The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-18
PLAN SAID TO
BE IN DANGER
CONFIDENCE rs NOT SHOWN IN
ENACTMENT.
WILL EMPLOY STRATEGY
senators Opposed to Government Rate
Making Will Employ Strategy in
Attacking the Measure and DELAY
Action Until End Of Session.


mlnistration plan Of rate regulation
do not show the same confidence in
the enactment Of a law giving the In
terstate Commerce Commission powe.
to Tx rates that they displayed few
weeks ago. Instead, the supporters
OF the Presidents policy have awak-
ened to the fact that the legislation
they have been seeking is In danger.
Earlier in the session predictions
were freely made by those favoring
radical legislation that a law would
be enacted in accord with the Pres
ldent's idea without much delay. Nov
IN the same quarter there is appreheu-
sion that no legislation at all will be
put through.
Fabian tactics have been chosen by
the opposition to rate legislation as
an effective method Of warfare. The
Senate method of attack is not that of
the frontal onslaught. Rather, it
chooses to assail from the flank and
by The employment of strategy. That
method, so the advocates of the ad-
ministration rate plan believe, is go
Ing to be carried out by the Senators
who are opposed to government rate
making.
After as long dalliance as posi-
BILE, and when the end of the session
IS drawing near, then the question will
be takon UP, + the opposition to the
Presidents plan has its way and eth
er compromise forced or the whole
business allowed to fall to the ground
to lie over until next session.
On the house side the administration
programme will go through without
much difficulty. Chairman Hepburn Of
the House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee will urge the bill he has recent
ly presented, which is substantially
the same as the Deliver bill in the
senate. He hopes to get this bill re-
ported, to have TIE House pass it, and
to get it over to the Senate the first
week in February. This will require
rapid action and does not contemplate
any protracted debate. When the bill
gets to the Senate then the issue is
likely to be squarely raised whether
there shall be longer delay in getting
q report from the Interstate Com
merce Committee or whether the SEN
ate IS to proceed without waiting far-
ther to consider the rate question.
Senator Deliver, who has assumed
the leadership Of the administration
fight for rate legislation ON the Sen
ate side, and with whom in the Inter-
state Commerce Comittee are Senators
CuIlom and Clapp and the Democrats
on the committee, intends to do all
he can to prevent unnecessary delay
after the Hepburn bill, or some other
measure, is messaged over from the
House.
There is a strong possibility that
when the House bill is sent over to the
Senate Senator Deliver will ask for
immediate consideration of it on the
floor of the Senate, and that he will
move to discharge the committee from
further duty ON rate matters.
Various matters are working togeth
err to hinder the cause of rate legis-
latien Senator Dolliver recently had
q long conference with Senator TIL
man, In, which the rate situation was
gone over thoroughly, and in which
Senator TiIlman gave assurance that
the Democratic strength on the COM
mittee would go to the support Of
favorable report on the Deliver bill,
with some minor notifications. For
this reason Senator Dolliver is hope
full of getting the rate issue brought
squarely before the Senate.
The men who are supporting the ad-
ministration rate plan are convinced
there is no likelihood Of harmony, and
that the pacific talk INDUCED in by
those who are against the White
House plan has been merely to gain
Tina