The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-02
AGREEMENT ON TIE RATE BILL
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Railroad Rate hin reached an agreement on
al ques'ions In dispute except two one
~ thesH related Ia the Jim Crow car amend
ment requiring equal accommodations Tor
nll Glasses ~ passengers, known ~ the
Foraher.w Warner amendment. and tho other
disputed point l. the Serate amendment
which requires that no i~nterlocutory order
or decree suspendinR an order 81 the Inter
state Commerce Commission shall he made
vithout five days notice and upon hearing
tn 10th parties. II seems probable now
that tho Ave days limitation will Ia omitted
and the question Of the time given under
the notice be left to the discretion 81 the
court.
The result ~ the deliberations Of the
conferees Ia a victory for the Senate The
indications are tina when the report ~
made 10 Congress tomorrow II will be found
that the Senate has receded from only
four or five out Of II ffty-one amendments.
The Lodge amendment. making pipe lines
common carriers, will probably he recon-
stru cted so that it will apply only to com-
modities carried partly by plpe line and
partly by water, or partly by pipe line and
partly by rail. The exception OF those
comm odities carried continuously by pipe
line il to be made to avoid grave constitu-
tional objections which il was feared would
render the bill invalid.
The anti-pass amendment is TO be re-
written and mad more stringent. II
will practically prohibit all passes, recog-
nizing no excepted classes, and will he
a m NpD - that II will not 20 iDfn afIapf until
January /. 1907, This will afford an OPP
portuhity for Congress to repeal II before
II gets fairly into operation should public
sentiment require il.
The Senate amendment. added on motion
of Senator Bailey, making expires COM
panies and sleeping car companies COM
mon carriers, will probably be rewritten to
apply to express companies only.
1t is stated positively that the Senate con-
ferees have accepted the House provision
Increasing the membership Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to seven and ircreas-
ing their salaries from 1900 to So 900.
The House conferees have accepted the
Serate amendments striking out the words
fairly remuneTative, used to qualify a
rate to be made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in lieu of one adjudged to be
unjust and unreasonable, and the other
phrase, "in its Judgment, 4" which conferred
discretionary power on the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission In the matter of rate
MAKING, WDlCn the SENATE ueC1oeu. WAS Il
delegation Of legislative power M which
il struck out.
One amendment which the Senate
promptly yielded to the House was that
which was added to the bin on motion Of
Sci ator Piles Of Washingto which modi-
fies the Flkins amendment by forhiddiug
common carriers from engaging IN business
in competition with shippers over their lines
Senator Piles's amen dment excepted from
the operations Of the law carriers engaged
in TRANSPORTING Lumbar and timber.
At the time the amendment was adopted
the Serate was hurrying through the clos
irg sections Of the hill and there was a
sharp dispute at the time as to whether
it had been really adopted. Senator Lodge
then challenged the decision Of President
pro TEN. Frye. who had declared the amend
ment adopted. Other Senator's, notably
| the bill was sent to conference by the Sem
ate that the amendment had been put into
the bill through mistake.