The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-24
WILL SUPPORT
THE PRESIDENT
Democrats in Favor of Fixing
Railway Rates.
EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE
MARYLAND MEMBER SEIZED
WITH CONCLUSIONS.
EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE

Washington, Jan. 2S-In the house to-
day minor bill was being considered
when Mr. Baker of New York. in an
excited manner, jumped up and moved
that the house adjourn, lin order that
We may express our understandable hor-
nor at the wanton massacre that has
taken place in Russia
Speaker Cannon put the question to
the house. The only vote in favor of
adjournment was that of Mr. Baker.
Seeing that his motion was lost Mr.
Baker. shaking his finger at the Re-
publican side of the house, exclaimed:
That is the interest you people have
In humanity" and in an undertone said
that if it had been a king or emperor
who had been shot down the house i'm
mediately would have adjourned.
No sooner had the house resumed its
eomposure than it was thrown into "A
state of excitement by Representative
Pearre, of Maryland, being stricken
with nervous commissions. He received
Immediate treatment from DR.. Hunter,
a member from Kentucky, the speaker
In the meantime announcing that a
tenminute recess would be taken
Upon resuming the session the Dis
trtct of Columbia appropriation bill was
taken UP in the committee of the whole
Railroad Rates.
Under latitude of general debate, Mr..
Hughes OF Texas discussed at length
the question of rates charged by the
railroads. He compared the utterances
OF Theodore Roosevelt's message of the
Flfty-seVenth and Eifty-eighth con-
gress on that subject and said it was a
rsotable fact that not until after cleo
ton did the president come out clearly
for legislation which would meet the
present condition of affairs The presi-
dent in that message, however, he said.
had with ability and marked clearness
discussed the duty of the government
and he pointed out that the president
position admitted of no sort of cues
ton.
Summing up his remarks. Mr.. Bur-
CESS said that an opportunity was now
presented for members of the house to
rise above party and vote for legisIa-
ton which VIII restrict the railroads.
Only Two Sides.
The matter, he said, resolved itself
into the question, ARE you with Roose-
Welt or are you with the railroads.
Criticising the house for IDS refusal to
adjourn in respect to the memory of
the persons killed in ST. Petersburg
yesterday, Mr.. Baker of New York said
he could not conceive how the house
could remain Indifferent to such a con-
ditiOn of affairs. The house, he said,
had devoted the day to 1.-The little pal
try. petty district squabbles in the city
of Washington" while it had ignored,
he termed the Russian horror, "a crime
so unpTOvOked, so wantOn and so
shameless and cruel, that the whole
civilized world stands aghast."
Hepburn Took Issue.
Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa took issue with
Mr.. Burgess regarding a portion of his
remarks of railroad control. He first
congrat ulated Mr. Burgess for pIedg-
ing Democratic support to such a
measure, but said that all through Mr..
Burgess remarks there had been an at
tempt TO make partisan question out
or It. MI Hepburn vigorously as
serted that every shred of legislation
now on the statute books regarding the
control of railroads came from Repub-
leans and Republican bodies.
Mr. Littlefeld of Maine said congress
must do one of two things-reduce ap-
preparations or increase the revenues.
Consideration of the bill had not been
concluded when il was laid aside and
the house concurred in the senate
amendments to the omnibus claims bill
and sent it to conference.
At sos p. IN. the house adjourned I'M
I'll tomorrow.
In the Senate
Washington. Jan. 23.-Mr Beveridge
made another Intellectual effort in the
senate today TO have a time fixed for
voting on the statehood bill The op-
posing senator's expressed an unwilling
ness to vote on the bill until the amend
mentS shall have been disposed of and
Mr.. Reveridge would not consent to a
vote on them without an agreement eX-
tending to the bill itself.
The Qualifications appropriation was
passed after rejection of the amendment
striking out the provision for insular
Notifications.
DIAMOND coal.