RAILROAD TARIFF.
Mr. CAMPBELL called up a special order, being his bill [S. 10] and Mr. McCullough's bill [S. 19] concerning unjust discriminations of railroads-see pages 28 and 239 of the Brevier Reports-the question being on a Committee report recommending that the bill [S. 19] lie on the table.
Mr. CAMPBELL insisted railroad discriminations are against, the interests of the entire Commonwealth, and it is but right they should be prevented. In some instances double tariff is charged for less than 100 miles as is charged for ten times the distance. Because of the shortness of time left this session, if anything is done in this matter, it should be done quickly. Rail roads are but public servants; they take so much of the public land, and they become nuisance in so far as they injure and destroy human life. In return for their services they demand what may be considered as fees, and there is unquestioned right, as well as a necessity for legislative action and control in the interests of the people at large Indiana is behind at least fourteen different states in regulating the tariff imposed op the people by railroad corporations.
