The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-16
NEWS FORECAST OF THE
 WEEK HERE AND ABROAD
RAILROAD RATE BILL WILL OCCUPY ATTENTION OF
 SENATE.

Interesting Debate Certain--Feature in
 the House Will be the Passage of Free
 Alcohol Measure-TwO Nations to
 Pay Homage to Memory of Benjamin
 Franklin--Trial of Dr. Crapsey for
 Heresy Begins TO-mOrrOw-Interna-
 tionaI Medical Congress in Lisbon.
 Speeches on the railroad rate bill will be the feature in the United States senate the present week. Notwith- standing the assurances to the contrary which were given by senators last week, there is no immediate prospect for securing an agreement upon a time for voting upon the bill. No one has at any time counted upon getting such an agreement until the general speeches should be exhausted and there are sufficient number of these already in sight to consume the entire week. Be- yond the fact that Senator Heyburn will speak to-day no order of delivery has been agreed upon. Senator TiIlman has stated that Senator LaFollette would probably be ready to proceed Tuesday, but the senator himself is not apparently prepared to say whether he will be. If he does not take the floor Tuesday he will ask to be heard later in the week. It is understood that he will take advanced grounds for strtn. gent legislation. It is not improbable that the junior Wisconsin senator will be followed immediately by his col league, Senator Spooner, who win de- vote his especial attention to the points raised by Senator Bailey, and will re- ply to the Texas senator's contention that congress has a right to limit the injunctiye powers of the lower United States courts. In all probability his speech will provoke considerable debate, and it will undoubtedly occupy an en- tire day, if not more time. Other sen ators who will be heard during the week or later are Messrs. Foster, Clarke of Arkansas and Daniel
 Week in the House.
 The feature of the week in the na- tional house of representatives is to be the passage of the free alcohol bill. As this measure deals with the revenues of the country and might possibly be considered the vehicle on which to load political capital. especially hy the mi- nority, it is to be brought up to-day under suspension of the rules Mon day is the regular suspension day, and bills handled under this are not subject A- yl,a h < e cedure is to move to suspend the rules and pass the bill.' To this motion a second" may be demanded, which, if ordered carries with it forty minutes of debate both for and against the bill at the expiration of which time the only question which can be put is sshall the rules be suspended and the bill passed?" This cuts off all opportunity to amendment. The only alternative method of handling this bill to prevent it's use as an issue maker would be to bring it under the protection of a spec ial rule which would limit debate to a specified time, and also prohibit amend ment. There is little opposition to the bill itself, the only task connected with its passage being to prevent it's being used for the purpose of producing a record for other revenue reform prop ositions.
 Pensions are to have the right of way Tuesday, and on that day also the appropriation bill for the District of Columbia will be reported. This bill will be taken up Wednesday and will serve as the legislative topic for the balance of the week.
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