Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — INTERSTATE COMMERCE. [ARTICLE]

INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

Senator Cullom’s Bill to Define and Extend the Commissioners’ Powers. It Proposes to Take the Commission Out of the Jurisdiction of the Interior Department. Among the numerous bills introduced in the Senate is one by Senator Callom to amend the interstate commerce act. The amendments include the recommendations of the Commissioners, and are in minute legal form. The following is a synopsis of the more important provisions: 1. To extend the provisions of the act so as io apply to express, sleeping-oar, drawing-room-car, palace-car, stock-car, and tank-car companies, and “any other companies, associations, or persons furnishing for public use upon railroads cars or other instrumentalities for the transportation of persons or property " 2. To prohibit not only pooling between different railroads, but between different railroads and ether carriers. 3 In the sixth section, which relates to the publication of rates,'the provisions with respect to the advance and reduction in rates are repeated, so as to apply specifically' to joint through rates. The short-haul provision is also repeated, in order that there shall be no question that it applies to joint through rates, 4. As to the short-haul provision, it is provided that where complaint is made against two or more carriers for violating it, and the violations occur between points on the road of one only, that road only shall be held liable for the violation. 5. The commission is authorized to prescribe the form in which the schedule prescribed by the law for publio inspection shall be prepared or arranged. No special form is prescribed in the law. 8. The commission is also authorized to make provision for the official publication of Its decisions, 7. An addition to section 15, which relates to compensation for damuges, is proposed, to the effect that when a complainant is seeking to recover damages the carrier may file with the commission its consent that the commission may pass on the question of damages, and in such oase the OHrrier shall be bound by the decision of the commission, and the decision of tbe commiss.on shall stand as a judgment which may be enforced by execution by United States marshals in the same manner as judgments of the United States Circuit Court ars enforced. In case suoh assent is not filed, the commission may investigate and report the subject of damages, and, if it shall report that the complainant has suffered damages to a specified amount, it may name the time for the payment for snch damages, and if the carrier shall make the pay. ment within the time named, the sum shall be in full satisfaction of any claim the complainant may have under the act in respect to the grievances complained of; bnt if snch payment is not made, the complainant may proceed in anj United States Court of competent jurisdiction to recover damages for the wrong suffered, and such proceedings, findings and report of tbe commission shall be prima-facie evidence of the facts found. The provision ls/also made to take the commission ont of the inrisdictlon of the Int'rior Department and make it independent, and to require it to report direct to Congress, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior.

Thebe is no age in the horse’s life when oats are not good for him. A young colt may be taught to eat them very early, and they are absolutely necessary when the mare’s milk begins to fail, or it becomes time to wean him. If the oats are scaroe divide them between the growing colts and the working or driving teamß. The latter have learned to eat anything, and in careless hands are often overfed with grain to save tbe labor of the grooming needed to keep them in good condition for working.