The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-08


to the widows during widowhood and
minor children of employees killed in
TIE lire Of service was accepted with
.uI ;lirision.
II $50 2. m. the bill, having been
perfected in committee Of the whole.
was reported to the senate. Mr.. IIey-
burn obtained an order for a sepa-
rate vote on the long and short haul
provision.
Mr.. Bacon moved to strike out the
sections fer the establishment of a
court of commerce and argued to the
senate that the method prescribed for
designating the membership of the
proposed court would be unconstitu-
uonal on the ground that il. would
deprive circuit judges who are Sc
lected to serve for five years on the
court of their tenures in the Offices to
which they were originally appoint
ed. The motion provoked a long dis
cussion.
vigorously assailing the provision
placing all government litigation be-
lore the commerce court in the hands
of the attorney general, Mr.. Bacon
declared that it nullifed the good ac-
complished by the Sixtieth congress
in making the interstate commerce
commission a non-partizan body.
The motion then was rejected by a
vote of 25 to 3S.
Mr.. Gore made an impassione,,
speech entitled, Whence Came This
Bill?" He said certain sections were
practically drafted by Victor Moro
witz and Francis Lynde Stetson, both
known on the financial side of the
railroad world, and approved by
Judge E. H. Gary Of the United States
Steel Corporation. These facts, he
said, should cause the country to look
with suspicion on these ready-made
bills
Mr.. LaoFllette offered his amend
ments to provide for the assignment
of the physical valuation of railroad
property. 1t was rejected by a vote
of "a to 32.
Mr.. LaoFllette then presented a.
prepared analysis of the original bill
and Of the amendments from his
point of view. Separating his re-
marks into three divisions, he under
took to show what the original bill
'as drafted by the attorney general
and recommended by the president"
had done "for the public" and also
to outline the improvements made in
the senate ''in the public interests"
AS against four public benefits con-
ferred by the original measure, he
enumerated IL benefits which he said
had been betowed upon the railroads.
In the first section he included the
control Of classifications the author
ity to establish through rates, the re-
quirement of written statements of
rates and the authority given to sus-
pend new rates.
The provisions which Mr.. LaFol.
lette placed in the interest of the
railroads are those which have re-
ceived attention throughout the de-
bate, and included the capitalization.
merger and traffic agreement pro-
Visions which have been eliminated.
He outlined the notifications and
changes which have been made dur
ing the progress of the bill as Mr..
LaFollette said, "by the progressive
Republicans and Democrats against
the combined opposition of the ad-
ministration and the railroads."
Mr.. LaFollette closed by giving no.
tice that the conferees must keep
faith which the senate in the matter
of important amendments engrafted
on the bill if they expected the con-
ference report to be approved. He
referred to a remark made by Senator
Aldrich a fortnight ago in debate on
the long and short haul clause that
"he who laughs last, laughs best"
signifying that the conferees might be
ready to drop some important fea-
lures from the bill.