The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
RATE BILL is PASSED.
SENATE APPROVES MEASURE
ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY
Bitter and Wordy Contest of Sew
enty Days Ends i'm Favorable Ae-
ton on Railway Rate Control Bill
by Vote of II to 3.

The railroad rate bill was passed by
the United States Senate ut 4 go o'clock
Friday afternoon by vote Of Il to 3.
Senator Foraker, Republican. of Ohio,
and Senator's Morgan and Pettus, Dem
ocrats, of Alabama, cast the negative
leader of the Republican conservative
forces. was the only notable absentee
when the roll ! rs called and his pair.
Senator Teller, announced for him
that had he been present he would have
voted for the bill.
AS the sentiment was unanimous
aside from the three exceptions noted,
none of the general pairs prevented any
Senator present from registering his
will on a measure that has had scarcely
a parallel in Importance since war
time, not excepting tariff bills and
financial legislation.
Lays Result 10 housewife.
Much of the bitterness that has char
acterized the last days of the notable
debate disappeared as the hour for call
ing the final roll drew near, and at the
very close of the seventy days contest
there was presented the anomaly Of
Senator Tillman taking the floor to lie
clare that whatever success comes of
the measure now ON the threshold of
becoming part of the law of the land
will be due largely to Theodore Roosc-
welt. Senator Dolliver and others also
spoke in praise of the President.
Mr.. TilInian, who in all probability
would decline to shake the hand of the
President of the United States If they
met upon the street, who has refused
and probably will continue to refuse
to set foot inside the White House as
long rs the present administration en-
dures. declared at the moment Of &C
ton that he did not want to lay down
the responsibility that had come to him
when the bill was thrust into his hands
and he was made the leader in
charge of 1t without committee be-
hind him-without saying that had it
not been for President Roosevelt's in
defatigable work in and out of season
there would have been no rate legisla-
ton.
Hoped for Better Hill.
The Democratic leader in charge of
the bill said he could not congratulate
President Roosevelt, because he be-
lieved better bill could have been at
<o;pad 10 <l,<, D,oc;<ya lo.1 ,,,,,.,,,r,1 ,;s
original cause to the end.
Neither could he congratulate the Re-
publican party, he said, for while the
z. o. p. was now lined up there would
be wounds to heal. scars 10 remove and
bitter memories.
The last thing OF Importance the Sen
ate did before passing the bill was to
strike the words ''in its judgment
from the section comforting the rate
making power on the Interstate Com.
merce Commission. The vote was 90 to
"a. With these words out, it is con-
tended that the court review provision
has been broadened, or made at least
more ambiguous fam Il it had been
provided that the commission should
determine and prescribe what in its
Judgment shall be just and reasonable
rates. instead OF being authorized &c
declare arbitrarily what absolutely are
just and reasonable charges. On the
other hand. had the words been retain
ed, the bill would have been OF doubt.
full constitutionality.