San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-15
T. P. A. NEWS LETTER.
IOWAs INTERCHANGEABLE MILE.
AGE BILL.
Kentucky and Illinois DrummeB for sena'
tor-Indiana's Conventional Waco
Angel for Railroad Commissioner.

FROM NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
ST. LOUIS, March 9.-The Indiana
division will hold its annual con-
vention at Richmond, Indiana, on
May 2nd, 1896. Post G, Of Rich
mond, will do the honors OF the
occasion.
Texas division will hold it's an
nual convention on April 10th and
18th at Dallas, Texas. President
Booth anticipates a large attend
ance.
Nashville, Tennessee, is in the
fight strong for the convention Of
1897. The Centennial exposition at
Nashville has been postponed and
will open May 7th, 1897, and con-
tinue six months. This places
that city right in line for the con-
vention of 1897.
Jerry NJ. Porter, the popular
and able commercial traveller and
T. P. A. of A. orator, of Paducah,
Kentucky, has been brought into
the race in Kentucky for the
United States senatorship and has
appeared prominently In the vote
at recent ballots. We need such a
man as Porter in the senate and he
would make a much better man
for commercial interests and the
interests Of commercial travellers
than many of his competitors.
VIM. L. S.agg, president of Post
d, Springfield, ILL.,, is a candidate
for the nomination for state sena-
tor in the S9th Illinois district. He
travels for Forbes Brothers & Co.,
dealers in teas in st. Louis, and Is
an excellent salesman and an able
man. He has been president of
Post d, Springfield, ILL.,, T. P. A. of
A, several times and has made
most faithful officer. He should
have the support of the travelling
men in that section, irrespective of
party affiliations.
Thomas F. Farmer, OF Waco, Tex,
an active officer and worker of the
I. p. A. of A, is a candidate for
railroad commissioner, with strong
probability OF election. The T. p.
A. boys seem to be getting into
politics all round the country, and
the first thing we know the asso-
citation will have the political sit
uation grabbed and we will then
make laws and railroad rates to
suit US. Members OF the Texas
division should see to it that Far
mer is elected. He is a goodman.
The following is a copy OF bill
introduced February 25th in the
Iowa legislature. A similar bill
will be introduced in the Kentucky
legislature and other legislatures
as rapidly as they convene by the
Travellers Protective Association,
of America:
An act entitled an act to require
the railroad companies in the
state Of Iowa to place 'on sale in
terehangeabl6 mileage books at no
higher rate than two cents per
mile, and to prevent irregular
traffic by unauthorized persons in
said mileage tickets.
Section l. Be it enacted that
every railroad company or corpo-
ration operating in this state, the
line or lines of which are more
than fifty miles in length, shall
issue Interchangeable mileage
books emitting the holder thereof
to travel 1000, 900 or 5000 miles |
within this state, on the line or
lines of such railroad, and of all |
other railroads in the state of !
Iowa, of a greater length than fifty
miles, for which the corporation
may charge not to exceed two
cents per mile. Any railroad or
corporation which shall refuse to
issue or accept such interchange
BILE mileage books for transporta-
ton shall forfeit $50, to be recov-
cred by the party to whom such
refusal is made, but no action can
be maintained therefor unless
commenced within one year after
the cause of action,
Section 2. Be g enacted that
said interchangeable mileage
tickets shall be accepted for rail-
road fare by any railroad company
or other party controlling or oper-
sting railroads in the state OF Iowa
when presented by the rightful
owner thereof; and that whenever
any mileage ticket is sold by any
railroad company it shall be the
duty of the company selling such
tickets to redeem the unused por-
ton Of such mileage ticket when as
much as 60 per cent of said ticket
has been used by its purchaser by
paying to the legal holder thereof
'or the number Of miles unused at ,
the same price per mile orig.
.nally paid for it, provid-
ID the legal holder OF ,
said ticket presents it to the agent