The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-05
MAY RESULT IN TIE
THEN EMBARRASSMENT WOULD
 COME TO FAIRBANKS.
Vtee-preaident May Have to show Ills
 Hand Before Railroad Rafe Bill is
 Passed

washington, March 4s--t tsueeial, )--- A lie vote does not oftesl occur tn the senate. Whenever. t does the Vice- president has to cast the deciding vote, It ia among the possibilities that pe- foss the railroad rate bill Is disposed of in the Senate MT, Fairbanks may have to show his hand. People who are watching this piece of legisiation cIosalv figure that 1t may turn out That in the attempt to, incorporate m the measure one of the court TevlsW ',Ne provisions Viee-President b'alroahks H,,li haze to decide the question.
 Ths Renublican Senators presumed in he opposed to the Hepburn bill as if passed the House are going 70 oo their utmost to have the court review tba pronosition of Senator Knox or Pennsylvania, adopted. President Hoose- veIt and his Congressional followers are understood to be against the Knox ,,rovIsion. They are said to prerer sar,ethine. more moderate, and It is helieved that the Spooner plan suits them much better
 Accordinw to the gossip heard on all s,das If would be very embarrassing IT President Fairbanks were called upon to vote. It is conceded that the friends of the railroad companies are going to do everything In the.r power to n,It into the bill the most favorable clause they can for the companies. The State of the public mind just now IS that the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion should be given the full power deIeRated by the Hepburn bill Mr
 FaIrbanks Is one of the several Repuo" lican candidates for the Presidency Tn 1a0S and were, he compelled to show bIs hand h~ would have to be sor or against tho railroads. This .s a tick- fish situation that quite number or his boomers are said 10 be looking ar- fer They do not relish the Idea that their candidate should be put in any such position, ard it would not be sur prising if they were to keep close tao on all the preliminary test votes with a view of saving their choice for the Presidency from being embarrassed.
 Politicians from almost every part of the United States express the opin- ion that at the next national conVen- tions the railroad managers are going to do their utmost to influence the choice of candidates They are expect ed to look specially after the Repub- Iican convention on the theory that the great body, of railway officials have trained with the Republicans more than with the Democrats during the past twenty years. The Republican platforms made, no, demands Tor rail- road rate regulation, but the Demo- cratic platforms in the three last cam paisns did.
 some of. the best posted politicians seem to think just now that either Mir Fairbanks or Mir Shaw might have the railroad support in 1908 unless events in the near future should knock their prospects sky high. strange to relate, none of them will tell you that the railroad influence Is ukelv to De exerted in behalf of Senator Foraker
 r-ha Obto statasp,an has come out in the open and vigorously opposed the bill which would put the rate-mak'ng power in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Because or this stand and the backing that the ad- ministration is believed to be giving Secretary Taft so far as securing the Ohio delegation is concerned, 1t Is moi thought that Senator Foraker can pos sibiy secure the Buckeye State dele gation in 1908. If Secretary Taft were to be indorsed that year for the Pres idency 1t would not necessarily mean his nomination in the convention. Lots of wires are to be pulled between now | and the time the convention meets, and at this writing it Is anybodv's hght. It is said that Senator DolllVer, lead CT of the Republicans favorable to tho
 Hepburn bill, has not yet made poll , to determine lust how many votes he , can count upon to thwart the schemes
 of Senators Aldrich. Foraker, Elkins | and others who are not Tor the policy | Advocated bv the Democrats and the | administration. If MT. Deliver could | have had his way there would De no
 amendments to the House oill. But 1 he cannot help himsef' I IS genera, ,
 review will have to be provided for In | the law. A number of the Democrats | even hold to this positlc9