The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-06

than formerly, and consequently some
checking Of the power of those poll
titcians TO get together at will and set
up the party pins.
This legislation, it is believed by
such men as Senator La Toilette, will
do more to purify state politics than
ANYTHING yet done in the way of legis-
lative restraint.
Similar State Laws.
This national prohibition, which can
only control where interstate questions
are concerned, will give a stimulus in
all the state legislatures for laws ap-
plying the national provision to state
boundaries That there will be such
legislation next winter within prac-
tically all of the states which have
felt the weight of railroad domination
is believed here to be practically a
certainty.
The Washington legislature, for in
stance, it is believed, could hardly fail
to enact an anti-pass law, reaching all
TRANSFORMATION within state lines, and
thus supplementing the national law.
Similarly, it is believed there would be
action in the legislatures of the Da-
kotas and Iawo.
Relief for Congress.
Such a provision in the rate bill
would be a great relief to many con-
gressmen For instance there is a con-
gresham living not million miles
TWO-Rate Bill Will Be Passed
from here who has been COM
PEELED to make an errand
boy of himself and secure
passes through to the coast for various
house colleagues to the number OF
thirty or forty a season. In addition,
this congressman has been getting
yearly as many more through passes
for various more or less influential
constituents who have not hesitated
to bear down upon him.
Managers Pay Fare.
For a good many years, it is said on
good authority, the leading railroad
managers of the country have not
travelled on passes. Such men as
James J. HILL C. S. Mellen and How
ard Elliott, for example, never use
passes when coming east. At Chicago
they invariably take the fast trains,
over which passes are not good, and
pay their fare in good coin of the
realm Mr.. Hill uses his private car
very little. Like Messrs. Mellen and
Elliott, he takes a section or the state
room in a regulation sleeper at Chica-
go, and travels the same as any other
citizen. The Hill private car is used
almost exclusively by Mrs. Hill and
other members of the fimaly.
The eastern railroads will not oppose
the anti-pass amendment; on the con-
trary, they will support it, for most
of them have already, of their own
motion put the anti-pass rule into
operation. If there is railroad opposi-
ton to the amendment, it will come
from roads west of the Mississippi
and the Missouri, but their weight will
not be sufficient to prevent action.
l have talked with prominent men
in both houses Of congress, and with
out any exception, they tell me that
the anti-pass amendment is certainly
coming.
Adrich Going to Europe.
1t is rumored that Senator Aldrich is
preparing to sail for Europe about the
middle of April. If this is the case, it
may be assumed that the senate is to
vote on the rate bill on or before that
time, or that Aldrich will have the
pins all set up for a vote to come
shortly after his departure.
There has been a marked change in
the attitude of such men as Aldrich
Elkins, Kean, ct al. Until within a
month they have posed as the strong
opponents of rate legislation. They
are now posing as being favorable to
that regulation. They have given up
all hope of preventing it, and are con-
filming themselves to the single ques-
ton of securing a court review
amendment as liberal to the roads as
congress and the president will stand
for And in this contention they will
| also yield, in the end, for it appears
plain that the court review amend
ment will be more nearly what the
president can honestly accept than
what the railroads would like to have
Mayor Resigns.