The Daily Reportar.
». O. IRELAND 4 CO. PUBLISHERS,
McMinnville, Or.
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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.
Mother—Well, didn't you take it
out?
Carl—No; 1 threw thecal in!— Dxdas-
kali.
And so Guida is to be married? If
in the course of human events she
should one day be left desolate, would
it be a mere flower of rhetoric to speak
of the Guida’s weeds?— Bost on Trav­
eler.
must be handed in Tuesday morning.
We cannot in future deviate from this
rule.
Miss Belle Johnson, teacher of music
in McMinnville and at McMinnville
college. Residence corner of Second
and C Streets.
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