The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
Measure Will Occupy Attention
 of Senate This Week
EARLY VOTE MAY BE REACHED
House is Rather Short of Subjects But There Will be Plenty of Work-Big Men Will Visit
 Tuskeaee.

The railroad rate bill will continue dur | ing the present week to receive the at | tention of the national Senate to the ex- cluson of almost all other questions. The bill will be taken up today as soon as
 the routine business is disposed of, and Senator Long will introduce the amend ment agreed upon at the conference of friends of the bill with President Roose-
 welt last Saturday night. The amend
 ment is to section 16 of the House bill,
 and provides:
 That all orders of the commission, except orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time as shall be prescribed by the com | mission, and shall continue for such period of time, not exceeding two years, | as shall be prescribed in the order of
 the commission, unless sooner set aside | by the commission or suspended, or set aside in a suit brought against the com mission in the circuit court of the United States sitting as court of equity for the | district wherein any carrier plaintiff in | said suit has it's principal operating of | flee and Jurisdiction is hereby conferred | on the circuit court of the United States | to hear and determine in any such suit | whether the order complained of was beyond the authority of the commission, | or in violation of the rights of the car rer secured by the constitution" Senators who took part in the confer | ence believe that twenty-nine republic
 cans and the entire minority will sup port this amendment. Should the ex-
 pectation of these friends of the bill be | realized the vote upon the measure as
 whole will be reached earlier than was anticipated when sthe Senate adjourned Friday evening.
 The bill for the final settlement of the
 affairs of the five civilized tribes of In-
 dians will probably go back to confer ence during the week.
 Senator Clapp. who has charge of the
 measure, has already announced that he would withdraw the conference report,
 and it is understood will be taken this | week, provided Senator Patterson finds an opportunity to express his views on
 the subject. The withdrawal would have been made last week but for the Colorado | senator's desire to be heard.
 In the House.
 The programme for the week in the
 House of Representatives Is rather short as to subjects, but will be full as to leg isiatlve work. Motions to suspend the
 rules and pass bills on the calendar will be in order today. Suspension day comes twice a month in the House, and there
 is always full days work to be done, as
 many minor measures which require but
 short consideration are disposed of under this order.
 The bill placing the federal govern ment in position to aid in the suppress sion of yellow fever epidemics has been made a special order for Tuesday. This bill carries an appropriation of S500,00O,
 and enlarges the powers of the public
 health and marine hospital service to such an extent that cooperation between the federal and state authorities may be , had without infringing on the police pow 1 CTS of the state, render unnecessary the
 ''shot gun quarantine, and put the ' southern seacoast states in position to re- l pel the invasion of yellow fever from l other shores.
 Beginning Wednesday the postofflce ap- | propriation bill will have the right of | way throughout the week. It is not an- | ticipated that the measure can be dis | posed of in this time but Chairman | Overstreet who will have charge of the
 bill on the floor, believes that general
 debate on the bill will be completed by | the end of the week.
 | The crisis in the coal mining wage con- troversy has been reached. In the bitu- ! minous field the miners will be permitted | to return to work in properties where the l increase demanded is allowed but where | the demands arc not granted there will | be strikes. The anthracite mine oper- ! ators committee will meet the miners | committee in New York on Tuesday, and | a further conference on the wage scale | will be held Pending the outcome of l this meeting the anthracite miners have | been called out and will not return to | work until an adjustment of their de- mands has been brought about. At the | colieres the operators have adopted d conclliatory tone, and will do nothing to | irritate the miners, so that disturbances are not anticipated.
 Coal Strike in France. | The strike in the coal fields of Nor | thern France has assumed serious pro portions and unless the government takes an active part in quelling the dis turbances and bringing about an under standing between the mine owners and miners, roting undoubtedly VIII continue this week.
 The annual oxford-Cambridge boat race will take place on the Thames on Saturday, April '.
 The eighteenth annual convention of the National Association of Railway Com
 rnissoners will be held in Washington, April 2 The association will discuss cleo
 tric railways, railway taxes, grade cross
 ing, tariff rates and the duties and work
 of state railway commissions.
 The twenty-hfth anniversary of the
 founding of Tuskegee Institute will be ob-
 served at Tuskegee, Ala, on April 3, Pres
 ident Booker T. Washington of the in-
 stitute will tell of the growth of negro education and addresses will be delivered by President Eliot of Harvard. Andrew Carnegie and Secretary Taft.
 The fight to save the life of Albert T. Patrick under sentence of death for the murder of the aged Texas millionaire. William Marsh Rice, will be resumed .n New York on Tuesday before Recorder Golf on the motion for a new trial. ln- teresting testimony will be given by a number of pathoogists as to the similar ity in the effects on human lungs of chloroform and embalming fluid. and new ted