| Show GOVERNMENT REGULATION REGULA OF THE RAILROADS Washington Jan Jati attention or Of the senate today lodl was Willi by h the tho statehood question and pud governmental regulation of ot Mr NeI made n a 1 formal sPeed on the railroad subject at Its till close engaged In lii a n a spirited controversy over the tho points In Iii Involved AH All 11 amendments ments to II the thc state hood hIll bill except that relating to liquor t In i a Indian I nil hut territory tar and a to voting Pg In tn Arizona rl und New Mexico were ter agreed to tu Mr Ir S and th tIle ho senate Renate linseed H S 1 calling on ott th In III slon for tor In iii formation giving the tho th total number of oC cases that have b en before the com coat The bill tho the restriction on the transportation of or lottery tickets be the states applicable to 0 trans traits transportation between the states and ter tel territories WitS was wa taken tal ell up and pasted passed Mr then addressed fe senate scads on the joint resolution which he Introduced pome onie days da ago which pro provides vides rules for or a Il commission with Honn to frame a U national Incorporation art for the construction of or railroads en gated au In Interstate commerce Mr MI Newlands said acid It was time to Ig Ignore nore state lines linos In Incorporation and management ot of railroads and added that the ilia power lOWer sought Bought was und and no contradiction of ot the Democratic views as III to the reserved re ervell powers of ot state stille and local He lie held that because of the tho re ro lotions lations of lit to interstate com Coni Pierce orue and the o ot of Congress over commerce Contre H had a n clear right to exempt the state railroads Incorporated under national legislation latton from all state or local taxa lion tion and from front the regulation of ot rates by hy euch mates He U advocated an all In Increase Increase increase crease of ot the authority of at the thie Interstate commission lon so as us to author l le be e It to regulate rates rales and wild calil 1 the th transfer of ot control of the railroads now flow exercised by nil all tho the stated statcH to the tho na n commission would avo VO tho the very desirable effect of at destroying do troy IlI rebates Kuch Huch control ho contended would be Ii advantageous olI to tIm railroads In that It II would relieve them front from the th uros oppressions clone lonK of varying conditions of ut popular Judgment and take tako them out ot of politics JIO The Thi hl only way to get them out mit of Jt pol Itoh Illes li hi concluded Is lit to take nay away na their nitwit t In hI politics by making taxes a n mathematical certainty by pro providing viding tot for or a fI fixed and just rate and by II b unifying the tho control of their opera open operations tione In Iii a I body bOlly of ot great grest character and tutu dignity Such an III I 1 believe tho tha Inter litter state slate commerce commission to be he heMr Mr JIll asked Mr tr Newlands how he lie proposed to secure the thc tion of ot the various railroad companies as all proponed by lIy his hili to which Mr MI Newlands replied that his measure lIure IH Is so framed an as to partially drive and partially coax the results Ho no added that one means which might be bo resorted to would b bl be to pro from taking out national corporation papers and train from engaging In Interstate commerce Does DoeR the tho senator claim that the tho power to prohibit bit Is comprised in tho the power to commerce ticket asked Mr Foraker er Mr replied that he thought so Mr Ir raised the point that It would be bl Impossible by federal enact enactment mont ment to regulate commerce In the states Mr lr replied that he did not aoL contend that Congress had to tn regulate commerce confined exclusive exclusively ly I to any one olle Ho no did contend content however that when the government constructed a railroad no had hod power to tax talc tn It out of or existence |
