The state chronicle., 1893-04-11
YESTERDAY IN THE SENATE
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
ADJOURNMENT.
Motions to Investigate the Charges
Against Senators Roach ana Power.
Action May Be Taken ON the Roach
Case Before Adjournment.
By Southern Associated Press

pOinJmonG or q committee to wait =
upon the President and inform him
thaS unless he has some further !
communication to make the Senate
Is ready to adjourn without day.
A motion to reconsider was subse-
quently made by Mr.. Hoar and was
entered. Resolutions for investi-
cation of the charges against Sen
ators Roach, of North Dokota and
Power of Mont, were offered by
Messrs Hoar and Chandler and laid
over till tomorrow Mr.. Hoar en-
tered motion to reconsider the vote
by which the Senate was to notify
the President of its readiness to ad-
journ. This carries the matter over
until tomorrow. The purpose is to
secure action upoa the Roach inves-
| tigstion resolution before adjourn
ment.
In pursuance Of the same purpose,
MIR. Hoar successfully resisted
motion to proceed to executive bus
iness.
MIR. Butler reported, from the
committee on interstate commerce,
a resolution authorizing that COM
mittee to inquire whether or not the
methods prevailing in the transpor-
tation Of freight and passengers on
the great railway lines of the coun-
try, and the conditions and necessi-
ties Of travellers and shippers and
of the transportation companies,
justify or require the repeal Or mod
itication of section five of the inter
State commerce act, which prohibits
pooling under any circumstances
Also to inquire whether the system
!. of closing and sealing the cars en-
: gagged in the transportation of mer-
l chandise from one State to another,
5 through foreign territory and from
: such foreign territory into the
. United States needs to be modified
whether all railroads engaged in
such traffic should be either re.
quired to ct irm to all the condi
tions of the Interstate commerce
: act, or prohibited from continuing
- in such transportation; also whether
= any notifications should be made
a in the law concerning the relation:
between common carriers and thei
- employees The resolution was re
. : ferred to the committee on contin
- gent expenses. Later it became
y. the basis Of a discussion into which
= ~ entered the recent decisions Q
=. - Judges Teft and Ricks, in Ohio
80 80 and Speer, in Georgia, in relation
- - to the rights and duties of rail
'os road employees. Mr.. Gorman too
- - the lead in the discussion. He sal
~ ~ the Investigation proposed by tn
% Interstate Commerce committee
10 10 was most pressing and importan
.,1 w one. It affected millions of peopl
H ~ and hundreds Of millions of inve:
w W ted capital One question va
70 whether it was possible to max
provision by law to enable reilros
companies to protect themselves
the matter Of freight charges, will
out doing injustice to communitie
I"i and individuals. Senators WEI
'~7 ,, only, he said, on the threshold {
e'l that investigation. Another ma
w W to be inquired into was the recel
a'0 decision of United State Judge
=, ~ and whether, IN view Of the Inte
'ho state Commerce law and of the ami
~ aos trust law judges had right to dete
~ :, mine not only what railroad e1
-pe ployee should do, but what
SEQ should not do. These decisio
LIS were the first great step on t
70 part Of the judiciary to make SCI
W Of the men who we're el
leu ployed by Railroad corporation
~ If the law warranted these decisio
W.. she (and possibly it did) then th
'ne law ought to be modiff, d or
IL pealed. He did not believe that t
p pon American people would ever subr
r'S' to any branch OF the governme
whether judiciary or legislati'
putting such imposition upon th
The IS were put in the recent judic
in decisions.
ocL Mr.. Hoar asked Mr. Gorman
The be somewhat more specific.
;can Mr.. Gorman explained that ".
eral he meant to say was that the rec
ines judicial decision that railroad {
81 ployees might be restrained by
cred order of court, might be fined 6
lock imprisoned if they resigned tt
.ema positions, was most extraordin
anl decision, and one that had to be !
fter at the very threshold Of the q
.ama Congress. 1t ought to be inqui
r. to into carefully by men who had
ves one motive, aud that was to
(whils protecting the interests
commerce) that no injustice
70 done to individu uals, and that
courts of the United States she
- - not be armed with powers as a
VI trary as those of the Gear
Russia
70 p. - Mr. Platt said that he had
A'io vet seen in the decision refer
49, aaa to, anything that looked like u
~ oolns patton of power by the col
inenS , or like degrading the working
oio'o of the country to the conditio
serfs. He believed that the
,,,,oa ployees of the railroad had no I