The Daily Reportar. ». O. IRELAND 4 CO. PUBLISHERS, McMinnville, Or. - - Erb. 7. 1887 INTER STATE COMMERCE CONTINt ED. That some adequate notion may be had of the estimate placed on this bill by prominent members of each house, who desired the bill amended to make it certain and effective, I beg to quote the following extract from a speech made in the house of represen tatives, January 19th, in discussing the report of the conference commit tee, by Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, univer sally recognized as a firm and enthu siastic supporter of the rights of the people against the encroachments of corporate power, and who was a warm supporter of the Reagan bill in the house. He said, It seems to be the theory of the pending bill to do as little for the people as possible ; and in making that remark I wish to say I am entirely impersonal in everything I say here, and desire to be so. It seems to be the theory of the pending bill, I re peat, to do as little for the people as possible and to render those sections of the bill relating to the rights of the people as obscure and untelligible as human ingenuity can make them. To use the language of a distinguished member of this house, “If the hand of a Talleyrand was not present in the construction of this bill, then all ap pearances are deceptive.” Suppose the great Lawgiver had constructed the ten commandments with the same uncertainty. Suppose he had said : “Thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not covet— contemporaneously or under substan tially similar circumstances and con ditions” | laughter | ; or suppose, at the conclusion of the decalogue the following provision had been added : “Provided, however, that upon appli cation to the high priest or ecclesias tical commissioner appointed under the provisions of this act persons so desig nated may be authorized to cheat, steal, bear false witness, or covet, and said commission may from time to to time perscribe the extent to which said persons may be relieved from any or all of said commandments.” Under such circumstances would not the world have been without moral law from Moses to Cullom and from Mount Sinai to Pike’s peak? [Great laughter j A distinguised gentleman [Senator Frye] discussing this hill said in another place: “I should like to know what the fourth section means from this discussion. I should like to know how I or my constituents are to determine what it means from this discussion. 1 should like to know what lights have been thrown upon it. The conferees disagree in relation to it; almost every senator who has discussed it disagrees with the other senators in relation to it. Boards of trade in Boston and Indianapolis, the chamber of commerce in New York, legislatures of the different states, all absolutely disagree diametrically as to what this fourth section is.” And another senator, in another place not mentionable here, character ized the bill as follows: “But there are matters in which, in my opinion, the bill is even more fatally, defective, if that were possible, than in the par ticulars to which attention has been called. I regret that I have to vote for it, and I think there are a great many others in the same condition. This is a bill which practically nobody wants and which everybody intends to vote for, a bill which nobody is satis fied with and which everybody intends to accept, a bill which nobody knows what it means, and yet we have all agreed it ought to pass." But the distinguished gentleman is too broad and sweeping when he says the bill is in the condition he describes. It is only those portions of the measure which refer to the rights of the people which are obscure and shrouded in mystery. The things which are cer tain in this bill are precisely the things which the people do not want, and the things which are uncertain are pre cisely those about which the people demand the greatest possible certain ty. All the safeguaids thrown a- round the corporations are plain and unmistakable There is no uncertain ty whatever here. We will examine them in their order. Of course, under the decisions of the supreme court of the United States our state legislature has no power to legislate in regulation of railroad com merce on roads or lines extending a- cross state boundaries—concerning commerce crossing such boundary lines. In so far however, as any lines of commerce are wholly within the boundaries of our state, the legislature has ample power to give the people protection by some such suitable and proper measure as would do the trans portation companies no injustice, and at the same time remedy some of the great evils of transportation existing in our state, and to which attention has been attracted in this letter. This may be done, possibly more readily and more effectively, by an enact ment placing a positive limit to maxi mum freight charges on different lines of transportation, or by an effective long-and-short-haul provision that would properly come within the juris diction of the state legislature. It is not for me, however, to suggest what might, could, or should properly be done in that direction. My duty is to do the best I possibly can on this sub ject in the senate, and I only regret that in this instance I have done so little. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant. J ohn H. M itchell . WIT AM) HU MOK. “It is impolite to talk to a man wuen he is reading.” It is just as im polite to read to a man when he is talking. — Philadelphia Call. The verdict oi the coroner’s jury on the dead base-ball umpire was "He tried to please both nines." It cover ed the ground.— Norristown Herald. One-eighth of the bicyclists in the country are physicians. Even the sur geons and doctors know now to drum up trade in hard limes by coaxing t’other fellows on. An old colored woman upon being immersed in Palatka iast Sunday ex claimed: "Bress de Lord, dis am five times I’se been baptized."— Jackson ville (Fla.) Herald. "One spirituelle girl," says a seaside landlord, "will cat up, waste, and muss over more food than any two men who sit at my tables. I’d rather board a bear.”— Detroit Free Press. It took six Philadelphia policemen lo get a drunken fem ile cook down to the station house. She had just adver tised: "Piace wanted by a sober, sweet-temperod cook.” Baroness X----- (on the promenade): "Just look what a ridiculous costume Countess Y----- has got on this time. I wish I knew where she gels her dresses made. -Die Wesptn Mrs. Ernest Hulskamp, who was Miss Moroaini. is studying for the stage. If she were studying for the hack her husband could give her les sons.— New Orleans Picagun«. ObkervHtiom. THE FLOOD M ANSION. Descript ion of One of Califbrnia'S Bo Ad vertisments, etc., intended fur nanza King’s New Palaces. publication in The Weekly Reporter After mans month’s of study, plan ning and elaboration, the plans for the Flood mansion, to be erected on the brow of Nob Hill, have been perfected, and another proud palace will be erect ed. But unlike most of ihe railroad magnates' "huts," their new neighbor is not to be u compendium of all the styles of architecture already discover ed or yet to be invented. Il will not Haunt to the world planing-mill bric-a- brac of all known or unknown orders. It is to be built ot stone, and like Solo mon’s temple, the stone is to be ob tained and cut abroad, and like Solo mon's temple once more, every stone wdien cut will be numbered and sent to our city, there to be placed in position on Nob Hill as part and parcel of a mining magnate's domestic monument. Connecticut is the land which will fur nish the material, the brown stone which New Yorkers love to see in the fronts of their dwellings, and Connect icut will shape and cut it. But al though the Connecticut brown stone may be a reflection upon California’s mineral resources, and while the man ner of its preparation may give offense to California workmen, the bonanza king does not intend to inflict upon the pumic an idiosyncratic pile of stone. On the oontrary, the style of the build ing is to be as severely pure and una dulterated as is conformable to modern notions of eleganoe and architectural beauty. THE EXTERIOR. The front of the building is to be but two stories in height, the lower Doric and the upper Ionic, both modified by Roman suggestions of ornamentation. The building will form a parallelogram 107x1’27 feet in size, the only break in the even lines of the four walls being a portico and a square central tower, containing the vestibule in its base at the front and a similar portico extend ed into a port cochere in the rear. The front and rear portico will be alike. Botii will be supported by fourteen col umns, purely Doric, carved out of sin gle stones, and supporting a balcony of corresponding design Everything about the portico is to be of brown stone, with the exception of the floor, which will be laid in marble. From the ground to the top of the tower the distance will be seventy-five feet. A stone wall, fitted with an elegant iron railing, between the massive piers, will surround the building. The interior of the house is to be di vided by a series of halls, separated by architraves supported by two columns on each side, one of which is to be square and engaged, the second to be round and stand free. These will be in the Ionic order, as aro to be all the columns, pilasters, wainscoting, banis ters and balustrades in the interior. What the cost of this establishment will be cannot be ascertained. But when it is considered that all tho stone has to be shipped from the east, that it will require from two to three years lo construct the building and perhaps an other year to fresco its extensive walls, it may be safely assumed that it will require the expenditure of a consider able portion of J. C. Flood’s accumu lated millious.— Han Francisco Chroni cle. Mrs. Behrens, who wrote to her lov er, "1 wischt 1 hot wings dis minet I wot tlei too you und skwis you on my heart und tell you how 1 fel dis mo ment,’’ evidently spells by ear. "O, was it I, or was it you?" asks the golden-haired poet, Nora I’erry. If Nora will refrain from making a noise, perhaps we can shove it onto the proof-reader. — buffalo F.xpress, Mother, there was a dead mouse in the milk-pail. 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