The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-30
Rate Legislation Still Holds
 First Pace in Senate
MAY VOTE ABOUT MAY 10
The Agricultural Bill vii be Taken Up in the House Tomorrow and May Consume
 Two Days.

Railroad rate legislation continues to hold first place in the United States Sen ate. There are three or four more gem | eral speeches 10 be made on the bill and when the last one of them shall have been heard. If not before. there will be an 1 agreement upon time for taking the final vote This is expected to be about May 10. So far official notice has been | given of only two more speeches. They will be made by Senator Clark of Arkan- sas. who will speak today (Mondav) and by senator Daniel, who will be heard ! Tuesday It is possible that Senators Raynor and Frazier, and even others. also desire to be heard also eonsid- erable portion of the present week will be devoted to general discussion.
 By common consent several days will be consumed in considering amendments under the rule limiting speeches to ten minutes The intention Is to give week to consideration of the bin under that rule. and as this consideration will neces- sarily be postponed until the close of the general debate. the effect may be to de- lay the final vote. but not for more than few days at most.
 Senator Tillman's intention is to ask for unanimous consent to vote on day to be named and then if this is secured. to allow the Senate 10 decide for itself how much time it will devote to amend. ments. So far about seventy amend ments have been suggested but 1t Is not expected that a great many of them will be seriously considered.
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 Attention will be concentrated largely upon the court review amendments scf atols generally say that som kind u review provision is probable. but predc- tons as to which of them will be chosen range all the way from Senator Longs to Senator f'orakers suggestion. It Is claimed that there will be q solid repub-
 ean vote against Senator Bailey's non suspension provision.
 The real legislative work of the na- tonal House of Representatives on the agricultural appropriation bill will begin l this week. The general debate on this measure took a wider range, and occu- 1 pied considerably more time than had l been expected. The two sides of the tariff question were laid before the country. and there was little said regarding the | bill although il remained before the House throughout the week.
 Today eMonday) will be given up to the passage of bills under suspension of the rules Many important bills have been passed in tho House this session on sus- | pension days. and with MT. Williams, the minority leader obiecting 10 all unanimous consent legislation to fur- ther the statehood bill suspension day ! becomes all the more important Speaker Cannon has received many applications for recognition under this order than the 1 time will permit and it Is not unlikely that suspension day may be recessed into Tuesday. in order that other mat ters may be cleared up. One of the efforts today will be by the committee on im- migra ton to give the recently reported immigration bill right of way over all but appropriation bills.
 Agricultural Bill Tomorrow.
 The agricultural bill will be taken up | Tuesday. and it is estimated that two days will be consumed in reading and | perfecting It's sections. The naval appro- 1 priation bill is in waiting and the plan of the committee is to call it up the moment the agricultural bill Is out or the way Claims have the right Of way Friday so that al best only Thursday and Friday can be given to the navy bill.
 A week in addition to these two days will be occupied on the measure.
 The sundry civil bill will be in readi- ness when the naval bill is out of tho way
 The gravity of the labor situation in France will be determined by the events l of Tuesday of this week, May day,
 The Federation of Labor has found it impossible to postpone the demonstrations planned for that day, and although the | commercial classes are endeavoring to preserve normal conditions, some appre- hension Is expressed as to the outcome. The stringent military and police meas ures however. promise to minimize dis orders.
 Miners Meet Thursday.
 Interest in the coal mining industry | centers in the convention of the miners which Is to be held in Scranton on Thursday. President Mitchell of the Uni l ted Mine Workers having received the reply of the operators denying his last request for increase fin wages. will | call meeting of the sub-scale commit tee, who it Is expected. will in turn re- port to the convention. The question of | q strike Will then be decided
 The Olympic games at Athens will con 1 tinue this week. The success of the | American contestants has been remark able. and won for them hearty congratu- | lations.
 l The championship tennis tournament of England which will begin In London at | the Queens club today, will have as l one of the contestants Jay Gould, son l of George J. Gould. who on April won | the American court tennis championship | by defeating Charles E. Sands Joshua | Crane Jr, of Boston. is also entered and will play in the doubles as partner | of Gould.
 The national convention of cotton plant CTS and spnners to be held in Washing l ton, D. c. on May 1, will he attended py the commission appointed by the city or Manchester England, to investigate the | methods used in this country.
 The Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tinworkers will hold it's an- nual convention in Cincinnati, O.. on May 1. at which time will be discussed | the wa ee scala and unionizing of eastoTn