New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-28
Favorable REPORT
PLEASES President
ROOSEVELT EXPRESSES HIS DE-
LIGHT OVER PROGRESS OF
RAILROAD RATE BILL.
.DOLLIVER BELIEVES
MEASURE WILL PASS
Says 1t Will Probably Go Through
Senate with Little hange-Hep-
burn Pure Food Bill May Be
Amended.

Senate with Little CnauSe-Aop-
burn Pure Food Bill May Be
Amended
Washington, Feb. 2e.-President
Roosevelt is said to be in excel
lent spirits over the favorable re-
port of the Hepburn railroad rate bill
| by the senate committee on interstate
commerce.
"The president is delighted is the
way Representative Hepburn, the au-
thor of the measure, put it. The
president is greatly pleased said
Senator Dolliver, a member of the SEN
ate committee, after his conference
with President Roosevelt.
Several members of the senate and
of the house, who are particularly
interested in rate legislation, had talks
with the president Saturday. Senators
Deliver and Clapp, of the senate IN
terstate commerce committee and
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Hepburn discussed briefly the situa-
ton with the president.
There is no gloom around here,
remarked Senator Dolliver, as he was
leaving the executive Offices. The
president is greatly pleased and offers
no criticism at all. Yes, I believe the
bill will pass the senate, perhaps with
out amendment 1t will go through
in practically it's present shape
els Senator Tillman to have a con-
ference with the president about the
bill?"
81 don't know about that" respond
what the president thinks about Till
man. He told me ten days ago that
I he regarded Tillman as a game fighter
and an honest man"
Representative Hepburn would not
discuss the rate situation, but indl-
Gated that the president was gratified
! that the pending measure should have
been reported favorably
Cannon Noncommittal.
When an expression was sought
from Speaker Cannon he fenced ~clev-
erly ''Like Paul Of OIL" he remarked
81 let these things move me not
Il Representa-; We Townsend, of Mich,
gan, who t.-.s been identified with rate
legisla ion from the inception of the
II proposition, said after talking to the
president: ''The president is happy
/ cannot say he is perfectly satisfied
for perhaps he might like to have haC
/ some points of the measure in differ
ent shape On the whole, however, ne
II is in fine spirits. In the selection o.
K Senator Tillman, a Democrat, to make
+ the report, it strikes me that some
II members of the committee, realizing
i they were defeated, took this means tt
Il slap those who were supporting tn
| Hepburn bill The prospect for thu
very good
May Amend Pure Food Bill
Several amendments to the Hepburn
pure food bill are pending before tn
house committee on Interstate an
= foreign commerce, and while the com
a mittee favors making some conces
Y sion to manufacturers, to overcome Il
. way their objection to the full cor
y troll of the proposed pure food law en-
81 forcement by the department of agri
ri culture, the committee will not tax
ID final action on an amendment unit
q after further consultation with Dr. H
N w Wiley, chief Of the bureau Q
81 chemistry of the department As tn
N bill now stands the fixing and reguIa
81 ton of standards is within the discre
81 ton of the department Under amend
II ments suggested by various chemist
q and food manufacturers, who have az
a peared before the committee, the f1
g ing of standards would be wholly with
al in the power of a commission.
III Had1ey Raps Hepburn Bill.
81 | New Haven, Conn, Feb. 26.-Arthu
"a T. Hadley, president of Yale univer
81 sity, has given out a statement i
u which he practically asserts that tn
VI Hepburn railroad rate bill is good 70
II nothing. He declares it win not hur
81 the railroads, If transformed in:o LAY
q by congress, but that il anybody
q harmed it will be the shippers them
% selves-the men 1t is designed to pro
81 tect from unjust Determinations. Pres
81 ident Hadley argues that the propC
n sition of the Hepburn bill to make tn
u decisions of the interstate commissio
~ final in all questions of fact is illogics
By and impracticable He declares
~ similar plan tried in England in th
ID 7O's did not work, and was finally re
q pealed. He holds the common la,
% gives the shippers more protectio
than statutes, as was shown in tn
Chesapeake & Ohio coal case recentl
decided by the supreme court.