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Show WIG OUT fflLflD BILL !plejident Taft Promises to Give y fysln Who Rcpresent'Big In-Mvtercsts In-Mvtercsts Square Deal. IN HOUSE ON UBSTJON OF CONFERENCE 7&9&lar3 Win l),y Narrow Mar- b, but the End Is Not Yet Jjfl K in Sight. ',yS ( c Gjj &HINGTON, Juno 7. Tlio flurry IE stii 'the railroad situation became a 1 "Utjj T of tho past today. The railroad nenl.ajj lonts went home: President Taft the f! j'horscback riding, and the railroad SbIiJ to conference, ke-J2 iresentatlveK of the eastern and iwf U railroads, at a conference with Snlt rJ President this afternoon, agreed to nroMsSw0 a11 height increases until tho r-'Jfeiilroad law becomes effective, and the trfmnat to submit the reasonableness cent aff Increases to tho Interstate Com-CornJBm Com-CornJBm commission. The railroads Inter-to Inter-to rwJS'j'" tnc southern territory declared imllSi ad not as yet filed notices of in-0bet in-0bet K bia tllnl ,r ih(!y d,u" l1,c-v woultl enfaia Bl,y 10 aD'lJc ky tho decision of the atnj3 ilssion. t t'tHM ? Taft Makes Promises. n0lJ!' ne capllol things were not so plcas-" plcas-" -.President Taft sent a special nu-s-7i5ifl h'te. congress telling of the settlc-lhe settlc-lhe had reached wltli tlio railroads n w irfih'S tlia.t. tho provision of the rail-npVw'J rail-npVw'J that Ktv:s the Interstate Coni-ArSrf Coni-ArSrf ; commission power to Investigate uspend new rales, he made effective thil djiitely upon the signing of the act. lAeVt tl,an have lt H llU0 effect along '? JM ,?thc other clauses, which have a rvS s President did this as a part of the f"cnl wltn the railroads, by which 'telS romlEcd them a square deal, and a mniS determination as to the Justice of S"ncw rates, lie also did It to prc-JrajOi prc-JrajOi lie Ming of any new rates during a'TaS 'x,y Jaya hclwccn lc signing of the .. 127 i"1 lts becoming effective. v"l7 WIIS H letter light In the housc-irnmt housc-irnmt 9- whether scnato amendments is-Inral d te accepted as a whole or the lulrfiftl brc should go to confercenc. The he-Sii Scnts and Democrats who were opart op-art ' lo n conference declared that the jj, t. dent's wishes could he met bv an t i)Hfnu;nl 0,1 1,10 ParL f tlm house. The m.jjjjjja.rs, who desired lo have the bill DBitri conference for a "smoothing out" HoiwK28, declared that the only way to 'httifP tho president's wishes '..-as to send 5. TagfU'll to confercenc They finally won uC?LVl Taft's Middle Ground. ErB,dcnt raft declined' to commit him- L:iln his mcsougc or In conference with JSt anJ Jl0l,fii leaders as to tho ncccs-2n??)f ncccs-2n??)f 51 conforenco, Ho merely expressed o Mffv!x Indicated In hlu message and 15 ,!Sv10 congress to determine the best mrlij of myelins that wish. idsL.l e president's conference today was ∋ president McCrea of ihc Pcnnavl-Hcl Pcnnavl-Hcl i, President Brown or the New Ynrk CtnUf. rail and President Pinlcy of the Bl. liern nillroad. These men represcnl-Kc represcnl-Kc It the trunk lines from Chicago cast-Ctffi cast-Ctffi II was taken for granted bofore rslWi confcrcnco lmgan Ihat thero would MW imlcablo settlement aijd there was m -urprliie when, after an hour and ita-Al ill, tlio statement was issued that ffwi, '"H'1 bocn, a complete agreement. im,?j irttone or his negotiations with tho ik1 )ad presidents has President Taft nt tm ?8ted that there was any purpose on ,Blm ?art of the administration to applv t puifi a. dissolution of ' the various trunk sUi .associations. tomtit :t3lc same time, there have not been o S nations that any of the railroads jso'Jtla be granted immunity from the op- ijj on.B of tlio Sherman anti-trust, law. jvtt 'admlnlsfnition used the anti-trust vvl f'ne'B the injunction suit to mMM "t"c increased rates simply because glfji B. 'was no other avenue open to It. 'Ed lr Oommission Will Hurry. t! r'nsr 1,10 conference the question of fuiyjj 'ability of the Interstate commerce 30 n0110" to dispose of all the new s yrlthin the next eleven months was n'Wl y , discussed. President Taft e:c- sod the belief that the present ivn'H f.Eavo a basis for comparison that ". Jnt, require a gret amount of ; President McCrea offered tho sug-;f sug-;f an that as ccrlaln hash rates form ia oundatlon for all .the other thousands ''1 S "f' tIlc disposition of tlo basic ones ulrM tt, not require such a great length hffl Irnc. Once tho basic rales are fixed jnf others apply almost automatically. it.'2 ?c1 t"' r;Uc hm WJia brought up In lft'?!S ymil? that body almost accepted It. ! 1rJ5 is tne consummation by the slim P1" r,six votes. The vote came on jtstjT otlon by Rcproscsrtal Ivc l.enroot. an jfrt urgent of AVIsconaln. to concur In wnatc amendments with an additional SS7.i "Wrnf't '2 section 0 of tho bill, re-Tofit re-Tofit -?t '""cases In railroad dates to bo j. ft nltted to the commission In advance, ale IP. c,osc vole was causnd by a com-o-1 of Demornita and ."insurgonf pd)5! Hbuf? I11 vo "regular" Rcpubll-&. Rcpubll-&. L'JlR,' "'e Democrats not lost six 15' i0n tl,?,r Rldc of tho house, or had est x JfJBiirfrcnts ' been able to hold their Wt nst-'nd of losing clglit. the aw?1 "r'i'i1 ,,ave ,)0e.n accepted and tho ot C0Sfcss shorn-.nod many days. i'j'Ap! House Conferees, arl ib jjlll finally was ordered to confer-2a5jt confer-2a5jt ' a,'d conferees on the part of the $ffi l,"1,15 named. Thfsc wero Itonro-itel? Itonro-itel? atiyc Mann of Illinois and Wengor of r:S JWlvanla (Republicans), anil Adanisoti J5-S 'Vorgla fDemocrat). The scnato con-h!d con-h!d wC, E'klMs of Went Virginia. Ald-,nl Ald-,nl iof Rhode Island (Republicans), and fir of Louisiana (Democrat). Not a jt5 ? urprlHC was occasioned bv- the loss ti rjfmocrallc votes, and mucli spoc-'tfS spoc-'tfS FJ aa .l0.,tl1? ?a,IHe resulted. It waa 11 ted out that four of tho Democrats tt'5 ""OUled "Tammany rcpresonta- ,?m,,Ncy Yrlt Representatives U serald, Harrison, Gouldcu and Gold- !P olncr two were Underwood of Ala-JftJ Ala-JftJ b n7,f thc Democratic leaders, and stS S of Aliibania. ??,lHt r "Insurgenta" who voted with -?&i t iiCKU,ar,i:i aealnst the senate bill UHK ?i,Hn BUbJ,cctcd to scrutiny and tlielr JK rniiHnW.f 5 tl1nC c.aus0 of ,nl,ch comment. 31 hJdc ,t 4,Taft recommended the ,".t,11e senate bill proposed by MJjMs Lem-oot In a mpssage to congress arffrnr,ln.,;,C(' w,n' freemen t with 0I4 railway presidents last niglit. M!V. Voto Was Oloae. e n tho form of a motion iv un-Atn un-Atn .r r0, d?j:Lll,cI , ccept It by M,r V.r nR 10 1G2" A motion to noii-tur noii-tur in the senate amendments then ' I"?,!?! m' conferees were named, rcaftl'r confcrc8 wcto named soon 2lmnll!!!l1.rK,!nls"Jl", opposed the Len-a Len-a ?"weJ? 9'Tdnor and Ames of H ls' Goml and Pickett of Iowa, llfornln. Miller and Volstead regular Republicans .votjng with the r ('ouliuued on Pace Two. SMOOTHING OUT RAILROAD BILL Continued from Pago Ono. Doinocrats and "Insurgents", wore Crow of Missouri, Foolkor of Now York, Kus-tennan Kus-tennan of Wisconsin. Martin of South Dakota and Murphy of Missouri. Twenty-one "Insurgents" rallied to the support of the motion. They woro Carey. Cooper. Davidson. Kopp. Lonroot and Morso of Wisconsin: Davis. Lindbergh and Nelson of MInncosta; Fish of Now York. Gronna of North Dnkota, Haugon. Hubbard, Kondnll nnd Woods of Iowa: Klnkald, Hlnshaw and Norrls of Nebraska; Ne-braska; Polndextor of Washington, nnd Mndlson and Murdock of Kansas. In opposing the adoption of tho senate amendments and favoring the sending of the railroad bill to conference, Mr. Mann of Illinois, who had charge of tho measure In tho house, declared that tho sonnto bill was full of orrors. Ho said thoro was strong objection to tho amendment giving Rhlppors tho right to recover damages from roads for misquoting rates, asserting assert-ing that It would permit tho granting of rebates. Announcing thnt ho did not favor the senate bill In its entirety, Minority Loader Clark said ho thought It was a bolter bill than would be given tho country coun-try If tho measure went to conference, and, therefore, ho favored accepting tho senate amendments. |