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Show HAYSEED LEGISLATION. II FroT.t to t Something ol a lloorarrane; tn Tex a. New Orleans. Aug. 21. The flVn-yum' flVn-yum' Dallas. Tex , special says: "A dispatch from Austin snys that the cotton cot-ton ratfs proposed by the Texas railroad rail-road commission will hurt) tho effect of turning the cotton and other trado from Galveston to New Orleans. Iu respect to the praetability of tho change, the consensus of unprejudiced opinion in that New OlM'ans possesses manifold advantages over Galveston for tho handling of ocean freiulit. This is tha direct result of t lie Texas railway corn-mission. corn-mission. It ami the Texas alieu land law were hoth gotten through the last legislature, by the instrumentality of thei farmers' alliance- Now the hurtful effects ef-fects of both are being felt." |