Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-23
AGREE ON
RAILROAD
RATE BILL
coNFEREEs WANT AMENDMENT
ExEMPTiNe SLEEPING CARS
ELIMINATED
TO MAKE DIRT FLY
ON PANAMA CANAL

Every Resource Of Nation to Be Direct.
ed Toward Making Rapid Prosress
-"cut Loose Now and Build canaln
VIII Be tho Order OF President
Roosevelt to Commission.
Washington, D. g.. June 22.-After
the approval of the journal the house
today at once plunged into debate
on the pure food bill. Representative
Adamson of Georgia opening the dis.
cussion In opposition to certain feas
lures of tn, BILL s
Presidents Travelling Expenses.
The senate has agreed to vote on the
house bill appropriating $4,000 FOR
the Presidents travelling expenses az
separate measure at o'clock today.
Agree on Rate Bill. 81
| A tentative agreement was reached
| by the conferees last night on prac.
tically all the important points of the
railroad rate bill. It was determined
| to recommend:
That the senate should recede from
It's amendment exempting sleeping
| cars.
That the anti-pass amendment shall
apply only to federal officers and em-
ployes and to state and county officers.
That pipe lines operated by oil COM
| nanles shall be allowed to TRANSPORT
their own commodities.
1 That the Ellsins amendment prohib.
Iiting common carriers from transport.
ing their own products shall bo
1 limited to railroads.
i That the provisions .:sr III; jisss;a -
ment" and fairly remunerative," res
ferring to the power given the com.
mission to determine and prescribe
just and reasonable rates shall be
eliminated.
Two Provisions to Be Settled.
The important provisions to be set.
tied at final conference tomorrow
are these:
The so-called Overman amendment
requiring that the interstate com.
merce commission be given FIVE days
notice before the issuance of any
interlocutory order, injunction, or de-
cree suspending an order Of the COM
mission. This probably will be- re-
tanned in the bill.
The proposition to restore the senate
!, amendment exempting railroads carry.
ing lumber from the operations OF tho
Elkins amendment forbidding railroads
from carrying their own commodities.
, The fate Of this amendment is nncer-
, tain.
Every resource of the nation Is now
, to be directed toward making the dirt
! fly on the Panama canal as result
of the senate's action in declaring for
: the lock type, favored by the President
and the house of representatives.
"Cut loose now and build the canal.
/. The American people want results on
the isthmus as soon as they can be
obtained, and want them. Dig, dig.
: Congress and the people are behind
: us In our efforts"
: Within forty-eight hours after the
s completion of the canal legislation
$ President Roosevelt will issue, in ef-
n feot, the above order to Chairman
: Shonts and Chief Engineer Stevens.
y The President expressed great graf
: ifieation at the action of the senate in
: supporting his plan for the construc-
e til n OF the lock canal, He has been
d convinced for several days the lock-
a type would be adopted by the Sc aale
on It's final vote, notwithstanding the
report of the majority of the inter.
oceanic canal committee in favor ei
y ., a sea level
It A Poison Symposium.
'r The house was treated yesterday t1
3. poison symposium that took away itz
appetite and gave each member d.
r rect personal interest in pure food leg
| isiation, Representative Mann of n
linois, who acted as chief demonstra
! tor, fguratively waved the flag with
skull and crossbones over collection
of things labeled as edibies that made
the space in front of the speakers
:. desk look like an up-to-date delicates
sen store. Glucose honey, tapiocs
pepper, cotton seed olive oil, cherries
dyed beautiful pink, gin that was
guiitless of juniper and sawdust oof
fee were few of the trade tricks he
disclosed with such effect that every
- congressman may be moved to add te
-, his kitchen microscopical and oheni
~ - cal test department
Il The members were invited to TASTE
- .s these concoctions. Some did, and made
~ - wry faces. The majority, however
were content with seeing