Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-18


consider only such testimony as had
been presented to the commission
This was intended to make ineffective
a fayorite railroad trick to discredii
the commission by Withholding par
of its important testimony or evil
dence from that body and introduc-
ing it in court as new evidence to
sustain an appeal.
Dryden helped to defeat the Clarke
amendment to the rate bill, authoriz-
ing the commission to proportion the
earnings oil a railroad from interstate
and interstate commerce in deter
mining the basis upon which rates
should be fixed.
Dryden voted against the Rayner
amendment, which was defeated,
providing that the courts should not
set aside or annul orders or rates
made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission unless the order or rate
made was found to violate the con
stitution or to exceed the commits
sion's Jurisdiction.
Dryden voted against the La Fol-
lette amendment to the rate bill,
which was defeated, prohibiting rail
roads from charging a higher rate
for a shorter, than for a longer dis
lance upon the same line.
Dryden voted against the Bailey
amendment, which was defeated, TAX
ing from circuit and district courts
the power to set aside or suspend by
Injunction rates fixed by the commits
sion previous to a hearing.
A law limiting the hours of labor
for railroad employees was urged by
the president. 1t vas passed in the
house and killed in the senate by
nlibustering. Dryden is not on rec
ord as advocating the bill or pro-
testing against the filibuster which
defeated it.
A bill %forbidding corporations to
make campaign contributions, under
heavy penalty, was passed by the SEN
ate, in answer to the presidents rec
ommendation for a corrupt practice
act. There was no aye or nay vote,
so Mr.. Dryden Is not on record in
the senate on this question. A few
months before he had testified before
the Armstrong committee in New
York that the Prudential had made
large contributions, taken out of the
widows and orphans funds, which
he regards as a sacred trust" to po-
litical organizations. There is rea-
son to believe that the senate did not
pass this bill until Uncle joe" Can
non had given assurances that 1t
would die in the house.
Senator Dryden took his seat Feb
Der of the committees on Relations
with Canada, Establishment of the
University of the United States, En-
Bills, immigration, Library, In
teroceanic Canals and Public Build
ings.
AS shown by the Congressional
Record, Dryden's record in the first
session of the fi~fty-seventh congress
was as follows: Introduced four PEN
sion bills, moved to adjournk once,
offered resolutions on death of Rep
resentative Joshua s. Salmon, of New
Jersey, and to withdraw pension
papers, proposed amendments to riv-
er and harbor bill providing for i'm
provements of Kill Won Kull and sur
vey of Raritan Bay, and made a ten
line speech opposing the exclusion of
Chinese sailors from employment on
American vessels; voted for the
Spooner canal bill, the law concerning
oleomargarine and the bills for the
establishment of government in the
Philippines, including the measure
shutting Philippine products out of
American markets by retaining the
act in effect in relation to
trade with the islands; recorded as
mot voting" on resolution to relieve
of constitutional amend
nent for popular election of United
States senators, Dubois bill, requir-
.ng all manufacturing corporations
20 make detailed statements of their
business to director of the census
and the Chinese immigration bill.
In the second session of the fifty
seventh congress, Dryden's activity
rs shown by the Record, was in in
reducing five pension bills and max
ng speeches on two of therl; making
/ sp ,ch on the death of General
his predecessor, and offering
amendment to IN appropriation
bill to provide $10,o00 TO buy tro-
phies for national guard target p ac-
Lice.
The fifty-eighth congress did less
any congress In many years. 1t
stood pat, and Dryden stood pat with
It.
But Senator Dryden is on record
the tariff question. The record
Is that he voted to protect the sugar
and tobacco trusts and their mon
opolies two years ago. when there was
agitation for tariff relief for the
At that time Taft vas governor of
the islands, which was in a condition
of industrial and financial distress.
To inject life into the island indus.
tries, the Philippine commission rec
commended, in addition to a $4,000
600 appropriation, a tariff reduction