Show I I REBATE BILL I GOES THROUGH I House Passes Elkins Measure sure by Vote of to 6 4 UNDER A STRINGENT RULE COCHRAN BRANDS BR S f STATEMENT STA T AS A LIE I Washington Feb Peb 13 Under operation of a special order which cut cutoff cutoff off opportunity to offer amendments the house after a debate of an hour to I day by a vote of or to 6 passed p 5 d the th thi i Elkins bill to o prohibit rebates to ship hip shippers pers The six members who voted i against the bill were were Democrats Mr I LIttlefield Littiefield of Maine was present but did not nott vote on either the rule or the bilL i iThe The Democrats D protested against the i rigorous terms t of the rule It had been their purpose they said to offer the I provisions of the eld bill as S an amendment to the bill biU Mr Dalzell of I Pennsylvania Mr Overstreet of Indi Indiana IndIana ana and Mr Hepburn of pf Iowa an announced d that with the passage of the theo Elkins Elkis bill the antitrust legislation for or orthIs I this session of congress would be com corn complete During the debate Mr Cochran Dem of Missouri branded one of Mr Rep Hep burns jurns statements as a deliberate He lie Contrary to the usual custom this strong language had no sequel The remainder of the session was devoted t to the sundry civil appropriation bill bUl I Which thich was wa practically completed No 1 effort was made to pass it as there was no quorum present I Special Bufe Rufe I Mr Dalzells special rule provided for foran foran an hours debate debat and anil a vote yote on the bill biU billand billand and committee amendments at the eni of that time without Intervening l motion Mr Dalzell said the provisions of the tue measure were familiar to all that it was one phase of antitrust legislation which I should receive consideration Mr Richardson RI the Democratic leader lea r protested that there was no emergency which required such a drastic course as the special order proposed It no opportunity to t amend or recommit the bill Mr Hull of Iowa said no one contended the th bill was perfect but It was a step tep In Inthe inthe the direction of or the regulation of trusts Mr Cannon said public sentiment de demanded demanded trust regulation The pending bill he declared would do more to t sol re some of or the troublesome questions than any other It would prevent favored rates to favored shippers and place all allon alii I on an equal footing He urged the house hous housto I to take what it could now and try for more later laCer on Littlefield LittIefield Makes Objection Mr flold called attention to 0 the word wilful before failure in the pro provision provision provision vision Imposing penalties for the wilful failure of carriers to publish and observe o serc rates rate He said sald th word ought to o come out and that Senator Elkins the author of the bill agreed with him Mr Cannon replied that if that were the thc case Senator Elkins could air his views in the senate He is i a very considerable senator I said he but I never heard that he was wasa I Ia a great reat lawyer Mr De Armond denied emphatically emPh that I the country was demanding the enact enactment enactment enactment ment of ot the Elkins bill billIt billIt billIt It will do no good said he hc and thE tha people foremost in urging it know it I That Is the reason they urge it Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic applause There was nothing in the bill he said that was not on tile the statute books except the clauses repealing existing penalty provisions of ot law la To o repeal those pen penalties penalties aUles he e said was the real r al purpose p Bill BUl a Bunco Game The bill he declared was an attempt to bunco the people and to the offering of amendments the th ma mathe the offering of oC amendments the ma maa maIl maa a Il more mere demagogic play to stifle legisla tion The gentleman from Illinois Mr Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non he said sa says s the author of the bill Is not a great lawyer law er Ho He may not be but he is great in other things a master in the art of this sort of legisla tion Mr Richardson concluded the debate on his side and urged the house to vote down the rule and compel the production of ot another that th t would open the bill to amendment Mr Grosvenor concluded the debate for the majority deprecating the constant at tempt of the other side to play for party part advantage e in connection with the trust question The roll ron was wan called and tho the rule was adopted to no a strict party vote The debate on the bill proper then pro Mr Cochran Missouri charac the bill as a brazen and shameless Imposition upon the credulity of the peo people people pIe His argument was principally di dl directed 11 against the repealing of ot all the provisions of existing law making officers and agents of railroads railroad guilty of dis crimination punishable by fine and Im ira Mr Shackelford Missouri denounced the course of the majority in refusing to permit the minority to offer as an amend ment meat the Littlefield bill passed last Sat Mr Ir Sulzer New York In closing the debate for the minority claimed the au I of a provision In the bill Mr Hepburn Iowa said he could not I concede Mr claim to authorship I as the language referred to was In the present law Yet said he the gentleman from I New York is strutting about pluming himself him elf that the tho th C majority m has borrowed from him something with which to tie tic the octopus I Cochrans Tiff With Hepburn j Mr called anel attention to the th fact fa t that the Democrats denounce tho th bill Later on he said they the would all aU vote rote I for fo fork H I During the course of Mr I remarks Mr Cochran of Missouri said one of his statements was w is a deliberate I He Ue HeMr Mr Hepburn was speaking ng of f the char character character acter of at measures the Democrats ts had I voted vot for saying among other Q things that they had voted for fOz f r a proposition under und r i which l it would have a iP been possible p s to t fine the e n c j single si act a t They would he said fJ st stop at at I nothing labeled antitrust st Then while J I explaining the provisions of or the pending I bill he denied a statement previously made by b Mr AIr Cochran that the bill re e individual officers of railroads I 1 say there is no repeal from first fi t to ta t last In all alt this relation he was saying when Mr Cochran sought to Interrupt him himI I r prefer not to yield said Mr Hep burn Mr lIt Cochran The gentleman ought not to refer to the gentleman from Missouri ri if 1 he does not want to yield Mr Hepburn I ought to refer to the theS he S at any time when ho deliberately deliberately I atel misstates a proposition I i Mr Cochran I brand that as a deliberate ate lie I did not deliberately misstate the question I f Mr Hepburn Hc Tien ignorantly The Th gentleman can talc take either proposition I Isay Isay I Isay say there Is no repeal for the present statute making m kf b culpable and criminally the under the hJ Inter state commerce law lawIn In th the three hills bills which were to become law speaking of the entire fo f trust regulation he said he believed con congress gross grass had struck the happy medium with regard to this vexed question the least of injury to the individual and the tho most good to the public The vote th then n was taken on the pas par passage passage sage of ot the bill It was passed I to tali 0 d Those voting In the negative were eore Mes Cochran and ana De Armo d Dem Darn Mo Glass Dem Val Va Hooker Dem MisSy Miss Klutz Dem Dens N C and Neville Dem Neb |