The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-03
MORE ORATORY
ON RATE BILL
Six Hours of Speeches in the House,
Mccall of Massachusetts Being
the Only Dissenter.
WEAKNESSES POINTED OUT
DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF RATE
MAKING.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Oratory on the
railroad rate bill held the attention of
the house for six hours today. The
speeches of Burton of Ohio, Mccall of
Massachusetts and Russell of Texas
were features, while Thomas Thomas Of
North Carolina, Burke of South Dakota
and Golden of New York took up par
ucular and specific topics.
MIR. Burton discussed the broad field
of proper national ideas and growth of
industry, corporation development and
traffic increase; Mr.. Mccall made an
attack on the bill, opening the OppOsi-
ton to its fundamental features and
making, as he knew, vain effort to
have the power TO regulate railroad
rates administered by the courts. Point
after point he made to show what he
commended were the weaknesses and evil
of government ratemaking, illustrating
by records Of foreign countries
Democratic View.
Mr.. Russell argued for the measure.
He spoke as a Democrat and gave that
party credit for sustained effort and
for careful scrutiny in the perfecting Of
the measure.
Mr.. Burke, a member of the commit
tee in which the bill originated, ex-
planned its details.
Before proceeding to consideration of
the railroad rate bill today the house
passed a bill extending the public land
laws to a tract OF land ten miles square
In Wyoming, coded to the government
in 1897 by the ShOshOne and ArapahOe
indians.
Rate Bill Debate.
Mr.. Thomas Of North. Carolina opened
the discussion on the rate bill, making
an argument in its favor.
Mr.. Thomas said the bill was in line
with the Democratic position, the presi-
dents position, the views of the inter
state commerce commission, commits
sion bodies all over the country. in
GLIDING his own state, the Outgrowth of
public sentiment. Referring to the
losses sustained by the truckers of his
district last spring, he insisted refriger-
ator cars should be placed under the
control Of the commission.
Mr.. Golden Of New York gave his
reasons for supporting the bill, It was
the best of its kind ever presented. It's
benefits were greater than its defects.
MIR. Burton's Speech.
In beginning an hours speech in IA
Vor Of the bill, Mr.. Burton Of Ohio
dwelt- upon the enOrmity of the cor
poratiOns IN this country. He could
remember when this was not the case,
when small businesses fiOurished. Now
the mechanism of steam have trans
formed industry completely so that the
employee is but a cog in a tremendous
mechanism.
The greatest strides in traffic had also
taken place. Regulation was demanded
by the conditions. The two especial
features of the bin were, first, the fix
Ing Of a railroad rate, and second, the
speedy adjudication Of a rate in the
courts.
with 10000 rate schedules related
one to the other, he was not sure what
the result would be or what the court Of
last resort would decide. However, he
did not anticipate revolutionary orders
by the commission nor havoc as the re-
suit OF them. The difficulties of the
policies to be inaugurated, such as the
long and short haul and the basic
point questions, MI. Burton believed
should be fixed by congress. It was
the failure TO exercise such responsible
ties that resulted in the complaints
that the house was losing its power.
Question of Rebates.
AS to rebates, he said, human inge-
nuity had hardly, If ever, been exer-
cised to evade the law as had been the
case since the passage of the Elkins
act Discrimination between individ-
uals, he maintained, could and should
be stopped. The discrimination be-
tween places was a different problem,
in which many elements entered and
which ii may never be possible to over
come.
IF we seek for the real evil said
Mr.. Burton, 1--WE must look to the ideals
of the people" and, he added, I'VE have