The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-22
BAILEY AMENDS RATE BILL.
Would Insert Just Compensation" and
Court Review Provisions.

WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Bailey
expressed some resentment in the Senate
to-day because Of statements made by Sena-
tor Doliver yesterday that the amend
ments to the rate bill prepared by Mr.. Bailey
we're not acceptable. Mr.. Bailey said the
amendments had been withheld from the
press by him at the risk of being misrepre-
sented and that they we're shown to the
Senator from iowa with no thought that he
would feel free to discuss them with news-
paper men. In view of what Mr.. Dolliver
had said, Mr.. Bailey said he felt free to
propose his amendments and thereupon
offered them. The first amendment, which
relates to the rate to be fixed by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, Ia as follows:
A rate or charge which shall afford a Just
compensation to the carrier or carriers. for
the service or services to be performed and
a regulation or practice which shall be just
and reasonable. The rate or charge, regula-
ton or practice so determined and prescribed
shall be the only lawful rate or charge, regu-
latIon or practice. and the carrier or carriers
shall not thereafter demand or collect any
other rate. or charge or follow any other
regulation or practice.
The second amendment, which pro-
vides the court review, is as follows:
Any carrier or person or corporation party
to S0cn complaint ana ulSSatlbueu WIN 'ho
rate or charge regulation or practice so es-
tabllshed and prescribed may file a bill against
the commission In any Circuit Court OF the
United States for the district In which any
portion Of the line OF the carrier or carriers
may be located, alleging that such rate or
charge will not AFFORD a just compensation
for the service or services TO be performed or
that the re equation or practice is unjust and
unreasonable, and II upon the hearing the
court shall find that such rate or charge viii
not afford q Just compensation for the service
or services to be performed. or that the regu-
lation or practice Is unju and unreasonable.
II shall enjoin the enforcement Of the same.
provided, however. that no rate or charge,
regulation or practice prescribed by the COM
mission shall be set aside or suspended by
any preliminary or introductory decree or
order OF the court.
Such proceedings shall have precedence
over all other cases on the docket OF a different
character and the court shall have power to
make orders to secure the attendance of
persons from any part Of the United States,
and the existing laws relative to evidence
and proceedings under the acts 10 regulate
shall be applicable.
Either party to said proceedings shall
have the right to appeal directly to the STU
preme Court Of the United States. and such
appeals shall have precedence In said Supreme
Court over all other cases of a different char
acter pending therein.
Mr.. Culberson Of Texas proposed a new
section to the Hepburn bill, providing
that no railroad corporation or Its officers
should contribute TO a political campaign
fund. The penalty Is a fine OF from
81 900 to $4,000. Persons acting for such
corporations who contribute are subject
to a penalty of from $500 to $1,000.