The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-02
Measure Will Occupy
 Attention of Senate.
sENAI0R LONGS AMENDMENT
He VIII Introduce the Republican
 Minority's Agreement.
It is. Heped That Twenty-nine of the Fellewera of the Admini-tration. Tex<ther With All the Dem
 ecrsts, win Vote for It.

The railroad rate bill VIII continue during the present week 10 receive the attention of the National Senate 10 the exclusion of almost all other questions. The bill will be taken up today as soon as the routine business is disposea of and Senator Long will introduce the amendment agreed upon at the con ference of friends of the bill with Pres ident Roosevelt Saturday night
 The amendment is to Section 16 Of the House bill. and provides That all orders of the Commission except orders for the payment of money shall take erect within. such reasonable time as shali be prescribed by the Commission and shall continue for such period or time. not exceeding two years. as shall be prescribed in the order of the Com mission, unless sooner set aside by the Commission or suspended or set aside in a suit brought against the Commis- sion fin the Circuit Court of the I'uited States sitting as court of equity for the district wherein any carrier plaintiff in said suit has it's principal operat- ing once and jurisdiction is hereby con ferred on the circuit courts of the Unit ed States to hear and determine in any such suit whether the order. complained of was beyond the authority Of the Commission or in violation of the rights of the carrier secured by the Constt- tuition.
 Senators who took part in the con- ference believe that twenty-nine Re- pubIicans and the entire minority will support th.s amendment. Should the expectation of these friends of the bill be realized the vote upon the measure as 2 whole will be reached earlier than was anticipated when the Senate ad- journed Friday evening.
 Patterson Wants to Re Heard.
 rFN Fl f~r thn GAtfIamaTf the affairs of the civilized tribes of In- dians will probably 20 back to confer ence during the week. Senator Clapp, who has charge of the measure. has al- ready announced that he. would with draw the conference report and 1t is understood that steps will be taken this week. provided Senator Patterson finds an opportunity to express his views on the subject. The withdrawal would have been made last week but for the Colorado Senator's desire to be heard. &
 The program for the week in the House of Representatives is rather short as. to subjects but will be full as to .iegislative7 work. Motions to sus- pend the rules and pass bills on the calendar will be in order today. Sus- nensfon day comes twice a month in the House and. there is. always full days work to be done, as many minor measures which. require but short con alteration are disposed of under this order.
 The bill placing the Federal Govern nent in position to aid in the suppress sion of yellow feyer epidemics has heen made a special order for Tuesday. This bill carries an appropriation of s5o0.0o0, and enlarges the powers or inc Public Health and Marine Hospital Service to such an extent that co-oper- ation between the Federal and State authorities may be had without in frineing on the police powers ot the State. render unnecessary the shot gun ,,arartine' and put the Southern sea- coast states in position to repei the invasion of yellow fever from other shores
 Beginning Wednesday the post office appropriafion bill will have the right of way throughout the week. It is not sntSrinated that the measure can be disposed of in this time. but Chairman Overstreet. who will have charge of the bill on the floor. believes that general debate on the bill will be completed by the end of the week
 Coal Mining Crisis.
 Tn crisis in the coal mining wage controversy has been reached In the hitnminous field the miners will be per mitted to return to work in properties where the increase demand Is allowed, hut where the demands are not granted there will be strikes. The anthracite mine operators committee will meet the miners committee in New York on Tuesday, and further conference on inc wage scale will be held. Pending the outcome of this meeting the an- thracite miners have been called out ana, will not return 70 work until an adiustuaent of their demands has been brought about At the collieries the operators have adopted a conciliatory tone and will do nothing to irritate the miners so that the disturbances are not anticipated.
 Northern France has assumed serious nroportions and unless the government take an active part in quelling the dis turbances and bringing about an under standing between the mine owners and the miners, rioting undoubtedly will continue this week
 The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race will take place on the Thames on Saturday, April '.
 The eighteenth annual convention of the national association of railroad commissioners will be held in Washing Ion. April 9 The asociation will dis cuss electric railways, railway taxes. grade crossings. tariff rates and the duties and work of State railway com mIssioners.
 The 18th anniversary of the founding of inc Tuskegee Institute will be ob- served at Tuskegee, Ala. on April B. president Booker T. Washington of the institute will tell of the growth of negro education and addresses will be deliv- cred by President Eliot of Harvard. An drew, Carnegie and Secretary Taft
 The fight to save the llte Of Albert T. patrick. undr sentence of death for the mnrder of the aged Txas millionaire. William NJ Rice. will be resumed in New York Tuesday before Recorder Con. on the motion for new trial. In teresting testimony will be given by number of pathologists as to the simi- larity in the effects on human lungs of chloroform and embalming fluid and new witnesses from Texas are expected