The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-01-09
RAILWAY WORK HOURS
Senate to Vote on theta Toilette
Bill Thursday.
sUPREME C0uRT MAKEs HASTE.
WIN Hurry Up ana settle validity of
EmpIoyers Liability Law Wood
row Wilson'S Presidential Bee-Mr.
Roosevelt Likes Theaters.
By CHARLES W. ARTHUR.

Thursday, Jan. 10, the senate viii vote
on Senator La Follette's bill limiting the
hours OF work of railway employees.
The measure has been unfinished
business before the senate for some
time. but 1t was not thoroughly dis
cussed before the holidays because the
junior senator from Wisconsin did not
insist on its displacing other matters,
as he had right to do. 1t is prac-
tically certain that a sharp fght over
the proposed legislation will occur. As
originally introduced by Senator La
Toilette the bill provided that when
the interstate commerce commission
found on investigation that any rail-
road was working its men too long
that body should have the right to fix
the hours of duty for the employees of
such road and also the rest intervals.
Tie committee, however. struck out all
the original bill and provided that no
railroad should work an employee more
than sixteen consecutive hours A Wig
orous effort TO have the bill recommit.
ted to the committee Is being made.
Especial interest attaches to the mat
ter because Of the terribly fatal wrecks
which have occurred in the District o.
Columbia and elsewhere recently and
which are said to have been due 10
some extent to the practice of keeping
railroad men on duty overlong.
Hurryins the Supreme Court.
1t seems probable that, perhaps for
the first time in its existence, the ST.
preme court of the United States will
permit itself to be hurried. The adj.
ministration naturally Is anxious IA
keep all reform legislation in effect,
and the decisions OF two federal dis.
trict judgeS-Evans Of Kentucky am,
Mccall OF Tennessee-which declare
the employers liability law unconsti-
tutional, Is interfering seriously With
the programme. Administration OIL
Gals therefore, are attempting TO ex-
pedite final settlement OF the matte
by having the two cases in which
Judge Evans and Judge Mccall acted
appealed TO the supreme court as soon
as possible, rs the governments legal
experts in Washington are OF the oD.n-
lon that the district judges have erred
and that the highest tribunal will un-
hold the liability law. At one time
there was a belief that Justice Moody,
the newest member OF the supreme
court, would not be qualified to sit on
the bench when the appeal is heard,
but It now appears that, although the
government interviewed in the matter
OF the liability law while he was still
attorney general, Assistant to the At
torney General Purdy signed as the
governments counsel.
Say Wilson 10 Eliminated.
Democrats who all along have been
amused or irritated by references to
President Woodrow Wilson Of Prince.
ton university as possible candidate
for the Democratic presidential noml-
nation think that they are now in pos.
session Of information which will put
an end to Mr.. Wilson's aspirations in
that direction. This information comes
from a member OF the faculty at
Princeton, 1t is said, and is that Mr..
Wilson voted for Mckinley In both of
his successful campaigns against Bry.
an. The Democrats as a whole are
rather encouraged by the political sit
uatlon as 1t exists at present and are
doing everything possible to bring to.
Gether the two wings OF the party
which were formed as result OF the
disagreement over the money question,
Efforts in this line would be nullifieI
by the nomination OF man who bolt,
ed the regular Democratic nomine,
in 1896 and 1900. they say. and cor.
sequently they assert that Mr.. Wilson
has been completely eliminated. In
Washington just now the general opin-
ion is that Mr.. Bryan has. a better
chance TO secure the Democratic nom.
nation than any other man.
Roosevelts as Theater Gosrs.
Members Of President Roosevelt's
family are regular attendants at the
Washington theaters, and the presi-
dent himself usually sees one or two
plays a week. Sometimes Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth are with the
presidential party. which. always en-
joys itself immensely, even IL the play
is dull. In that event the president
and Mrs. Roosevelt laugh and joke
with their guests. One night this week
Mrs. Roosevelt attended the principal
theater of the city accompanied by
Miss Ethel, Theodore IL or, Archie
and q number Of their Young friends.
Miss Ethel, who is rapidly arriving at
the stage where she may demand to
be called "a young lady" is as great
q favorite among the younger set at
the capital as Miss Alice was among
the older society element when she
was ''the young lady" Of the White
House.
Gaines After pronss.
Representative John Wesley Gaines
Of Tennessee, who is really a valuable
member of congress In spite OF the