The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-16
RATE BILL WILL
 BE TIE FEATURE No Agreement on Time for Voting is in Sight ALCOHOL BILL IN HOUSE Statue of Benjamin Franklin Will. be Unveiled in Paris Friday-Phil-
 adeIphia Will Celebrate
 His Memory.
ALCOHOL BILL IN HOUSE

Speeches on the railroad rafe bill will be the feature in the United States Sen- ate the present week Notwithstanding the assurances to the contrary. which were given by senators last week, there is no immediate prospect for securing an agreement upon a time for voting upon the bill No one has at any time counted upon getting such an agreement until the general speeches should be ex- hausted, and there are sufficient num- Der of these already in sight to consume the entire week. Beyond the fact that Senator Hepburn will speak today, no order of delivery has been agreed upon.
 Senator Tilman has stated that Sena- tor Lafollette would probably be ready to proceed Tuesday, but the Senator him self is not apparently prepared to say whether he will be. If he does not take the floor Tuesday. he will ask to be heard later in the week. It is understood he will take advanced ground for stringent legislation. It is not improbable that the junior Wisconsin senator will be fol- lowed immediately by his colleague, Sen ator Spooner who will devote his es- Senator Bailey, and will reply to the Texas senator's contention that Congress has right to limit the iniunctive DOW CTS of the lower United States courts.
 In all probability his speech will pro- yoke considerable debate and undoubted- ly it will occupy an entire day if not more time.
 Other senators who will be heard dur ing the week or later, are Messrs Eos ter, Clark of Arkansas and Daniel.
 In the House.
 The feature of the week in the national House of Representatives is to be the passage of the free alcohol bill As this measure deals with the revenues of the country and might possibly be considered the vehicle on which to load political capital and especially by the minority, 1t is to be brought up today under sus- pension of the rules. Monday is the reg ular suspension day, and bills handled under this order are not subject to amendment. The method of procedure is to move to suspend the rules and pass the bill" To this motion a "second' may be demanded, which if ordered. car ries with it forty minutes of debate both for and against the bill at the expira- ton of which time the only question which can be put is shall the rules be suspended, and the bill passed?" This cuts off all opportunity for amendment The only alternative method of handling this bill to prevent it's use as an issue maker. would be to bring it in under the protection of a special rule which would limit debate to a specified time and also prohibit amendment.
 There is little opposition to the bill it. self, the only task connected with its passage being to prevent it's being used for the purpose of producing a record for other revenue reform propositions.
 Pensions are to have the right of way Tuesday, and on that day also the appro- priation for the District of Columbia will be reported This bill will be taken up Wednesday. and will serve as the legis- lative topic for the balance of the week
 Pay Homage to Franklin.
 Two nations this week will join in pay ing homage to the memory of Benjamin Franklin. In Paris 8 notable celebration will be held on Friday on the occasion of the unveiing of statue of Franklin ued1 lle Slte Ol tue nome 1e OCCuDleu when American minister to France. The statue is the gift of John H. Harjes. the American banker of Paris. to the municipality of that city, and is re- plica of the one now In front of the postoffice in Philadelphia. Ambassador Mccormick will introduce the speaker of the occasion, Albert Henry Smith. special representative of the United States for the Franklin bicentennial.
 In Philadelphia the American Philoso- phical society which was founded by Franklin will hold an international cele- tration April 17-2O. the bicentennial of his birth These dates were chosen in or der to secure the presence of the repre- sentatives of the government at Wash ington of the institutions which con ferred degrees upon Franklin and of the society of which he was a member.
 Trial for Heresy.
 The trial of the Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey of St. Andrews Episcopal church, Rochester. N Y. on charge of heresy, will begin in Batavia, N. Y. April II. Most serious of the charges against Dr. Crapsey is his denial of the miraculous birth of Christ, made in a sermon deliver ed in Rochester a year ago, and after wards published in book form under the title Religion and Politics.
 Soon after the delivery of this sermon charges were preferred against Dr. Crap sey.
 Dr. Crapsey represents the scientific school of churchmen who refuse to &C., cept the miracles as higher than legends or as more worthy of belief than mythol- ogical stories of antiquity.
 The International Medical congress con venes in Lisbon, Portugal, April 1s, and it's sessions will last until April p.
 President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton university is to be the principal speaker at the annual Jefferson birthday of the Democratic club of New York at the Waldorf tonight.
 The 24th grand arch counsel of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will be held in I