Free press., 1906-05-12


ton on the bill. Mr.. Curtis expresses
confidence in the belief that compro-
mise with all interests concerned will
be reached and that the bill will pass
the senate and be agreed to in the
house before adjournment In briefly
discussing the subject Mr.. Curtis
said:
'.The beet sugar people are not op-
posed to the Importation of 100000
tons of sugar a year from the Philip
pine Islands. The members OF the
ways and means committee and the
members of the Taft party, who have
carefully looked into the subject, are
satisfied that the islands would not be
able to export more than 100000 tons
of sugar a year to this country"
Monday, May 7.
Washington. = President Roosevelt
transmitted to congress the report OF
James r. Garfield, commissioner of
corporations, giving the results OF his
investigation of the subject of trans
portation and freight rates in connec-
ton with the oil industry.
III HIS ulS0SdSS tnS pISO1hShI "a
presses the view that the report is of
capital Importance because of the ef-
fort now being made to secure such
enlargement of the powers of the in
terstate commerce commission as
| will confer upon the commission pow
er in some measure adequate to meet
! the clearly demonstrated needs of the
situation. The facts set forth in the
report, he declares, are for the most
part not disputed. That the Standard
Oil Company has benefited enormous
| ly up almost to the present moment
| by secret rates, many of which were
clearly unlawful, the president says
the report clearly shows, the benefit
| thereby secured amounting to at least
| three quarters of million a year. On
this subject he says:
This three-Quarters of a million
represents the profit that the Stand
pense of the railroads; but of course
| the ultimate result is that it obtains
| a much larger profit at the expense
| of the public. A very striking result
| of the investigation has been that
shortly after the discovery of these
| secret rates by the commissioner of
corporations, the major portion of
them were promptly corrected by the
railroads, so that most of them have
now been done away with. This i'm
mediate correction, partial or COM
plete, of the evil of the secret rates,
is of course on the one hand an ac-
knowledgement that they were wrong
and yet were perSevered in until eX-
posed; and on the other hand, a proof
of the efficiency of the work that has
! been done by the bureau of corpora
tions"
The senate committee on privileges
and elections considered the Senator
Smoot case, but in view of statements
of several senators that they desired
to review certain features of the tes-
timony, a vote was postponed until
May Is. 1t was agreed, however, that
vote shall be had on that day.
Saturday, May 5.
Washington.-Thi was the last day
for general debate IN the senate on
the railroad rate bill, and it was fully
! occupied. Following brief speech by
Mr.. Nelson, Mr.. Tillman spoke at
length in an effort to show by criti-
cism of individual judges that the
power of granting temporary injunc-
tions by inferior United States courts
should be taken from them in inter
state commerce commission cases and
he was followed by Messrs. Bacon
Bailey, Teller and Foraker, in
speeches of some length.
Mr.. Tillman's speech consisted
mainly of quotations rejecting upon
the conduct of federal judges in diff
ferent parts of the country. While he
was speaking, he engaged in contro
versy with Mr.. Spooner, in which the
Wisconsin senator characterized his
adversary's reference to. him as "in
decent" and during which Mr.. Till
man ordered Mr.. Spooner to take his
seat.
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