Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-22

freight over their roads: Cotton in
bales. wheat. oats. corn, and wheat
meals and brans, rye. barley. nay N
bales. salt, flour. corn, metals, ores OF an
kinds. sugnr. molasace, cement lime
cotton seed. cotton seed meal, guano
or other fertilizers, coal. coke, fruits
and vegetables, potatoes (sweet ana
Irish). cattle, hogs, horses mules goats
and sheep. iron, steel copper anu al
manufactured articles thereof; wood.
poles. logs. bnrbed wire and staples.
nails. chains, dressed beef, melons OF
all kinds. Strawberries. pears and medi-
cines; all kinds and character OF rocks,
marbles, granite GRANTEES. FIRE clay.
castings, machinery OF all kinds, books,
wagons, carriages, buggies, all FOUR or
two-wheelcd vehicles, either put togeth-
or ready for use or In parts; all cotton
or WOODEN manufactured goods, leather,
hides, bones, hair in bales, cutlery,
boots and shoes, bananas, pineapples,
oranges, peaches. milk, butter, eggs.
flsh, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese,
bacon. lard. dressed pork, rice, moss In
bales (mossbacks not included, paper
in bundles and packages, rags in bales,
newspaper type. cases and presses,
slaughtered animals Of all kinds, goods
packed in trunks, beer whisky and
wines In barrels. kegs, boxes or bottles,
and elder and vinegar in barrels. kegs
or bottles; earths and clays OF all kinds.
metal wires. wool in bags or bales,
stoves OF all kinds. and stove pipes.
brick, all wares for the table, kitchen
or parlor. including china. queensware
and porcelain. jugs, maniels, castings
OF all kinds, dressed and undressed
game, crude and manufactured iron.
copper and steel. steel metal and ANAL
gamB OF all kinds, paints in barrels.
kegs or cans, oils OF all kinda, petro-
leum In all shapes and conditions. guns.
pistols, manufactured tobaccos, beans.
peas all grains not before mentioned,
dressed and undressed lumber, tiles.
shingles. blocks. boards. CRATES and all
! parts thereof, canned meats and FISH.
! glass and glassware, or any other agri-
cultural product or live stock not here
in enumerated, and the enumeration
! OF the foregoing articles does not eN-
clude nor are they Intended to exclude
any other article Of the nature. kind
] or character of those SO enumerated,
and where a car load IS contracted for
Z by one person. firm or company, then
the rates Tor the car load shall not eN-
coed the sum OF 20 cents per 100 pounds
per 100 miles on their roads, but tho
charges for transportation on each
class or kind OF freight shall be uni
form. and no unjust discrimination In
the rates OF charges for the Transports
ton OF amy freight shall be made
against any person or place on any
ram bhu IN tUlh STATE una IL small DH
be prlmn facie evidence OF an unjust
discrimination for any railroad COM
pany 10 demand or receive from one
person, firm or company a greater COM
pcnsntion than from another for the
transportation In this state Of any
freight OF the same kind or class in
equal or greater quantities for the same
or a less distance, which prima facie
evidence may be rebutted by competent
testimony on thc part Of such railroad
company, showing that the discrimlna-
{ ton, lf any, was not an unjust one, and
tho question upon an issue as to wheth-
err an alleged discrimination is unjust
or not shall be a question Of fact TO be
tried and determined as any other issue
or faet In case; provided. that when
the distance from the place Of ship
ment to the point OF distribution OF any
freight Is NIFTY miles or less II charge
not exceeding 10 cents per 100 pounds
may be made for the transportation
{ thereof The excessive charge now
made for the transportation of freight
creates an emergency for the relief Of
| the people which demands the suspen-
sion Of the constitutional rule requiring
bills to be read three several days,
which rule w hereby suspended, and
that this bill be passed and put in
| operation at once"
This ig the only railroad bill intro
| duced by a Populist this session. The
! members OF tho committee on Internal
| improvements regard II as one of the
| greatest freaks OF the session and will
kill It "doader than dead maokerel. "
] Viva In Rhohnu fh..