The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-19
Wiedmer's Provisions for Refund
ing Freight Charges Across
the River Adopted.
ALL VOTE FOR MEASURE.
Minority Faction, Realizing They
Are Defeated, Side With Ma
jority. but Council Is Tn -
able to Act.

| After afhxing two new amendments the
| majority faction in the House of Dele
gates last night forced the passage of the
Terminal bill as amended by the Council.
] The amendments were offered by Dele
| gate Wiedner. They provide for the re-
| funding to the manufacturer of the freight
| charges across the river to competitive
| points In the East. and also of freight
| charges to local manufacturers on raw
materials shipped from the West. which
| are rehandled before being sent to East
| ern points.
Delegate Wiedmer explained that as the
| shipping rates to East St Louis and St
Louis were the same. manufacturers in
St. Louis were at a disadvantage. In
transporting raw materials from the East
To ST. Louis. he said. the manufacturer in
rehandling the goods was compelled to
Pay a cent extra to get his goods across
the bridge on their way to Eastern mar
kets
The second amendment referred to the
transporting of raw materials from the
West. The charges to East St. Louis from
any point in the West being the same as
TO ST. Louis. local manufacturer who
wished to rehandle goods in the process
of manufacture is compelled to pay an
Louis. he declared. could receive the
goods and escape this tax by not having
to rehandle his goods on this side of the
river; These amendments were passed by
Il vote of 10 to ).
After passing the measure the majority
faction refused to rescind its action on
the concurrent resolution to adjourn from
December is to January 5. which was first
introduced in the Council last meeting.
By this action the House prevented con-
s:deration OF the Terminal bill by. the city
Council. which body had patiently waited
three hours to act on it.
MANY AT MEETING.
Considerable interest conferred in the
meeting. many citizens being present to
watch the Houses action. The City Coun-
Gil met ct $50 o'clock. and. after performs
ing routine duties, many of its members
care over 10 attend the House meeting.
When the Terminal bill was called Dele.
gate Wiedmer. chairman of the Railroad
Committee. offered two amendments. Dele
gates Hughes and William A. Block also
offered amendments. and 1t was decided
TO call each amendment separately and
vote in like manner.
Delegate Hughes's amendments were de-
feated. They brought the Terminal bill
back to its original form as presented to
the Municipal Assembly by the Business
Mems League. Hughes appealed to abol-
ish the $4,000 clause and the matter of
fixing rates. The former was defeated by
vote of Is to s. the latter by vote of
II to 10.
VOTE IS UNANIMOUS.
Delegate William Blocks amendment to
save the Levee was also defeated.
Delegate Mccarthy. who led the major
lily faction. after the amendments had
been voted upon. called on a vote on the
bill as amended by the Railroad Commit
tee and Council. The vote was unanimous.
Delegates Lakeland. Hughes. William A.
Block and Birge. who had fought for the
hill as originally adopted. voted with the
majority. after explaining that 1t was evil
dent that they would be voted down any
way.
The bill will now go to the Council after
the Christmas holidays for its approval.
A movement was started by the minority
faction last night to make the Houses aC
ton final. Delegate Hughes after the bill
passed. moved that the action of the
Delegate Mccarthy called for vote. |
which left the bill open for reconsidera-
ton at the next two meetings. as the ma
iority voted down the motion to table the |
bill.
Delegate Mccarthy stated after the |
House adjourned that the reason the |
House had no. rescinded its action in re- |
for the HOLIDAYS was that the House was |
in favor of matters taking their usual |
course.
After the vote was taken the Council |
went back to their chamber and |
adjourned to January s..
The ticket brt kers' bill was not called |
in the House. A public hearing was held |
on the bill before the Legislative Commit
tee during the afternoon. which contin-
it was impossible to get the measure out |
of committee