The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-05-15
ROOSEVELT
Put on the Rack by the
Senate in Preparing
the Rate Bill.

Washington, May 11.---In a contin-
uous session of seven hours today,
the senate, divided almost entirely
upon party lines, amended the Hep
burn railroad rate bill, in accordance
with the compromise agreement re-
Gently entered into by ins iiepubli-
cans and known as the Allison amend
ment.
1t will meet tomorrow an hour earl
Ter than accustomed to. and take up
the other Allison amendment, relating
to the temporary suspension of the
orders of the committee by the feder-
al courts.
1t Is calculated that this will be
adopted by vote or at least 55 to
"a, basing the estimate upon today's
vote on the Rayner amendment, which
followed the lines laid down in the
recent Long compromise amendment,
and which sought to confine the review
by the court to the questions as to
whether the commission had exceed
ed its authority, or had deprived the
carrier of its constitutional rights.
Mr.. La Toilette, of Wisconsin, the
recognized railroad rate authority, was
the only Republican who supported the
provision. -Four Democrats voted
against it, The Wisconsin senator
voted with the Democrats on each roll
call throughout the day and got al
most the united support of the min
ority upon two amendments which he
proposed-one permitting the commit
tee to fix minimum as well as a
maximum rate-and the other aiming
to protect the commission against new
evidence. He got no Republican sup
port.
SAYS TEDDY SURRENDERED.
The consideration of amendments
was marked by discussion in which
the president was charged by Mr.. Ray
ner, of Maryland, with a ''cowardly
surrender"
The flood of kilograms from rail-
road organizations protesting against
the prohibition of passes to members
of the families of employees disclosed
the consensus of opinion to be that
the vote of anti-pass revision will be
later reconsidered and the exception
granted as requested
1t is thought the final vote cannot
be reached on the bill until the early
part of next week.
Mr.. Bailey, the minority leader, Of
fered his amendment prohibiting the
inferior federal courts from suspending
the commissions rate by an interlo-
cutory decree, He read from public
utterances Of the president to show
that the executive had repeatedly ad-
vocated legislation that wouldkeep
the commissions rate in effect until
it was finally reversed upon full hear
ing. He charged that the president
had compromised with the opponents
of railway rate regulation, but said
he recognized that without his aid the
friends of regulation would even have
been unable to enact such an imper-
feet and insufficient bill as now pend
ing"
He sincerely deplored, he said, the
presidents change of attitude He
didn't know whether he had grown
weary of the contest, as some charged
or that he compromised in the inter-
ests of party harmony as others
charged. He declared that the presi-
dent would however have difficulty in
explaining to the people how it came
that he gave them so little after arous-
ing their hopes of securing so much.
On roll call the amendment was
lost.
Mr.. Lodges amendment to give the
commission authority to voluntarily
establish through routes and Joint
rates, where not existing where one
OF the connecting lines is a water
line" was adopted.
Mr.. Rayner offered his substitute for
the Allison compromise court review
proposition.
POOLING WITH THE SPRING.
The MarylandeT said he wouldn't
charge that the President has been
caught in trap. but he would say
that the president was SO constituted
that whenever he saw a trap he
couldn't resist fooling with the
spring" uaughter).
He jocularly referred to the presi-
dent having secretly revoked the Gre
dentials Of the senator from Kansas,
tMr, Long, who had charge of the first
review compromise that was later
abandoned, and spoke of the Allison
amendment as not only having upon
II "the imperial seal but also the coat
of arms of Rhode Island" He congrat-
ulated every railway president in the
United States and their retinue of
counsel for having gained such great
victory and deplored what he charac-
terized as "a cowardly subterfuge and