Show SENATOR ELKINS COMMERCE OOM lEROE LAW LW No lor tr Railroad Legislation This Season CANT CAN AGREE ON PLAN iLAN Il fi elt for or of Crow ro Indian Nen le l their Tele by lT 1111 Special Correspondence Washington March jOho Elkins bill bi is ts not for tar this session Even J el tho the confident author of ot tho time road legislation admits that nothing Is possible In II tho the way vay wa ot of amending the Interstate commerce law TIme The bill bi the senator says saya Is 19 being this dis discussed dl cussed and cussed In mummy many sections of ot tho the country but I cannot get tho the rail null railroads toads roads to tl agree ur e upon anything They wont Agree Inre among mong themselves upon pon my bill hi or upon any other Homo one thing and Ind some want wout another end others dont want vent anything Ill Ill iiI have to talk It over with rIth wih Hepburn Hepbur of at atthe the house lou e committee and see If it they thy arc are going to try tr and pass anything over there I dont know whether this Is in II n a good time for tor railroad legislation or not There are arc so 80 many changes go going 10 ing lug In the relations of at th roads with each CIch other end and with wih the tho public that no matter mater what was Wn sn done don might huv to tobe tobe tobe be undone and amid amended later Ilter ll II BY lW MAIL During Duming tIme the recent trials which the telegraph companies have been having havinga a 1 deal bf of telegraphic matter has hita his been heen forwarded hy Ily malt mall between Wash Washington ington and New York and in n tact fact some BOme other points With Wih wires a 1 total there wits was no other way The telegraph companion would take messages sub subject mib to delay and thu delay delo meant the time It J would tuba tuko o the malls to get through There a I time when whon trains were threatened with delay dellY on 11 account of at the time Hoods One Omme at nt this title period a moan man wonted wanted to tn send a 1 dispatch This will wi get to New York morning sure he ho asked Well ehl answered the clerk the time hoods floods may delay that night train and wo we w cant guarantee It II What In thunder lies has a I delayed train got gut to do with a it at telegraph t dispatch 7 yelled the the man And Amid then he lie Il was wag Informed of or the time moan man manner Inn ner ncr In which business was wai wal being baing done Ione CROW CUSHION C BILL AMENDED It U was with wih a mm great deal ot of Interest that Senator Clark of ot Montana saw the bill ceding about acres of at land hand bi of ot the tho Crow reservation In his hil state come up UI for consideration In the senate It 1 was n his hUe bill bi He lie le hind had Intro Intra Introduced It I worked over It In iii committee and ami reported It I This Thil bill Ji provided that lint cattle horses farm tarm Implements and cate other things timings necessary for foi tal the tho Indians should bo be given them ns as n part payment meI for the cession The he reading of ot tho the bill bi was completed and nl the time presiding 01 car said Tho Time clerk wilt will wi report the tIme amendments The senate was un on unusually usually sUII sUll and the tIme voice of ot thiS the clerk clerIc sUI rang out olt In iii line lne 2 page inge 4 4 strike out Olt Jackasses and insert Inert stal stallions lions Decorum In tho thin senate wa Wil wan for forgotten or gotten lon OH os everybody laughed and made malI continents comments upon Senator Benator Clarks bill bil He lie sat silent anti and oven even when two son sen senators on Platt of or Connecticut and Cock Cockrell Cockrel cell rell of ot Missouri Misouri complained about In Indian rel dian cession bills bis In II general made no mm reply re ly Anti And the bill bi passed TilE THE IDAHO SENATORS Senators and of ot Ida Idaho Ila Idaho ho occupy seats together on oti al tho the front row of the he Democratic sl eIn fact act they have the choice chalco seats of ot the time mi ml minority This Is rather remarkable In view of ot tho the tact fact tac that H has hOI bee beci becia I a senator only five ne yearn yearl and Dubols but one ammo year car of ot his resent present term The seatS seta of ot the lImO senate are arc by a n system which usually gives the older ohler senatore tho the best that Is a 1 an on application for a it I seat which ho he thinks think will w be vacant and often oren watts waits for tor years to get git lu it It The Tho Idaho nl senators got their good seats neata sets by trad tradIng lag Ing When Butler uner of at North Carolina Caroll went out oUI he had hlll one of ot the tIme front seats on tIme the Democratic side Il e but htmL It was WI as Oi found that n mm had flied filed on It I The Time Democrats did not riot ft like to have a Republican there nail and so a n nn vent inns made which gave Tellers old seat sent Teller Teler go goIng lair Ing Into Inlo the middle of ot tho the Democratic sIde and Heitfeld going down in front Senator Vest had long occupied a seat sent seaton seaton on oil the front row sow but wonted wanted one near the cloakroom door so 10 he traded his old aid seat for tor one on omi tho back Jack row roV occupied pled pied by Dubols mind and the time young Idaho senator came down alongside lio of or his Here on the front row rl nit alt who two new IUA far Car ta western senators have hc only onY been In the Democratic par party party ty t for tor n a year POPULISTS n pres of ot Ala 10 bama was making an In argument nr against and government ownership oW of ot a 1 cable Ind wits was WIl discussing the time much heard ot of deadly parallel on 01 Corliss of or Michigan who wants this the government to ho construct and own a 0 cable to tu tho time Philippines He lie read mead the time report which Corliss hall hail made mallo Anti and compared It I to tIme the utterances of ot Gen Oon General anti eral erl Weaver of at Iova Eugene l Debs Deb time the Iw labor loader saying sn ln that they the were all 11 Populist doctrines Do you 01 know that lint Tom Henion wanted time the government to build and amid own hell a it railroad from rein tho thin Atlantic 4 the tIme Pacific l cc asked n kell of at Missouri I nm am not miot lol dealing In ancient history retorted on Well Veil replied eddied was 1 the original Populist In the time echo we for government ownership and amid Ild John JohnC C WOK with him him |