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THE STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT Bern or rat STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT, THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IB THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY, I'abilae.il every Irlony by ST1TKS & NUTTINtt. Wr Rraadalbi street. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION Ingle eapv, per y oar, in advance...... ite .(.. !' year, at end of year la o t Ml 1 06 0 0 fig opy, x i"vn ....... . kjle copy, thru months ui immUr ............. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. L. H. MONT ANTE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public tlbaaw, Oregon. Offloe upstair, over John Brig afore, tnr StrSOt. Mnzstr J. K. WEATHESFORD, (NOTARY PUUI.tr.) iTTORNEY AT LAW, ALB l W, RK.. 'ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF THE Stile. Snaci&l ktLMiW mtwmm In .11 .1 1 .K.. .. ' wv..W.. ..... I In Odd Feltaw'e Temple. (1:S JITJ W. R. RILYBTJ ruwBLL B BILYBtJi TOTRYS AT LAW, Ana oupiiors in I iiancerr, IMIIlWY. ... ORK4BOM. uonsorion promptly mad on .11 point.. Lnans necrntisted on reasonable, tarmt. aWOflSce In Foster's Ttrlek.-sja 14nl9tf. J. J. WHITNEY, Attorney And Counsellor At Lav AND Notary Public. ALBANY, OREGON, Will practice In all of the Court, of taleState. All business Intrusted to hi in rill be promptly attended to. E. W. LANCDON, DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, BRU8HE8, SOAPS, COMBS, end everything kept in s first elaes Drug uui awcK 01 pisnos sua crgans. ALBANY. 0RE0N. F03HAY & MASON, Titsia-.a amd An a is. I)raggist8and Booksellers, AMU for John B. Alden's pnbllesiioniu wbkjh we sell st pbilaher's ?rioeo with ectaxesdJed. ALBAHT, OKEGOI. A. PRU8HAW, DRUGGIST. 8toUonary, Toilet Articles, Etc. PRESCRIPTIOXS CAREFULLY FILLED, Open day and night. Albany, Or. FURNITURE. I hsve the beat dock of urnitur. In the city and will sell e Cheap, Cheap, Cheap, The only stock of WALNUT FURNITURE iu the city snd tbe lowest price In the vney. come sn d Undertaking, a complete a lock snd csn give SATIS FACTION. Try me. A, B. WOODIN, Aioany Bath House. TBI UNDiRSIQNBD WOULD RXSPKCT f ally iaform tfaaoitia.ni of Albany and ri IsitythsT I fa.vetsk.oobsrg. ofthia Kttebhfh ant, and, by kaeping al.ss roosi.and pay in riatatt.ntion to baaisaaa, ex pact to asit si of a wfao may faTor us with tk.lr pstronsg. avlag faar.toforaoarrlad on nothing bnt First-CI ass Hair Or satins Saloons axpanta to flv. .atlr. aatiafsrtion to si asT" 'ldian Ladi.i' Hsir naatly en faa-iTtotai JOS WKBBER. drTj.l. hill, Physician and Surgeon, Office cor. Find and Ferry Streets, ABANY - - OREGON. O. O CHKRBT. C.a.PTKCB ALBANY IRON WORKS. CHERRY & PARKES, (Snocessors to C. C. Cherry.) lachinlsts, Millwrights, and Iror Founders. WE HAVKOUR NEW SHOPS AT,L completed, snd sre now prepared to hsndie sll kind, of hesvy work. We will msnufscture Mtesm Engine., Ori.t snd Ssw Nf ill Machinery, snd all kinds ofTro and Dras. Castings. PitTBBNft HR aw HHOKT N0TICK. Specisl sttentlon given to repairing all kindn of msoblnery. Will slo msnufsc tu re the improved Cherry A White Grein flepsrstor N. J. KENTON, Jlotary Mlio and Insurance Agent, O F. BUILDING - - ALBANY, OB Repro eenta aeversl of the beat Fire Id aura nceCompsales on the Coast. Call t o him forrelisbl. inanrsnce. A. 0. U. W. M.mhora wUhinsf.raploymont or deairing u.lp, will pl.iaactll st Head S Brownell a atore snd rogiator their namea. By Osdkr orljODoa. N EW 8A.USAOE MILI.M. We have on hand a fine lot of those new Enterprise ..image mill., which we intro duce in this locality. They poaltlvely hnat nnvthimr von ever aw In your life. CnmA snd look at them before yon kill yoar hogs. SrawAaT Sox. BARCLAY & ROBERTSON, Shipping and Commission Merchants CALIFORNIA AND OREGON PRODUCE, Gratr, Floor, Hay, Hops, Wool, Honey, Mustard Seel, Huts, Dried Fruits, Etc, Room 6, m OoUoroJa St San Francisco. VOL. XXII. T JACOBS GERM AN RE For Pain Curat Rheumallsm, Neuralgia. III IUrtkr, MMllM..-.(b,b., I'liHT. au nil Till rtURlSS A. o.. i i i: (o.,mi iikoliK. - AT l Abaoltttri.i Free from QpUU, Enwdes ami Vfeea. SAFE. 26 SURE. PROMPT. THE OUIUCT A. riH-ALUt 1 .. "i ITIXOSI, SS. A CHILD'S SKIN Earn and Kcalp Covered with Kc rniatouN Krsba sad More t ared by Cntleara. T Uttla wn, aged eight reare, haa am afflu'ed em. Kcaem. m UM aeaip, ami at limee a irwt safasa f tne bou. u era two tun ui It (.-tut. in hta ear.. . uled U hi. eceJu. rhlch trvjfii nn ..! ami eoree. L .ihI hich a eticay fluid poured oat. eases il..h..... - - . ' -- - I - ..! I.U Wl W.'. l MWfMtUi was ecabe Um akin . ...v.wav. iw. n .... iw.1 u hka a ptaw. t Uratluallir (b hair nm raw. ou ao.1 rs Jetn..l, until bat a anall ital.-h mm Irflal theWkoflba brad. My MSBSS In rabml kiM how my luUc boy haa ufl. ro.l At ntybl bo uld at-ralch hi hcail uniil hi. pllloir waa cvfd .... mm i i. mm . mmmm .1. . .mi in many waya triad to prarant bia acralchlng , but it waa no uaa, b. would acraU-h. I '.ook Mm to tba Ooapital and to lb. ba4 pbyalciaua in Paabody with out auocaaa. About thta Une.amw (riamda, who bad bean ctrrad by tba I'utk-ur Kenmllo. )rtilvtj Uxmi me u try ib.in. I Ujin to uaw tbam on tba 1Mb of January Uat. In aava. moOtSa rj part tela of tba dtaaaaa waa ramorad. Not a apot r aoab ramain on hla acalp to tall the atory of hta auSMtng-. Ilia hair haa rtturnal, and la thick anl tasssgi an J bia acalp aaawet and ciaan aa any cbtld'aintba world. Iran no; my enough to expraaa my gratituda for tbla wot. ilrful cure by tba Cutieura Kamadloa. and wtab sll im,lrl afflicUM to know that my ataumant ta trtta and without ea'jferatl-m. CIIAKLKS AfcKAY, Oct. Cth, laSS. Paabody, Maaa. I bare aawn Mr. McKay a boy when badly afeatad wltb the Ecaatua. aa a pmf il iijjht to look at. I know that ha baa triad our beet phyatctana, and did all a father could do for a eufferiny child, but a railed nothing. I know that the etatemente he baa mate you ae reward, the carina; of bia bey by your Cutieura Uemediee are true In every particular. william j. McCarthy, S3 Footer it , Paabody, Maaa. rlll. t.1,.1 I .,1 lli. klkJ. I..l.l.l I.I.. - ...I even where. Price: Cutieura, M cenla i CuU. curaHoi, jeenU;Cutleu.a Reaolirent, fl. I'r-r ad by Potter Drue; and Chemical Co., Rjatoo. send for "How lo Care Sfcls Dtaeasaa." PI.K-i. ItlacVbeada, Skin ami Uab Uumore, uac Cutieura IN ONE MINUTE. KhstimatH-, Keuraljrir, SciaU. S)irp and Xervoua Pain. Wasknosa r lice I in one minute by the fuilcnra Anil Pain P! aatcr. At lenta. Palter Urujf Co. , ii Thta la tho moat PRACTICAL HXOB-ODV 8BOB inrentod. I t la very GENTEEL snd DRESSY sad sttss Sfae aame protection aa a boot or over-iudtor. it as ssaroslast to put on and the top can boadjsstadfa ta any ankle by aimpljr moving the tattoo.. Fotaai.br L. E. BLAIN, Albany, Or. Red CrownMiUs I80M, LANNINO & CO., PROPR'S. SEW rSOCBM VLOCR sufibior tor familiss ART) BAKERS U.S. BEST STOKAGK FACILITIES. Highest .Price in Cash fo Wheat ALBANY OR. ALBANY SAW AND PLAN INC MILLS. All kinds of rough, dressed and seasoned lumber, laths and pickets kept constantly on hand- Bills sawed to order on shortest notice Use only best Calapooia timber- Price and terms made satisfactory. ROBINSON A WEST. F. M. MILLER, Attorney and Connslor At liw, LEBANON. OREGON. Wlllpractice in slltho Courts in the Stat MISS EMMA SCHUBERT, Fine Millinery, OPPOSITE REVERE HOUSE. For Sale. One hundred andtwenty acrea of the beat quality of improved wheat land, all fenced into four fielda, good houae, hsrd finish, good outhouses, excellent fruits of ail kinds. 75 acrea of grain. Inquire at thia office. on TNf GREAT LMlf MHJ1 RedStar TRADE VIZ? MARK. UGH PRE 0tmWmW kWStHlB Mi mMVM M i. i 1 1 T mmmXM lflW laatda KaJI Pai.Jen.ll IJSM I laaaaSvrTAl INK INTKKSTATK caMEt: MIA. Thn following letter from John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, to B. 8. Hunting- too, Eta., Secret. ry Board of Trade,. Uslles City, Oregon, on the Interstate Commerce Bill, we publish by request j Ukitxo Statu Skkats, Wash MaTO-, D. 0., Jsnusry, 21, 1187. My Dkar Sii : As you bsre been informed by telegraph, the Senile hss oonoutred in the report of the Confer ence Committee oa the Interstate Com merce Bill, snd (he bill ae agreed on in conference hss psssed tbe Senate with out amendment, and in all probability will be agretd to by tbe Hcuse, end become s Isw. I hope sincerely the bill will have the f ffVet of meeting tbe espeetstions of shippers sod remedying the grave dif ficulties, and prohibiting tbe gross die eliminations upon the part of trsnspor tstion companies of exacting greater ehsrges for the trensor tstion of persons and propet ty oer shorier then longer hauls snd to auma of wbich unjust exsettoos my a.teutiou was recently st traded by s comraunicstion from a committee of your Boerd. Th.t it will bsre this effect, however, et lesst on points of shipment in Eastern Oregon snd Washington Territory esst of Urns, tilts Junction, or on points in Middle and Southern Oregon, I bsve tery ee rloae doubts ; and whether it will meet tbe question of lor.g and short hen I on points on tbe river between Portland .nd Umatill. Junction, in Oregon snd Wssbington Territory, may admit of the most serious question. Tbe bill, ander tbe rules, could not be smendt'd iu the Senste. The onl wey iu which sny amendment could be rescbed a as by recommitting tbe report of tbe Conference Committee with sug gee'tone. I .ubmitted certain amend ments, and with a view of placing tbe bill in s position where they could be considered and sdopted, voted to re commit to tbe Conference Committee, thereby hoping to secure such emeod meats ss would mske tbe bill certain and effective in absolutely prohibiting greater charges for a short haul than a long haul ; but fsiliog in eeenring soy amendment, I voted for the bill on its finsl paeeage, trusting, ae I have said, although with eerious appreboosioo, tbst it msy afford some relief, et least, from the uojast disci i mictions, grow iog out of cb.rgt by common carriers, ee is done in many inetaaeee of more, sad sometimes more then Jouble, and even treble, for transporting persons ai.d property over a shorter? then e longer distance. Besides, there ete, aa I believe, some other provisions in tbe bill that wilt prove of much valoe to tbe producer, shipper and eonsumr. A few of the eyil, snd what sre be lieved by tbe peop'e of Oregon snd Wssbington Territory to be unjust dia criminstiens iu ibis matter of transpor tation, and which are apparent to a'.l, may be briefly steted thus and some of which only were indioated in tbe crmmunicstion to me from your Board hereinbefore referred to : It is well known that tbe tariff on ail classes of freight from Portland to the interior over tbe lines of the Ore gon Railway and Navigstion Company and Oregon and California Railroad Company are infinitely higher to points beyond tbe first few stations out oo tbe various lines frcm Portlsnd tbsn tbey are by eny of tbe treneoontinentsl lines from Chicago or St. Louis to Portlsnd ; as, for instance, coffee, wager, bscsn, hsms, water pipe, pig-iron, and like articles sre from $12 to $14 per ton from Chicago or St. Louis to Portland, while from Portland to Pendleton, Or., these earns articles are $19 per ten ; snd from Portland to Eugene City, Springfield, Roseburg, Riddles, Orsnt's Pass, Central Point, Medford, snd Ash Isndfrom $8 to the former to $18 60-100 per toe to the Istter, while the freight charge en many articles of freighters as much ae $30 per ton over tbe Same diatance. But again, referring to the way-points along tbe line of tbe Oregon Railway and Navigation Company in Oregon and Washington Territory, end to the mstter tit transportation between these various points and Eastern cities, it will be seen that a csr load of merchan dise to any of these way-points frem Chicago or Omaha or. St. Louis is de livered at soeh point without going through to Portlsnd, and the freight chargea thereon consist of the full through rate to Portland, plus the local rate on merchandise from Portland to tbe way-point. This loesl rate between Portland and these way-points bears relation to the through rates to Portlsnd as follows : From Portland to Tbe Dalles, as 75 to 100 : from Portland to Arlington, as 105 to 100 ; while from Poitland to Walla Wails, W. T., La Grande, TJniou Baker City, and Huntington, Or., as 100 to 200 ; that is to say, the freight charges for transportation between these latter-named points and Portlsnd are on an average double the rates of trans portation between St. Paul or Chicago and portland ; yet the actual haul in ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY sob of the esles between Portland snd tbe way points above named is on an average only about one-teeth the dis- tsooe from these Eastern cities to Port land. As consequence, a person d est ting to ship a ton of freight from St. Pent to Umatilla, or from Chicago to Baker City, tbe former being neatly 200 miles nearer St. Pent than Portland, snd the latter over 300 miles nearer Chicago than Portlsnd, is compelled to pey just about double tbe amount a shipper pays on a too from Sn Psol to Portland, Of from Chicsgo via the Union Paciflj snd Oregon Rsilwey and Navigation Cam ps uy to Portland. The people, as I understand, are complaining, not of the through rate., but of these excessive ehsrges to non ce routing points. What tbe people, therefore, away from competing paints in Eastern Oregon and Wssbington Territory, and in Middle and Southern Oregon es well, desire at least whet they believe t a be to their interectu sn shsolutsly effective provision that will In each and every oase abeoloeely prohibit transportation companies, under severe penalties, for oharging more for transporting pseeengsrs ot freight ever shorter tbsn over a longer distance on tbe aame line. And while it is a matter of very Serious doubt with me whether such a prevision of lew wilt have the deeired effect, and will saso- Intely reduce the freight to and from way.KtoU, or whether, on the contra ry, the tff-ct aey not be to increase tbe through rates on tie long hauls, and thue maintain the I seal rates st high ratee on tbe abort hsola, I am decided ly in favor of giving it a trial. But to give it an entirety fair, boneet, and complete test, it is s'l important Ihst the prohibitory clause intended to meet the evil above suggested ahould be .leer, unambiguous, di'eot, plain, positive. snd certain, and not couched in each language, or coupled with eueh condi tions se to render it ineffective or ab solutely nugatory. It wae my fewr tbst the provision in tbe bill just passed was of the nature teat described tbst led me to make an effort to secure its amendment. I now dami i e to point out wherein I thought tbe provision should have been sm ended in order to be effective ss a long sn I short haul jHrovisioo, and in whst respect I moved to amend as s suggestion to the Conference C remit tee. Tbe clause of tbe bill on this sub ject of long and ehort haul, is coot sto od in tbe fourth section, and is as fol lows : Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to tho pro- viaions of this sot to charge or receive aoy greater compensation in the aggre gate for the transportation of passen ger, or of tike kind of property, under lubtUinlvdlij similar circumstmce$ and condition, for a shorter than for a long av distance over the ssms line, in the ssme direction, the shorter being in cluded within the longer distance : but ibis shall not be constructed aa author izing any common carrier within tb terms of this eot to charge and teerive as great compensation for a shorter ss for a longer diatance : Provided, bow ever, That upon application to the com mission appointed under the provisions of thia act such common carrier may, in special cases, after inveatigstion by the com minion, be sntborised to cberge less for longer then for shoiter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; snd the com mi -iioo mey from time to time prescribe tbe erteot to which such designated common carrier may bo relieved from tbe opetation of this section of this sot. I moved to amend this section by striking from it tbe foliowirg six words : " Under tub$tantially timilar ci cumslan ess and conditions.' aaai et e . I B.Sa I he seoond section ol the mil, pro hibiting unjust discriminations in the maittr of chargioii one person more or lessjthen another for a like and eontem porsneous service, is ss follows : Sec. 2. That if sny common osrrier subject to tbe provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any spec ial rate, rebate, drawbaok, or other de vice, obarge, demand, collect, or reoeive from any person or persons a greater or lees compensation for sny service ren dered, or to be rendered, in the trans portation of paasengeis or property, subject to the provisions of this sot, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or per sons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstan ces and csaditiont, such common car rier shall be deemed guilty of unjust disci t ruination, vrhich is hereby prohib ited end declared to be unlawful. T also moved to strik from this sec tion the following six words : "Under subitantially similar circumstances and conditions." Unfor.unstely, a grave difference of opinion existed in the Sen ste among lesding Iswyers as to tbe construction tbst should bs given. to these six words cod tbe effect they would have in the oaeeSof the fourth section, particularly upon the subject of long and short hauls. SsnUor Cnllom, the chairman of tbe Conference Oom- IWttas upon tbe part of the Senste, end proper! the bill, gave it as his aquslifisd opinion tbet the queetioo of competition as between the two hauls -the one a long and tbe ether a short bail would be a circumstance to be eeasidered in determining whether tbe I we hauls were "lender substantially similar circumstances and conditions'' In this construction I in part concurr ed, and with tbe still further view tbat it would be an abeoletely controlling elroemssanee, rendering the ease entire ly dissimilar ta that where there was no competition i sod Uinsisted that, In my SSH w judgment, tbe courts won Id so construe it In meet eases tbat would arise, end tbat, therefore, inasmuch as in almost every instance that would arise there would be eompetion in tbe ooe eeee tbat of the long bant and no competi tion in the other or the short haul, it wonid only bo to tbe rarest of eases tbet the eeetion would operate to prohibit a grantor eherge for a short thso a long distance. Possibly it msy be said thst a ton of freight transported from St Paul over the Northern Paciic and Oregon Railway snd Navigation Com pany to Portland it transported "under eubataatlatly similar eireemstceees end ooudit io as" to tbat of a ton of like freight oyer the same line from St Paul to The Dalles, or Arlington, or Uma tilla, the latter being the point of junc tion of competing railroads, if we mey adesit that the Northern Pacific com bines with the Oregon Rsilw.y and Navigation Company or controls or uses its Hoe from Wslluls to Umatilla ; but yet there is, with tbeee eix words in the section, a very eerious question with me whether this can be truly said to be so, ioaescuch ae it may very prop erly be ssid thst se betwtao St. P.ul and Portland there is competition irst, by rait to Han Francisco from St. Paul, end thence by tbe s tee mere of tbe Oregon Rsilwey end Nsvigation Com pany to Portland ; and seooud, vis tbe Canadian Pacta-:. Paget Smnd, and so oa. But still further, when the North eja Pscifte shell have completed its line serosa tbe Cascade Mountains to Puget sVinod, which will best a vary early day, whereby tbat company will have a direct line between St. Paul snd Portland, tbeu the stations along the Columbia river between Portlsnd, Or., end Wslluls or Pasco, in Wssbington Territory, will, so far as tbe line from St. Paul vo Portlsnd vis the valley of the Columbia is eoaeerued, be neu- eompeting points , whereas, between Be, P.ul and Tba DsUee and Arlington and Umatilla and Wallul., there it no such competing line. So tbst, should tbe courts hold that these feet, or rath er this circumstance of competition in ths one esse, snd none ie the other, mske transportation over tho two routes substantinMy dissimilar, then in thst event ui questionably there would be nothing in this bill th.t would pre fent th. transportation company from oharging more, or eves three timee as much, for transporting a too of freight from St. Paul to Ths Dtlle, or to Arl ington or Umatilla, or Wallul., man from St- Psol to Portland, and vice verse. But let us inquire further. Take points on the line of the Oregon Rsil wey end Navigation Company east of Umatilla Junction, the competing point at Umatills.or on thn line of the North ern Pacific east or tint point. What, then, is the effect of these six word., "under substantially similar circum stances and conditions" in this fourth section ? It is, it seem to me, t . ren der the eeetion absolutely inoperative and of no account, in so far ae afford tug protection to tbe people in Eastern Ore gon and tera Washington Territory is concerned whose point of shipment it on either Hue east of Urnati.'ia, for tbe reason that, as between Chicago or St. Paul and Portland, via the North era Pacific, as well aa between St. Pual end any and sll points on the ine of tbe Oregon Railway; and Navigation Company west of the junotion at Uma tilla, thereis not only competition, but tbe sharpeat kind of competition, on through freights over the line of the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and O. R. oV Nav. Co. line ; whereas, be tween St. Paul or Chicago, and sny point on the Oregon Railway and Nav igation Company's line in Evjtern Ore gon east of Umstiila Junotion, or be tween St. Paul or Chicago, and sny point on the Northern Paoifio or Ore gon Railway and Navigation Co V line east of Umatills, there is absolutely no competition ; snd, therefore, the trans portation oa either of these through lines from Chicago or St. Pad! to Port land is entirely and absolutely dissimi lar to tbe transportation of like kind of freight from either St. Paul or Chicago ovr either line to any point east of the junotiou at Umatilla. And hence it seemed to ma quite-dear tbat such ess es this section 4 would not, and could not bo held with these stx words in it prohibit a greater charge for any abort haul 'from St, Paul or Chicago to any 11, 1887. point on either line eest of Umatill Junotion then on the long haul through to roitlsnd on either line. And hence I desired end voted to emend by strik ing out tbeee objectionable, qualifying and, as I believe, practically wholly destructive words. But a moment's consideration will show how useless snd impotent is this bill in its present shape to relieve ship pers iu Middle sod Snitbern Oregon at noe-cem sting point, from Eugene City to Ashlend, inolusive,on tbe lins of tbe Oregon and Cslilomia Railroad. When tbe Oregon and Californieod Californ ia and Oregon iinee ere connected we will here a through Hue by rail ltwen Portland and Ban Francisco. Through freighte over t Lis line ither wey will necessarily be very low, from the fact tbst such transportation is brought in direct competition with a line of steam ers end sailing vessels running bet seen these two ports, to say nothing of tbe lines of eteemere to Ysquina and Coos Bay. Su ppoae, therefore, through freights on that line either way,that is, between (Ssn Fraeoisco and Portlsnd, should be, eay four dollars per ton, it is now by ssiling vessels, I believe, shout thst, snd by stesmers six or eight dol lars per ton on merchandise by measure ment ; and suppose the railroad com pany would ohsrge six dollars ier ton for hautirg a ton of freight from Port lsnd to Bugene City, right dollar, to Springfield, ten dollars to Roteburg, twelve dollars to Riddles, .Sanaa J al tera to Medford, snd twecty d jllsrsto Asbtsnd, tbe first of which (to Eugeoe) would be one-third more then for the loog hsul from Portland to San Fran cisco, wbils the Isst (tweoty dollsrs to A.hlsnd) would, for these 340 miies,or shout on. -half the whole distance io 8o Francisco, be five times more then tbe chsrge for the loog distance of over 700 miles between PorUscd snd San Frsncivco ; snd it is quite probsble that something tike this will be tb result when the read is completed onlese otlerwiee regulstsvi by law. Io eucb an sent, therefoie, would, I inqmre.the provisions of tbu Interstate Commerce Bill prohibit the railroad oompaoy from making tbeee several higher ratee Tor these several shorter hauls tbsn are charged for the longer haul between Portland and San Fran cisoo t I imagine not, f r the simple reason that the loog haul ie sul ject to the sharp competition by as., and there fore tbe reilrosd company may for tbie reason be forced to put through ratee at an extremely low figure,tn oder to v t any butioess as against ocean transput tation ; snd, therefore, it is tbst the transportation over the long haul ie not, and would not be in such a ease, "under substantially simi'at circum stances and conditions" ee thst on eny of the short hi.u!s nsmed. Aod tbrr. the "CATcumsta.icss and coJ t on' beiog entirely dissimilar, the bill by its ex press terra does no', in my jiidmsnt,se it stands, inhibit a greater charge for the sbort than for the long haul. Had my amendment been sgreed to, and theee stx oHjeotionahle words stricken from the bili,then it would dearly pre vent such charges. Should a different construction, boweve-, be given to tbie eeetion by the courts as it stand,I shall be happily disappointed. Were it not that I g ive public and emph itlc expres sion to theso vies in tie Senate when thin bill wss under discussion, I should hfsttete now to express them, a I do not wish t see the htH,sh out 1 it become a Uw,brouht into discredit in advance, but, on the c ..- r t- , hoe it ma) have a fair I rial ; and should its praotioal workings prove satisfactory to thn great interest; it it iotendod to protect, atl wtll , aitl if, on the contrary, found de fective in its application io tbe business of the country, further legislation may supply the defect. Possibly a fair teat may demonstrate to all that it is not, after all, wide to insert a long-and-sbort- hat'l provision of any character in legis lation upon the subject of interstate commerce ; and again it may be seen tbat a much m jro stringent measure on this subject than that cootaine 1 in thi S bill is both wise and imperative. That some adequate notion may be had of tbe estimate placed on this bill by prominent members of each House, who desired the bill amended to make (t certain and effective, I beg. to quote the following extract from a speech msde in the House of Representatives January 19th, in discussing tbe report of tbe Conference Commit tee, by Repre sentative Weaver, of Iowa, who is uni versally recognized as a firm and enthu siastic supporter of the rights of the people against the encioaohments of corporate power, and wh6 was a warm supporter of the Reagan bill in the House. He said : It seems to bo the theory of the pending bill to do as little for the people as possible , and in making that remark I wlsb to say I am en tirely impersonal in everything I say bere, arid, desire to be so. It seems ttybe the theory of the pending bill,I repeat, to do as little for the people To 4th page. NO 28 1886. FALL AND H. To the Front! a a large and well selected stock, BOUGHT POR CASH, and will be sold at With PRICES NEVER BEFORE OFFERED IN LATE STYLES OF Dress Goods, Trimmings, Velvets. Also tbe LATEST NOVELTIES IN CLOAKS, Just Received DIRECT FROM EASTERN MANUFACTORIES which for make and style cannot be excelled. We also keep a full line of Gents' Furnishing Go ds, GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES. Dry-Goods, Hats, Gaps, etc., etc. Orders from a distance will be nromptly executed, and samples will be sent upon application. PRODUCE TAKEN iu oxchange for goods, N. H. ALLEN & Co., 57 First StrM Albany, Ca area Blrrr lac U. P.Ohuroh. 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