Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-06
COMPROMISE ADOPTED.
The Railroad Rate Bill Pre-
pared by the Governor
and his Council OF State
Becomes the Law.
UH as
Both Branches OF the General As
SembIy COnCure in Its Enact
ment in the Final Analysis
as the Best That Gould
be Attained.
Special to THE ARGUS.

Raleigh, Feb. 1.-The extraordinary
session of the Legislature is no more.
At two thirty the formal final ad-
iournment was taken, sine die, by
both Houses.
The Senate took only fifteen minutes
to adopt it's bill as sent back from the
House (amended by striking out the
Corporation Commission feature) and
it passed by vote OF twenty nine to six,
fifteen Senators not being present.
The anti railway merger bill was
passed, and then the Holt resolution,
calling for more investigation of rail-
road m alters was killed by vote of
26 to 12.
The railway employees were given a
bouquet in the form of a resolution for
mally recognizing their petitions and
expressing the hope that railroads
would not find it necessary to reduce
wages any further.
On motion copies of the Buxton res
olution were ordered sent to the Broth
erhood Locomotive Engineers and Or
der of Railway Conductors.
The Governor sent message run
ming over with congratulations and
laudatiops of the Legislators, which
was read in both Houses.
The calendar was cleared in both
Houses, and the home e-going COM
menced and will be continued tonight.
Hardly one Legislator will be found in
Raleigh Sunday.
The rate bill, as enacted into law is
as follows:
A bill to be entitled an act prescribing
the Maximum charge which Rail
road Companies may make for trans
porting passengers in North Car
olina, and for other purposes.
Section l. That no railroad COM
pany doing business as a common car
rier of passengers in the State Of North
Carolina shall charge, demand or re-
ceive for transporting any passenger
and his or her baggage, not exceeding
in weight two hundred pounds. from
any station on its railroad in North
Carolina to any other station on its
road in North Carolina, a rate in ex-
cess OF IL cents per mile. and for
transporting children under IL years
and over five years of age one-haR OF
the rate above prescribed, and for
transporting children under five years
of age, accompanied by any person
paying fare, no charge whatever shall
be made: Provided, that where the
opoounf of tho of tho hod
rate would amount to any figure be-
teen two multiples of five, the price of
the ticket shall be the multiple Of five
which is nearest the price Of the ticket
at the rate above mentioned, or in the
event that the amount is equi-distant
between two multiples of five, the
price charged for the ticket shall be on
the basis of the higher of these two null
tiples of five: Provided further that
no charge OF less than ten cents shall
be required: Provided further that in
dependently owned and operated rail-
road companies in North Carolina
whose mileage of road in said State is
one hundred miles or less may charge
a rate not exceeding three (3) cents
per mile: Provided further, that in
dependently owned and operated rail
road companies in North Carolina,
whose mileage OF road in said State is
ten miles or less may charge the same
rate which is now in existence on said
roads. This provision shall not ex-
tend to branch lines of railroad COM
panies controlling over one hundred
miles of road, whether chartered in or
out of the state; also, that newly con-
structed railroads or the portion of rail-
roads which may be constructed shall
be exempt from the operations of this
act for two years after completion, to
the extent that they may charge a rate
in no case to exceed three cents per
mile. A charge of fifteen cents may
be added to the fare of any passenger
when the same is paid on the train, if
the ticket might have been produced