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and Bourne, Republicans, who were

and Bourne, Republicans, who were
favorable to the amendment, were alb
sent and not paired, but did not know
that there was a vote on. Senator
Burkett, who was in favor of the
amendment, was absent in Nebraska
and Senator Brown announced that
he could not get a pair for him. Sen
ator Smith of Michigan was absent,
but was paired with 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, so 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
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Brandegee, Briggs, Bulkley, Burnham,
Burton, Carter, Clark of Wyoming,
Crane, Cullom, Curtis, Depew, Dick,
Du Point, Elkins, Frye, Gallinger, Gug-
genheim, Hale, Hepburn, Kean, Lodge,
Nelson, Nixon, Page, Perkins, Piles,
Smoot, Stephenson, Sutherland and
Warner
Senators Elkins and Warner, who
voted against La Follette's amend
ment, in 1906 voted in favor of the La
Toilette amendment. In 1906 there
was no danger of passing the amend
ment In 1910 had these two senators
stood where they did in 1906 and had
Beverage and Bourne been apprized
that the vote was in progress the La
Toilette amendment would have car
ried.
Credit to Proeressives.
Whatever provisions of value
there are in the railroad rate
bill as it 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 the 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 a
bill purely in the interests of the
railroads. AS it passed the senate
many of the provisions which had
been written into the bill in behalf
of the railroads by the attorney gen.
eral have been eliminated. What it
will be when it comes from confer
ence no one can say. The conferees
in the senate are named by Senator
Aldrich, the conferees in the house
by Speaker Cannon. 1t is recognized
that neither desires to give to the
people of the country the kind of a
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 a
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 I predicted that the history
Of section seven will not soon be for
gotten either by those who wrote it.,
those who fathered it, or those who
that it could have been deliberately
suggested that the antitrust law
should be repealed with respect to
traffic agreements without subjecting
the agreements to the approval of
the commission before either the
agreements, or the rates under them,
became effective. 1t is not my OBJ
ject unnecessarily to harrow the feel
ings 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
it is lifted into notice it 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 section which
became instantly conspicuous through
out the country for it's daring attempt
to reverse the most cherished prin-
ciple of the government Section IL
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 It
not only swept aside in many re-
spects the antitrust law, but it Gre
ated a jurisdiction for the court of
commerce the like of which the world
had never seen-a jurisdiction that
was intended to transfer from the
forum of congress to the forum of the
court of commerce the establishment
and regulation of the governmental