The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-02
Senator Declares if Congress Does
Not Regulate Lines Government
Ownership Must Follow.
REFUTES F0RAKER'S IDEAS
ARGUMENT DELIVERED WITH
OUT INTERRUPTION.


= by the senate practically as it +
= came from the house is an admis- 4
= sion that the opponents of the =
= measure are almost ready to make. +
1t was admitted today that they 4
cannot hope for any assistance y
from the president in getting an +
= amendment for judicial review of +
= orders OF the interstate commerce y
= commission. The president made y
this clear to Senators Crane and y
+ SpoOner today y
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Washington, March 1.-The discus
sion of the railroad rate question in
the senate was continued today by Mr..
polliver, who spoke in support of the
d olliver-Hepburn bill. He said that the
bill was intended merely to supple
ment the existing interstate commerce
law and cOntended for its validity from
a constitutional point of view, predict
ing that government ownership of the
railroads would be forced upon the
country if congress did not meet the
present demand for regulation.
Mr.. DOlIiver declared he did not ex-
pect prOtracted vendetta between the
railroads and the business community,
believing that when the law was enact
~ II NO040 DE OUSCEN6U DY carrier anu
shipper alike. He predicted that with
in five years there would be boards of
arbitration in every traffic center of
the country, so that appeals to the
commission would be the rule rather
than the exception.
He declared that as the bill stands
it leaves the door to the courts open for
the protection of all constitutional
rights. He took up the rebate question,
win Il
Mr.. Foraker or, Mr.. Bacon that the Sc
cret practices have been abandoned.
He did not believe the Elkins bill ade-
quate for protection against these pTac-
tees.
THE difficulty about rebates is not
in Furnishing violations of the law" he
said, but in discovering them, and we
have undertaken to amend the law so
as to cover that defect"
The people were not complain
ing Of the railroad combinations,
Mr.. Dolliver averred, but he as
serted most earnestly that they do de-
mand that congress shall assert it's
function as the guardian of the Amer
lean market place. He then spoke in
of his own powers and in
praise Of the advocacy of the president
Of the latter, he said that cit is the
most superb moral leadership of the
a
prepared for sneers, but" he said, 81
stand in a position L did not seek, but
my conscience as a citizen
and my honor as a senator, I can take
no other"
Mr.. FOTdkeTS proposition to leave to
the courts the duty of considering all
against the railroads was
touched upon. and the Iowa senator
said that while he did not agree with
his colleague, he would rather follow
that plan than to attach an amend
ment to the house bill giving the courts
the right of review two or three years
after action by the commission. He be-
lieved that this plan would result in
such delays as to make the proposed
law ineffective.
Mr.. DOlliver replied to the criticism
that he was manifesting a disposition
toward democracy by denying it. and
closed with another tribute to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, expressing the convic-
ton that the people would ever treas
1Te in grateful hearts his blunt plat
form Of a square deal for every man."
Mr.. DOlliver spoke for two hours and
ten minutes, and when he ceased was
Ipplauded from the galleries
Mr. DOlliver was not questioned and
when he concluded the remainder of
he day was devoted to the bill pro-
vi6ing for the settlement of the affairs
IF the five civilized tribes of Indians
after the termination of their tribal
relations.