The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-29
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:Scnator Tillnan's Effort to Have
Time Set For Voting
Fails.
RULE WITHOUT PRECEDENT.
House Absolutely Gagged, Both.
Majority and Minority Be
ing Rendered Helpless.
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(Trolll Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, u. c., March 2s.--Tho
discussion of8the bill to regulate RAILWAY
rates drags along In the Senate, with the
end entirely obscured from: Wow Sem
ator Tlllmntl's efforts to have ag$timo
sct for voting l,avc failed, chiefly through
tho objection or Senator Aldrlcf, VINO
IL bitterly opposed to governmental IN
tcrfcrcnce III the matter OF railway
charges. It's entirely impossible TO fore
see tho time when voto VIII DO taken
OH the BILL or any Of the numerous amend
mcnts thcreto.
Senator Knox had the stage to-day,
opposing III Il lengthy argument INC
amendment proposed by Senator l3aW1
which soughtto limit tho power Of the
| Federal courts Of inferior Jurisdiction IN
the matter OF granting appeals, and glV-
Ing 10 the Supreme Court alone the power
to suspend an order Of the lnterstlro' COM
1nerce Commission affecting railroLu
rates Ho declared and tbs was tho gist
of his entire speech, that to deny the
courts absolute power to suspend any
order Of the commission would be TO
make the bill Unconstitutional.
Court Review.
Senator Knox has a uil for the rcsll-
lation Of rates, and this quotation from
his speech to-day outlines. with the char
ncterstlc brevity and accuracy Of the
former attorney-gencral, his plan for
court review:
ga provision for notice and hearing be-
fore granting injunction can easily be
provided. without the risk of infringing
upon chancery powers or constitutional
rights, by requiring the application for an
injunction to be made in suit against
the commission. to be begun before the
day fixed for the order to so into effect.
This would be before there had been ny
actual taking of the carriers property,
and therefore a provision for ample notice
and hearing would not be subject to the
objection that irrcparable Injury might 4
ensuc pending the hearing, as no injury
could be sustained until the order be-
came effective"
Although Senator Knox did not devote
a great portion of his speech & to this
phase Of the subject, lie favors a provi- I
sion in the bill which will compel the
railroads to impound-thati Is. to pay over 4
to tho court-the difference between the
old rate and the rate fixed by the. com
mission, the money to be paid to the
shipper in case the court upholds the de-
ClSlOn OIL inc commission III HcSlituiIsiItS
the lower rate, and to he refunded to the
railroad in case the old ratcsis sustained.
Suspend Decision.
l have not taken occasion III some days
to renew the nrediqtion made in this c9r--
respondcnce over q month ago that the
BILL whenit leaves the, Senate, Will con-
tain a clause specifically empowering the
courts TO suspend the decision of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, pending
the appeal To the judicial tribunals. The
situation to-day is such as to make the
fulfillmcnt Of this prediction much more
probable than ercr.
3H IT seems safe to count upon nearly the
solid Republican vote Of the Senate in
support of a specific review amendment,
the right Of appeal to lie to any Ecourt
having jnrisdiction-tha IS, ITO "a Federal
court Tho Democrats generally toppose
an unrestricted right of appeal bit all
OF them will not support the Bailey
amendment. limiting jurisdiction to the
Supreme Court Senator Martin said to-
day that he opposed giving to the courts
the unlimited right Of review. as sucn
right would make for great delay in the
execution of the orders Of, the commits
sion, but he would not say Chat ne be-
leved the majority OF the Senate would
take his view.
The debate on the rate bill in the Sen
ate is the finest the American people have
had opportunity OF hearing in years IT
is more prolonged and more able tnan
any which have taken place in the Sem
ate in a long while, probably since the
silver debates OF the summer OF 1893 or
the tariff debatcsof the following year.
The galleries are crowded every day. and
the arguments nrc seldom disappointing.
A Striking Difference.
tho 10,
the House was never more striking than
at The prcsen. time. The House is no
longer Il dcibc,utire body. Deliberate 4
discussion and judicial consideration and
action nrc absolutely impossible in the
House or Representatives., under, the rules
OF that body :is they arc now interpreted 4
and applied Speaker Cannon. through
tho Committee on Rules, controls the de-
libcrations, SO called. Of the House as
completely as a father controls Ills lam
lily.
An Illustration Of this was afforded by
the action Of tho House today In adopting
a rule changing the old rule Of the House
that all new matter In an appropriation
bin must he eliminated ms now matter
on the motion Of any member, made While
the bill Is under consideration IN The
committee OF the Whole House on the
state Of the Tpion
The committee on appropriations re-
ported the Legislative appropriation bll,
which contained n great many Items,
making appropriations for new officers,
and increasing the, salaries attached 10
places already In existence. Representa-
two Prince. Of Illinois. and Representa-
|, tive Ilardwick. Of Georgia, objected 10 2
great many of tho new Legislation and
Tie chairman OF tho commit tac of the
whole uniformly sustained the objections.
IN This wayathn bill WAS being cut all