The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-05-08
ELKIN COMMERCE LAW
DOOMED THIS SESSION
THERE SEEMS TO BE NO HOPE
FOR THE RAILROAD LAW VERY
sooN-CoNeREss is TOO BUSY
NOW.
PAYMENT FOR cEssIoN OF CROW
INDIAN LINES-SENATE ENJOYS
ITsELF-TRADING SEATS IN
THE UPPER HOUSE.

Washington, May THE Elkins
bill is not for this session. Even
the confident author of the pri-
poseo railroad legislation admits tnar
netting is possible in the way of
Amending the Interstate commerce
law. The Ellins bill, the senator says,
is being discussed and cussed" in
many sections of the country, but l
cannot set the railroads to agree upon
anything They won't agree among
Themselves, upon my bill or upon any
other plan. Some want one thing and
some want another, and others don't
want anything. I'll have to talk it
over with Hepburn of the house com
mittce and see II they are going to try
and pass anything over there. I don't
know whether this is good time for
railroad legislation or not. There are
SO many changes going on in the rela-
tions Of the roads with each other and
with the public that no matter what
was done might have to be undone and
amended later
kilograms Sent by Mail.
During the recent trials which the
telegraph companies have been having
IA great deal Of telegraphic matter has
been forwarded by mail between Wash
ington and New York, and in fact some
other points With wires a total wreck
there was no other way The telegraph
companies would take messages sub
ject to delay" and this delay meant
the time 1t would take the mails to get
through. There came time when
4paina 's'or.s thDaetaaa.ad with -a~ls,Er en-
account of the floods. One evening at
this period q man wanted to send a
dispatch. This will set to New York
tomorrow morning sure?" he asked
"Well," answered the clerk. "the foods
may delay that night train, and we
can't guarantee It," what in thunder
has delayed train got to do with
telegraph dispatchY yelled the man
And then he was informed Of the man
ner in which business was being done.
Crow Cession Bill Amended.
1t was with a great deal of interest
that Senator Clark of Montana saw
the bill ceding about 100000 acres
of land of the Grow reservation In his
state come up for consideration in the
senate. 1t was his bill He had intro
duced it, worked over it in committee
and reported it. This bill provided that
cattle, horses. farm implements and
other things necessary for the Indians
should be given them as part payment
for the cession. The reading of the blll
was completed, and the presiding Off
Ger said, "The clerk will report the
amendments" The senate was un-
usually still, and the voice of the clerk
rang out, I'm line 2, page 4, strike out
two-ycar-old jaclasses and insert stall
Tons" Decorum in the senate was for
gotten as everybody laughed and made
comments upon Senator Clark's bill.
He sat silent, and even when two sen
atOrs, Platt Of Connecticut and Cock
rell of Missouri, complained about In
dian cession bills in general, made no
reply. And the bill passed
The Idaho Senators.
Senators Dubois and Heitfeld Of Ida
no occupy seats together on the front
row Of the Democratic side--in fact,
they have the choice seats Of the mi
nority. This is rather remarkable, In
view Of the fact that Heitfeld has been
a senator only five years and Dubois
but one year of his present term. The
seats of the senate are chosen by a
system which usually gives the older
senators the best-that is. senator
files an application for Il seat which
he thinks will be vacant and often
waits for years to get it. The Idaho
senators got their good seats by trad
ing. When Butler Of North Carolina
went out, he had one of the front seats
on the Democratic side, but IL was
found that McComas, a Republican,
had filed on it. The Democrats did
not like to have a Republican there,
and so a change was made which gave
McComas Teller's old seat Teller GO
ing into the middle of the Democratic
side and Heitfeid going down iii front.
Senator Vest had long occupied seat
on the front row, but wanted one near
the cloakroom door, so he traded his
old seat for one on the back row occu-
pied by Dubois, and the young Idaho
senator came down alongside of his
colleague Here on the front row sit
two new far western senators, who
have only been in the Democratic par
ty for year