The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-30
Cummins Substitute for the
Crawford Elkins Amendment
to the Railroad Bill Decis-
lively Defeated in the Senate.
DEMOCRATS LINED UP
WITH THE INSURGENTS
Reasonably Certain That All
the Other Amendments viii
Be Voted Down and CraW-
ford Provision Put Through,
ACTION TAKEN IN HOUSE

Washington, April 2S,-By the deci-
sive vote of 35 to %, the administra-
tion Republicans today defeated the
Cummins substitute for the Crawford
Elkins traffic agreement provision of
the railroad bill This question had
been practically monOpolizing the at
tention OF the Senate for the last week
and was regarded as one of the most
important of the subdivisions of the
bill. The vote is generally accepted as
4 test of the strength of the contend
ing sides and IL is believed ii pTeSa geS
the passage of the bill by a safe ma
jority.
or the total membership of go. there
were rs senators who did not vote, and
of these, four. all Democrats, were alb
sent and impaired. They were Senators
Clark of Arkansas, Bankhead of Ala
bama, McEneTy OF Louisiana, and Smith
of Maryland.
All the Democrats present voted for
the Cummins provision, so that if the
four Democrats mentioned had been
present and had voted for the amend
ment, the ballot in its favor would still
have been less by two votes than the
vote against the provision. The full
vote follows:
Vote by Yeas and Nays.
Yeas - Bacon, Bailey, Beveridge,
BOrah, BristOw. BuTkett, Chamberlain,
Clapp, Clay, Cummins, Davis, Dixon,
DOlliver, Fletcher, Frazier, Gamble,
Gore, Johnston, LaFollette, Martin.
Nelson, Overman, Paynter, Percy, Pur-
cell, simmons, Smith of South Carolina,
Stone and TaylOr-29.
Nays-Bradley, Brandegee, Brown,
Carter. Clark of Wyoming. Crane,
Crawford, Cullom, Curtis, Depew, Du-
pOnt, Elkins, FRYE. GallingeT, Guggen-
helm. Hepburn. Jones, Kean. Lodge.
Nixon, Oliver, Page, Perkins, Piles,
Root, Scott Smith of Michigan, SmOOt,
Stephenson. sutherland. Warner-S5.
The following pairs were announced.
the first named being favorable 10 the
Cummins provision and the last named
being against:
Hughes and Aldrich, Bourne and PEN
rose. Taliaferro and Briggs. Shiveley
lands and Hale, owen and Lorimer,
Foster and McCumber, Rayner and
Richardson.
Ne-v Amendment Presented.
Immediately after the result was an
nounced Senator Cummins gave notice
of another amendment intended TO ac-
complish the same purpose, He had
claimed for his amendment that it
would specifically require the approval
by the interstate commerce commission
of all rates under traffic agreements
in advance of their taking effect. but
he said his substitute covered all
phases of the question.
BY the new amendment presented
today the Iowa senator seeks TO insert
2 proYisO declaring that no rate in
crease OF change in classification shall
take effect until it is approved by the
commission
There is a general understanding
that voting viii be resumed tomorrow
and il is expected all amendments, in
Guiding that of Mr.. Cummins, will be
voted down and the Crawford pro-
vision adopted.
The voting stage was not reached
until late today.
The Senate had begun the considera-
tiOn of the bill, hoping to complete the
section before the close of the sitting
and would have been able TO do so had
not Senator IaFOllette come in with a
speech. which delayed the voting
Previous to Mr.. LaFOllette's speech,
the time had been given to addresses
by Senators Newlands and Cummins.
LaFOsIette's Final Effort.
Senator Frye, president pro tenn, Oc-
Cupied the chair and his recognition OF
the Wisconsin senator was rather
grudgingiy given.
Mr.. LaFolette. beginning at 1875 p.
m, continued until 4;45 o'clock His
speech was a plea against the annul-
ment of the Sherman antitrust law
as applicable TO railroads, without ap-
plying adequate protection in its abb
senCe. In many respects it was a re-
markable speech and It was delivered
under somewhat trying circumstances.
The Senate evidently wanted To vote
tanned their seats, there was manifest
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