Show FORAKER AGAIN GAINS HIS POINT Senate Conferees Specifically In d Not to Agree to House Kouse Statehood Bill RAILROAD RATE DEBATE TILLMAN CONTINUES TO STIR C THINGS UP Washington ton March after the senate convened today Mr BeverIdge his motion author authorIzing authorIzing Izing the of on the part ot of the senate to meet con conferees Conferees of the Ole house of representatives On the statehood bill and Mt Mr Foraker withdrew his amendment requiring submission of the question ot of select selecting selectIng ing conferees to the senate In ask asking askIng ing th the withdrawal Mr Foraker stated that he had received a from Mr Beveridge that the conferees to tobe tobe be suggested by him as chairman of the committee on territories would support the senates position re rd mg ing the eu essential fact that they had originally supported the house bill Mv Mr Beveridge Mr For akers statement and Mr Ir Lodge Lodle ox ex expressed pressed the opinion that the senate should always bo be represented In itt its by members by bythe bythe the committee having In charge the questIon In Assuming that the conferees will always them rather than prea tres theIr own views Teller Objected Mr Teller Tener on the other nand band con contended contended tended for the right or of the senate to select its own conferees or committees or the tho officer He Hel l said Aid the tha question of reelection on the on territories has been raised in this case but that no such reflection could bo be implied The motion to insist upon the tho senates amendments was then adopted and and Patterson were ere designated by the chair chairs s on th the p part rt of the senate the selection being made by Mr Be Bev I Mr r Morl Morgan secured an order for the I printing ot of the original l and final con contracts i tracts between the tho United States and the New Panama Canal company of France for the tho purchase of the canal saying that they hAd hd never been made madeA Public W A bill biU authorizing th the sale of timber timberon on the tho Indian reservation In New Mexico was panned Mr Culberson resolution calling upon the war department for further information relative to the battle of Mount was adopted Spooner on Rate Bill Mr lr Spooner then continued his speech on the rate bill bilI Mr Ir Spooner declared that under the fifth amendment to the constitution the court could not be deprived or of orthe the right to Issue temporary injunctions Mr Ir Spooner then wont went on with an argument intended to show that the farrier as ivell as the shipper was wa on en entitled titled to the laws protection Mr lr Spooner closed with a reference to er which h he believed exists of the rate bill biU by the adoption ot of the amendment Mr 11 Tiliman n declared that if it were not for a distrust of the federal judges and the arbitrary and tyrannical way In which they exercised their powers ther would be no occasion for an amendment to the rate bm bill to curtail their authority to issue Injunctions He launched into isto a general indictment of the bench Mr lr Scott of West defended the West Vir Virginia inia bench hotly And Mr rr Tiliman again told him that he should hould walt wait until an had been beM made on a 8 special judge He referred to a P Pennsylvania case that has been mentioned many times in the debate and Mr Scott ridiculed this frequent comment ommen t Tillman Tiliman Obdurate Mr 1 Tiliman s said id that he had not ot in intended intended tended to get into an unpleasant con controversy controversy when hen he said mid that the people had lost faith in federal judges Paus PausIng InS Ing for a moment he continued but butI I repeat it Taking up the colloquy he had with SIr rr Spooner yesterday esterday he saId the senator from Wisconsin had ridiculed him as a cornfield lawyer and made him out a nincompoop Reading from a 8 latter ho ha received from a man he be termed a 8 cornfield lawyer from Norman Okla Okia Mr Till wan iian said Now this man wants to know why if you cnn ean enjoin th lowering of a arate arate rate why it Is not possible to enjoin the ral raising ing of at a rate He followed this ii wIth h a n number mb r of her qU ques lions dons taken rom the letter and said that the answer was Is sau j for the goose is Sauce for the gan I Id d dar Looking Oking at Mr Spooner lh senator said Now I 1 represent the goose and the senator is speak speaking lug ing for the gander Mr Spooner Interrupted saying that he had not Intended to ridicule Mr Tiliman but said that the he object of his remarks would not hIre a cornfield lawyer to argue a constitutional point I 1 would not replied Mr Tiliman A lawyer r might beat you rou out outon outon on prInciples but he would go to finders on practice Fortifications Bill The rate bill was then temporarily laid aside and the fortifications appropriation appropriation bill was taken up Ul in order to permit Mr Daniels to address the son sen ate in support of the committEe committe amendment Providing for the tha construe tion of a powder factory Mr Daniel declared that the manufacture of smokeless powder was completely mo by the International Pow der company The United States ho said build and equip four plants at each pay for them i out of the profits extorted from the government fri tIle tIe course e of a y year ar arnd nd have more than left 1 While the government pays from 70 to 80 cents a p pound und the cost to the makers does not exceed 35 cents per wound pound Mr Perkins said theY entire commit te tee on appropriations had been favor favorable favorable able to the tho amendment and he pro pre that IZ it the tho proposed plant should houd pr ve successful others would speedily follow The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed Bills Passed The bills bilts were also passed Creating a steamboat Inspectors district in Alaska providing for fin fill lug ing In ili the tho naval paval station at Honolulu authorizing the state Of r Wyoming to 10 relinquish certain lands and to select other lands In lieu of them ing the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railroad company to construct bridges across the Missouri Yellowstone Snake and Columbia rivers The senate then at p m wont went l to executive session and at ad until Monday |