The San Francisco call., 1898-03-03
SHOUTS BILL
 IS REPORTED
 FAVORABLY Will Be Called in the Kentucky Legisla-
 ture To-Day. Friends of the Measure Confident of It's
 Passage. Believe @ Majority Will Vote to Repeal the Southern
 Pacific Charter. MIR. HUNTlNGTON'S TERMS. Says the Road Will Pay a "Police Protection Tax" " and Nothing
 More.
Believe @ Majority Will Vote to Repeal the Southern
 Pacific Charter.
MIR. HUNTlNGTON'S TERMS
Says the Road Will Pay "Police Protection Tax " and Nothing
 More.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

FRANKFORT Ky, March 2.-The Committee on Corporations has report ed favorably on the Stout bill to re- peal the charter of the Southern Pa cific Company The committee was not reached in the House to-day, but under a recent rule of the House the Committee on Rules may take up any bill at any time. MT. Stout said to- night:
 Speaker Beckham as chairman of the Rules Committee has agreed to permit me to call up the bill to-mor- row. I find that there Is a warm senti- ment in favor of the passage of the bill It will meet little or no opposition in the House from present indications. The big corporation seems powerless to manipulate the present Legislature, and the bill will be rushed with all possible dispatch. It seems at this time we will be able to pass the meas ure through both houses, although the time for doing so is very short, indeed. The little opposition will obstruct the measure to a very slight extent, and it starts under favorable circum- stances.
 'I learn from the members of the Board of Valuation and Assessments that the Southern Pacific Company has been negotiating for settlement of the tax cases out of court, and since the introduction of the repeal bill has been awakened to this end. The com panv should not expect privileges under our laws unless 1t expects to be governed by them as are other com panies."
 Senator Thomas H. Hays of Louis ville leader of the opposition, said: II have received word from MT. Hunting ton in regard to the measure. You can say that there will nothing come of it. MT Huntington says he is I tired of the anrlo-~ance of the repeated efforts to repeal the charter. He says that in the course of time, when the matter can be adjusted b. attorneys, the Pacific Compar- will pay police protection tax nothing more. The company has no property in Kentucky comparative with its great interests. The present measure Is like similar other measures for the purpose Of forcing taxes. The bill will not pass. The San Francisco lobby will not come here. I do not think it possible to pass the bill through the House, and should it meet our branch we shall defeat 1t easily. Should the bill now pass we could have passed in another State a charter which would serve the pur- pose of the present Kentucky charter.
 The bill has gained much in favor and a number of the ablest members of the House will strongly advocate it's passage. MT. Stout has been gather ing data upon the operations of the company The friends of the bill say they hope to pass the measure before the last of the week in the House. They claim that Governor Bradley Is favor ahIe 10 the bill and there is little doubt of his signing it under the cir cumstances.