Show I CONGRESSMAN MANNS BILL There are two good points at least In the new Interstate commerce bill which Congressman Mann of Illinois I proposes to urge before Congress One makes It unlawful for any railroad to charge more for hauling ex Chicago to Utah than from Chicago through Utah to California Call Cali fornia The other permits railroad companies to sell transportation to newspaper publishers In exchange for advertising Prohibition In the latter case has been one of the funny quirks of federal law Under the present statutes a rail raU railroad road company may advertise In news newspapers papers as much as It likes and pay for forthe forthe the same only In cash It cannot pay its advertising for transportation Advertising is the newspapers salable sala salable ble commodity It has a recognized value everywhere It may exchange its advertising for cash or for cattle or for coal or for land or for stock In a It may not Its advertising for The prohibition Is unreasonable And while the law has been obeyed It at all helped the general body of the people and It has not deprived the railroad companies of any Income nor at all Increased their Income Itis It Itis is to be hoped that Congressman Mann may succeed In taking the bar sinister from that class of commodity known as newspaper advertising space |