The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-01-10
TO PREVENT SENATE
FILIBUSTER AGAINST
RATE1LEGISLATION
FORAKER IS FEARED
VIII Fight Proposition to
Last Ditch

Washington, Jen. 10.-Should fill
clustering tactics be resorted to In the
senate to defeat rate legislation along
the lines advocated by the administra-
tion, the cloture rule may be re-
sorted to. Present indications point
to a most determined fight between
those who favor comforting the rate
making power on the interstate com
merce commission and those who,
like Senator Foraker of Ohio, are op-
posed to It. Senator Foraker is out
spoken in his opposition to the enact
ment OF radical law Affecting inter
state commerce.. He is a fighting
man and It is feared by friends Of the
administratlon's policy that he would
resort to filibustering tactics If neces-
sary to prevent such legislation Mr.
Foraker has announced that he will
fight the rate-maklng proposition to
the last ditch, Whether this means
that he will lead a filibustering or
countenance such move is another
question
The suggestion of a cloture rule
comes from sources close to the organi-
zation Of shippers actively engaged In
promoting the idea embodied in the
score or more rate-maldng bills that
have beer offered Conservative SEN
ators who have heard Of the matter
regard II as in the nature of blum.
Cloture has been proposed time and
again, notably by Senator Mason of
Illinois, who, few years ago. in an
impassioned speech made shortly after
he was sworn into Office, bitterly at
tackled the upper house OF congress.
He declared it was monstrous that a
minority should be in position to
tie the hands Of the senate through the
instrumentality OF endless debate. Mr..
Mason's efforts ended in inglorious de-
feat and, while the Illinois senator
later uttered remarks in protest, he
finally had to succumb. The conservs-
tive sentiment in the senate is against
cloture It would have free and un-
Imite2 speech, even though that makes
possible such a fasco as Senator Car
ter's talking to death river and har-
Dor appropriation bill The demo
cratic senators arc opposed almost
unanimously to anything that would
modify in the slightest degree the
present rules of the upper house gov
erning debate.
Fears Responsibility for Defeat.
The statement was made here today
in an interested quarter that the re-
publican senate can not take the re-
sponsibility for a defeat Of the admin
istrations rate-making policy It is
generally recognized that, although
there has not been full showing OF
hands yet, the contest in the senate
over this question will. in all probable
ity. be one Of the most prolonged and |
determined that has been witnessed in
that body for many years. While nearly |
everybody is said to be for some sort
Of rate legislation, only a few, at least
In the senate. seem to want II. Sena-
tor oFraker and Senator Morgan Of
Alabama are the conspicuous oppo-
nents of the administration idea, huy,
for totally different reasons, the for
MGR holding that to give the rate max
Ing power to The commission would re-
suit IN widespread business and COM
mercial disaster In support Of his po-
sition SENATOR Morgan, who is dem
oorat, brings forth the old states rights
principle However, while the advo-
Gates Of the administrators program
RELATIVE to rate legislation are talk
ing to the effect that the senate owes
| It TO Itself and to he comry TO limit
ldebete on the bin which will finally
I be at Issue, they do not think seri-
@isly OF pressing the proposition. They
recognize. il IS understood, that to
bring the cioture question before the
senate for serious consideration would
precipitate Kilkenny cat affalr that
might readily be prolonged until tho
torad temperature OF midsummer
made the statesmen sieh for aoler
lpllces than Washington Further
more, Il is said there Is nd real cause