New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-18
THE OVERWHELMINGLY

most perfected whereby the pending and all
remaining sections of the interstate CON-
merce bill were 10 be passed by a practi-
caliy solid Republican vote. Just as this
agreement was about complete gossip to
the effect that the President had applied
opprobrious epithets to most of the in
surgents was carried to them with the re-
suit that they Immediately flew off the
composure. To-day they were all outside
the breastworks. and had a vote been
taken the Cummins amendment eliminating
the Department of Justice as the prose
cutor in cases appealed from the Interstate
Commerce Commission to the proposed
Commerce Court would have been adopted
This amendment is regarded as highly I'm.
desirable by the administration, as the bill
relieves the commission from its present
anomalous position or prosecutor ant
judge, delegating the prosecution, on APP.
peal at least, to the Attorney General To-
night the regular leaders. are founderine
about in an effort to find some other basis
for compromise and to disabuse the minds
Of the insurgents of the idea that the
President has referred to them slightingly
that a point of order will be made against
the Tariff Board provision In the sundry
civil bill. Representa- Dalzel Fitz-
gerald, OF New York, and other opponents
of tho provision insist that under the
Payne law the President is merely EN-
powered to employ persons 10 assist
him in the enforcement Of the maximum
and minimum clause, and that, therefore
T6n s1rnc l.
existing law while the provision in the
sundry civil bill authorizes a tariff
board" and is, therefore, new legisla
ton Representative Mann, as presiding
officer In the committee of the whole, vii
be called upon to rule on the point Of
order, and it is feared he will sustain it
Representative Tawney, however, has an
other method of bringing the matter be
fore the House which he is holding in re
serve and which appears to be of nature
to gain success. if, as Mr.. Tawney be
lieves, most of the regulars and all The
insurgents vote for it.
TO MARK WILKES GRAVE.-Repre
sentative Olcott introduced a bill to-da.
providing that the grave Of Rear Adnira
Wilkes, in Arlington Cemetery, be appro
priately marked. Mr.. Olcott says the fam
fly of the ADMIRAL is unable to erect
suitable monument, and in view of hi
honorable record the national government
should net do less than place a prone
memorial over his last resting place. Ad
miral Wilkes was the first man to set III
and use fixed astronomical instruments IL
the United States, and in addition to hi
notable Civil War record he circumnavi
gated the globe as early as 1888.
PANAMA FORTIFTCATIONS. - Their
seems to be considerable likelihood that tn
Committee ~ Foreign Affairs will reper
favorably the keifer resolution providin:
|. that instead of fortifyng the Panama
Canal its permanent neutrality shall b.
provided for in a joint treaty concluded be
tween the great powers OF the world, ano
that the United States shall maintain alon,
the canal only such force as is necessar.
adequately to police it. Several member
of the committee who called on the Presi
dent regarding this subject this mornin;
gained the idea that Mr.. Taft is not espe
/ cially enthusiastic regarding the fortified
ton of the canal, and that he, at least
would not disapprove the arrangement pro
posed by General Kefer. There is grav
doubt if the Senate would consent to an,
such proposition, however, even if tn
President could be persuaded to do So
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