The Forrest City times., 1910-03-18
EXPECT DEBATE
 ID bE LONG ONE
Difference of Opinion Manifested Among Legislators as to h.
 terstate Commerce.
BILL DRAWN BY PRESIDENT
chi.f Executive Said to Have Given the Measure His Personal Atten. ton-Projected Court of Pat ent AppeaIs-The Presi-
 dents Tour.

dents Tour.
 Washington.-Ther Is every indica. tion that the debate in the senate on the amendments to the interstate com merce act will be long drawn out and that it will be marked by many of the acnmonious features of the tariff de bate of last spring and summer The alignment of senators on the measure will not be exactly the same as that on the customs measure. but the ma. ioritT of those who will be in opposi- tion 10 the bill as 1t was introduced will be the senators who fought many of the provisions of the Payne-Aldrich bill
 | Is doubtful if there ever was in- trolaccd into congress a bill upon which there were exactly so many di- verse opinions as there are upon this measure which the senate now has under consideration. Of course the measure affects largely the work of the members of the interstate com. mefee commission. and yet the mem bers of the commission themselves are al variance in their views as to the efficiency Of the bill in some of it's par tieHlags The amendments were pre- pared n the first instance by d com mitee appointed by President Taft, every one of the members of which W lawyer of high standing Then Mf Iaft went over the measure him. sef bringing 10 bear on it all his ju- diclal training The cabinet officers took f ID and sanctioned it and said 1t #as proof against attack in the courts
 Experts Disagree.
 TAege never was such a case per hans of supposed experts disagreeing on the efficiency of a bill. There is proAision in the proposed legislation which allows the railroads to enter into traffic agreements on rates, the agreements to be submitted to the in terstate commerce commission. who shail be allowed to pass only on the question as 10 whether the rate as an average is exorbitant.
 Some members of the interstate commerce commission declare that thls takes away much from the prop osltlon as advanced originally by The odofe Roosevelt. The former presi- dent agreed that the railroads should De allowed 10 make traffic pools, but sald mat the interstate commerce com mission should be given the power to huiiiy them provided it was shown that the pools were contrary to what mlght be considered public policy. other members of the commission say that as long as they have the power eo eet at the rate that is all that is necessary and all in which the people are interested. MT. Taft and his law yer members of the cabinet hold to this view and seem to believe that they have smoothed the path through many difficulties by giving the rail- 'oaas the nooling right under the law.
 ffesldent Taft believes that appeal cases should be put into the hands of .he attorney generals office for de- iehse because he has implicit conf uehee m the ability and sincerity of 'le law officers connected with the edolhet department. Moreover. he Is A'erse to multiplying the legal depart "ehts Of the government.
 For Court of Patent Appeals.
 TOT years the lawyers of the eouhtfy, particularly the patent law 'eiS' nave endeavored to get con 9.ess 10 pass bill to establish a H''ed states court of patent appeals. en"'or Beveridge recently introduced sueh bill in the senate and the judicial committee, through Senator + e"H s or Nebraska, has just reported u favorably.
 4. 1ne day that this bill was reported ~, 'ne senate it happened that Fred
 N r. Fish. an eastern attorney, a.u Who is called the father of the poposed legislation, was arguing a "ss ih the supreme court only few ua 9T away from the senate chamber na, rish ten years ago began a cam a. s4 TOT court of patent appeals, h ne has been assisted in the work ~ Edmund Wetmore of New York, D.. o"e tune president of the American = association. and by other promi- i. attorneys in the work of attempt nro ms 'o secure the passage of the meas N, -. u'Seussing the proposed bill, MT. not. "dd something to say about the system of the United States tia. 7 save some interesting informa. tha eohcerning what might be called sta, patent industry of the United ,es An,g.s and the inventive genius of the
 .e' 'eah people. "The patent laws