The Advocate and news., 1899-01-04

I4NAAOn was NtAhGAt
The House railroad bill was then
taken up, Senator Lamb (Rep.) insisted
that he should be permitted to amend.
He said that his amendments were
harmless" and amounted to nothing,
but that he wanted to present them just
the same. He was definitely assured
that the bill would not be amended under
any circumstances and that attempts to
do so would be useless. Under these cir
cumstances Lamb thought he would
gain a little time by asking that the
various portions Of the bill be re-read.
When this got tiresome to him he would
change his tactics and ask In detail about
the punctuation. Such Interruptions
ing was completed the roll-call on final
passage was taken. Andrews (Rep.)
was the first to explain. He said that
1t made the railroads appear as Grim
inals and cOnfers unusual powers. And
that 1t had been prepared In secret with
out giving a hearing to either railroads
or employees Coleman (Rep.) explained
that the bill was a violation Of all rules
of law and justice and creates an auto
crat (the sOlicitor) with control Of mill
lions of property which is too much
property to give to any man. He gave
notice that the supreme court would set
the law aside in less than six months.
Farrelly's explanation began with a
statement Of the situation in the last
session. He thought the special session
meant that special emergency existed
but that the fact that this law was not
to go into effect until after the next
session adjourns tended to show that no
such emergency exists. In the hope that
there may be some virtue in the bill he
voted aye.
Senator Hanna explained his vote. He
said that he had endeavOred to ascertain
who was the author Of this bill but was
unable to do So He believed that IL was
not as good d bill as the Senate bill of
two years ago for which he had voted,
but that Notwithstanding his impression
that 1t was written by railroad attOr-
neys he would vote for It,
Lamb referred to Populist speeches
in which courts were abused and gov
ernment by courts and Injunction was
severely arraigned. Now the action to-
day creates the most powerful court inn
aginable and 1t comes as the result OF
| the caucus which was the principal
source Of objection offered to the Re
publican party when the party which
now favors this bill was born. He be-
lieVed that this action was deliberate
scheme Of corporations to wipe out all
present railroad statutes and pass this
bill, which would be declared unconsti-
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law at all on this subject.
Lewelling filed a written explanation.
Matthews (Rep) made the same point
as the last one made by Lamb. Reser
(Pop.) explained his vote briefly. Ryan
(POp.) said that he had explained his
position several times In caucus, but that
there were gentlemen present who were
not eligible to sit there, so he would eX-
plain again. His objection was that the
| law should be put into effect at once. He
thought the best chance to make this
law success was to have the commits
sion appointed by the present admins
tratlon, as there was as little sense In
having a Republican administration ap-
point railroad commissioners as there
would be in electing a stOckholder Of a
Joint to the Office Of county attorney for
the special purpose Of enforcing the Muir
ray act,
thinner (Den.) objected to the strike
section. He held that 1t was not to the
interest of the railway employe and that
it took away from him about all the
rights he has left.
Crossan (Rep.) said that ho opposed
some features Of the bill, but would vote
for It,
The roll call showed 26 ayes and 10
nays.
Senators voting aye were Armstrong,
Benson, BraddOck, Caldwell, Campbell,
Cooke, Crossan, Farrelly, Field, FOrney,
Hanna, Hart, Helm, Helmeck, Household
der Jumper, King, LewelIing, Lupfer
Pritchard, Reser, Ryan, Shaffer Stone
Titus and Young.
Senators voting may were: Andrews,
Andpraon RatlnV Coleman FultOu Hes