The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-04
Vote Was Taken Last Night at
9::55 O'clock, and Resulted
50 to IL
LatolIette Was Center Of Interest During Final
Hours o Debate---Warned Senate That Con-
ferees Must Retain insurgents Amend
ments or They Would Not Ap-
prove Report

COlbIlltItGcs i1dtOi Nan hoNiS' '''''
the assurance that his amendments
could be presented in the senate as
such. But Lafollette did not 60 SO far
Stating that his attention had been
distracted, he was proceeding to say
that he had not had proper oppor-
tunity to present his amendments :
He was not permitted to proceed iur-
ther when the vice president inter-
rupted him with sharp rap OF the
gavel. He said: "The chair de-
prived no senator of any opportunity
that belongs to him and the chair re-
sents such insinuations."
Evidently taken by surprise Lafol-
lette responded that the chair GER
tainly misunderstood the spirit of his
remark, which he said had not been
intended as a structure on the course
of the chair.
BY unanimous consent the bill was
restored to the committee of the
whole and Lafollette presented his
amendments. One would prohibit the
appointment as Judge of the com
merce court of any person who holds
stock or bonds or is otherwise inter
ested in common carriers subject to
the proposed court The provision
was scarcely read when Hepburn took
the floor. lie denounced the sugges'
ton as "infamous, and said that in
his public lectures Lafollette had
called attention to the votes of his
colleagues on a similar measure pre-
sented at the previUs session, appar-
emily with the purpose of charging
the senators who had voted against 1t
with being favorable to the appoint
ment of judges who might try their
own cases. His complaint was echoed
by Gallagher and Carter.
Gallagher based his objection on
the ground that Lafollette could not
possibly know the motives for sen
ators taking any given position.
Carter declared that the amendment
was an offense to the intelligence o.
every lawyer in tho senate, and
pointed out that the courts would not
tolerate interest on the par Of any
Judge,
Lafollette said he had pursued
policy of presenting the records OF
senators to bis audiences and mad
; then left the audiences to make their
own deductions He said. ut is my
view that the record of public men be
longs to the public, and propose to
continue my course.
Borah defended the amendment, on
the ground that It was well to throw
around the court all possible safe
guards.
The amendment was voted down, 30
to 80.
Earlier In the day Lafollette pre-
sented number of amendments. most
Of them being beaten. One which
provided that no person interested in
railroad shall be appointed to mem
bership in the court of commerce and
submitted to the supreme court as a
body for a chief justice in performing
the duty designating the judges foi
; service in the new court, aroused
sharp criticism from several senators
: who saw a reflection on the chief jus
II tice His amendment providing for 9
fuller equipment of the interstate
? commerce commission by the creation
= of four districts to be provided ovel
by commission Of three was beaten
Z, as was one to prohibit the continuous
service of train employees for more
than IA hours. Another of his amend
ments permitting railroads to issue
passes to widows and minor children
, of employees killed in the line of ser
q vice was accepted Bacon then move'
= to strike out the sections for a cour
Of commerce. This provoked loni
2 debate but it was beaten, rs to 3S.
Gore made an mpassioned speech
= declaring that certain sections prat
~ tically were drafter by Victor Mora
2 wetz and Francis Lynde Stetson, bot
y known to the financial side Of th
railroad world. The sections @
% which Gore complained were elm
y mated
y Lafollette offered an amendment fo
Y the physical valuation of rairoa
ie property Rejected, "a to 32.
a He then presented prepared anal,
y sis Of the original bill. Separatin
his remarks into three divisions b
" undertook to show what the origin,