The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-15
Steel Hand Ls Felt Through NelDet GloUe
 In Railroad Heariyag

that the Democrats were only seeking to improve the bill.
 There was a sharp debate over the section prohibiting the enticing of arr ticers and workmen from Government arsenals or armories by private em- ployers and ai1Sattempts to amend the provision so as to make ft applicable in time of war or public emergency were voted down.
 When adjournment was taken at D. n., eighty-six sections of the s43 had been disposed of.
 When the House resumed consider. ation of the bill, Mr. Wilson tPa.) moved to strike out the whole of Sec- tion 4s. which prohibits any one from inducing an artificer or workman efn- ployed at any arsenal or armory to leave the service of the Government and enter private employ.
 storm of Dfscussion.
 The amendment started a storm of discussion as to the necessity of such Legislation in time of peace.
 Mir. Cochran characterized the sec tion as extraordinary and as the laying pitfalls for the unwary.
 MT. Crumpacker maintained that the proposed law did not prevent a man service, but that it was intended to provide an element of public policy.
 "The element of public policy would exist only in case of war" interjected MT Williams. who referred to the Webb amendment voted down yester- day which sought to limit the applica- tion of the law to times of war.
 Mir Hull of Iowa. chairman of the committee on military affairs, declar- ed that in time of peace. the, govern nent was preparing for war. The amendment. he said. sought to destroy the ability Of the government to care for it's defense.
 The amendment wos lost--7s to 1o4
 Various amendments were voted down and when the section was reach ed regarding the taking of seized prop ertv from the custody of revenue of ficers, Messrs. Williams. Pennsyivania la, Fiovd. Arisansas, sought to amend 10 by making the punishment apply only fo such disposition when it is done ..without authority of law" but that too was rejected.
 An amendment by Mr. Goidtogle' New york. to give judges discretion to whether punishment for assault ing revenue officers to dispossess them of seized goods. shall be both fine and imprisonment.
 Mir. Hardy of Texas. offered an anendment to section SD making " unlawful for any corporation to make any money contribution Tn connSctlon ,s .n,s aTe to be voted for who upon aiection shall have the right 10 elect 2 United States Senator. but It was votso
 0wr xtr. yxsmbai. tKy.l thought the sec tiou sEiould inciuda besides money Gen- fributionA any other tntng ek esa.sn and offered an aFnsndmen~ On @sssss @ssssS a fsf fff-a=@H# 10 s1--ht,f tlne Renuhlicans rallied tneir farcea and defeated 1t IT to sl.
 A drastic amendment covering viola ttors of the law prohibiting national hsnl~s or corporations from making money contributions in connection to any election to any political omes "~s offered hy Mir. Cochran (N. fs)
 The rregent law provides penalIy of Si .oGo fine or not more than year innriaonment, or both, but MT. Cock. ransa amendment called for a $lo,OOO lne and Imprisonment for ten years Tha penalty of the existing law, he said. was ridiculously disproportlonate to the enormity of the offense.
 A statement by Mr. Moon that the section was drafted at the last session of Congress "by a Democratic states v,sn" ana should not be amended ex- cept in separate bills, called forth fer vid addresses from Democrats who said they had no such regard for the sanc- titv of the alleged Democratic law as 10 prevent them from trying to amend 1t.
 MT. Williams (Miss). while agreeing that the law, referred to wss a Demo cratic Idea. advanced by senator tlll- man. said that it was not his bill as originally drawn. He favored the Cockran amendment and said that the real criminals in the flesh and blood should be fined and imprisoned. "as much as the law breaking. artificial. paper-existing things called corpora tIons."
 Created an UprOar.
 Mir. Gaines of Tennessee created an uproar while attacking he fnAnciers of Wall Street He said they were a sort of bacteria that even the magnify ing glasses Of the Department of Ag- rIcuIture could not control. He want ed to know If those men were to be allowed to run riot "in poor old scourged New York city" and asked, amid Laughter: If the law Is not snended to reach these men. how can we go home or anywhere else and be respected, unless we go to hellT"
 MT, Sims of Tennessee diverted the discussion on the Cochran amendment by issuing a warning to the House 10 "get ready for Section 2lS not yet reached. He said that earlier in the day he had noticed in the gallery lobbyist for the liq;.or interests; that he had at once suspected q nigger In the woodpile,r and presently found him. Section 31S. he said, by it's pecu. liar and adroit wording converted every postoffice route in the United States Into Q jug-carrying route" by making 1t mandatory upon postmasters to accept for transportation packages of liquor, though the section ostensibly prohibits their acceptance.
 The amendment was lost by vote nR 90 tn IT.