The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-28
Mr.. TlLLMAN REPORTS MEASURE
TO SENATE AND URGES I'M
MEDIATE ACTION.
tENATOR ALDRICH MAKES STATEMENT
OPPONENTS OF PROPOSED LEGIs-
LATtoN SEEK NO UNNEc-
EssARY DELAY.

[ Washington, Feb. TN the senate,
As soon as the vice president called
for reports of standing committees, a
number of senators arose, but Mr.. Till
man was recognized He announced
that he had been instructed by the
committee on interstate commerce to
report house bill 12,9S7 without amend
ment and he read the resolution adopt
ed. After discussion concerning the
printing of the testimony taken by the
committee an order was made for the
publication of 10000 copies. Mr. Till
man gave notice that he would press
Fthe bill to the earliest consideration.
He said that much of the testimony
taken was irrelevant and that the com
mittee had employed two experts,
Messrs. Newcomb and Adams, and
theysh had made an epitome of the testi-
mony, which also will be printed.
Mr. Tillman announced that as
soonsas possible he purposed to digest
the testimony and to submit formal
report on the bill. He said that within
two weeks he should move to make the
rate bill the unfinished business and
TO displace the statehood bill if that
measure was not disposed of by that
tin,e. The transcendent Importance Of
the rate measure and the wide inter-
est ID the subject throughout the
country, he said, made it desirable
that the bill should be considered
without delay
As soon as he had concluded Mr..
Aldrich was recognized and said:
AIdrich Makes Statement.
b ss "a Isl majority of the Republican mem
baHs sof the committee did not join in
thes favorable report which has just
been. made by the senator from South
Carolina for the reason that in their
judgment an attempt should have
been made by the committee to rem
edy, by proper amendments, some of
the obvious and admitted defects and
omissions Of the house bill and that
clear and adequate provision should
have been made for subjecting the
orders of the commission affecting
rates to judicial review They believed
that these amendments were not only
necessary to protect the rights of all
the parties in interest, but that they
were essential to the vitality and eff
cheney of the measure. With these
amendments the minority members,
with the possible exception of the sen
Rtor from Ohio, who is opposed, as I
understand, to all government rate
making, were ready to give their sup
port to the house bill
II beg to assure the senator in
charge of the bill that the opponents
Of the measure in its present form will
ask for no unnecessary delays in its
consideration. The legislation pro-
posed is of such a character that the
most careful examination of it's pro-
visions and the fullest discussion Of
Its terms will be necessary. But be-
yond this no attempt will be made to
prolong the debate"
OVER SIX HUNDRED FEET HIGH
New York skyscraper to surpass
Washington Monument.
New York, Feb O. The Singer
Manufacturing company has filed
plans with Building Inspector Murphy
for structure which will be higher
than all existing skyscrapers by from
zoo to 300 feet and will be about 40
feet higher than the Washington mon
ument
Accompanying the improvement of
the property which it already owns ad-
joining it's present building at Broad
way and Liberty street the company
will erect over the central part OF
the enlarged structure tower of forty
stories, which will rise to the height
Of b9s feet 1925 inches. The tower
will be sixty-fve feet square for thirty.
six stories and will be surmounted by
dome containing four additional
stories, above which will be a cupola
and a aagstaff.