Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-22

all of them or vote against the pro-
duet of his own study. He was
pleased to note the many good
changes from the original bill. and he
would vote for tne bill even though
the senate refused to adopt his
amendments, for he was DESTROYS of
ending the strife that has existed in
the state for the several years passed.
He accompanied this announcement
with the statement that he had been
enlightened and not entirely convinced
by the debate of the day and that his
final affirmative vote on the bill would
be cast with reluctance. He would
leave out of the bill reference to
commodity rates" and not lay upon
the, commission the burden of dealing
with this great subject. For this rea-
son he would insert the word Sub
stantially" where the power of regu-
lating commodity rates was delegated
to the committee "as upon all other
rates." This he said would relieve
the commission. He would amend the
bill so as to have interstate classified
tons of rates prevail in Wisconsin, so
as to avoid possible confusion under
ire operation of the law. He would
strike out from the bill the specific
delegation of the power to the com
mission to make reasonable regula-
tons" with respect to furnishing cars
to shippers, because the commission
had large and adequate powers under
the general language of the bill and it
was not necessary to involve the stat
ute with this specific reference.
Attorneys Amendments.
When the argument by Senator
Whitehead for the adoption of the
amendments proposed by him was
concluded, Senator Hudnall took the
floor to reply He treated each amend
ment offered independently, opening
his remarks with the statement that
every amendment offered by Senator
Whitehead had been before the com
mittee, but they had been there pre-
scented, not by Senator Whitehead,
but by the several railway attorneys,
by whom they had been advocated
Then he proceeded to explain why
the committee had rejected each and
every one of them. The refusal of the
insertion of the word substantially
was because in ruling of the United
States commerce commission, it had
been held that this word had nullified
the effect of the entire bill. Turning
TO Senator Whitehead, he Numbered at
him the question:
81 would ask the senator from the
twenty second if that is the purpose
of offering this amendment at this
time, in order to nullify the whole eff
feet Of this provision Of the billy"
The next amendment was the strik-
ing out of words PERTAINING to the fix
ing of commodity rates by and under
the supervision and control of the COM
mission. The taking of these powers
from the commission he contender
would be to open the door TO unscrupu-
lous and unfair shippers who would be
able to take advantage of the helpless
ness of the commission in this particu-
lar.
Another amendment would take from
the commission the power to order a
reasonable distribution of cars to ship
pers. This he contended again was
one of the crying necessities of railway
legislation at this time, and the refusal
to confer this power would Grip
pie the commission UNNECESSARILY.
To Reconsider Capitol Bill.
| While the recess for supper was be
ing agreed upon, Senator Stevens
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the Kreutzer substitute to the Stout
"300-foot" bill was defeated. Senator
Rogers moved to reconsider the vote
| by which the senate passed the bill tc
submit to a vote of the people the
question of selecting location for the
capitol. Both motions were allowed
to lie over and will be on the calendar
| for today.