New-York tribune., 1906-06-27
RATE BILL SENT BACK.
Pass Precision Only Likely To Be
CkaRged-Ddy IN Senate.
IFrom The Trihune Bureau

,,-ashsngzon. June 26.-The Senate sent the
,Dssluay Rate bin back TO conference to-day, and
.hsn found itself without stop gap" and with
,o.hinC 10 do. despite the fact that the session
!. ,rst drawing TO a close. The House has so
- delayed passing the Public Buildings bin
-, = reached the Senate only this afternoon
- is now in committee but will be taken M
morrow. The General Deficiency bill, the last
- he big appropriation bills is still under con-
sise-ation IN the House.
senators Elkins and Long and others discussed
.ss rate bill before a vote was taken sending il
hack 10 conference While the pipe line amend
,snt and The change in the Ell1ins amendment.
.hich is supposed 10 be favorable to the Stand
s-s OIL Company. have been extensively dis
,ussed, it is not expected that the, conferrees
MI make any change except in the anti-pass
smendment which they VIII, it is hoped, make
-npch rnore comprehensive and drastic in SIS
,rovisions. With a satisfactory anti-pass pro-
vision. the Senate viii probably accept the bill
without other changes.
senator La Toilette seized on the luu in the
Senate proceedings 10 call up a measure limit
sng the time Of continuous service for railway
employees 10 sixteen hours. with ten-hour inter
vsls for rest. There is considerable opposition
70 this measure. Senator McCumber explained
ths; he was opposed 10 it. because he had re-
ceived peutiors from railway employees opposing
the bill They fear that. in operation the pro-
vision thai each trick" or period. of labor must
BE- followed by a ten-hour rest would compel
them 10 spend fully half Of their free time away
from their home whereas now their hours are
50 arranged that they work two tricks" with a
short interval. and then have a double or triple
persod OF rest at home.
NJ. Il Toilette sought TO have this measure
made the unfinished business" hut great diff
Guilty was experienced in getting a quorum The
-ollcsls showed a quorum present but so many
Senator's are paired" and not voting that 70
voting quorum could be obtained until after
elk rolicaNs, Sen atOr Hale appealed to Senators
% break their pairs so that the motion could
be disposed Of IL was then made the 'unfn-
ished husness.N but viii. of course be displaced
by the appropriation bills and conference re-
ports which have right of way and is not likely
10 reach "a final vote this session
The Naval Appropriation bil which has been
in conference for several weeks, was finally
passed. the Senate receding from its amend
ment concerning the naval training station AT
Port Royal, :. c, which was the only item re-
naming IN controversy
IN the debate on the rate bill report Senator
Capp said he did not believe the protests against
the pipe line provision were uninfuenced by the
Standard OIL Company. He read a letter from
George r Getty, Of Bartlesville Ind T presi-
dent OF the Minnehoma oil COr1panv in which
the writer said that he had been called into the
local Cfice of the Standard company and asked
70 forward teIeGrams Of protest TO Senators and
COngressI Iren. the Standard agent supplying the
form ana volunteering To pay the cost of trans
mission.