Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31

Dy fOlc OI ~ 10 20 the SSudto
Wednesday amended and accepted the
House provision of the railroad bill
which places the defense of suits be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in the hands of the Attorney Gen.
eral, but permits the commission and
shippers to intervene and even to con-
tinue the suit in case the Attorney
General withdraws. The period dur.
ing which rates of railroad companies
may be suspended by the commission
was extended from so to 120 days on
motion of Mr. Aldrich. The debate on
the bill continued throughout the day
and was marked by some sharp pass
ages between Senators Rayner and
Hughes and also between Senators
Rayner and Elkins. An early adjourn
Gratis an opportunity to confer over
certain propositions made to them by
the regular Republicans. The House
spent the day debating bill to extend
to the Territory of Hawaii the laws of
the United States concerning appro-
priations that are enjoyed by terri
tories within the United States. The
bill was passed, having been previously
passed by the Senate.
In the Senate Thursday the Cum
Minis amendment to the railroad bill
requiring the approval Of the inter.
state commerce commission to all in
creases in railroad rates before they
take effect, was under consideration
throughout the day, but no vote was
reached. Mr.. Cummins occupied the
floor during the entire session. The
regular Republicans and Democrats
failed to reach an agreement Cam
paign speeches occupied the House
while sundry civil appropriation bill
theoretically was under consideration.
There was a strenuous debate on for
estry, resulting in sending back for
further conference a Senate amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill, giving the States 35 per cent in
stead of 25 per cent of the gross re-
ceipts from forestry administration
The remainder of the conference report
was agreed to.
Whether there shall be authorized
by the present CONFESS two or only
one battleship was the subject of a
long discussion in the Senate Friday
while the naval appropriation bill was
under consideration. The principal
speakers were Senators Clay, Hale,
Gallinger and Burton. 1t was brought
out that the revenues of the present
fiscal year probably would not equal
the expenditures and that there would
be an increased deficit The tariff,
ship subsidy, lively disputation be-
tween Messrs. Ames of Massachusetts
and Payne of New York, both Repub-
licans, over Canadian tariff relations,
and an arrignment of some of his Re
publican colleagues by Mr.. Fish of
New York. occupied Fridays session
of the House. Messrs. McKinlay of
California and Dickema of Michigan,
Republicans, advocated the proposed
$250,000 appropriation for charging
the scope of the tariff boards ascer-
tainment of tariff information.
In the Senate Saturday eulogies were
delivered on the lives of the late Rep
resentatives Cushman of Washington
and DeArmond of Missouri No other
business was transacted. Party issues
held the attention of the House while
the proposed appropriation of s250,0O0
in the sundry civil bill to enable Presi-
dent Taft's Tariff board to collect in
formation for him was pending theoret-
ically The discussion was featured
by speeches by Minority Leader Clark
and Mr. Bouteli of Illinois and Mr..
Foss of Massachusetts.