The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-22
Proposed Amendments Bring
Out Spirited Debate
AGAINST CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Would Keep the Courts Open for Real
Appeals Also Would Gaurd
Against Many Frivolous
Complaints.

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Washington, d. C., March o2,--A
spirited debate on the legal questions
involved in the railroad rate bill sprang
up in the Senate yesterday afternoon
when Senator Bailey offered his amend
ments 10 the Hepburn measure.
a pathetic touch was, given to the
debate BY the fact that as Senator Bailey
was speaking news OF the death 81 his
father. was received. lie was Kept in
Ignorance of the fact until after he had
concluded when he was called into the
cloak room anil told by Senator
Foster. He Immediately left for his
rooms in the Senate Annex, and Mr..
Til1man announced that My. Bailey
could not continue the debate.
Mr.. Culberson had introduced an
amendment to the bill prohibiting rail
roads from subscribing to political cam
paign funds and imposing fine and inn
lprisonmert for its violation
MIR Clark of Wyoming withdrew his
conference report on the bill prohibiting
the premature diy1llgence Of government
| information, on account of the objection
| To the new matter in IT, He said a Joint
resolution covering senators and mem
bers OF the House Of Representatives
would soon be presented. The confer
recs inserted members OF Congress IN the
| list Of officials that were prohibited
| from diynlgiag secret information.
Mr.. Bailey then took the floor to
present his amendments. These pro-
vide that the decisions of the interstate
commerce commission in fixing a rate
that shall afford just Compensation to
the railroad may be subject to a full
court review, and that pending the de-
termination OF this question by the
court the rate fixed BY the commission
shall not be suspended BY any judicial
introductory decree or injunction.
The discussion precipitated by the
| Texas senator took a wide range and
disclosed d divergence Of views on the
part of some Of the Democratic sena.
tors who took part in ii. Senator Dol
liver, the chief sponsor OF the Hepburn
bill, also took exceptions to some Of
Mr.. Beiley's views. Senator Bailey de-.
elared that If, as the friends of the pend.
| ing bill insisted. the measure already
contained an understood provision for
court review there could be no objec-
tion to expressing that provision in
terms.
MIR. Bailey referred especially TO Mr..
Delivers declaration that the Bailey
provision would deny just compensa-
tion and declared that he had copied the
language of the constitution in his pro-
posed amendment Mr.. Bailey added
that the amendment did not Affect the
Hepburn bin oa the question of discrimi-
nation. He said that he had prepared
two amendments, both Of them tenta-
tive.
Senator Tillman, in his blunt fashion,
speaking of the question OF deciding
what was Just compensation to rail-
road, raised laugh when he said that
railroad officials had been known to lie
when questioned about the value Of the
property of their companies. He cited
an instance where railroad had de-
elared some o. its property TO be worth
i S5,0a0.000 when u smit was filei against
/ it for damages, but at the same time
swore to the tax collector that il was
worth only si,s00,00es