Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-10
RAILROAD LAW \
 THORN IN SIDE N IF BiSBEE
Bisbee Merchant Would Suffer Injustice Because of Joker In BiIl--Board of Trade Will Attempt Amendment.


 With the passage through the lower house of the Territorial. Legislature of the BelIa0'Nein railroad bili, the merchants of Bisbee are up in arms at what they deem a Joker" in it's text.
 | The railroad bill, officially known as ! Council Bill, No. 47, is intended to
 cover in remedial way alleged laxity on the part of railroad compliance | with the statutes.
 | Section GA of this same bill covers I the relationship as it shall exist be- | tween the railroads and the shippers,
 or receivers. It specifically provides l that when cars have been delivered at
 their destination, the consignee of | goods contained in them must unload | the car or cars containing his mer-
 chandise within forty-eigbt hours or forfeit $25 for each and every day that the cars remain so unloaded. This is what raised a high degree of excitement in local business circles yesterday.
 |! President George Buxton, who dis covered the joker, but not till after
 1t had passed the lower house, i'm
 mediately issued a call for a special meeting of the local Board of Trade
 which body convened yesterday after
 noon. ...r
 As the result of deliberations Bis.
 bees Board of Trade wired Governor
 Kibbey, members of the-house and
 council and the Cochise members par II ticularly, asking them to use their II best efforts to either have the ob-
 noxious section stricken from the
 wording of the bill when it comes be- fore the council, or so amend it as
 to protect dealers in this city. r. II Because of the inconvenient ar
 engagements for handling freight here,
 it Is often impossible to unload cars in
 the time specified in the Bell-O'Neill I bill. Lack of side tracking would surely hamper Bisbee merchants in their handling of freight and make II them amenable to the provision of the
 section which calls for the payment Of a cash forfeit for overtime consumed. + e A committee of E. B. Mason F. R. Harrington, c. W. McKean and G. E. Buxton was appointed at yesterdays
 meeting to attend the legislative body | Monday and use its best efforts to see | that the local interests are cared for. | The bill in itself is entirely satisfac-
 tory to Bisbee, but local conditions make its enforcement a hardship on i local dealers. It Is for the purpose of | showing the difference in conditions here and elsewhere that the Bisbee f committee from the Board of Trade l will go to Phoenix. .a. | The following resolution was read l and adopted and will be presented to
 the Territorial lawmakers in an en- i deavor to secure the desired changes. | Resolved, That it being the senti- ment of the members of the Bisbee 1 Board of Trade, that section 64 of 1 Council Bill. No. 4, known as the i Bell-O'Neill Railroad Bill, will, owing
 to the local conditions, be a cause of fgreat additional expense to the mer- i chants of this city, in the handling of 1 various car load shipments, and that owing to the impossibility of handling these shipments with the dispatch necessary to insure the unloading i within reriod of 4S hours as pre- i scribed in the vesSmentioned sec