Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-03
BUSY DAY IN SENATE
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der OF the commission shall take effect
within. such reasonable time not less than
thirty days shall be prescribed In the or
der Of the commission. In the same sec
ton the senate amendment was agreed to
which provides that through routes and
joint rates shall apply when one OF the
connecting carriers is water line The
time In which complaints for the recovery
OF damages may be filed with the commits
sion Is reduced from two years to one.
The senate feceded from the McCumber
amendment changing the word regularly"
to lawfully" In relation to service upon
the carrier Of notice OF disObedlencs OF
orders from the commission '''
The portions of the Allison amendment
covered by section 5 Uf the bill were. all
retained. These provide that Suits may be
brought in any Of the circuit courts
against the commission" apply the ex-
peditlng act to behring's on applications for
preliminary injunctions; that no inJunc!
ton or interIocutoty order or decree -gusi
pending or restraining the enforcement OF
orders shall be granted except on hearing
after not less than ive days notice to the
commission and the appeals may be taken
direct to the supreme court OF the United
States" = 81.
Text OF statehood report.
The statehood conference report was
signed at 1901 o'clock.
The report waa unanimous, save on what
Senator Patterson, one Of the conferees.
termed "the cruciciaI point" which IL the
joint statehood provision for Arizona and
New Mexico. on this point the minority
members disagreed They refuse to sccede
TO the terms of the house bill, which they
say provides elaborate machinery" for the
coming election and is intended TO coerce
voters to favor joint statehood"
The democrats say there will be vigorous
opposition 10 the conference report in the
senate.
The following statement was made by the
majority members Of the conference:
The majority report gives f1fty-five dele
gates, to the Indian Territory, nfty-hve 10
oklahoma and one to the Usage Indian
It strikes out the Warren amendment,
which permitted the mineral school lands
provides that instead the lands shall be
kept by the state OF Oklahoma for its
schools; that they shall not be sold until
1918 ana in the meantime the school board
OF the state may lease the lands and the
proceeds thereof to 60 into the school funds
The capital is temporarily located at
Guthrie until 1913, after which the people
at an election 10 be provided by the legis-
ldlulc VIII ia INC capital permanently Dut
the Legislature is not permitted to appro-
PIRATE any money for any permanent
capital buildings at Guthrie in the mean
time. ....- .s.-
New Mexico and Arizona are permitted
to vote Heparately. as provided by the
amendment introduced by Senator Foraker
last year and adopted by the senate as re-
introduced by Senator Foraker this year.
II simply provides that the constitution of
the new state shall be submitted 10 an
election OF the people on November and
II majority OF the people Of either ter
ritory vote against the constitution Il fails.
The conference committee accepted the
Foraker amendment without change.
When the conference report was pre-.
sented to the senate today Senator For
aker declared that II was not Acceptable
to him and he would do his utmost 10 de-
feat it. Senator Bailey declared that the
agreement would not be accepted by the
democrats. The indications are that the
report will pTecipitate another sharp con-
test In the senate II was stated today
that a poll Of the senate shows forty-two
republican VOTES and one democratic vote
for the conference report which means
that two more votes would have to be OBJ
| tanned before the report can be adopted.
Senator Foraker believes that the list OF
republicans said to favor the agreement
is not as large as stated by friends OF
the original joint statehood proposition.
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