The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-28
Must Not Discriminate

Must Not Discriminate
Counsel for the New York Produce Ex-
change are, in cooperation with a COM
mittee of the exchange, preparing a bill
for presentation to the legislature de-
signed primarily to stop railroad dis
elimination against the port of New
York. The committee on freight rates
discrimination of the exchange has for
| nine months been investigating the pro-
posed plans of restoring the ground lost
to this port and is of the opinion that
the railroads are largely responsible
To Fight Interest BILL
The Merchants Association Of New
York will organize to oppose the i'll re-
ducing the legal rate of interest in this
state from to per cent. William f.
King an ex-president of the organiza-
ton, in a public statement declares that
the measure is vicious and threatens the
business interests and prosperity of this
city and state. The absurdity and harm
of per cent interest measure was
shown by the association, he says, in
1889, when it resisted and defeated a
similar bill. The Merchants association
has wired Assemblyman Hill to ask for
hearing on the bill.
Oppose Public Vaccination
The New York County Medico-Phar-
| AA1SVAbICcOA uO 4AlCt last Dt5AI III L uA-
edo hotel to discuss the question of vac
| cination. There were several medical
| and pharmaceutical aspects of vaccina-
| ton discussed, but the chief subjects de-
| bated conferred on the first question,
| Should the government furnish vaccine
gratuitously or keep it for sale, or should
this be considered as a remedy, to be re-
| garded from its comemrcial aspect, and
/ distributed through the drug trade or
| other indanpndant G01IrnaS7'J
Most Of the doctors present pronounced
against municipalities undertaking to
| furnish the serum or perform Yaccina-
| ton.
| Nixon Follows TOyyne-
Lewis Nixon, successor in trust to
Richard Croker, has been chosen as the
| head of a 100000 syndicate, which will
! operate in the Texas oil fields
| The concern will be Incorporated in
| Texas, and the division Of stock has been
SO made that none of it will be placed
upon the market, but all will be re-
| tanned by the members of the syndicate
| The lands owned by the syndicate are
| in the Beaumont district, from which it
/ is purposed to lay pipe lines to Fort
/ Worth, Dallas and other cities in Texas
and eventually to New Orleans.
1t is also the intention. after the local
field has been developed, to run line
/ OF TANK steamers from new orleans to
| this city, and also to Mexico and Cen
trail and South American ports A large
| revenue is also expected to be derived
| from the sale Of the crude oil to Texan
/ railroads fer use as fuel
In invading the Texan oil fields Mr.
| Nixon is following in the steps Of sew
/ eral Democrats of prominence, all OF
whom have made fortunes there.
Famous Portico Doomed
Unless the portico Of the Pabst hotel
at the northwest corner of Forty-sec-
ond street and Broadway, is removed by
| the proprietor within a week, the en-
ployes of the bureau of encumbrances
will tear the structure down. This Will
end a controversy that has waged. more
or less fiercely, for more than a year
between the city and the owners of the
property, and in which the courts have
been appealed to by both sides in a half
dozen actions.
The decision to use forcibie means to
obtain the removal of the structure.
which projects twenty feet upon the
sidewalk In Forty second street, was ar