The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
uumnins Amendment to the , Railroad Bill Killed Amid Much Excitement
'lOWAN WILL INTRODUCE
 ! ANOTHER AMENDMENT
Tt Is Believed That the Vote Defeat- Ing the Cummips Substitute Is In-
 dIcative of Final Victory for the Administration

Washington, April 2s.-By vote of |ss5 to 29 and in the midst of intense Ezexcitement the administration republ- &cans today defeated decisively the Cum ktnlns substitute for the Crawford -Ei- Z'kins traffic Agreement provision of the railroad bill
 The question had practically monop- blized the attention of the Senate for Efhe past week and was regardedt as one of the most important sub -divl- sions of the pending bill. The vote Is generally accepted as test of the strength of the contending sides re- spectively. and it is believed that it presages the passage of the bill by a safe majority.
 The vote was not a large one and represented only little more than two- thirds of the Senate membership. Of the total membership of 92 there Were 2S senators who did not vote and of these four were absent without be- ing paired and all of these were dem ocrats. They were Senators Clark of Arkansas, Bankhead of Alabama. Nc : Emery of Louisiana, and Smith of Maryland.
 All of the democrats present cast their votes in favor of the. Cummins provision so that if the democratic senators who were absent and impaired had been present and had voted for flte amendment the ballot in it's favor Mould have been increased to B sti |&less by two votes than the vote against 1.-The provision.
 II only IS democratic votes were cast b5 this time together with II republi- cans. who voted for the Cummlns sub stitute. constituting the affair.
 How the vote stood
 The full vote was
 Yeas-Bacon, Bailey, Beveridge, Bor- ah. Bristow, Burkett, Chamberlain, capp, Clay, Cummins. Davis, Dixon, bolliver, Fletcher, Frazier, Gamble, Bore, Johnston, Is Toilette, Martin, Nelson, Overman, Paynter, Percy, Pur- lel, Simmons, Smith of South Caro- lina, Stone and Taylor-.9.
 Nays-Bradley. Brandagee, Brown, Bulkely, Burnham Burrows, Burton, Carter, Clark of Wyoming, Crane. Crawford, C1llom, Curtis, Depew, Du- pont, Elkins, Frye. Gallinger, Guggen- helm, Hepburn, Jones, Kean, Lodge Nixon, Oliver, Page, Perkins, Piles Root, Scott, Smith of Michigan, Smoot, Stephenson, Sutherland, Warner-35.
 The following pairs were announced. the first named being favorable to tie Cummins provision, and the last named being against:
 Hughes and Aldrich, Bourne and Pen fose, Taliaferro and Briggs, Shively and Dick, Culberson and Flint, New lands and Hale, Ow,n and Lorin,sn Foster and McCumb er. Raynor and Richardson. Daniel and Wetmore, Money and Warner, Tillman and Dil- ngham. t
 Immediately after the vote was an- nounced Senator .Cummins. whose pro vision had been voted down, gave mo- tice of another amendment intended 70 accomplish the Senate purpose.
 By the amendment presented today Ind winch will receive the first vote when the subject comes up the Iowa Behator seeks to insert a provision, 1e claring no increase or change m classi- dcatiOn shall take effect until it shall have received the approval of the com mission. 4
 Understanding on Votes it
 There Is general understanding that Ivoting will be resumed tomorrow and IF is expected all amendments, including thai of MT. Cummins, will be voted down and that the Crawford Elkins provision which has been accepted by the commit tee. will be adopted.
 The voting stage was not reached un- kil late in the day
 The Senate had begun the considera- Ion of the bill fin the hope of being able b complete the measure before the close ett nd .,ttI1 able to do so but for the fact that al the last moment Senator LaIrollette came In with a one-hour speech, which had the Sffcct of delaying the voting for just Shat length of time.
 Previous to MT. LaFolletteys' speech the ime had been given to addresses by enators Newands and Cummins.
 senator Frye. president pro tenn, occu- Ted the chair and his recognition of ne Wisconsin senator was rather grudg- pgly given. MT. LaF'ollette's speech was
 plea against the annulment of the herman antitrust law. as applicable tc Inc railroads, without supplying adequate protection in its absence. In many re. Dpects 1t was remarkable speech, anG It was delivered under somewhat try Ing circumstances. The Senate, as vel Rs its presiding officer, evidently wanted to vote. and while most of the senator. retained their seats there was manfes mpatience at least among the advocates Df the bill.
 Declaring that the standard in tn, eenate had declined since 1890, when tn, anti-trust law was enacted and assert ing that law to be next to the consti AkEtion the principal bulwark of the lib critics of the people, MT LaFolett warned his colleagues, and especial, western senators. against being the frs % impair the law.
 LaFoIIette's Charges
 ''We are come upon a time when tn oountry has an administration which i ready to stand for Legislation which never before could have been attempted with any prospect of success and toda. we must vote.'' shouted MT. LaFolett with tremendous earnestness. "whethe we make the first breach in this statut under the behest of those who have beer ettacking it for ten years or not
 1hking up the republican platform. MT T.aEollette asserted that party platform feauenuy came nearer representing tn