The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-09
Railroad Rate Bill in the
 Senate.
MRMORGAN WILL SPEAK TODAY
Tillman Will Urge Fixing Time for
 Vote.
It h Believed, However, that CbJec- tion Will Re made, and that the Debate Will Co on for
 Some Time.

The United States Senate will con- tinue this week to discuss the railroad rate bill and the indications fail to SUD- port Senator Tillman's prediction that the week will witness the termination of the general debate.
 The conservative Senators who are opposing the House are still standing out for a sweeping provision for a court review, and some of them at least are quite as determined as they ever were in their opposition to the bill in spite of the Long amendment.
 The presentation of the Long amend ment has had no effect on the more pro- nounced of that element, unless in the direction of intensifying their opposi- tion.
 MT. Tillman will continue to prefer his request for the naming of day. but for the present will meet with the same denial that has attended his pre- yious efforts in that direction.
 The discussion will be resumed today by Senators McLaurin of Mississippi and Morgan of Alabama. Mir. Bailey has given notice of speech for Tues day in reply to the criticisms that have been made by MT. Spooner and MT. Knox of his amendment, depriving the United States Circuit Courts of the power to issue temporary writs of injunction in rate cases. ,.-
 Interest in Bailey's Speech.
 Much interest is felt In the Senator's reply, and there is little doubt that 1t will bring out a number of speeches in rejoinder. He will occupy most of the time Tuesday, and it Is understood that both MT. Spooner and MT. Knox will make formal replies later in the week. MT. Foster of Louisiana, who is a member of the Committee on Inter- state Commerce, will also speak on the bill during the week.
 It is expected that the conservatives will present their court review pro- vision very soon after the conclusion of Senator Bailey's speech. The prepa- ration of the provision has been en- trusted to Senator Knox and 1t IS un- derstood to be along the general lines of the fifth section of the Knox rate bill.
 Senator Clapp will make an effort during the week to secure action on the conference report Of the bill providing for the settlement of the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indians. He will also try to get the Indian appropriation bill passed.
 Another week Is to be devoted to the postoffice appropriation bill in the national house of representatives. The general debate on this measure has taken a wide range and the demands for recognition will make it impossible to reach the details or the bill before Wednesday. To complete 1t will con sume the remainder of the week.
 General legislation will be suspend ed Monday, that the house may sit as the city council for the District of Columbia.
 There is to be a general reply to Democratic tariff speeches by Colonel Hepburn of Iowa probably on Tues day.
 The pure food bill has been made special order to fill in time not taken up with the appropriation or revenue measures. .|
 The Anthracite Meeting.
 At the meeting between the anthra- cite operators and representatives Of the miners which will take place today in New York, the operators will make theis reply to the proposition of the miners for arbitration. The operators held a meeting Saturday to discuss the proposals, but would not say what conclusions had been reached.
 The hearing of the interstate com- merce commission in its coal and oil investigation under the recent resolu- tion of congress will begin in the limited States court rooms in Philadel- phia on Tuesday. w. w. Atterbury general manager and Joseph G. Searles. general coal traffic agent of the Penn sylvania railroad and Theodore Voor- hees, first vice president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company have been directed to be present.
 An international billiard tournament at eighteen inch balk line, two shots in will be begun in New York this even ing and will continue afternoons and evenings until finished. The games will be 500 points and the chief prize will be a thousand dollar trophy. Among the enteries are Willie Hoppe. George F. Slosson, Louis Cure and Ora 
 A meeting of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the of Teaching has been called to convene in New York today. It Is expected that definite rules under which Mir Carnegie's gift is to be will be adopted. MT. Carnegies purpose in donating the funds is stated to be the establish ment of a system of retiring pensions in the higher institutions of learning in the United States and Canada