The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-24
FORAKER AGAIN
GAINS HIS POINT
Senate Conferees Specifically In
strueted Not to Agree to House
Statehood Bill.
RAILROAD RATE DEBATE
TILLMAN CONTINUES TO STIR
THINGS UP.

Washington, March 23.-Immediately
after the senate convened today Mr..
,Beveridge renewed his motion author
izing the appointment of cOnferees on
the part of the senate to meet con-
ferees of the house Of representatives
ON the statehood bill, and Mr.. Foraker
withdrew his amendment requiring the
submission of the question of select
ing cOnferees to the senate. In ask
ing the withdrawal Mr.. Foraker stated
that he had received assurances from
Mr. Beveridge that the conferees to
be suggested by him as chairman of
the committee on territories, would
support the senate's position regard
ing the essential fact that they had
originally supported the house bill
Mr. Beveridge confirmed Mr.. For
aker's statement and Mr.. Lodge ex-
pressed the opinion that the senate
should always be represented In its
conferences by members designated by
the committee having In charge the
question in controversy assuming that
the confeTees will always sustain them
rather than press their own views.
Teller objected.
Mr. Teller, on the other hand, con-
tended for the right of the senate TO
committees OF the presiding officer. He
said the question of reelection on the
committees on territories has been
raised in this case, but that no such
reelection could be implied.
The motion TO insist upon the senate's
amendments was then adopted and
AIessrs- Beverage, Dillingham; and
Patterson were designated by the chair
as cOnferees on the part of the senate,
the selection being made by Mr.. Bev-
eTidge,
- Mr.. Morgan secured an order for the
printing of the original and final con-
tracts between the United States and
the New Panama Canal company of
France for the purchase of the canal,
saying that they had never been made
public.
4 bill authorizing the sale of timber
on the Jicarilla Indian reservation I'm
New Mexico was passed.
Mr.. Culberson's resolution, calling
upon the war department for further
information relative To the battle of
Mount Dajo was adopted.
spooner on Rate Bill.
Mr.. Spooner then continued his
speech on the rate bill
Mr.. Spooner declared that under the
fifth amendment to the constitution the
NilNulI tOuEl COuAU llOl De UeDTlNeQ OF
the right to issue temporary injunc-
tons. Mr. SpOoner then went on with
an argument intended to show that the
carrier as we'll as the shipper was en-
titled to the laws protection.
Mr.. SpOOner closed with a reference
to the danger which he believed exists
of invalidating the rate bill by the
adoption Of the Bailey amendment.
Mr. Tillman declared that if il were
q 4 rr-Tr- raf
and the arbitrary and tyrannical way
in which they exercised their powers
Their would be no occasion for an
to the rate bill TO curtail
their authority to issue injunctions
He launched into a general indictment
of the federal bench.
Mr.. Scott of West Virginia defended
the West Virginia bench holly. and
Mr. Tillman again told him that he
should wait until an attack had been
made on "A special Judge He referred
to Pennsylvania case that has been
mentioned many times in the debate
and Mr.. Scott ridiculed this frequent
comment.
TiIIman obdurate.
Mr.. TiIIman said that he had not in
tended to get into an unpleasant con-
trOveTsy when he said that the people
had lost faith in federal judges. Paus-
ing for a moment he continued. but
I repeat it,
Taking UP the cOlIOquy he had with
Mr.. SpOOneT yesterday, he said the
senator from Wisconsin had ridiculed
him as a "cornfield lawyer and made
him out a nincOmpOop"
Reading from a letter he received
from a man he termed "cornfieId
lawyer" from Norman, Okla, Mr.. Till
man said:
Now, this man wants to know why,
if YOU can enjoin the lowering of a
rate, why II Is not possible to enjoin
the raising Of a rate" He followed