The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-18
CUT RATES MORE.
New Freight Bill will Be In
troduced in House.
Provides for More Radical Cut
In Rates.
ENLARGES THE SCOPE.
Sugar Beets, Hay, Stone and
Salt Included.
New Measure Is Champfoned by
w. Y. Morgan.
ENLARGES THE SCOPE.

An entirely new maximum freight
rate schedule on all grains and grain
products was agreed upon this morning
by the railroad committee of the house
| assisted by ]. T. White and A c. Mitch
ell, and was presented to the house of
representatives at 3 o'clock this after
noon when the special order" on max
imum freight rates was reached.
The committee also presented to the
house the schedules on beet sugar. hay.
stone and salt The proposed sched-
uIes make cut in present rates of
from 20 to so per cent
1t was at the suggestion of w. Y
Morgan, chairman of the railroad com
nittee, that the new schedule on grain
and grain products was presented TO
the committee, and its general effect is
proposed by ]. T. White in his sched-
ules- Mr. Morgan stated that he had
prepared his revised schedules for the
purpose of helping the wheat raisers
in western Kansas, and especial north
western Kansas.
The Morgan schedules as revised. are
somewhat higher than the White sched-
ules for distances up to 100 miles. Be-
tween 125 and $50 miles. the Morgan
schedules are on an average of a cent
a hundred lower than the White sched-
ules, and from $50 miles to 500, the
rates are about the same The two
schedules finish up at exactly the same
place for both wheat and eorn-16 cents
a hundred on wheat for 500 miles, and
Il cents for corn for 500 miles. The
corn rate applies to all other grains.
Mitchell Put in an Amendment
A C Mitchell. of Douglas. who was
added to the committee by special mo-
ton on Friday last. secured the ap-
proval OF the railroad committee this
morning to an amendment which, ne
had drafted which provided specifically
that each section of the bill, embracing
a schedule on a separate commodity,
should stand on its own bottom and
that if any one section should be de-
clared invalid. thit should not affect
any Of the other sections.
This dees away with most of the OBJ
lection which ". Y. Morgan had to the
bill in it's present form. embracing a
large number of comm odftfes- Mr.
Morgan was afraid that the house, in
passing the BILL would get some sche-
dulles into il which could not be de-
Tended on constitutional grounds, and
thus invalidate the whole proceeding
Mr.. Mitchell said in speaking of his
amendment:
''The courts have held that an in
valid section of law does not in
validate the entire law unless it was
the intention Of the legislature that all
the sections of the bill are correlated,
and dependant upon each other. If we
put into the bill a section specifically
setting Iortn tnat II Is lne intention
of the legislature that each section
shall stand on its own merits. We have
fixed it SO that any one schedule may
be thrown out without affecting other
schedules
White Is Satisfied.
J. T. White, of Ottawa county, will
make no fight on the grain schedules
proposed by Mr. Morgan in the COM
mittee this morning. The schedules
prepared by Mr.. White will be with
drawn. and the Morgan schedules sub
The principal difference between the
White and Morgan schedules is on dis
tances of less than 100 miles. where the