The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-06
Changes IN Rate BILL
RESISTED BY FORAKER
THINKS THAT OONFEREES HAVE
TRANSGRESSED THEIR AU-
THORITY IN MATTER.

Crlticises Them on Account Of New
Matter Injected Into the Measure
Tfllman Declares There Are Some
Hard Headed Men in the House as
Well as the Senate--SenatOr Ga1Iin-
ger Gets After Secretary MOseley of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Washington, June 5.-During the
brief time to-day that the conference
report on the railroad-rate bill was be-
fore the senate Senator Foraker indi-
Gated a purpose to insist upon an ex-
planation Of the change made by the
conferees In including lateral or branch
lines among those upon whose request
common carriers shall be required to
put in switches or switch connections
When Mr.. Tillman expressed the
opinion that the conferees had not
transgressed their authority in this
matter the Ohio senator dissented. He
said the suggestion has been made in
the senate and had been voted down,
and that it was clearly new matter. 5.
Senator Tillman said it was because
of the tyrannical and outrageous con-
duct of the trunk lines in such cases as
that of the Red Rock company in West
Virginia"
During the discussion Mr.. Tillman
expressed the opinion that the only
conference change against which a.
point Of order will lie is that extending
for sixty days the time when the rate
bill shall go into operation.
Without agreeing with Mr.. Tillman
that only one point of order could be
made against the conference report,
Senator Hale assured him that the ex-
tension could be accomplished by means
of joint resolution.
Senator Foraker criticised the con-
ferees on account of new matter put
into the bill, saying that the conferees
were not legislators, but mere interme-
diaries. He also objected to the change
in the anti-pass provision, making es-
pecial complaint Of the elimination Of
the railroad employees from the privilege
Of free transportation.
Senator Tillman replied that the
change had been made at the demand
of the conference members of the house.
He promised to do the best possible If
the bill should be sent back Il don't
know what we can accomplish he
said, for there are some hard-neaded
men IN the house as we'll as In the sem
ate.'
Mr.. Foraker found fault with the
amendment prohibiting discrimination
for or against passengers on account Of
| color.
Mr.. Tlnman said the amendment was
the last yielded by the senate conferees,
and expressed the hope that the senate
would instruct the conferees to insist
on its amendments.
| Senator Foraker also returned to his
contention that the rate bill was not
necessary legislation, but that all that
was required was to strengthen the FL
kins law.
Senator Gallinger criticised the new
provision fixing the salary Of the sec
retary of the interstate commerce COM
mission as new legislation, and said
that Mr.. Moseley, the present secretary
had tried to make it appear that he
(the senator) had spoken Of him (Mose-
ley) as an anarchist, and that such was
not the case He had, however, ex.
pressed the opinion that the secretary
would be better off if he would give his
attention to the duties Of his office thar
he would be in making an effort to In
fluence legislation.
The matter was still under considera
tion when the senate adjourned.