Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-05-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular CORES pondent

(FrOm our REGULAR CORES pondent.I
Washington. d. G. May 19-Final-
, ly the Senate has finished with the
rate bill. The Allison amendment,
| which may he Senator Allison g or may
be someone elses, has been incrporat.
ed. The Hateful words, Tin its judg-
ment, have been stricken out aid the
! Interstate Commerce Commission is
left without specific Instructions to do
som ething it will have to do anyhow.
No. the bill has not passed. There are
still some speeches to be made by gen.
,, tlemen who want to get into the Con-
greSsional Record. But the Senate is
as good as done with the bill. Now
comes the question how tar the House
will agree 60 the amended bill, and
there is prospect OF long and per
haps stormy conference over the meas.
ure. No one yet knows whether it is
constitutional Or not and the bill at
he best will velt the rate making pow
or in the courts rather than in the In
terstate Commerce Commission. Tnis
of course may not be great loss. The
courts presumably are AS honest as the
Interstate Commerce Commission, but
The mere idea of broad court review
seems to be a useless sort of govern
ment circumlocution vesting the rate
making power with the courts where
1t had rs well be put in the first place
il the courts are to have the ultimate
settling of it.
Only the embers of the Bailey-TilI
an,-Chandler- White House feud re
main. Senator Bailey said his say and
the correspondents of the papers be
pitched into seemed to have 10 objec.
tion to being denounced as deliberate
and malicious liars" So the active
eruption In that dir, ction is over. Ii
it had been northern senator 80 dis.
cribing a Southern correspondent,
there might have been a sequel, but as
the case stands. probably nothing more
will be heard of 1t.
One of the local papers has come out
this week with what Is alleged TO be an
authOritive launching Of the Cannon
boom for the Presidency. 1t claims
that the Presidential bee has lit at
last and that there is being prepared
by some unnamed Representative
speech which will be delivered in the
House some time during the coming
week, naming "Uncle Joe' as the real
thing III presidential timber and put
ting the thing in such shape that the
old war horse of the Republicans can
but coyiy say ny esq This is piece
of gossip that is given for what it may
be worth. There is no authentic record
of man yet refusing the nomination
for the Presidency when it was definite
ly rendered him. Speaker Cannon
says he has enough trouble running the
House and is not particularly after the
nomination. But it is possible be
might be induced to do violence to his
feelings if he were violently approach
ed. There 10 just one thing against the
suggestion, and that is that it ia lit
tie early for the real boom to he launch
ed. Presidential candidates are not
usually named SO far in advance of the
convention and 1t is just possible if the
Cannon boom ia launched at this time
that 1t may wither with some other
bOOms already launched that probably
never will get into the convention ball. |
One OF the most important conven |
ton that has been held in Washington
for q long time is now In session. It'll
is the joint meeting of the Association |
Of American Physicians and the Ma |
tional Association for the Study and |
Prevention of tuberculosis. 1t will
be recOllected that this association was |
the outgrOwth of the commission ap,
pointed by the President to study the
subject. It has had the effect of bring.
ing some of the best minds in the
medical profession to the study of con-
and has resulted in the first
fight that has ever been made
against the Great White Plague. 1t
was pointed out by one of the speakers
this week that the ravages of tuber-
,ulosis in the United States In a sin
gle year wipe out more people and
cause a greater amount of loss and
'uffering, save perhaps the actual