Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-12
COMING WEEK WILL WITNESS
LIVELY ACTION
Upper House Divided Into Three Sec
tions Over the Measure-Bailey
Looked to for Solution of
Problem
BY Associated Press.

This measure is now on the calendar
as the unfinished business, which gives
1t the right of way over every subject
each day after 2 o'clock. Ordinarily
bills like this pertaining to general leg
islation give place to appropriation
bills, and doubtless the railroad bill
would be temporarily sidetracked for
them if a request to that effect should
be made, but unless the railroad bill
remains undisposed of longer than any
one counts upon, no effort will be made
to displace it even temporarily with the
supply bills, for the senate is a unit in
it's desire to have the matter disposed
of at the earliest practicable moment.
The only positive predictions that
oan be made concerning the course of
the bill is that during the present week
Senator Tillman, who has it in charge,
will make a written report on it, that
there will be number of speeches for
and against the measure. and that the
reports to amend it will proceed.
There may be said to be three di-
visions of the senate, the first stand
ing for the bill as it came from the
mouse, Ine second ueIHdHullS d plO-
vision for a review of the findings of
the interstate commerce commission
of a character that will remove the
entire question from the commission
without leaving it's ruling in force, and
the third granting review, but main
tanning the orders of the commission
in effect until final disposition of the
question is reached in the courts
These will be the vital questions from
N n
'troversy. Indeed. it may be confident
iy asserted that if an agreement could
be arrived at Immediately upon the
question of review, a vote could be
taken without further discussion ex-
cept for home consumption.
Lively Debate Expected
Until, however, there is an approach
to an understanding an animated If not
acrimonious debate may be expected
There is division on these points on
the Democratic as well as the Repub-
lican side of the chamber, and 1t looks
as il most of the amendments to be
suggested would come from the minor
ity members. To Senator Bailey many
of the senators in both parties are look
ing for a solution of the problem by
the amendment which he is understood
to be preparing. He will make an et-
fort to frame a provision which VIII
grant n review by the courts and AT
the same time prevent the suspension
of the commissions orders until the
courts enter their final decrees in given
cases. This will not entirely meet the
demands Of tl'~ re radical advocates
of the juris5i IF the courts but
some of them roept it, There is
an effort to reat. / agreement on a
provision that would require the roads
to deposit the difference between their
hn mi
sion until the final disposition of cases
by the courts.
To Restrict Expenditures
The house of representatives this
week will enter upon protracted dis
cussion of ways and means to restrict
the expenditure of appropriations for
the support of the legislative, executive
and judicial branches of the govern
ment to the exact and specific pur-
poses for which they are made. This
discussion will be incidental to the con-
sideration of the appropriate ton bill for
the branches carrying $29,134, 1S1.
The bill carries n provision for de-
creasing the pay of government clerks
when they reach 65 years of age and
further, that after 1918 no clerk shall be
employed after he reaches the age of
seventy.
Statehood Bill
The statehood situation has again
been shifted to the house side of the
capitol, and while there is a general
understanding that nothing is to be
done with the bill until the return of
members of the rivers and harbors COM
mttee from the south, which will lie
some time Saturday, it is possible that
action may not be delayed on that
account.
The bill will be returned to the house
from the senate Monday. 1t will prob
ably be allowed to remain on the speak
er's table until action is decided upon.
However, if there is any amendment
of the senate in the bill which changes
in any way the charge upon the treas
ury, the bill will go automatically under
the rules to Mr.. Hamilton's committee
on territories.
1t Is not unlikely there will be a
-Republican caucus on the bill some
evening during the week, that it may be
ascertained with some definiteness just
where members stand on the statehood
proposition.
French Affairs Interesting
Jean Sarrien having undertaken the
formation of a ministry in succession
to that of M. Rouvier, which was de-
feated in the chamber of deputies last
week, interest in French affairs will
center in the selection OF individual
members of the cabinet and in the
change which is likely to result in the
policy relative to the application of the
law providing for the separation of
church and state. 1t was through the
votes of one faction favoring more
rigorous administration of the law and
of another element which held that
the law was being enforced in an op-
pressive manner, that the Rouvier min
istry was defeated. Leon Bourgeois
mas accepted the ministry of foreign
affairs and as his views are known to
be in general accord with those of
Rouvier no change in the French at
titude regarding Morocco reforms is to
be anticipated.
The outlook in Algeciras is favorable
TO a pacific adjustment of the Franco
German controversy. Cancellation isl
apparently in the air and the indica-
tions are that mutual concessions will
be made in the matter of the Moroc-
can bank, after which the police ques
tion will come up with prospects much
in favor of satisfactory adjustment.