Arizona republican., 1910-04-30
GOVERNMENT SUSTAINED Defeat Of Cummins Amend
 ment To Railroad Bill IA VERY DECISIVE MAJORITY
Indicates Passage of Meas ure According to Taft's Ideas. LaFollette Again
 Declares Country Has Fallen Upon Evil Times

Washington, April 29.-By q decisive vote 9t S5 to s9. the administration
 republicans today defeated the Cum mins substitute for the Crawford FL
 kins traffic provision of the railroad bill. This question has been practical ly monopolizing the senate's attention for weeks. and was regarded as one of
 the most important provisions of the bill
 The vote is regarded as test of strength of the opposing sides. and it is cOntended. presages the passage of the
 bill by a safe majority. of the total membership of ninety-two there were twenty eight senators who did not vote. and of these. four. all democrats. were absent and impaired. They were Senators Clark of Arkansas. Banllard of Aalabama. McEnery of Louisiana and smith of Maryland
 All democrats present voted for the Cun,mins provision. if the four democrats mentioned had been present and voted for the amendment. the bal less by two votes than the vote against the provision
 Immediately after the result was am nounced. Mir. Cummings gave rotice of another amendment intended to ac- complish the same purpose. He claimed for his amendment that it would spe- officially require approval by the inter state commerce commission of all the rates under traffic agreements. in ad- vance of their taking effect but he said his substitute covered all phases of the question. By the new amend ment presented today the Iowa sena- tor seeks to insert provision declar- ing that no rate increase or change in classification snail take place until it is approved by the commission. The general understanding is that the vote will be continued tomorrow. and all will be voted down and the Crawford provision adopted.
 Mir. LaFollette. beginning at 1: 5 D. m. until i:i5 D. m. pleaded agains: the annulment of the sherman anti trust law as applicable to railroads. without supplying adequate protection in it's absence. In many respects it was n reparkable speech and it was de- livered under somewhat trying cir The senate evidently wanted to vote. and while most of the retained their seats. there was manifest impatience-at least among the advocates of the bill.
 Declaring that the standard in the senate had declined since 1890. when the antitrust law was enacted. and the law to be. nexl to the the principal bulwark of the liberties of the people. Mr. LaFol- lette warned his colleagues. and espe- cially the western senators. against be- ing the first to impair the law.
 We are come upon time when the has an administration ready to stand for legislation which never before could have been attempted with prospect of success. and today we must vote" he shouted with tre- earnestness. where we will make the first breach in this statute. under the behest of those who have been attacking it for ten years"
 Taking up the republican platform. Mir. LaFOllette presented his view of the Chicago convention. When the hour came to call together the com mittec on resolutions. the heads of the geatest trusts in the country were ihere.''
 He declared that not only the repub- ican party. but the democratic party also would find. it necessary tn protect itself from these influences. for he 1 said. the gentlemen that were in Chi cago also went to Denver"