The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-07
REPLICATION
 IS ADOPTED House Ready For the
 SWayne Case. THE TOwsEND-EscH BILL It is Considered in Committee
 of the Whole. 0ne of Meesnre's Authors Leads oR De- bate and Explains Merits Mr. Richardson Opposes Hasty
 or Hostile Legislation.

 day again had before it the Swayne impeachment case. MT. Palmer (Pa) presented the replication of the mana gers of the House to the answer of the Judge. The replication reiterates that Judge Swayne is guilty of the high crimes and misdemeanors mem tioned in said articles and that the House of Representatives are ready to prove the same"
 without comment of any kind the. replication was adopted. Authority was given the managers to file with the Secretary of the Senate any suhse- quent pleadings they shall deam necesr sary.
 Unanimous consent was given mak- ing the bill to provide for the govern ment of the Panama canal sone, etc, continuing order of the House to be called up at any time The bill, among other things. abolishes tho Panama canal commission and puts the manage ment of canal affairs in the hands of the President.
 Mir. Dalzell then presented a resolu- ton from the Committee of Rates pro- viding that immediately upon It's adop- ton the House in Committee of the whole shall take up and consider the bill for the regulation of freight rates and continue to discuss until Thursday at 3 o'clock when a vote shall be taken.
 On division the previous question was ordered by a Naargin of seven votes, the vote standing 1s2 to 155. Mir. Williams (Afiss.) demanded the yeas and nays and the roll was called. . The previous question was ordered a71 to l40. The Democrats with the exception of Gaines (Tenn.) voted solidiy against the motion, while MT. southwiek (N. Y.l was the only Re- publican voting with the Democrats.
 Mir. Dalzell briefly explains the reso- lution, being followed by Mir. Williams the minority leader. who said that every man voting for the previous queation knew a would have the effect of preventing any amendment to the resolution.
 Aftaeksd by DeArmond.
 olutiofi as wholly unnecessary. narrow
 Mr.DeArmond lATo.) attacked the res- and partisan because 1t did not permit amendments and because the majority party had determined for the minority what bills should be voted on as sub stitute. The right of the minority to name its own substitute he declared had been denounced in ''narrowness and the narrowness of shallow partisan ship"
 Most men, he said, believed the bill would be strangled in the Senate.
 The rule was characterized by MT. Grosvenor (ohio) as fair to, the mi- nority because the Democrats in eau GUS had determined to vote for their bill as an amendment to the RepublI- can bill at the proper time. He said six months from now they would be swearing that this was their meas ure." MT Grosvenor In answer to Mir. Cochran (MO.) was rehearsing the original interstate commerce Iegisla- tion when MT. Gaines (Tenn.) cried out, "Oh, pshaw!" When the laughter which followed had subsided Mir. Grosvenor indignantly retorted: "This is in keeping with the character of the position he (Gaines) occupies"
 In denOuncing the rule. MT. Williams declared that the object of the Demo- cratic caucus had been accomplished. That object, he said, was to let the President and the minority men of the majority party know that there would be no mere partisan and factional op- position to a great public measure. The rules, he said, amid Democratic applause, had been brought in for the purpose of preventing a majority of the entire House, composed of the Democrats solidly and a number of Republicans from formulating a bill oSSNAhPAAGh AhC PhAP POSS sought"
 WIIIiams's Charge.
 "Your object" he said, Ifs to pre- vent your own men from amending your own bill with our assistance"
 The Townsend-Esch bill, he said, would be framed upon the presumption that the interstate commerce commits sion would commit error which was to be guarded against.
 MT. Williams then offered to surren- der every moment of debate if the rule were so amended as to permit the vote on three amendments. He even offered to give up the vote on the mil norIty substitute if the privilege was accorded.
 MT Dalzell, however, refused the proposition. The debate was brought to a close by MT. Dalsell. who said. amid Republican laughter, that a Democratic caucus was an exceedingly unnecessary thing when 1t sought to give aid to the President and the Re- publican Party.
 On a roll call the rule was adopted 1e6 to TAO. Messrs. Southwick and VreeIand (New York;, Republicans. voted against the resolution and Gaines (Den4 Tenn.,) voted for 1t. Im- mediateIy the House went into com mittee of the whole to consider the Townsend- Esch bill. MT. Currier (N. H.) in the chair.
 MT. Townsend (Adich.). one of the authors of the measure, began the de- bate. He said that the bin presented ample occasion to bring into promi- hence the agitator who desired noto- riety before his constituents and who was eager to strike a blow at the rail- roads "above or below the belt" The occasion, he said, was equally fruitful flor that greed and selishness born of greater power and nurtured by a de- sire for financial gain, which would de- ceive the Congress and the nation into believing that any creatures of the Government are outside and beyond It's control. and that the problem is so great and complex that only the rall- roads can solve it."
 BIlPs Merits Discussed.
 Taking up the merits of the bill, Mir townsend said that they were two-fold. giving to the Interstate Commerce Commission power to fix a rate and to hasten to expedite the work of deter