The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-07
Senate Enters Upon Final Day
of Debate Of Bill.
Amendment Adopted Establishes
Prohibition in Oklahoma
FORAKER AMENDMENT
Providing for Separate Vote in
Arizona and New Mexico.
House Puts in a Day on the Rail-
road Rate Bill.

washington, rep. f--OnQeT the
INCREMENT previously made the senate
entered upon the consideration of the
amendments offered to the joint state
hood bill Immediately after converting
at noon today. The agreement pro-
vided that the entire days debate be
given to the consideration of the
amendments to be under the 10 min
ute rule. and that vote should be
taken upon all the amendments and
upon the bill itself prior to the adj
journment of the days session.
The first amendment considered
prohibits the sale of liquor in the
Indian Territory for ten years Mr..
Gallinger offered an amendment as a
substitute for the committees provi-
sion making the time 81 years and
extending its operation to the entire
state.
By vote of So to 20. the Gallinger
substitute was adopted
The Gallinger prohibition amend
ment covers the entire state if Okla
homa and Indian Territory as COM
bined by the committee bill
The senate adopted without division
submission of the constitution of the
proposed state of Arizona to the
voters of the two territories of Ari-
iona and New Mexico, separately.
IN the House.
Washington, Feb. Tn accordance
with the rules adopted yesterday, the
house today in committee of the whole
convened one hour earlier than usual,
the exclusive business for the day be-
ing debate upon the bills regulating
freight rates Mr.. Richardson (Ala.)
continued his speech begun yesterday.
He discussed the legal points involv-
ed 1t was. he said in the federal courts
that the railroads get their protection.
hn al sod Nv he
Townsend bill, he characterized as a
fifth wheel in the judicial wagon, with
no necessity for it except to embarrass
the movement for equalizing rates
MI Richardson denied that the Davey
bill embodied any of the provisions of
the so-caIled Hearst bill.
Mr.. Rainey Oll) vigorously asserted
that it would not have hurt the Davey
bill if the Democrats had incorporated
in it everp provisions of the Hearst bill.
because it represented 1.-The present pro-
gressive and radical tendency of the
Democratic party in the United States"
He supported the Townsend bill be-
cause it was more in harmony with the
radical tendencies of the Democratic
party and opposed the Davey bill be-
cause it did not provide for special
court.
Mr. Stevenson CIa.) threw the
brunt of the responsibility for the
present condition of affairs principal
" upon the railroad directors, who,
relation to the public, but had only
the one thought in mind of a suffi-
cient financial return for the interests
they represented The traffic man.
ayers, he declared, were obliged to
earn the utmost out of their proper
ties in order to hold their positions
Many of these men, he said, had told
him that neither the president nor
directors of their roads had ever di-
rected them to change rate. He
would support the Townsend bill, but
he anticipated it would not afford
much help to the shipper in its pres
ent form. 1t would. he said, operate
more psychologically than actually.
Mr.. Adamson (Cfa.) took issue with the
statement Of Mr.. CsrOsveilor yesterday and
said all the world would give the Demo-
Gratis credit for forcing action, whether
they claimed it not. If the Republicans
did lot complete the legislation now he
predicted that the country would damn
them for trifiing with SO important mat
ter and preventing action. Both parties
want it, he said. the president now
wants il. The man who ought to have
been president for the last eight years
wants it. All VINO wish to be president
want it and even the railroad presidents
want it and are invading the capitol, White
house and public press to make known
their anxiety.
He urged his colleag CUES not to stop at
Speaker Cannon's adjuration to pass
some kind of Dill only, but to pass the
substitute OF the minority.