Morris tribune., 1905-03-04
bin. A. E. Clarke, Of the NJ. & St. L., showed

: entire line. Ihe receipts were LA cents pc
passenger per mile in Minnesota and 182 on til,
whole line. The cost of operation per passen
ger tram mile was $1.074 the earnings PEI
passenger train mile for passengers was 81
cents, and including mail and express ST.
i 1t was also pointed out that while the
amount of passenger business is much greater
than it was fifteen or twenty years ago, the
number of passengers to the train had not in
creased and the people getting the bene
fit of the increased business in more frequent
trains and better trains. The railroads also said
that if the maximum rate was cut to 80 cents
the railroads would not be able to give the
cheap excursion rates that they now do. These
excursion rates and other cheap fares have al
ready cut the average rate to below cents per
mile. If railroad rates need cutting, it does not
appear to be in the passenger business.
On the Nolan reciprocal demurrage bill,
however the railroads are not able to make out
a strong case. Complaints have reached the
committee by the hundred telling of unreason-
able and unjust delays in providing shippers
with cars when they needed them, while at the
same time other shippers had plenty of empties
furnished them. The only defence the railroads
have to the bill is that they say they should not
be compelled topay penalty for not doing that
which it is to their interest to do The Nolan
bill is very fair and reasonable and the
railroads are to be congratulated that such a
reasonable measure has been proposed Many
representations are hearing from the constitu-
ents the bill, and shippers who do not know
L A., l..
Therailroads are leaving stone unturned to
defeat the bill. (No pun intended Ward Stone
could not be turned, anyway He is for the bill
S S S
The Committee on Public Health has re-
ported out bill providing that stock infected
with contagious disease shall be killed and
the owner rembursed for two-thirds of the
value of the animal, but not exceeding $50 for
cow and $75 for horse.
Consolidated rural schools are provided for
~ bill introduced by Mr.. Anderegg, and
by the committee on educaton
n brief, the bill provides for consolidated
chool district four to six miles square
GRITTY vote of all the electors in the proposed
district
Ward Stones bill governing the disposition
the profits from prison Irvine incorporat-
d into the Block bill so that that bill pro-
ides that the net profit shall not exceed one
ent per pound, and that the profit shall be
sed only for the manufacture and increasing
ne annual production of Irvine. The PROPOSE
on of Mr.. Block to have Irvine put up in grain
acks has been dropped.
Messrs. Ofsthun, of Glenwood, and Rockne,
Zumbrota are the trust busters of the Min
esota Legislature They have introduced a
leasure that judged by it's length, at least,
nould clip the tentacles of the most vicious
lonster doing business in the state at present
A bill requiring railroad companies to bull a
tin the time of trains IN all stations where
1ey have a telegraph operator on duty, is now :
rooressing toward it's haven of refuge in the
-atute books The author of the bill tells
bout having waited all one night and missed I
is breakfast the next morning just because v
ne railroad agent kept telling him the train h
,on1d be along in "few minutes" L
T. C. MORRISON. f
NOT SATISFACTORY SUBSTITUTE,