The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-05-04
ADMINISTRATION
WINS 4 POINT
CUMMlNS TRAFFIC AGREEMENT
SUBSTITUTE is EASILY
DEFEATED.
FIRST VOTE TAKEN ON THE BILL
Regarded as Test, and Final Passage
of Measure Is Scen-loWan Re.
news the Fight in Another
Amendment.

Washington, April 30.-By the de.
cisive vote of IS to 20, and in the
midst of intense excitement, the adj
ministration Republicans defeated the
Cummins substitute for the Crawford
Elkins traffic agreement provision of
the railroad bill. This question had
practically monopolized the attention
Of the senate for the last week and
was regarded as one Of the most i'm
portant subdivisions Of the pending
bill. The vote is generally accepted
as a test of the strength of the con.
tending sides respectively, and it is be.
lieved that it presages the passage OF
the bill by safe majority.
The vote was not large one and
represented only little more than two.
thirds of the senate membership. OF
the total membership of 90 there were
% senators who did not vote, and OF
these four were absent without being
paired and all of these were Demo.
Gratis. They were Senators Clark OF
Arkansas, Bankhead of Alabama, Nc.
Emery of Louisiana and Smith of Mary.
land.
All of the Democrats present cast
their votes in favor of the Cummins
provisions, so that if the Democratic
senators who were absent and un.
paired had been present and had voted
for the amendment, the ballot in it's
favor would have been increased to
80, still less by two votes than the vote
against the provision. Only 10 Demo.
cratic votes were cast and these, to.
gether with II Republicans who voted
for the Cummins substitute, consti
tuted the entire affirmative vote. The
full vote was as follows:
Vote in Detail.
Yeas-Bacon, Bailey, Beveridge, 3D.
rah, Bristow, Burkett, Chamberlain,
Clapp, Clay, Cummins, Davis, Dixon,
Dolliver, Fletcher, Frasier, Gamble,
Gore, tombstone, La Toilette, Martin,
Nelson, Overman, Paynter, Percy, Pur.
cell, Simmons, Smith of South Caro-.
lima, Stone and Taylor-29.
Nays-Bradley, Brandagee, Brown,
Buckley, Burnham, Burrows, Burton,
Clark of Wyoming, Carter, Crane,
Crawford, Cullom, Curtis, Depew, Du.
pont, Elkins, Frye, Gallinger, Guggen.
helm, Hepburn, Jones, Kean, Lodge,
Nixon, Oliver, Page, Perkins, Piles,
Root, Scott, Smith of Michigan, Smoot,
Stephenson, Sutherland and Warner
-35.
The following pairs were announced,
the first names being favorable to
Cummins and the last being against:
Hughes and Aldrich, Bourne and
Penrose, Talaferro and Briggs, Shiv.
ely and Dick, Culberson and Flint.
Newlands and Hale, Owen and Lori
mer, Foster and McCumber, Rayner
AID Richardson, Daniel and Wetmore,
Money and Warren, Tillman and Dill.
bingham.
After the result was announced Sen.
ator Cummins, whose provision had
been voted down, gave notice of an
other amendment attended to accom-,
plish the same purpose. He claimed
for his substitute that it would specific
ally require the approval by the in
terstate commerce commission of all
rates under traffic agreements in ad-
vance OF their effect, but his substitute
covered all phases of the question.
Will Try Again.
BY the amendment presented and
which will receive the first vote when
the subject comes up the Iowa senator
seeks to insert provise declaring that
no increase or change in classification
shall take effect until it shall have re-
ceived the approval of the commission.
In the house the railroad bill was
under consideration also. Numerous
amendments were offered, most of
which were voted down. An amend
ment making provision that the physi-
cal valuation of railroad properties be
ascertained was offered by Mr.. Madden
OF Illinois and adopted after an ex-
tended discussion.
The provision adopted for the in
clusion of telegraph and telephone
companies within the scope of the in
terstate commerce law was further
amended to permit Of different charges
being made for press dispatches and
for night messages than are made for
commercial dispatches.
Ex-Deputy Y. S. Marshall Sentenced.
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