The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Against Undue Haste.

the vote was taken or on either of the next two days of actual executive session of the Senate.
 Against Undue Haste.
 Senators Teller and Culberson both made speeches against an alleged disposition to use undue haste in having nominations disposed of and Senators Lodge and Spooner protested that the combinations were in accordance with the actual pro- cedure and finally that the motion to re- consider was out of order. It was pointed out that a vote to reconsider could be had only by unanimous consent. Objection was made to the motion on the ground that the nominations were confirmed on December 16, and two executive sessions had since been held.
 Mir Morgan, taking the floor again, said that as a member of the committee on inter-oceanic canals, he was entitled to cast his vote for against the nomina- tions at the meeting of the committee or through poll taken by the chairman Several senators said they supposed that this course would be followed and Sena- tor Morgan called upon Senator Willard chairman of the canal committee, to know whether he had taken a poll, The Senator replied that he had not but he had been informed that a majority of the commit tee were in favor of confirming the nom- nations and said he thought he had au- thority to call them up. When this state ment was made Senators Lodge and Spooner abandoned their objections and the action to reconsider was adopted.
 The rules provide further that If 8 notification of a confirmation of nomi- nation shall have been sent to the Presi- dent before the expiration of the date within which motion to reconsider may be made, the motion to reconsider shall be accompanied by motion to require k~ ~Af. flln ftn1 1fV1 inn to the Senate. The notifications in the case of the members of the canal committee had been sent to the President, conse- quently before action can again be had on the nominations these notifications must be returned.
 If it is true that an attempt will be made to hold up the confirmation of Mir Shonts on the ground that he is holding dual positions--the chairmanship of the commission and the presidency of the Clover Leaf road-action cannot be had before the holidays. An effort will be made, however, to have a poll of the committee taken tomorrow and tho nomi- nations again confirmed
 Washington, December 20--The only notable feature of the open session of the Senate today was a brief discussion of railroad legislation by MT. Foraker ond MT. Cuberson. The controversy was pre- cipitated by some remarks made by MT Foraker in connection with a request pre- ferred by him for the printing of papers connected with case recently before the interstate commerce commission. The Ohio senator reiterated his position on the question of rate legislation saying that he differed from other sena tors only on the point as to the remedies to be applied for the evils of which complaints have been made.
 When the Senate met today MT. kean reported and the Senate passed a resolu- ton authorizing the committee on indus trial exposition to employ messenger. After the resolution had been passed, MT. Spooner asked how many committees there are left which have not messengers and when told there were only two. sug- gested that they should be placed on the list and thus prevent discrimination.
 MT. Hale expressed the opinion that the remaining two would not be long in coming to the surface.
 MT F'oraker asked and obtained leave to have printed the record of cases recent ly filed before the interstate commerce commission involving charges of dscrim- ination in beef shipments. He said. that after taking cognizance of the cases the commission had not reported its con clusions for three years, whereas, the United States court for the northern dis trict of Illinois had taken the matter up and reached a final decision within five or six months The matter had been introduced he said for the purpose of showing that existing law affords rem edy for many of the evils of which com plant is made and also that there Is greater celerity in the courts than in the interstate commerce commission The court had, he said. reversed the finding of the commission and he said that if the commissions decision had gone into Immediate effect the railroad companies would have suffered loss of s2,0o0, 900.
 Speech of Foraker.
 MT Culberson called attention to the recent speech of Mir. Foraker in which the latter had said that since the Elkins law had gone into effect. rebates had prac- tically ceased Mir Culberson said that there had been recent indictments of rail- road officials and Chicago for taking re- bates He understood also that Mir. For aker had opposed all further legsla- ton.
 MT. Foraker asserted that he had not said that there was no longer rebates but that he had said that there was
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