The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-06
SENATE HAS YELLOW STREAK Allegation of Ben Till
 man. RATE BILL BACK AGAIN South Caro1inian Referred to Pro
 tests by Employees. Also Noted A bunaance of Telegraph Franks which Brought Mes-
 snses--senntor ForaIxer Crst- E icises Report to the Senate.
LATE BILL BACK AGAIN

ing business had been cleared up in the Senate today Senator .rillman made an appeal for the consideration of the conference report on the railroad rate bill. We expect that the bill will pc sent back to confcrence.'' he said, ''and 1t should not take long to do that"
 Senator Hale said he would give way If the conference report could be dis posed of without debate and if there could be assurancs that all the new matter would be eliminated from the bill.
 MT. Tillman objected to having the conference instructed and at last the South Carolina Senator moved to pro- ceed to the consideration of the report on the rate bill.
 There was no objection to the pre- sentation of the motion. and 1t pre- vailed, but when Mir. Tillman under took to make an explanation the Maine Senator objected. MT. Tillman said he desired to speak only three minutes, but Senators Foraker and Lodge said they would desire to reply. whereupon MT. Hale sought to cut Mir. Tillman off with motion to take up an appropri- ation bill. MT. rillman, however, in- sisted upon holding the floor and pro- ceeded by calling attention to the changes made by the conferees. He said they were made only for the pur- pose of making the bill clearer
 Strenk of Yellow.
 As Senator TilIman suggested there was streak of yellow" in the Senate today due to the fact that practically every desk in the chamber was covered with telegrams of protest against the antf-pass provision in the railroad rate bill as reported by tho conference com mittee. Senator Hopkins answered that there were six thousand names at- tached to the batch of messages cent up by him and as several others for. warded as many the total number re- reiyed was quite formidable. They were all from railroad men and in each ease consisted of. protests against cut ting off the privilege of riding free. In addition there was formal state mant in behalf of the engineers afire-. men. conductors and trainmen. saying that they represented 7S0.o00 railway employees
 While the messages wore raining up- on the chair. Senator Tillman made protest, saying that the telegrams could, and the interest of time savinE, should be presented through the secre- tary.
 T hope" interrupted Senator Fora ker, that the senator will not insist on his point, as by so doing he would suppress all knowledge of the popu- larity Of the rate measure"
 Also Telegraph Franks.
 It was then that the South Carolina senator made his suggestion concern ing the prevailing color in the Senate He also made the statement that the telegrams bore evidence of the pos session of good many telegraph franks in the country. He called at- tention to the fact that the bill applies only "a interstate bushes and expressed the De that if the Senate would pro- :e Sith business there would yet be "a sane, reasonable and just measure," evolved
 He closed by moving to disagree to the report. thus sending 1t back to conference. Senator Hale met this mo- tton with a motion to take up the na- val bill. Senators Elkins and Nelson insisted on making a point of order against MT. Hale's motion. but the chair overruled them. The motion to take up the naval bill then prevailed 26 to 20. as follows:
 Yeas; Alice. Brandegee, Bulkeley, Dillingham;, Deliver. Flint. Foraker. Fulton, Gamble Hale. Hopkins, Kean, Kitteridge, Knox. Lodge. Long. Mo Emery, Perkins, Piles, omoot. Spooner. Sutherland, Warner. Warren, wetmore 20.
 Nays: Ankey. Bacon. aBiley, Bur kett, Clay, Cullom, Dubois. Elkins, La Toilette, Latimer, McCreary. Martin. Money, Nelson, Overman. Patterson Stone. Taliaferro. Teller. Tillman-20
 During the consideration today of the conference report on the railroad rate bill in the Senate. Mir Foraker indi- cated purpose to insist upon an ex- planation of the change made by the conferences in including lateral or branch lines among those upon whose request common carriers shall be re- auired to put in switches or switch connections.
 Explained Amendments,
 Senator Tillman had explained amendments on which he thought 1t possible points of order could be made because of the presence of new matter. but had not included the amendment In question. When MT. Tillman express ed the opinion that the conferees had not transgressed their authority in this matter, the Ohio senator dissented. say ing the suggestion had been made in the Senate and had been voted down and that 1t was clearly new matter. He therefore thought the Senate should be told why the change had been made. Senator Tillman replied 1t was because of ''the tyrannical and outrageous con- duct of the trunk lines in such cases as that of the Red Rock Company fin West Virginia"
 MT. Tillman expressed the opinion that the conferee's charge against which a point of order will lie is that extending for sixty days the time when the rate bill shall go into operation. That he conceded, was clearly out of order but he said 1t had seemed nec- essary in view of the general confu- sion that follows an effort to carry the bill into immediate effect.
 The report was then temporarily laid aside and the Senate took up and nassed the naval appropriation bill
 Returning again to the railroad rate bill Senator Foraker criticised the conferees on account of new matter in- jected by them into the measure. say ing that the conerees were not legis- int CT a also objected to the change In the an- ti-pass provision, making especial com plaint of the elimination of the rail- road employees from the privilege of free transportation. Mir. Foraker found fault with the amendment pro- hibiting discrimination for or against passengers on account of color, He said several negroes had complained of Cha nrovision as a recognition of tho