Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — RATES FOR SLEEPING CARS. [ARTICLE]

RATES FOR SLEEPING CARS.

Question Up Again Before a Sub-Com-mittee of the House. The question of taking steps toward re, during the rates charged by sleeping and palace car companies was thrashed over by a sub-committee of the national House Committee on Compierce, A bill introduced by Mr. Corliss of Michigan was before the committee, but after a long debate it was decided to strike out all after the first section of the bill and report that section to the full committee for consideration. The first section proposes to extend the interstate commerce law so as ta include sleeping or palace cars operated by common carriers engaged in interstate commerce. The news of' the election, of Sir Charles Tapper, Sr., as member of the House of Commons from Cape Breton has been received with gratification by Conservatives. Sir Charles will take his seat iu the House of Commons soon. The Manitoba school bill will be introduced within forty-eight hours afterwards. By the will of Ezekiel J. Donnell, of New York, nearly.all his estate, amounting to $630,000, subject to life estates of his widow and daughter, Florence T. Donuell, and to the death of the latter without issue, is devised and bequeathed to the New York Free Circulating Library for the purpose of erecting a building and maintaining a free reading room. A large number of insurance men, representing the Western Underwriters’ Union, the jurisdiction of which extends west of Pennsylvania to the Rockr Mountains, met at Buffalo. One of the oojeets of the meeting is to try to reduce tjje excessive commissions paid to agcnta.