Show METHODS OF l CONFEREES DENOUNCED Senator Newlands Says Minority Mi- Mi Not Allowed to Participate f i RAILROAD BILL IS SHARPLY CRITICISED S Nevada Senator Predicts It Its Failure to Relieve l Intermediate In Points 1 WASHINGTON Juno 17 Asserting that tho the Democratic members of ot he bA committee on conference on the tho railroad bill had not been permitted to participate pate in tho the proceedings of the tho committee commit tee Senator who had been boon selected to represent tho minority senators sena sena- tors tot in tho the conference took the tho floor when the railroad bill was taken up in the senate today to express his disapproval dis db- db approval of of ot the report Tho The senate met at 11 ii o'clock and it was expected that the session would witness tho the adoption of ot tho the report and the end enel of the tho railroad bill In the tho senate Denouncing tho the methods of tho the conferees con eon con Mr said this hod had bad hadI I been tho the first time timo in inthe tho the consideration i of a railroad measure measure in which the minority had bad been denied representation tion in conference Ho lie protested that such a course involved ed C disregard C ataU of at all aU tho the functions that tamed pet to free and full lull conference and for tor the rights of tho the minority Mr criticised the com coin merco court provision pro saying that it was sure eure to supplant sup the interstate commerce commission ion in many of ot its important functions Explaining that tho conferees had bad accepted ted tho the house long house long and aDd short haul provision tho the Nevada senator expressed sod apprehension that the prop proposed d law be I unconstitutional C would be found to in most of its dele delegation of P tK power er erwi wi without laying down a rule rolo of action ad He predicted also abo that tho the intermediate points points' would tail foil to obtain from rom t the io 8 provision the relief they wore were ore counting upa upon pon f S i c. c t j t 5 5 o nu f. f COMMITTEE T AMOUNT TO WASHINGTON Juno The Thc house ways and means committee today acted favorably upon tho the bill authorizing the tho issuance of certificates of ot indebtedness for reclamation work after amending tho the measure makin making the amount of ot certificates certificates eer- eer instead of and limiting the use of ot the tho money to completion 0 of existing projects The Tho approval of t tho the president to the tho report of the tho engineers is required PROPOSE TO CREATE OREATE DEPARTMENT OF OP LABOR W WASHINGTON Juno June 17 The The house bouso committee on labor toda today decided to tota ta favorably report a 1 bill a department do de of labor with a seat in in tho the presidents president's cabinet |