Show RAILROAD BILL VP UP I IN BOTH BRANCHES ATTACK MAVE MAUf MAVEIN MAUfIN IN TH Arraigns the Legis Legislature Legislature Legislature lature of Massachusetts for Permitting Merger of Boston and Maine With New Haven f SENATORS LODGE AND GALLINGER IN DEFENSE Administration Measure Pre Presented Presented Presented by Chairman Mann Mannin in the House and the Debate Opened in Behalf of Majority MUCH ATTENTION GIVEN w WASHINGTON April 12 dental to the Consideration of at the administration railroad bill 1 the merger 1 of 01 the I Doston to roll rail road rund 0 the New York New noven IIa hartford ld through though the Muan ett bo holding iOB wn dl ca at nt length In I i the Senate today todo oda Tile The principal attacking the Ike consolidation In unstinted language MI nit made by Senator LaFollette and nod the latter hitler part hart of the days day eslon Brief re pon e by Senator lodge and Senator Gallinger were made at ut the clone of the Wisconsin senators Both Datil the New Ne England eun tori tore defended the th merger and nud upheld the law under which It was WU made Mr LaFollette presented thi tr LOI in n great nt detail to Illustrate the pos I B ble effect of the enactment In law of ot oft ott t merger provision of ot the pending rail rall railroad railroad road bill He traced the consolidation from the beginning but gave special at nUon to the Massachusetts legislation under tinder which th the combination was ws made madec madet t C c ff It was practically charged by the sena sona senat t 1 tr T f that this enactment had been r at the dictation of ot President Mellen tt tf f the New Ne Haven road who he be Inti Intimated intimated Intimated mated represented the feller interests He quoted from tram a mem mein ler ter 1 of ot the r Massachusetts legislature a ast statement st that Governor Draper had re responded to an ultimatum frou the New Haven Havn Interests He undertook to show I tat not the federal merger suit Instituted during the Roosevelt velt administration had I been 1 en dismissed at the dictation of ot Attorney ney rcy General Wickersham under the Tart Taft administration for the th inadequate reason that the Massachusetts Maas legislature had hadj j d the holding bill under which the consolidation was effected The argument covered a wide range of ot accusation but aside from the speakers desire to hold aloft the merger as a bad had example the evident purpose e was to con contrast the Taft TaU administration with the Roosevelt administration to t the antage of ot the former Mr t of ot Attorney General Wickersham Wicker Wickersham sham was especially stringent and point pointed ed The responses by Lodge and were just as aa positive In his de defense Both the New England senators defended the attorney general genel as a a lawyer and as a man Railroad Bill BUI in House With th about OO member in their seats the tho administration railroad bill was taken ng for tor consideration by the House today Speaker Cannon called to the chair Rep Representative Representative Bennett Dennett of ot Ne York who presided over the committee of ot the whole while Mr Mann of Illinois chairman of ot oft ott t t committee on Interstate and foreign commerce on mErce addressed the House on the tie mf sure reported from his committee The large number of ot Republicans and nd I who listened attentively to the member gave evidence of the Im Importance Importance attached to the tM measure me In discussing tho the commerce court which t e had bold opposed in committee as unnecessary san sary Mr Mann pointed out but the difference dir between executive and Judicial functions 1 ie the jurisdiction of the courts and the nt commerce commission and de det dea t a d the delays delas under pre Dt judicial r ro dur as sometimes amounting to con confiscation of ot the property Involved which tIc if proposed commerce court is designed de to prevent Referring to the fixed rotation in the personnel PC of the proposed ed court Mr Marn MaTin said while be bo was wu not enamored cf If f that provision it had been put into t tl c bill to prevent prent the possibility of th thc the c Curt urt being be packed by b life members with n a majority fixed one ODe way per perhaps haps aps leaning toward the Interest of the theT railroads T 0 I moon moan nothing sinister by that he be headd add added d in m to questions from mem ream be bes I I am not speaking of ot intentional e king I J HENRY CABOT LODGE Senator from Massachusetts who whon i ia La Laft a n trong supporter of the Oie administration tion ilon |