Show RA RATE TE BILL NOW NO READY TO PASS Managers for Both Houses t L 4 1 Have Finished Adjusting l f t Differences f V J TWO POINTS UNSETTLED f On F Forty Nine I Amendments lIh an Agreement Agree Agree- r ment Has lIns Been anti and Bill 1 1 U is Bolus Printed 1 t. t V. V f hV t Washington June 1 The Th The managers o on the part of tho ho two houses of or congress con- con gross gress who have been beon en engaged aged this 1 t week adjusting tho the differences on the 1 V. V railway rate regulation bill growing V out of oC the one fifty-one senate amendments amendments amend- amend ments declare tonight that their work Is finished The They expect that a report will wili be framed me at the session tomorrow morn- morn V Ing This will be later submitted to the tho house for Cor sU suggestions approval or or or Instructions The bill so o far a aI as I perfected Is being printed tonight But Dut Butto two to amendments now remain In dispute die dis V flute between tho the conferees These are the tho provisions requiring equally good V accommodations for those paying V equal compensation atlon and requiring five live days days' notice to the tho Interstate com com- fierce commission before a temporary V restraining order Is granted against a n. arate rate fixed On the other nine forty V amendments an nn agreement has been V reached In some Instances It Is said the agreement Is of or a n tentative nature V but the Impression of the conferees is that these will be subsequently made final V V. V nn is of Agreement The ThC basis of agreement a as thus far 4 arranged comprises the following Sini important im Sin- i points Sleeping car companies are arc excepted from the application of or the term common common cornmon com corn mon carriers J Pipe lines are placed In the tho paragraph para para- f graph raph with express companies the i V 1 4 amendment being written re-written so as to cover pipe lines transporting oil partly through pipes and partly b by rail and V partly through pipes and party part by wa wa- wa- wa V V ter tel This will exclude gas and water pipes and leave out private pipe lines V V The words In their judgment as V applied to orde orders Issued h by the commission commission com coin a. a mission are ale eliminated d from the bill This Is a tribute to the advice given by b- the senates senate's constitutional lawyers wh who declared the bill Invalid with 1 those thosa th so words In It it IL The house receded on oli this amendment r V l Pass Anti a s Amendment r j The Thc pass anti amendment has been r written re-written b by the tho house conferees It L Ls a a 1 brief and drastic provision with 4 j no ex exceptions Free transportation Is V ii not t even allowed to railroad employee The provision is to become effective Jan in I 1 1907 It Is believed It will wilt be he her r rejected b by both the house and senate sen- sen ate ate- atef The house section Increasing the commission to seven members and nd fixing their salaries at a year has been again placed In the bill The A senate receded on this amen amendment The word lawfully substituted b by byi bythe i the senate for tor the word regularly Is i eliminated and the house wording reT re- re tallied dl I T as asi i applied to te rates lates fixed b by the commis commission w- w sion slon remain out of or the bill bUI |