The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-02
White House Court Review Amend
ment viii Be Introduced
Today.
WORK BEFORE THE HOUSE
COMING EVENTS ALL OVER THE
WORLD.


The bill will be taken up today as soon
as the routine business is disposed or
and Senator Long will Introduce the
amendment agreed upon at the confer
ence of friends of the bill with Prest-
dent Roosevelt last Saturday night.
The amendment is to Sc etion sixteen OF
the house bill and provides:
THAT all orders of the commission,
except orders for the payment of mon
ey shall take effect within such red
sonable time as shall be prescribed by
the commission and shall continue Tor
such period Of time, not exceeding two
years, as shall be prescribed in the CT
der of the commission unless sooner set
aside by the commission or suspended
or set aside i'm a suit brought against
the commission in the circuit court OF
the United States sitting as court of
equity for the district wherein any car
rier plaintiff in said suit has its prin-
cipal operating office, ana jurisdiction
is hereby conferred on the circuit courts
of the United States to hear and de-
termine in any such suit whether the
order complained of was beyond The
authority of the commission or in Vio-
lation of the rights of the carrier Sc
cured by the constitution"
May Soon Reach a Vote.
Senators who took part in the con-
ference believe that twenty-uine Re
publicans and the entire minority Will
support IIllS amendment -OilO1t'I the
expectation of these friends of the bill
be realized 20 vote upon the measure
as Il whole will be reached much ear
lier than was anticiuated when the
senate adjourned Friday evening.
The bill for the final settlement of
the affairs of the five civilized tribes of
Indians will probably go back to con-
ference during the week. Senator Clapp,
who has charge of the measure. has al
ready announced that he would with
/ Il For nd f-
understood that steps will be taken
this week provided Senator Patterson
finds an opportunity to express his
views on the subject. The withdrawal
for the Colorado senator's desire to be
/ heard.
House Programme.
! The programme for the week i'm the
| house of representatives is rather short
/ as to subjects but will be full as to
/ legislative work. Motions to suspend
] the rules and pass bills on the calen-
! dar will be in order today. Suspension
/ day comes twice a month in the house,
/ and there is always a full days work
! to be done. as many minor measures
/ which require but short consideration
/ are disposed of under this order
/ The bill placing the federal govern
ment in position to aid in the sup
preston of yellow fever epidemics has
/ been made a special order for Tuesday
! This bill carries an appropriation Of
| $500, 900 and enlargeS the powers Of the
public health and marine hospital SER
! vice to such an extent that co-opera-
! ton between the federal and state au-
| thorities may be had without infring-
! ing on the police powers Of the state,
! render unnecessary the shotgun
J quarantine and put the southern sea-
! coast states in position tC repel the in
vasion of yellow fever from other
| shores.
Beginning Wednesday the pOstoffce
| appropriation bill will have the right
of way throughout the week 1t is not
anticipated that the measure can be
disposed of in this time, hut Chair
man Overstreet who will have charge
| of the bill on the floor. provides that
general debate on the bill VIII be COM
pleted by the end of the week.
Coal Mining Controversy.
The crisis in the coal mining wage
controversy has been reached. In the
| bituminOus field the miners Will be per-
mitted TO return to work in properties
| where the increase demand is allowed
but where the demands are not grant
ed there will be strikes The anthra-
cite mine operators committee viii
meet the miners committee in New
York on Tuesday and a further con-
ference on the wage scale viii be held
Pending the outcome OF this meeting
the anthracite miners have been called
4 out and will not return to work Until
| an adjustment of their demands has
been brought about. At TIE coilierle'
the operators have adopted a concilia-
tory tone and will do nothing to irritatC
the miners so that disturbances are no
anticipated.
} Strike In France.
The strike in the coal fields of north
ern France has assumed serious proper
tions, and unless the government takes
] Inc tl7a n ctTr ~ia
, | ances and bringing about an under
: standing between the mine owners anC
the miners, riOting undoubtedly VII
, continue this week. Premier SarrieI
has been asked to intervene.
The annual Oxford-Cambridge boa
race will take place on the Thames OF
Saturday, April Z
The eighteenth annual convention o
the National Association of Railwa.
Commissioners will be held in Wash
ington on April .. The association viii
] discuss electric railways. railway taxes
grade crossings, tariff rates and tn
, duties and work of state railways com
2 missions.
Tuskegee Anniversary.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of I'll
4 founding of the Tuskegee institute vii
i be observed at Tuskegee, Ala, on Apr
= g. President Booker T. Washington o
the institute will tell of the growtl
= of negro education and addresses Wi
be delivered by President Eliot of Har
ward and Andrew Carnegie and Secre
2 tary Taft.
The fight to save the life Of Albert I
5 Patrick, under sentence of death 70
the murder Of the aged Texas million
aire. William NJ. Rice, VIII be resume
i'm New York on Tuesday before Re
corder Golf on the motion for neV
trial. Interesting testimony will b
given by a number of pathoiogists as t
the similarity of the effects on the lIu
I man body of the chloroform and EN-
y balming fluid and new witnesses fror
Texas are expected.