Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-02
)NTROL OF THE RATES TO BEGIN next FRIDAY AGED RESIDENT DEAD
md Commit
uahoD Dogma of e Store
DUBBED 'BRYAN'S BANTLING'
Hepburn Bill Declared to Be Demo-
cratic Dogma.
SHIPPING BILL I'M THE SENATE
Consideration of Statehood Prevented
by the Objection of Mr.. Teller
Private Pensions Bills Passed.

Before proceeding to the consideration OF
the railroad rate bill today, the House
passed bill extending the public land
laws to tract OF land ten miles square in
Wyoming coded to the government in 1897
by the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians.
Mr.. Thomas IN. c. opened the discus
sion on the rate bin, making an argument
in its favor. Mr.. Thomas said the bill was
In line with the democratic position, the
Presidents position, the views of the In
terstate commerce commission, CONNER
cial bodies all over the country. includ-
ing his own state and the outgrowth of
public sentiment.
Referring to the losses sustained by the
truckers of HIS district last spring. he In
sisted refrigerator cars should be placed
under the control of the commission.
Mr.. Goulden On. Y.) gave his reasons
for supporting the bill. 1t was the best
of its kind ever presented. It's benefits
were greater than its defects.
Mr.. Burton Supports the Bill.
In beginning an hours speech in favor
of the bill. Mr.. Burton (Ohio} dwelt on the
enormity of the corporations in this coun-
try. He cou-L remember when this was
not the case, when small enterprises -four
fshed. Now, the mechanisms of steam have
transformed industry completely. so that
the employee is but a cog in tremendous
mechanism.
The same great strides In traffic had also
taken place. Regulation was demanded by
the conditions. The two features In the bill
all essential were, first, the fixing of a
rate and. second. the speedy adjudication
OF that rate In the courts.
With 10000 rate schedules related one
TO the other. he was not sure what the re-
suit would be. nor what the court of last
resort would decide. However, he did not
n .fa 10,
mission, nor havoc as the result Of them.
The difficulties OF the policies to be inaugu-
rated. such as the long and short haul
and the basic point questions. Mr. Bur-
ton believed. should be fixed by Congress.
1t was the failure to exercise such RESPONSE
bilities that resulted In the. plants that
dhe House was losing its power.
AZ TO rebates. he said. human inge-
nulty mad hardly, IL ever, been exercised
TO eVade the law, as had been the case
since the passage of the Elkins act.
Discrimination between individuals, he
maintained. could and should be stopped
The discrimination between places was a
different problem, In which many elements
entered and which it may never be pos
Sible TO overcome.
Mr.. Burton closed with the statement that
the present bill was step in the right
direction. and he hoped ti.tr. year by year
others might be taken.
Throughout Mr. Burton commanded the
close attention Of members and received
applause and congratu lations on his con-
clusiona
Mr. Burke e. d. followed, having been
yielded an hour. He favored the bill and
reviewed the legislative status of rate-reg-
ulatine laws.
MI. Bryan's "Bantling."
Mr.. Mccall then presented an extensive
argument in opposition to government rate
making. To be an effective response to
public demand on the railroad question the
pendlng bill ought, he said, to deal partic-
ularly with rebates.
The present effort Mr.. Mccall called
political rate-making." The demand, he
said. sprang UP in a night.
Mr.. Bryan. the once idolized leader of
his party, for time dethroned, but sum-
moned back again by the overwhelming
exodus of silver democrats at the last cleo
ton: Mr.. Bryan, who might have brought
action for infringement, generously hailed
political rate-making a decisive step to-
ward his cherished dogma, government
ownership. and he fixed upon 1t the stamp
OF his emphatic appreciation. He looked
upon IL as his own child, and not long ago
as he was starting around the globe in al
most lne last words he uttered upon Amer
lean soil, with a paternal solicitude he
commended the bantling to the tender care
OF the President
The democratic party followed Its lead
ers and took up the cause OF rate making
with enthusiasm and unanimity. AS for the
republicans. rate-fxing had been made party
policy by our just elected President and,
logic or no logic, we were expected to get
In line. This was the genesis of public
opinion upon this point.