows that the sleeping car companies
are governed simply by their sweet
will in fixing the rates for accommodation.
1t is not generally known that when a
United States national bank note or
treasury note, commonly known as a
greenhack, is partly destroyed hat the
United States will redeem tie fracti-
tional part of the paper currency, which
is returned to tie treasury for its full
face value if more than three-ffths of the
paper obligation is returned to the treas
ury.
Before the days of Treasurer Houston
it was the custom to deduct from the
torn paper the amount lost in tifths and
to redeem the fragments in fractions, but
for the past four years a change has been
inaugurated and now if The owner of a
so bill, for instance, loses one fifth of
it by having it torn off, he can send the
remaining four tifths in and receive $40,
less the cost of experience. If, on The
other hand, he has lost more than two
fifths of the note or less thar threc.ffIhs.
be can return the fraction still remain
ing and receive half or the face value OF
the original note. By this means the
government redeems the larger portion
Of all outstanding notes and If that Dor
lion hsppens 10 be more than Ihree-ffths
OF tbe original the owuer loses nothing.
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