Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-09
AUDIENCE DISAPPOINTED
Discussion of Senator Patterson's
Resolution Not Held
BY Associated Press.

| by ASSOCldteu EISeS'
| WASHINGTON, Feb. s.-There was
| general expectation that today would
witness a revival of yesterdays eXcit-
ing occurrences i'll the senate over Mr.
Patterson's caucus resolution, but il
was not realized, and the large crowd
attracted to the galleries was COM
PEELED to leave in disappointment, when
at D. IN. the senate went into eX-
ecutiVe session, after a day devoted
largely to ordinary bills on the calen-
dar. The indications of the early
morning were in the line of popular
expectation, as several senators eX-
pressed a desire to speak on the reso-
| luton. There were other senators, how
ever, who held the view that the eau
| Gus question had been sufficiently agi-
tated, and they spent much of the first
| hour of the days session in an effort
| to prevent further discussion. They
were successful for the time at least
and it was soon known that the reso-
! luton would not be called up today
| Mr.. Scott spoke on his bill giving tel
egraph operators of the civil war a
pensionable status, and the bill was
passed.
| Mr.. Tillman again today made ref
| erence to the charge that the railroads
against the private cofl miners and
had read a letter from the governor
of that state charging that the Penn
| sylVania company controls all the trunk
| lines in West Virginia to the disad-
! vantage of the state.
| The governor added: 1T may be
! that the PennsylVan Railroad COM
| pany does not legally own a control-
ing part of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road company. or the Norfolk & West
| err Railway company, but / have no
! doubt that an Investigation will show
| that the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany practically controls these three
! great trunk lines, which traverse West
! Virginia and which are the only means
! whereby the products of this state in
! Guiding coal, can be shipped to either
the lakes in the west or other markets
! in the east
"Hence it is fact that West Vlr-
ginia today is in the grasp of a rail-
road trust which practically says what
part of the state shall be developed and
what shall not be developed how much
coal shall be shipped out of the state,
! TO what points or ports it shall be
shipped, and when it shall be shipped.
| OF course 1t makes it's own rates and
we are helpless"
Mr. Foraker expressed the hope
that there would he an investigation
! along the lines suggested by Governor
Dawson He said the governors COM
plant went TO the heart of the rail-
road trouble all over the country.
MI Hale, from the committee on ap-
preparations, reported the urgent de-
flciency bill and gave notice that he
would tomorrow ask the senate to take
it up.
The railroad rate bill was received
from the house of representatives, but
the senators generally were not aware
of its arrival. The bin was referred TO
the committee on interstate commerce.
Mr. Scott addressed the senate AT
some length in support of the bill
placing telegraph operators of the civil
war on reasonable status. He paid
high tribute to these men saving
they had been subjected to many of
the requirements of soldiers and
granted few Of their privileges. He
stated that while they had necessarily
been trusted with all the important Sc
crets of the great war not one of them
had ever been known to betrav the
confidence. OF the corps engaged In
1875 only 1870 survive.
At the conclusion of Mr.. seotts
speech the bill was passed
The senate then took up the ealen-
dar and passed large number of
private pension bills and also the fol-
lowing.
Providing for the Withdrawal of lands
needed for tOwnsite purposes Ia con-
nection with irrigation projects ),
u a BILL authorizing the use OF 81