Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-07-13
FRIDAY, JULY Is. 1906.
SWEEP OF RAILROAD RATE BILL.

SWEEP Or RAlLROAD RAIE BILL
The railroad rate bill full and effect and
the people will be the outlook for results The first effect
of this the interstate
commission that power fix maximum reasonable rates. which
supposed be conferred by the original act OF
1887 It's primary purpose then is put back into the law
pulled of it through Of de-
esons where close OF the statutes have been
variaby against interference with the railroad
rates. and this original purpose OF the statute has been
acted after nearly 20 with such force of public sentiment
behind it. and with such effort to guard its application from
undue influence that may reasonably hope that the law will
be respected.
But the enactment also beyond the old It extends
control through the interstate commission
companies and sleeping companies the charges OF
freight companies switches terminal and
other side facilities of transportation which, falling outside
the old have to he prolific of unjust dscrm
nations The commission is also given power compel
through routing and the application of through rates
Meeting lines where for insufficient such
ments denied
The law also fords roads to between states
commodities mined produced by themselves subsidiary
forcing interstate roads ont Of the
coal and other outside business which OF them
gagged This is to take effect May 1908 It compels roads
application and where reasonable and practical establish
for the benefit of the shippers spur tracks and other like ac
ties whose refusal in heretofore and granting
other have been important praccng unjust
determinations 1t strengthens the old provisions regarding
the publicity of schedules fords keeping other accounts than
those which to government inspection restores the
-Ien penalty OF rebatlng and limits the grant
ing OF free These together make long step
forward in control of the railroads and these will
be further steps in the direction before taken
backward The principle Of public control is sound and has
come to stay.
Judging from the in the several counties in Idaho
that held primaries and conventions to date there little
doubt that the proposition to nominate senator at the state
will be defeated overwhelmingly The people seem
the opinion that the constitution safe and
The question and that the prerogatve Of the legislature not
denied light and transient While be
mooted point whether the choice of senators by
preferable there to be question that
choice by the state convention innovation that undesr
able There argument against the naming of senator's by
the legislature that is not equally powerful applied to the
naming the convention If the end desired
back the voice Of the people it must be remembered
that the legislators elected by the people directly while the
politicians.
chapter has been written the tragic history of the
fanacm has wrecked the Mitchell family and has fast
ened its blight other homes Oregon and Washing
ton Mitchell the murderer of Crefed exonerated by the
only death the hands his whose life still
finds its motives directed by the banefu influence of Crefed
The that have been committed in the of religion
have been and of the stripe of the Holy Roller leader
should be suppressed moral epers and their contago1
botted out.
to congratulated that has above beauro
cratic prejudice and has given Captain Dreyfus complete
dcaon 1t has conceded for years that Dreyus
guilty of the charges that drove him the horrors of Devil
ssnd end that he martyr for anohers crime Yet
L. - all these years for the French courts and the Frenc
the point where they could frankly
fess and fully vindicae the unfortunate victim