The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-08
Get A RATE BILL.
House Agrees to Accept Half
a Loaf.
Members Say That 1t Is Better
Than None.
CUTS THE GRAIN RATES
Fifteen Cent Reduction OH These
Provided For.
Every Change Suggested by the
House Is Rejected.
UTS THE GRAIN RATES

The second conference committee
from the house reported today at 10
o'clock on the maximum freight rate
bill. having refused to accede to the
demands made by the conference COM
mittee from the senate and asked for
further instructions from the house.
The house then voted to accept the
bill as amended by the senate. The
committee consisted of Representative
Haskfns, Tannahin and Mercer and
Senators Smith and Fulton.
In submitting their report in which
they could not agree, Representative
Haskins said: 'It is the opinion of
your committee that the house should
recede from its position taken at the
opening of the legislature on the
freight rate proposition, as the senate
committee fatty refuse to make fur
ther concessions to your committee.
We want to submit the senate propo-
sition to the house with the recon-
mendatfon that they accept it as the
best possible measure that we can Sc
cure at this late day
Representative White said: 81 had
hoped for a better bill than this but
If this is the best we can do we had
better accept this report and accept
the terms offered US by the senate.
This bill will probably save the state
S1,40O,000 and this is something in the
roads are cramming this measure
down our throats but it seems to be
the best we can do and let's take it
do you think the senate would do
any thing unless the railroads told
them they could?" asked Hendricks of
No emphatically. no." replied Rep
resentative White. but what can hls
body do about t?'
Hendricks of Rawlins said: 81 never
have touched the crumbs from the
rich mans table before but today | am
in favor of accepting this offer made
by the said roads. 1t is an insult to
this house and to every taxpayer in
the state but it is a crumb thrown to
us from the corporation table and
am in favor OF accepting what they
have offered us and swallow my pride
This bill will save something and / VIII
vote 10 accept the senate Dill with the
concessions their conference commit
tee has offered.
The discussion was brought 10 a
close by Ryan of Brown county, who
said: I'VE are just as competent to
vote on this question now as ever and
it seems to be the sentiment of the
house to adopt this report and move
the previous question"
The report of the conference COM
mittee adopted this morning by a large
majority of the members of the house
is acticaIly the same one made sew
eral days ago. The senate conference
committee having refused to accede
in a single important demand made by
the house committee.
The following is the report submit
ted to the house by the conference
committee and adopted by them and
contains the provisions of a maximum
freight law:
1.-The senate conferees state to uF
that the senate, after the most careful
deliberation, it has decided that a Is per
cent horizontal cut upon the grain rates
vie will
give Kansas a lower rate on grain pro-
ducts than is now in force in any of
the states surrounding Kansas; that a
rate as made by the senate bill viii
be one cent a hundred lower than Mis-
souri, four cents a hundred lower than
Texas. eight cents hundred lower
than Nebraska, about one cent higher
than Illinois and about two cents high