Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — WILSON RAILROADS NICHOLS BILL. [ARTICLE]

WILSON RAILROADS NICHOLS BILL.

Ignores Plea of Taxpayers to Delay Action and Rushes neasure Through House.

The taxpayers have little to hope for from such men as Wilson in the legislature, and it is scarcely to be wondered that the petition sent to him a few days ngo signed by about twenty of the representative taxpayers of Jasper county, to hold up action on the Nichols bondsmen relief bill a few days, until petitions agaiust the measure could be circulated and filed, was completely ignored,

and the measure rushed through the House Thursday. The vote on its passage was 71 to 7. So far as learned Wilson never even acknowledged receipt of the petition for delay. The only hope of the taxpayers now is to defeat the measure in the Senate or that Governor Hanley will refuse to sign the bill should it pass both houses, which it is to be hoped it will not do.