Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-08-13

about the Hepburn act Two years
ago a smaller company met to dis
cuss the employers liability act.
When the sixty-fve general coun-
sci and general solicitors went away
this afternoon in special parlor cars,
10 No. 154. for Boston. they
left behind the distinct impression
that the railroad trust viii fight
President Taftis new railroad law to
the last legal ditch
Where Peace conferrees Met.
The war conference was held in
the music room of the wentworth
house, at New Castle-a few years
ago the home OF Russians, Japs and
In attendance at the
peace conference. A vote was taken
to the effect that outsiders were not
to be admitted. Reporters were po-
litely but firmly shooed away. No
stenographic notes were taken. No
complete statement was given out for
The Sunday American is informed.
however. on what seems to be the
best possible authority that the fol-
lowing are fair samples of the ques-
tons about which the railroad law.
yers have concerned themselves in
these busy days.
Is the water route provision consti-
tutional? Is the long and short
haul clause constitutional in its pres
ent form. and should steps be taken
at an early date to test its constitu-
tionality? Is the "Mann-Elkins bill"
provision as to maintenance II agents
and supplying information respecting
described shipments constitutional?
Is that portion OF Section ~ OF
the Mann Elkins bill which confers
power upon the interstate commerce
TO suspend a rate violat-
i've Of the Federal Constitution? Is
the provision of this section with re
spect 10 the establishment of through
rates, joint classifcations and joint
rates constitutional?
Is the operation of the provision
Of this section with respect to rout-
ng freight when taken in connection
with the Carmack amendment con-
Is the proviso imposing
he burden Of proof upon the carrier
Worked for Long Hours.
The conference was an amazement
md a revelation to the fashionable
quests. The lawyers worked Wed
lesday, Thursday. Friday and part Of
oday Promptly at $3.50 O'Clock ey-
ny morning they walked into the
,ouncil room. At noon they had 3
ecess of two hours. Back to the
music room they marched at pm,
o remain until $50 All told, the
occupied twenty-one hours !
n the class room, to say nothing Of
ater gatherings of two, three or four, I
Y more. in groups.
They came in from all over. Hen |
Y Bradstreet Cleayes. governor Of /
iaine fourteen 70 seventeen yeazs
Igo, walked arm-in-arm with Genera
ieorge Paul Harrison Of Opeltks
Ala. Ex-Governor Cleaves came down /
o represent the Maine Central. Gen
raj Harrison was here for the West |
I'm railway OF Alabama. Harrison, q I
,olonel at twenty. at twenty-five waa
he youngest brigadier-general com
nisioned by the Confederate army.
Edison Rich. general attorney foi
he Union Pacific. came on in thu
lame Of the Hartman lines, which
each about to the Pacific. Hugh R.
Chaplin answered the roll call for
he Bangor & Aroostook, which
ouches the Canadian border far up
n the potato country. Vice-President
c. auckland Of the New Ha-
zen and Edgar Judson Rich OF the
Boston & Maine, we're there Rich
having Charles Sumner Pierce with
him as assistant general solicitor.
"Book" For the Class.
Twice a day the class was presid
ed over by Colonel Henry l. Stone,
general counsel for the Louisville g.
Nashville. Everybody had two books
with him. One was the interstate
commerce law, printed for this oc
casion in the month just past by the
Railway World, with "All amend.
ments and additions to. and includ
ing the commerce court act OF June
Is. 1910, also including the immunity
acts, the Elkins law, and the expe-
dition act as amended on June 25,
1910"
Priced more highly. apparently, was
the printed book of Questions
some Of which, the unconstitution-
atty ones, are printed above. There
were enough Of these books to go
around and no more. 1t was said
about the hotel that the proofs had
been destroyed and the type
thrown in" in the presence Of the
managers.
Besides auckland of the New Ha
ven there were two other vice-presi
dents here. These were Alexander
Hamilton, first vice" and general
consul of the Atlantic Coast line and
William Sherman Jenney of Syracuse
vice-president and general consul Of
the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern.
The others we're: Genearl Consul
500 line Alfred n. Brights. Louis