The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-09
RATE BILL GOES
THROUGH FLYING
Only Seven v ote S. All
Republicans. Against
the Measure.
MARTIN MAY CREATE
NEW COMMISSION
Virginia Senator Will Introduce
An Amendment to the Rate
Bill in the Senate Abol-
ishing the Interstate
Commerce Com
mission.

(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., February So
The bill to give the government the pow
err to fix all railway rates passed the
House of Representatives to-day with
only seven dissenting votes. These were
cast by Republicans. Ono Democrat, Mr..
Sullivan, of Massachusetts, answered
present" TO his name, thus refraining
from expressing his opinion of the bill.
Every other Democrat voted for u meas
ure which Is more Democratic than
many that have been enacted by n con-
gress controlled by the Democratic par
ty.
The bill is most remarkable in that
1t has no friends in the cloak room and
no opponents on the floor" said one
of the Republicans who voted against it.
IN conversation with the Times-Dispatch
correspondent to-day. He sized UP the
situation pretty accurately so far az the
republicans are concerned. at any rate
The fact Is undisputed that had 1t nor
been for the President, who has advo-
Gated the bill with the greatest persist
ency, the Republicans of the House
would never have allowed it to pass tha.
body. No national platform of the party
has declared for II, while the Democrats
have been insisting upon 1t for years.
The bill as it passed the House has some
of the phraseology of the last Demo-
cratic national platform in 1t. The House
bill Will pass the Senate, with little
changes. The date of it's passage through
the upper branch cannot be foretold, for
1T Will be discussed Il long while, but
there Is little or no doubt of it, final
passage practically in the form in which
1t will go from the House. Senator's
Elkins. Aldrich and others, whose wealth
is largely invested in railroad securities.
VIII seek to have the bill amended, hut
1T will not foe very materially change,l,
according TO the best informed author
ity- 4
Martins Commission Bill.
Senator Martin has introduced n bin
which will be proposed ns an amendment
to the rate bill when 1t comes before tho
Senate, providing for the abolf-
tion of the prese1 Interstate
State Commerce Commission, and
the creation of a new commission IL
the same name. which shall be composed
of nine commissioners instead OF five as
at present. The commissioners are to be
appointed by the President. and by and
with the advice and consent of the Sem
ate.
The commissioners shall continue i'm
office for term of two, three, four, five,
SIX, seven, eight, nine and ten years. re-
spectively, from the first day of -sprfl.
1906, the term of each to be designated by
the President at the time OF appointment.
and successors shall be appointed for IL
term OF ten years, except that any
person chosen to fill vacancy
shall for term of ten years, except
that any person chosen to fill a vacancy
shall be appointed only for an unexplred
succeed. Any commissioner may be re-
moved by the President lor inetflciency,
neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Not more than five commissioners shall
be appointed from the same political par
ty. Each commissioner shall receive a
salary of ten thousand dollars per :,nnunl,
payable In the same manner as judges OF
courts of the United States. One commits
soner shall be appointed from each OF
the judicial circuits as now constituted
by law, and his successor shall be ap-
pointed from the territory now com.
posing the circuit from which the orig
inal appointment was made. No person
owning stock or bonds OF any common
carrier subject to the provisions Of this
act, or who is in any manner pecuniarily
interested therein, shall enter upon the
duties of such Office, or at any time hold
the same. Commissioners shall not en-
gage III any other business, vocation or
employment. No vacancy in the commits.
sion shall impair the right or the remain-
ing commissioners to exercise all powers
of the commission. An laws and parts
of laws comforting powers and imposing
duties upon or otherwise relating to the
heretofore existing Interstate Commerce
Commission shall continue In full force
and effect and be applicable to the Inter-
State Commerce Commission established
by this act, except as herein otherwise
provided
All proceedings depending before the
heretofore existing commission at the
time this act shall take effect shall, with
out break or Interruption. be deemed to
depending before the commission es-
tabl,shed by this section. and shall con-
tinue on to conclusion before the new
commission.
To Remove Confederate Dead
Representative Hay will introduce in II
n few days a bill which will provide that
all Confederates buried in cemeteries Mt
Northern military prisons shall be brought
to Arlington National Cemetery and re-
inferred. II think it would be much
better to have the ashes of our prison
dead inferred in the Confederate section
at Arlington where the graves Will be
looked after all the time, than to leave I
the dead In graves where they We're laid
to rest when they died." said Mr.. Hay to-
day. 1.-THE graves would be taken care OF
perpetually In Arlington, whereas the
chances are that all work OF caring for
them which we propose to do now would
have TO be done over in a few years, II
the graves were not eventually allowed to
become neglected entIreiy"
Mr.. Hay thinks his bin is also good
In that it win obYIate the necessity OF
appointing commission to superintend
the work of marking and caring for the
graves,
G. O. P. Frost Nips This Rose.
There Is a great row on over the post
mastership at Abingdon. Va, The menn,-
bent. Miss Rose, will lose her place, am
less the apparently Impossible happens
and the President turns down the app'i-
sant recommended By Representative