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Amendments to the Rate Bill
The senate and house conference
committee agreed on rate bill amend
ments. The Associated Press says
that the senate - receded . from six
amendments, two of which, merely
change the number of sections, while
twenty-eight of its amendments were
retained verbatim and the remaining
seventeen were redrafted and retained
under different phraseology.
Senator Tillman, chairman of the
senate conference, gave notice that
he will urge prompt action in the
senate.
The disposition of the amendments
in the order in which they appear in
the bill follows: . . .
The first amendment to the bill is
that making pipe lines oemmon car
riers. It was stricken out and in
cluded in the amendment making ex
press companies common carries,
sleeping- car companies having been
eliminated so that the amendment
now reads:
"The term, 'common carrier as
used in thisact shall include express
companies and all persons or corporr
ations engaged in the transportation,
of oil by. pipe lines, or partly by pipe
lines and partly by water."
The next amendment is that pro- J port reaches the seriate.
. hibiting passes. It was entirely re
drafted and made much more strin
gent, all excepted. classes being elini-.
inated and eithejr to issue or receive
free transportation was made a mis
demeanor. The amendment is as fol?
lows:
"No carrier- subject tb tbe provi
sions of this act shall, after January
1, 1907, directly or indirectly issued
or give. any. interstate free ticket., free
pass or free transportation for. passage.-
Any carrier- Violating this pro
visfrm, shall, be adeemed .guilty ; of a
misdemeanor and shall, upon convic
$iontbere"of be punished by"Vafine- of
nptjexceeding $1J0Q0, and any .person
who" uses, solicits .'or accepts forrJiim
self ov for another any such inter
state, ftee ticket,. free -.pass, or Iree
transportation shall be deemed 'guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion thereof shall be subject to a like
penalty."
The Elkins commodity amendment
was retained practically in the form
originally agreed upon and the pro
visions inserted later regulating tinv.
her and the manufactured products
thereof was stricken out. As agreed
to jthe amendment provides that after.
May 1, 1908, it shall bo unlawful for
any common carrier to transport any
article or commodity, manufactured,
mined or produced by it or produced
under its authority or which it may
own in whole or In part or in which
it may have an interest, direct or in
direct, except in such articles or com
modities which may be "necessary and
intended for its own use in the con
duct of its own business.
The requirement that common car
riers shall upon application of any
shipper construct and operate switch
connections with outside tracks was
amended to include the application,
of lateral or branch lines of railroads.
This provision was offered in the sen
ate; but was not adopted and the
statement was made that it would be
objected to when , the conference re
The senate receded from the "jim
crow" amendment which declared that
equally good service and accommoda
tions should be given to all persons
paying the same compensation for in
terstate transportation of passengers.
The provision was stricken out.
The several senate amendments
(twenty in number) relating to the
publication of schedules of rates and
charges of all kinds were agreed to
and to the provision relating to joint
rates was added the following:
"If no joint rate over the through,,1
rate has been established the several
carriers in such through rate shall file,
print and keep open to public inspec
tion as aforesaid the separately es
tablished rates, fares and charges ap
plied to the through transportation."
THE FAITHFUL DOG
It is hard to conceive that creatures
in the form of men could have per
petrated the atrocity charged against
residents of Bassett Station by the
Kenosha Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. The allega
tion is that the Bassett Station de
fendants were "celebrating," last Sa
urday, and that as a feature of their
"celebration" they poured turpentine
on a large dog belonging to a neigh
bor,, set fire to the poor animal, and
burned him to death. A dog can feel
pain as keenly as a man. Men who
could thus barbarously inflict torture
on a dog are degraded specimens of
their kind; It Js .fair to say that
dogs treat 'men better than men treat
dogs. How often men destroy the
lives of dogs J - How often dogs pre
serve the lives of men!
. The dog' as a guardian of human
life is frequently in evidence. The
latest instance occurred on a farm
near New Milford, Connecticut, a
week ago yesterday, and is reported
as follows by the New Milford Ga
zette, which is edited by Philip Wells,
a well-known former Milwaukeean:
"But for the alertness and sagacity
of John C. Curtis's faithful dog the
burning of the Mark Curtis farm
house in the town of Sherman would
inevitably have resulted in a fatality.
.About 3 o'clock Monday morning,
John C. Curtis, son of Mark Curtis,
was sound asleep in bed in his room
on the first floor, when his dog
jumped on the bed ar.i began to
growl savagely and persistently until
Mr. Curtis tiwoke and found his room
full of smoke "and increasing heat. He
gathered up his wearing apparel, and,
E'er he had finished dressing the
second story floor fell in, and covered
with flaming coals the bed where he
lay asleep a short time before. Mr.
Mark Curtis was away when the Hre
broke out. "My dog saved me,' said
J. C. Curtis. '1 was sleeping with
my head under the clothes when he
began to growl.' "
In all the brute creation man has
no better friend than the intelligent
and faithful dog. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
GREAT VARIETY
"So you were shipwrecked on 'a
barren island?" interrogated the ma
rine reporter."
"Yes, mate," replied South Sea Sam,
"and shiver me timbers, but it was
a lucky thing for us that we had a
French chef along instead of the ord
inary sea cook."
"Did he furnish much variety in the
food line?"
"I should say so. Why, he knew
how to make twenty-eight different
dishes out of the skipper's old boots."
Columbus Dispatch.
calling his dog, got out of the house and by crinus I
Without delay and dressed in the yard, delphia Bulletin.
THE WELCOME HOME
Billions, the trust magnate, had
come back to his native village, the
little, lonely burg among the hills.
The old squire was among the first
to shake the returned wanderer by
the hand.
"Aha, Squire!" Billion:: jovially
cried: "I thought you said I'd never
be rich. You -lost out on that proph
ecy, didn't you?"
"I never said you wouldn't be rich,"
the squire retorted. "I said you'd
never have any money of your own,
still say so." Phila-
the Omaha Worlfafimld
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