Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-06-16

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ator Smith of Michigan was absent.
but was paired with a Democrat who
would have voted for the amendment.
so that the Smith pair was against
the amendment.
Senator Hughes of Colorado was
present In his seat and did not vote
and was not paired. Senator Bank.
head OF Alabama was absent and not
paired. Senator Clay was paired with
Senator Root, but he transferred this
pair to Senator Cummins of Iowa,
who was absent. 30 that Cummins was
paired with Root and Clay voted in
favor of the amendment. Those who
voted in favor Of authorizing the In.
terstate Commerce commission to
value the railroad property were Ba.
con, Bailey, Borah, Bristow, Brown,
Clapp, Clay. Crawford, Dixon, Dolli-
yer, Fletcher, Frazier, Gamble, Gore.
Jones, La Toilette, Newlands, Over
man, Owen, Paynter, Purcell, Rayner,
Simmons, Stone and Taylor.
Those who voted against empower
Ing the Interstate Commerce commits
sion to value railroad property we're:
Brandegec, Briggs, Buckley, Durham,
Burton, Carter, Clark OF Wyoming,
Crane, CullOm, Curtis, Depew, Dick,
Du Pont, Elkins, Frye, Gallinger. Gug.
genheim, Halo, Hepburn, Kean, Lodge.
Nelson, Nixon, Page, Perkins, Piles,
Smoot, Stephenson, Sutherland and
Warner.
Crodis to erosressives.
Whatever provisions of value
there are in the railroad rate
bill az 1t passed the senate are
due to the fight which was made by
the Progressive Republicans. They
did not secure all that they aimed to
get into tho bill In the interests OF
the consumers and the shippers Of
the country, but they did better the
bill In many respects. As it came
from the attorney general it was q
bill purely in the interests Of tho
railroads. As 1t passed the senate
many OF The provisions which had
been written into the bill In behalf
of the railroads by tho attorney gen
eral have beer eliminated. What It
will be whrn II comes from confer
ence no on" can say. The conferees
in the senate are named by Senator
Aldrich, the cOnferees In the house
BY Speaker Cannon. II Is recognized
that neither desires to give to the
people of the country the kind OF n
bill which they demanded-one
which would insure reasonable rates
and equality Of service.
Before leaving for Iowa Senator
Cummins summed up the bill In e
short speech, In which he said:
when the bill was reported there
was In It a section which astonished
every thinking man in the United
States. ! predicted that the history
of section seven will not soon be for
gotten either by those who wrote 1t,
those who fathered It, or those who
opposed II. II seems strange now
that 1t could have been deliberately
suggested hat the antitrust law
should BIO repealed with respect to
traf1c agreements without subjccting
the agreements to the approval OF
the commission before either the
dSTttIDtUlS, VI tnt rates uUucT lnsfl,
became effective. 1t is not my OBJ.
ject unnecessarily to harrow the feel.
lngs Of any one here or elsewhere,
and | am content to say only that
section seven has disappeared from
the bill, and when from time to time
H. Is lifted into notice 1t will only
be to reproach those who were mis-.
guided enough TO insist upon it's adop-
ton by the congress Of the United
States.
UNIQUE Section of Bill.
When the bill came from the com
mittee there was In It a section which
became instantly conspicuous through,
out the country for its daring attempt
to reverse the o cherished prin.
ciple OF the government. Section ~
Is now and always will be unique In
the annals of congress-. 1t has become
and will remain a curiosity in the
museum Of proposed legislation. II
not only swept aside in many re
spccts the antitrust law, but II ere
atcd a Jurisdiction for the court OF
the like OF which the world
had never seen-a jurisdiction tina,
was intended to transfer from the
} forum Of congress to hi forum OF the
! court OF commerce the establishment
, and regulation Of tho governmental
/, policy respecting the merger and con
/ solidation of railways. This section