The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-02
Iowa Senator Speaks for
 Regulation.
ANSWERS F0RAKER ARGUMENT
Says Railroads Will Not Be 0p-
 pressed by Measure.
Declares That In 1t the Changes from Exinting Interstate Commerce Law are Ten--cheered By
 Galleries.

sion or The rallroad rate question In the Senate was continued today by Mir. Dolltver. who spoke In support of the Dplliver-Hepburn bill. He said that the bill was intended merely to sup- plement the existing interstate com naerce law and contended for its valid- fly from a constitutional point of view, predicting that government ownership of the railroads would be forced upon the, country if Congress did not meet the present demand for regulation. MT. Deliver was not questioned and when he concluded the remainder of the day was devoted to the bill providing for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians after the termination of their tribal reia- tfona. sss-,.,s
 MT. DolIiver began with compli- ment to Mir Cullen, of whom he spoke as the father of iuter-state commerce IeEislation and to Mir. Nelson, the au- thor of a bill presented to the last CouRTess. He.s also referred to the fact that Messrs. Foraker and EIkins had formerly introduced bills giving to. the. .inter-state commission the same powers. conferred in the pending bill. T do this, he said. for the doubie pur- pose of giving credit where 1t is due and to protect us against the sneers that one hears in the Senate corridors over the acceptance of a bill hastily farced on us by the other house"
 Explains the BiII.
 The. Senator then outlined the bill pointing out wherein it amends the existing interstate law saying that after all. the changes were compara- lively few" Instead of undermining the law the bill fortifies it" he said, and he declared that If the present law had been treated wltn the reverence and sanctity 1t deserved, the American people would have approached the sub Jeet In frame of mind different from that which now prevails.
 He said the railroad companies were unable to protect thsmselvsg egainst car companies under section one of the present law. He had not favored the abolition of these cars, but he did be- Iieve tRtt the car eouapanies should he regulated by making. responsible tke railroad companies etnpIoyfag Speaking of the Interstate Commerce Commission, he said he recognised the fact that 1t had become fashionable to speak slightingly of the commission and defended that body against such attacks He expressed the. opinion that ifsthesiawyers had dealt as fairly with the commission as with the courts. the result would have been better.
 Dfr. Dollivar declared he did not ex- pect a protracted vendetta between the railroads and, the business community, believing that when the law was enacted 1t would be observed by car- rier and shipper. alike.
 The noor Left Open.
 He recognized the fact that thequess tion of appeal to the courts from the orders of the commission was the bat tie ground and he declared that as the bill stands 1t leaves the door to the courts open for the protection of all constitutional rights. He temporarily left that point and took up the rebate question. saying that he did not agree with either Foraker or Mir. Bacon that the secret practices have been aban- doned He did not believe the Elkins bill adequate for protection against these practices. The dif1culty about rebates is not in punishiug violations of the law.'. he said, but in discover ing them and we have undertaken to amend the law so as to cover that de- fect.~ ss ,..s
 Returning to the question Of appeals, Mir. bolivar said that the power the commission would exercise in prevent ing recourse to the courts was about asvgreat as the power of my friends who arc tip-toeing about this chamber talking of the day in court.
 He said that no congress that will ever assemble will pass law that will take the markets of the world away from the railroads that have created them and turn them over to rivalry
 
 Refers to O1ney.
 Mir. Deliver referred to the recent magazine article py ex-Secretary OIney and said that he was the man upon whose advice President Cleve- land had sent an army to- Chicago in tine face of the protests Of panic-strick en mayors and screanifng governors.
 There was a perceptible stir in the Senate when Mir. Deliver referred to one investigator who had to unload his railroad securities to give him the spiritual preparation for the work"
 He also referred to the research in- ko ancient transportation made by some senators and to show that he had been slothful in that respect quoted the transportation section from the laws of Hammurabi of Babylon, showing the necessity. for an advertising agent for that ancient sovereign He also went hack to the time of Queen Anne of England when, he said, a commission had been established 10 fix maximum rates because the systematic stimula- tIon of the receipts" showed a combi- nation making restriction necessary.
 Mir Deliver made broad plea for fhe right to regulate the railroads but said that this right did not come from the fact that the railroads enjoy fran chises Tt is because of the business In which they are engaged ho said and added that 1t would save much time if the railroad nanasers could to be brought to reAlizing sense of 1hst fact" Yet he thought that the nverstRht exercised should be gener- nus and that the capital invesed in the roads should have the protection due if There never was until yesterday when MT. -Foraker spoee shadow up- on our right to regulate interstate .ev,n1arco'' he went on and in support of this ,preparation. he cited the ef- forts at railroad legisiation since the fine of Charles Summer
 Compliments Roosevelt.
 That the people were not complain ing of the railroad combinations MT. ssrnestly that they do demand that congress- shall assert it's function as the guardian of the American market nlace He then spoke in deprecation of MS own powers and in praise of the Sdyocacy s the President. Of the lat