The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06
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n, ope r.ason " another have suddenly
h.come dissatisfied with the compromise
wbirb q,uId ensure the enactment ~ Q rate
.v are attemptlng 10 back up their atti-
e,de hy calling attention 70 the concluding
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IA no-rtron made by authority 81 President
Roosevelt to-day In that concludinspara-
saph 4 va said that while the President
sould Ike. I1 addition TO the compromise
amendment 70 see the long narrow court
review and 'he Overman suspension amend
mcnts adopted. he did not in the least regard
,hst. a. vital. and felt that the Hepburn
bill would BE- in excellent shape even with
Those who have talked with the President
and have heard him frankly express his
yiers on the compromise, feel sure that he
did Tot intend, by expressing favor for the
Long amendment and the Overman amend
ments. IN mean that they should figure in
apy vay in future consideration Of the
nate bill Certainly the President has
oven that impression. and ar attempt TO
Ind the contrary in the authorized state
uspt which came from the White House
to-day Is based on misconception, to say
the least,
III was 10 remove al uOuUl dS 10 uub 40
ceptance Of the compromise provision,
which has brought the Republican factions
in the Senate together, that the President
made krc WI his views through the state
ment mentioned. He holds in that tate
uent that this provision. which he terms
the so-called Allison amendment does
nothing more thannmake assurance doubly
sure that the rate law will be constitutional,
h, spaoiSOa1lN GRANTING inFiQdintinn m
United States Circuit Courts in suits against
the Interstate Commerce Commission to
set aside It's rate fixing orders.
Advisers of the President had commended
that without such delegation Of jurisdiction
the rate law would be annulled by the courts
as contrary to the Constitution, and while
the President did not agree with this view,
be admitted that it will be better to remove
al doubt on the subject. This, he believes,
will be accomplished by the compromise
amendment. The authorized statement
furnished from the White House follows:
The so-called Allison amendment, in the
Presidents judgment. simply states affrma-
lively what the President believes Is already
contained in the Hepburn bill. But II there
b the slightest doubt as to 1t being thus al
ready contained in the bill the President
would insist upon II being tput In. because
Unless II Is contained. the bill undoubtedly
would be void,
Therefore. inoorporatin g the Allison amend
nant under no circumstance could do any
thlns but good. and as there Is an honest
doubt on the part Of some sincere adherents
Of the bill whether II is or is not already by
Implication contained In the bill, the President
hdsarly OF the opinion that the Alllson,amend-
tnent should be put in. and this without regard
10 whether other amendments are or are not
udopted.
II the Hepburn blu. therefore. passes
IN this form, which Ia practically the exact
form In which IL passed the House, II will
Be satisfactory 10 the President. who from
the beginning has stated that the Hepburn
bill would be satisfactory. But the Presi-
dent would like in addition TO the Allison
amendment that the so-called Ions and
orerman amendments be adopted"
The Democratic leaders in the Senate
are furious, or profess to be, over the Presi-
dentie indorsemennt Of the amendment
upon which their Republican associates
have found common agreement. They
claim that the President, after inviting and
receiving Democratic support in his fight
tor Iate legislation, has now gone back on
ue democratic.
They charge that he has surrendered
Internationally to the conservative Repub-
ncans, popularity known among the Demo
Gratis as the railroad Senator's. These
conservatives declined to accept any com;
Promise short Of the insertion in the bill
q a broad court review provision, and
the Democratic leaders insist that the
socaled Allison amendment provides for
ue broadest kind Of court review, just
WAT the President said he did not want
Senator Bailey, the foremost Democratic
leader, said yesterday, as told in The sun to-
Gay, that the compromise amendment pro-
Nded the broadcast kind Of court review,
and that President Roosevelt had surren-
otered, Senator Tillman. who is nominally
N charge of the rate bill, said practically
The same thing to-day. The compromise |
provision, he declared, was entirely at vari.
anoe With everything. the President had
urged in his messages and his talks with
senators. and he could hardly believe that
the President had Endorsed a complete re-
Versal Of his attitude.
While the President has termed the
compromise provision 'the so-oalled ALI
son amendment" it now appears that this
oesignatlon is not quite correct. Senator
Aihson, II is understood, had no more to
40 with drawing the provision than did
several other radical Republicans, as they
gre STYLED, although radical" is hardlya
iAr word TO apply to Mr.. Allison. Publ
cations seeming to reflect on Mr.. Allison's
part In the matter nave caused him much
worry, which in his present physical ipdis-
position have caused him. 1t Is said to some