Show BATTLE ROYAL ROYALIN IN THE SENA SENATE IE itea ing Republican Senators Deter Determined Determined mined to Amend the Presidents Presidents dents Rate Measure LIVELY DEBATE EXPECTED TILLMAN WILL PRESS THE HOUSE BILL The debate on the raIlroad rate bill continue continue In the senate during the present week The prospect Is that thIs bill vill will more completely monopolize attention this week than it did last week for while under the origInal ar arrangement arrangement the rate bill could not be betaken betaken taken up until 2 each day its consideration can be now entered upon under Senator present policy polley every day as soon a the routine busl busi nets ew such as the introduction of bills and presentation of reports Is con eluded Ur Mr Tillman Tiliman has announced hIs purpose of pressing the ton of this bill to tue exclusIon of eer everything else when anyone is prod pre pared ar to speak on it And he said when there Is no one ready to speak I shall ask the senate nate to proceed t tote to vote ote upon the measure Tillman Tiliman Not Unreasonable That h however weer lie he will not be unreasonable unreasonable in this respect was wa shown by bythe bythe the fact that lie be agreed on Thursday to take a recess until Monday lond v because notwithstanding that there ar ro man mansen many sen senators who will ask to be heard upon the ii bill biJl before the vote voto shall be betaken betaken taken no speeches had bad be been u prepared It l hg th the Int Intention to tG give everyone who nally wants to speak an opportunity to dt to so but If when aU all the speeches are arC made there should seem seeni to hd bd a dIsposition to delay final action this effort will bf be antagonized The speechmaking during the present week will be inaugurated on Monday ib by an address by Senator McCreary ot of Kentucky A number of other senators will vIll be heard during the week in speeches but the order of delivery has not been determined Speeches Being Prepared niong tho who are preparing speeches are Elkins Spooner Lodge 1 Foster and McLaurin Senator Spooner will discuSs the legal aspects of the subject dealing especially with the question of review of the findings of f the int commerce commission by the United d States courts Senator Lu Lodge ge vIl devote eole himself especially to the of hii hi r reasons for de desiring e siring the enlargement of the commIs commIssion 4 sion as outlined in iii his amendment In all probability most of the speeches will precipitate running d debates as did Mr 11 address of last Wednes Wednesday da day the ds is tu to qUes qUestion tion most of the statements made on tl tle e floor of the senate and from this time forward very few speakers will willbe willbe be permitted to without inter interruption Working on Amendments Thou Thought h much attention is being given j to the presentation of the merits of the pro and con a 8 still larger harger number of senators are arc devoting them selven even more assIduously to the preparation of amendments to the bill The Republican senators who do not accept the house hous bill are arc concentrating their efforts upon a revIew provision and have practically agreed upon the fifth section section of Senator substitute for the pending bill as the basis of their amendment This see sec lion tion authorIzes the taking of anY mat mattEr matter tEr decided by the interstate commerce commIssion to the UnIted States circuit courts and requires the railroad corn com companies to deposit the be between between tween their own rates and the rates fixed by the commission pending the final adjudication of each particular case Senator Spooner has lIas an amendment along the s same me lines but it goes into greater detail and the indications are that much of his phraseology ma may be accepted ted The are working In the main along the lines to secure an amendment whIch sh shall ll prohibit the lower courts from suspending rates fixed by the commIssion Senator Till Tillman Tillman man Is giving his especial attention to tom m modifications which will prohibit the railroad companies from owning the commodities which the they carry I of the House The national house ot of tires thes will b begin gin the week b by disposing of the bill abolishing the grade of f u tenant general in the arm army over h ha a filibuster was In when ad was taken FrIday nIght The balance of Monday wIll be given to 0 the passage of minor bills under sus suspension suspension 1 pension of the rules Thursday has been set apart for the of wat claIms The other four fou legislative days Mr Tawney chairman of the approprIations committee predicts will be re reQuired to complete the consIderation of the legislatIve bill which w before the house se l last s week Should thIs bill pass sooner Chair Chairman man t will at once bring in inthe inthe the postoffice appropriation bill which has been completed by his committee and make It the order of business The consIderation of th the e bill wilt wIll something like Uke a 3 w week ek as the question of railway mall mail subsidIes will doubtless provoke dIscussion Although the has not been deter determined determined mined It is expected the thc bill will be brought into the house on Wednesday and of Algeciras Conference The fact that the intern onal Mo Moroccan 10 conference at A Algecira has ad adjourned adjourned until Tarch 20 has given rise to the hope among the influential neu neutral neutral delegates France and Ger Germany Germany many will in the meantime reach a basis of accord At the symptoms of agreement are considered more favorable where the representatives tives of neutral are energetic energetically i ally e endeavoring to Influence mutual I Bituminous operators to the number of about six ix hundred are expected to arrive In Indianapolis today to confer 1 with the United Mine Workers of America The situation in the threat threatened threatened ened coal strike appears to be un unchanged unchanged changed the outcome now beIng in the hands of the miners The Ryan reso resolution resolution i lution having been practically rescind rescinded ed and the report of the scales corn com committee being favorable there is every indication that conservatism ivill m gov govern ern em the final deliberations of the miners and operators I President Samuel Gompers of the AmerIcan Federation of Labor has called a meeting of the executive coun council cil of the Federation for today in WashIngton and though it Is not deli definitely announced that the coal strike will be discussed it is generally be believed believed that the meeting will consider the situation n Cable Chess Match The inte intercollegiate cable chess match between Oxford and CambrIdge and Cornell Brown Brwn and the University qI f fI I Pennsylvania for the Isaac L Rice in international International chess trophy will begin March 24 and l last t one week Penn Pennsylvania sylvania syhania will have three representatives of the AmerIcan team Brown two and Cornell one The end of tIle the match will he be contested from the Villa Julia Mr lr Rices residence on River Riverside Riverside side Dri Drive New York The New York Athletic clubs swim swimming swimming ming team which recently m made de such splendid records in the clubs indoor swimming tournament will be on March 21 1 in Chicago to meet the swim swimmers swimmers mers of the Chicago Athletic aSsociation tion in a series of dual events and on March 22 2 will compete in the tank of the Chicago Young Mens Christian association On March 23 and 24 the team will be bethe bethe the guests of the Missouri Athletic club of St Louis The national convention of the Asso Association Association of Amelr Tan an Medical Colleges will be held in on lIal March ch 19 From March 20 to tc 2 the National con convention convention of American Railway Eri En Engineers if df Maintenance of Way association will meet in Chicago I The national convention of the Meth Methodist odist Episcopal Mi society of America will ivill be held in Minneapolis March wh when n reports will be SUb SUbmitted submitted and tIle the years work dIscussed |