The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-20
BAILEY EXPLAINS
TELLS OF THE DEMOCRATIC sENt-
 TORIAL CAUCUS.
Says He Cannot Understand How Hfs Court Review Amendment of
 Rate Bill Can Be Looked
 UpOn as Broad.

Says He Cannot Understand How HIS Court Review Amendment of Rate Bil1 Can Be Looked Upon as Broad. washington, April 1e.--The Senate | today passed a joint resolution appro. priating a million dollars to be used | In affording relief to San Francisco sufferers. appropriated s4,0oo to pay the expenses of bringing home ths bodies of the Kearsarge victims: lis tened to an explanation of MT. Bailey concerning the proceedings of yester- days Democratic Senatorial caucus; heard the first half of an exhaustive ! speech by MT. La Toilette on the rail- road rate bill, and witnessed 6 decid- edly spirited encounter between MT Tillman and Mir. Hopkins concerning the recent Chicago bank failures. MT. Tillman read newspaper charges that the Illinois Senator had used his onicial position to prevent punishment for violation of the banking law and Mir Hopkins responded by chargtAg me South Carolina Senator with approving | the lynching of negroes and with se- curing his election to the Senate by suppressing the negro vote. he afso declared that MT. Tillman had changed | the official report of his last speech On the bank question so as 10 make " appear that he (Mr. Hopki1Sl had evad- | ed a question. and to this MT. Ti'iman | FagnOnde0 that ne 0Ob1 tOsatt@S If the kind The coiloquy at last be- came so bitter that 1t was necessary { to call the Senators 70 ord sr. MT. IaFollette attacked the overcap- | italization of the railroads and con tended for the broadest construction or ! the right of Congress to legislate Tor i the control of the railroads. He said I that the pending bill was defective in many important respects; took q po- I sItion in support of the Bailey non suspension amendment, and announced himself as opposed to broad court re- view of the finding of the interstate commerce commission.
 When the railroad rate bill was talk en up. Mir Bailey was immediately re- cognlzed to correct an account Of the proceedings of the conference held by Democratic senators yesterday.
 Tn the conference of yesterday" he
 said T carefully avoided complicating
 the question of prohibiting preliminary
 lnjunctions with any other question,
 and I did not myself touch either by
 motion or speech the question of
 court review. When the entire amand-
 inent offered in the Senate was first
 submitted the principal and almost on-
 ly attack was directed against ita pro-
 vision which prohibited the courts from
 suspending the orders of the commits
 sion by preliminary injunction.
 When that attack was made and answered, hI IedbI 10 the bdLISLdCLlOu oI every Democratic senator with three or four exceptions. some of those who had originally declared that Congress could not limit the injunction process of the court. they began to discover that the court provision contained in that amendment was too broad. How any man could have reached surh a con clusion I have never been able to un- derstand and think 1t can be demon strated to any person who understands the English language that my court provision Is the narrowest valid one which has been proposed or even sug-
 gested."
 Mir. Tillman followed. He said it was
 not true, aS stated in newspaper re-
 ports, that MT, Rayner had taken ad-
 vantage of the absence of Mir. Bailey
 to move an adjournment of the con
 ference and that the only object of the
 conference was to secure a poll
 The House amendment of the San
 Francisco relief resolution was con
 cured fin. The Presidents immunity message was also read,
 Without completing his speech. MT.
 LaFolette suspended at 4;27 p. m. and
 the Senate went into executive session
 and at 5:1O adjourned.