Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — MR. PEFFER IS ALARMED. [ARTICLE]

MR. PEFFER IS ALARMED.

He See* Danger la the Proposed Change in the Interstate Commerce Law. The Populists in Congress have taken alarm at certain measures aimed at the Interstate Commerce Act and are fearful that determined effort is to be made to destroy that most beneficent piece of legislation, as they regard It. Senator Peffer (Kansas) Is the first to see the workings of the plan. He said that he wished to call attention to some significant facts in connection with the pending Cullom bill to amend the act. This bill, he said, was marked “Introduced by request,” and he intimated that it was done at the request of the railway people. It was introduced Tuesday and not printed until Wednesday morning; yet a meeting of the committee was held to hear the railway people almost before the bill was off the press. Looking at the bill itself, Senator Peffer said it was framed to achieve the, very thing that the interstate act was intended to prevent, which was pooling. Under its terms the people would surrender the control they now had oven the roads, and the latter would once more be authorized tomakeajid maintain any rates they choose to fix. Then the amendment to section 10 of the act would ren ove the penalty clause so that there would be practically nip punishment for violation of the very e*6ence of the act. Altogether, Senator Peffer regards the bill as a most dangeroius measure, and announces his purpose’to fight it at all points. J Information has bqen received from Conshatta, O. T., of tie death of Gen. Henry Gray, one of ijlie few surviving members of the Confederate Congress and Brigadier General of the Confederate army.

A negro woman is under arrest at Edgefield, S. C., for murdering her two-year-old babe and then serving it cooked to her friends at a quilting party as roast pig. It is probable that she will he lynched.