Evening star., 1920-02-24
LEGALITY OF R. R..
BILL TO BE PASSED
ON By Mr.. PALMER
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against it. There was never any
do, in view of the wide margin by
which the Cummins bill. more drastic
than the compromise measure. was
passed. The bill will go Immediately
to President Wilson. and the general
opinion around the Capitol was that
he would sign it although labor lead
erS will urge it's veto.
During the Ave hours debate, led
by Chairman Cummins Of the inter
state commerce committee, senators
expressed varying opinions as to how
the public and the railroad would fare
under the bill, which was warmly de-
Tended and attacked. But the intense
interest which characterized proceed
ings Saturday in the House was lack
ing. frequent quorum calls being nec-
essary to get members in the chamber.
Around o'clock the patience of the
Senate apparently was exhausted aft
er the long season of speechmaking
and insistent demands for a vote cut
short the desire to prolong the pres
entation OF individual views.
Discussion yesterday related largely
to the labor and rate-making provi-
sions. Senator Cummins. with great
feeling. denounced widespread claims
that in fixing freight and passenger
charges calculated to give the roads
huge sums of money from the public
Treasury. Tho bill. he declared. would
not take one dollar in that way Such
reports. he said, were merely part of
the propaganda put forth in an effort
to defeat all legislation on the eve of
return of the roads to their owners
on March 1.
Those voting for the conference re-
Repub'icans-Ball.B Brandegee. Cal
der. Capper. Colt. Cummins. Curtis.
Elkins, Fernald. FrelinEhuysen. Hale,
Jones (WashinEton). Kellogg. Ken
yon; Keyes. Lenroot. Lodge. Mclean.
Poindexter. Smoot. Spencer. Sterling.
Sutherland. Townsend. Wadsworth.
Warren and Watson. Total repub-
licans for 80.
Democrats Reckham. Fletcher
Gay. Glass. Myers. Phelan. Pomerene,
(Georeial. Smith (Maryland). Under
wood. Walsh (Montana) and Will
liams. Total democrats for, Is.
Total for adoption. ~.
Those voting against the report
Republican. Borah, France and
Gronna. Total republicans against. 3.
Democrats-Ashurst. Dial Gore.
Harris. Harrison. johnson tSouth Da-
kota). Jones New Mexico), King.
McKellar. Nugent, overman. Pitt
man, Sheppard and Trammell. Total
democrats against. IA.
Total against adoption. IT.
Rankhead 1for, with culberson
(against). Mccormick (for) with
Henderson tagainst), Dillingham
(for) with Swanson (againsD. Fall
(for) with Kendrick (against. Sim
mons tfor) with Kirby (againsD.
Mccumber (for) with La Toilette
(agains). Harding tfor) with Walsh.
Massachusetts (againsD and Edge
(for) with owep tasainst. A.. ;.
Senators Hitchcock (Nebraska). Stan
ley (Kentucky, and chamberiain
present they would have voted in
support of the conference report.
Supported and Attacked.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, demo-
crat. supported the conference report
The bill was opposed by Senator
Pittman, democrat. Nevada, who pre-
dicted that turmoil and chaos" in the
industrial world would follow close
upon its enactment
Senator Simmons. democrat, North
Carolina, supporting the bill. declared
the labor unions were opposing it for
purely selfish reasons"
of the labor unions Is not based on any
defects in this legislation" said Sena-
tor Simmons They are opposed to 1t
because they want government owner
ship Of railroads. They believe that
under government ownership they
could secure more wages. They believe
they could control Congress. and
would be able to do what they did
when they came here and forced US to
pass the Adamson law"
Senator Gronna, republican. North
Dakota, said his opposition to the bill
was based on the rate-making section
and the labor provision. the latter be-
ing. in his opinion. unfair to labor.
Senator Overman. democrat. North
Carolina, expressed the belief that the
section was unconstitu-
tionaL
Senator williams. democrat, Missis-
sippi, asserted that while there were
several things in the bill which he did
not favor, he believed the bill to be es-
sential to the return Of the railroads to
private control.
Senator Poindexter. one Of the Senate
conferees on the bill, in further reply
to Senator Pittman. said 1t was the
"only piece Of legislation brought up
since 1910 which in any fashion met
the long and short haul discrimina-
ton"