The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-16
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Consldrra alton IN Committee of the Whole
Nbout Nrr Present commission stands.

NNt VNfN FVtNfV ' "'~HF
w~ASHtNGroS. MAY Is The senate all
but Completed the bill N commltte" of the
whole Had u not teen foT the in-lstence
Of senator CulbarSon 81 TeSa- that his
amendment regulating the lssue Of passe-
should be- reCon-idered ~ committee Of the
" hole instead of IN the open Senate. the bill
would have been reported from the com
mittee Of the whole. It - expected thai
the hill will be passed ON Tuesday.
senator Tillman voiced the general dis
APPOINTMENT over the failure to complete
consideration Of the mea sure in a way
Enthusiastically his own
My State convention Is to meet to-mor-
row N South Carolina. Senator Clark IL
to give a dinner. Now | expected to get
away to my State convention, 20 | declined
the dinner invitation. | not only lose the
dinner but | bought a berth in the sleeping
car which | cannot Use, 30 lose both ways.
This continuous talk-talk means that | am
being choked to death with a calf rope.
The only important matter considered
to-day related To the personnel OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission. The
Hepburn bill az il passed the House pro-
yided for an increase in the humber OF
commissioners from five to seven. Sena-
tors Lodge and Hale labored hard to-day
toAmeud the bill by increasing the number
to nine and raising the salaries Of each
commissioner from $500, az at present,
to ST., 600, with an additional $500 for the
president of the commission,
After discussing the proposition three
hours 1t became apparent that the majority
of the Senate were opposed to any change
- tka rraaapf romniaalOn Mr. IOdDa
modified his proposed amendment to per-
init the President to reappoint all the COM
missioners. His proposed modification
found no favor and was promptly tabled.
Mr.. Elkins sought to increase the salary
OF the secretary Of the commission to Q 1000
and his amendment was tabled just as
promptly. This seemed to start u bear
raid on the section in the Hepburn bill
relating to the commission. Senator kean
of New Jersey proposed that the numbe
of commissioners be reduced from seven
to five, as at present. A motion to table in
fuenced Mr.. Kean to withdraw his amend
ment, but three Senators, Foraker. Latimer
and Dubois. promptly renewed II. The
amendment Of Mr.. Foraker prevailed and
vent through in a hurry.
The rush to complete the bill was fairly
under way by this time, and when Mr..
Gallinger moved to reduce salaries from
10000, IA proposed in the House bill. to
$500, as at present, the amendment was
adopted.
Mr.. Hopkins (Rep., ILL., opened the debate
by condemning the amendment proposed
by Mr.. Lodge to increase the number OF
members of the commission and give them
larger salaries. He wanted TO know II either
Commissioner OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Knapp
should be legislated out Of Office by q pro-
vision that no two members of the COM
mission should come from the same judicial
circuit.
MIR. Elkins (Rep., W. Va), chairman Of
the Interstate Commerce Committee OF
the Senate, expressed the belief that Ave
members Of the commission would be more
useful than n larger number and vigor-
ously objected to raising salaries. Mr..
Elkins said he believed $40, 900 a year would
be ample, II not too large.
Mr.. Morgan OF Alabama OBJ jected to put
ting lawyers on the commission. These
professional men knew nothing about rates.
Mr.. Morgan believed that the commission
should be men experienced in industrial
affairs. He proposed an amendment divid-
ing the country into nine districts, six Of
which were to include great maritime ports
and the others interior districts-a com
missioner to be selected from each district
Mr.. Perkins (Rep., Cali made a humorous
speech, advocating a lawyer for the COM
mission. He said that II he were a COM
missioner he would want the advice Of such
n good lawyer at the Senator from Maine
CMr. Hale. II would like to hear him talk,
for he always has something interesting to
say. He reasons we'll, blu ! don't mean
to promise hat l would follow his con-
illusions. ILaughter.l Like the Justices
Of the Supreme Court his conclusions are
not always consistent with his line OF rea-
soning. IRenewed laughter lawyers
don't always agree. We have had an ex-
ample Of Il here in the Senate. / don't
believe any ak lawyers in the Senate have
agreed on any one point in this bill"
Mr.. Hale intimated that the Interstate
Commerce Commission had been getting
in it's work on Congress-" and it might