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Show "Washington; ; May 12. - Senator Bailey' non-suspension amendment, ap--plying to orders of the Interstate Com-: Com-: mission as covered by the railroad rate bin, which' has occupied ao much of the " attention of the Senate In connection with that bill, 'was yesterday adversely' disposed dis-posed of by the derive vote of 23 to 64, v: practically' a party vote.'' -' '. The debate on the provision was limited . ; ,' to a brief political speech by Its author, in . which he .aald the President had changed , his attitude on the quesUon of maintam-lng maintam-lng the rates fixed by the commission lun-; lun-; til the courts reach a. final decision: J An 'amendment offered by Senator Bay-:' Bay-:' aor, confining tne court review to on-stltutlonal on-stltutlonal questions, was also voied dowt ' ' but not until after speeches ' had been ) ... . made by Messrs. Bay nor and Bailey in advocacy. and Messrs. AMson. Fulton, Long and Cullom In opposition. The debate. de-bate. waa in anUclpatlon of the discussion that is expected to occur upon the Allison Alli-son court review provision today. Messrs. Raynor and Bailey contended that the Allison amendment authorises the 1 broadest ' possible court review, and the Maryland Senator . urged that In It Senator Aldrich had achieved a signal victory. Senator Tulton stated that he had first suggested the language of the Allison provision. A number of other amendments, offered In the main by Democrats and by Senator LaFollette, were rejected. The votes were generally along party lines during the entire en-tire day, but the Wisconsin Senator voted ' with the Democrats on all propositions, and Messrs. McEnery and Morgan, Democrats, Demo-crats, voted with the Republicans on most of them. . The only amendments accepted during the day were those Offered by Senator Allison, striking out the phrase "fairly remunerative" in the provision allowing the Interstate Commerce commission to fix rates; limiting tne operations of tor-ders tor-ders of the commission. to two years and making the Interstate Commerce commission commis-sion the . defendant in suits challenging the rates fixed by it. |