Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-10
SENDING OF RAILROAD BILL TO
CONGRESS WILL CAUSE LONG
SESSION.
SESSION WILL NOT CONCLUDE
BEFORE MIDDLE OF JULY
Conference Certain to Make Changes
Which Will Weaken Present Meas
ure-Hitch Probable Over Much Dis.
cussed Long and Short Haul Clause
NO Physical Valuation.
Especial Correspondence

! Washington June 10.-With the
railroad regulation bill gone to con-
| ference, hopes of an early adjourn
ment Of congress have gone glimmer-
| ing. There was a good deal of hope
! fulness that if the measure could be
| made law without the delays of con-
ference, the session might finish its
work and adjourn by about June 81;
| certainly before July l.
But nobody now anticipates any
thing of the kind. The expectation is
| that the session will conclude about
July Is. There is still a good deal OF
! general business for which attention
is desired. 1t could be hurried thru OF
put over till next session, if there was
| a chance to get the railroad bill out
of the way: but under the circum-
stances. general legislation will get
considerable attention while the con-
ferees are at their work on the rail-
road bill.
What will come out of the confer
ence is subject of wide range OF
speculation. Just one thing, however.
is agreed by all the people who have
been urging vigorous piece of leg
islation. That is. that the bill which
SoIlSS lIoIH CplI1Si CllCS W III DS lCS>S
drastic, or progressive, or radical. or
whatever il is to be called. than either
the senate or the house measure. For
weeks it has been common knowledge
that the senate leaders were permitting
things 10 go into the measure for trad
ing stock: they wanted to have things
in the senate bill which they could
trade off to the house. When the trad
iy,cr nd hin rldr,cai its
lowest terms, it will be very different
from anything produced in either body.
No Physical Valuation.
It is perfectly we'll understood, for
instance, that the physical valuation OF
the railroads will be stricken out
early. The house put it in. the senate
rejected it: and all but one of the
conferees on both sides. are counted
against it Nearly all the friends of
such valuation voted to surrender 1t
by accepting the senate bill: and they
did this, in the confident belief that ii
the bill went to conference this pro-
vision would be the first sacrificed.
There will be a long discussion in
conference over the long and-short
haul provisions of the two bodies The
senatorial conferees would like to be
rid of any such provision. but it was
forced upon them by close vote in
the senate How the house conferees
stand on this matter is uncertain: the
general belief is that the two repub-
Iicans are in favor of the mildest pro-
vision possible, and if that is proved
to be the case, the senate provision
will be likely to stand. There is serious
doubt among lawyers whether the
house provision is constitutional, and
some commentators have been mean
enough to suggest that the confer
ence might accept the house provision
for this very reason. The long-and-
srort-haul provision of the old inter
state commerce law was knocked out
by the supreme court as unconstitu-
tion2i and il is widely believed the
language of that decision would apply
quite as we'll against the present
house provision.
Where Big Fight viii Come.
The big fight in conference, and al
ter conference, is likely 70 come on the
senate oroyision that after Jan. /, 1911,