The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-04-17
JUNGLE J0E'S'r ATTITUDE
TO SHIP SUBSIDY BILL

aud speaker Dasnop is NO new offender
ia that particular. The FEDERATION oi
Labor. which hes recently hrokrn with
speaker tannrn aud the President AMI
decided 30 ~ into politics with n Vim
tho wear FOR the purpose ~ prevent
ing the reelection ~ members who
10 not favor legislation. has charged
that the committee on labor has long
been packed against the bills that on
ganization favorA
In thr same way u is charged that
the Committed ON Territories has been
made up Of men. known TO reflect the
Speakers views about various terri
torial matters coming up there annually
Cor consideration. including the state
hood bill. However true all the cur
rent charges about packing committees
may lac. IL is nevertheless the fact that
the Speaker is able TO control those
committees aud when hc passes the
word down that he does or does not
want a certain bill favorably reported.
his word goes.
RAILROAD RATE BILL.
The railroad rate bill contest is now
in an interesting stage before the Sen
ate. For couple of weeks President
Roosevelt has kept his hands off and
left Senators free to frame "A bill as
they might think best. What the out
come will be is still somewhat prob
lematical There are now about fifteen
Republican Senntors-some say rs many
as twenty-ready to stand for the Hep
burn bill unamended, which the Presi-
dent and Attorney General Moody orig
inally approved. Chief among them is
Senators Dolliver of Iowa, Burkett of
Nebraska. Perkins of California and
Clapp of Minnesota. These fifteen or
twenty are ready to vote for the bill
any day without any change, but the
ma jority of the Republican senators.
although not enough TO make Il major
ity of the Senate. want a court review
provision put in. The debate continues
10 rage among the constitutional law
yers about that court review and also
about the power of Congress TO forbid
the granting of interlocutory DEGREES
suspending "A commission made rate.
This division among the Republicans
gives the Democrats the balance OF
power and, as things look now, il will
remain for the Democrats to determine
very largely what those amendments
shall be. Senator Bailey has an amend
ment for court review and for forbid
ding the granting of Interlocutory de-
crees. Because of the divergent views
on the Democratic side. it seems un-
likely that there will be much unan-
unity on the vote on that side of the
chamber. However, there are appar-
emily plenty of Democrats to join with
the forty Republicans, headed by Sena-
tors Crane, Spooner and Knox, to put "A
court review provision in the new law.
There will also be something in the new
law to facilitate trials and to protect
shippers from loss while rate is in the
courts.
With those two amendments it seems
now pretty certain that the rate bill
will go to the President for signature.
But how strongly it win be supported
in the Senate is difficult question to
answer. One cannot easily tell now
whether the Democrats or the Republi-
cans are likely to get the most credit
! for the measure as it is finally shaped
up. There is little doubt that the
President will veto any bill on rate
regulation which Congress sends to
him. ERNEST G.. WALKER.