The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13

son amendment was not to be changed.
On these amendments Mr.. La Fol-
lette usually voted with the democrats.
His own amendment, prohibiting fed
eral Judges who own railroad stock,
bonds or other securities from sitting in
feated by decisive vote on motion
by Mr.. Hale that it be laid on the ia
bic. Mr.. McCumber voted with Mr.:
La Toilette and the democrats against
the Hale motion. .-se.
The question as to whether the Ali
son amendment provides for broad or
narrow court review can only be de-
tetrmined by the courts themselves. 1t
is apparent that the president and his
for broad review. It is just as apparent
that the democrats want the country to
| believe that they think it does. It is
further apparent that the amendment is
entirely acceptable to the conservatives
of the senate, and the inference IS
easy that they, like the. democrats,
think that under it the. review will be
leaders, Mr.: Aldrich, has anything to
say to the senate about the character
of the review. 49, 80 -
.:. - Up to Courts Now.
The entire question, as has been pre-
viously stated in these dispatches, is
one for the courts themselves to, de-
termine, and what the courts will do
nobody knows. %, -s@.< l. -. {
Mr.. Dolliver made a good point today
in the course of a speech, defending the
president from the democratic charge
that he had surrendered to the men
he said that the senate for. almost
three months had been spending its
time magnifying the little things in
the bill, and practically no time at
all to considering the big things that
are to be found there. -,
To his mind the question of court
review is one of these little things the
courts have in control regardless OF
the language congress may insert IN
4 the bill or withhold from it. In this
remark Mr.. Dolliver is correct, for Mr.
: La Toilette is almost the only senator
( who. in discussing the bill, has devoted
himself to careful and comprehensive
: presentation of the main provisions OF
it and the necessity that exists fol
) their enactment into law. e., =
The entire country is no doubt
amazed at the radical character the
bill is showing under the numerous
amendments already adopted in tn
senate Among these amendment
are those placing pipe lines, Pullman "a
cars and express companies under tn
control of the interstate: commerce com
mission, reviving the prison penaltie
: in the rebate section of the law, abol
ishing passes, providing for the con
struction of side tlacKs, and for TIL
effective control Of those agencie
|. thru which the abuses Of discrimina
d tion have been pract;ced. z. -
= yry1, c.~,t1 v;aldad s--s't:
Some Of this amazement no doub
q has grown out of the failure OF tn
e country to understand why the cor
4 servative senate has Deen willing t
:. permit these things to be engrafte
81 upon the BILL. The explanation, how
AL ever, is not difficult. 5tsg,
IA Tie enactment of this rate legisl'
a ton, in its general legislative feature
is similar to the enactment of a tart
~ law. There is hardly a standpattt
II in congress who would object to revi
n ing some half dozen of the more offe1
~ siye schedules if that revision coul
.. be accomplished without precipitatir
!. revision Of the enr1re tariff LAY
II Once congress were to- secure parli
= mentary control of a proposal to chans
10 the half dozen schedules referred t
- . however, it would certainly proceed
- general revision. And so the standpa
N tiers take the position they do.
n II is a similar proposition with Il
e. pending rate bill. Mr.. Elkins, N
er Aldrich and numerous other conserv
e. tive senators have peen saying for
BIT couple of years, or ever since the ra
it issue was brought to the front, tn
ht there was already sufficient law to pl
lie vent the abuses complained of, a
as that all that was necessary was to ha
Ill it properly enforced. g
u, These gentlemen knew full well tn
to the moment congress took up .the ra
I question, with as1view to making t
=. legislation demanded by the presidel
er the entire question Of railway .manas
nd ment and policy would be before co
A gress, and that the bill would TO a q! g !,
Id tainty be. amended in a great varie
of ways to satisfy the demands Of t
country, which fors q { generation b