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Show BILL PASSES BY BIGJIAJdRITY WASIIIN'OTON'. May in Without a single dissenting Republican vote, the house today passed tbe railroad bl.l, one of the chief measures President Presi-dent Taft wished enacted at the present pres-ent session of congress, by 2rtn to llli'i. Fourteen Democrats Joined the majority. ma-jority. President Taft tonight said he was deeply gratified over the passace of the measure. He wa e?peciall pleased pleas-ed with the comfortable margin by which the commerce court feature was kent In the bill, for he regards this court as probably the most Important step In the proposed law. Referring to the clause providing for the physical valuation of railroads, Mr Taft pointed out that power now practically rests with the interstate commerce commission and that the dliflenlty In carrying out such a plan always has been found In the enormous enor-mous cost of the undertaking. WASHINGTON", May 10. When .ill amendments adopted by the housn while In commttteo of the whole hail been agreed to. Mr. Adanison ;f Oeor-cti. Oeor-cti. senior Democratic member of tho minority of the committer, representing represent-ing the bill moved to recommit U with Instruction that it be reported back with the commerce court ciaus stricken out. This meflon was defeated de-feated 137 to l"fi The hill makes many chants In the existing law that. If accepted by the senate will greatk affect lnti- Plate commerce. The court of commerce Is creatM to adjudicate cases on appeal from the Interstate commerce commission. It Is provided this court shall bo orgnnled by the Justice of the supremo su-premo court, future appointments to memborKhip on the court to be mad by them. Stock and bond issues of railroad are controlled by the bill. Under this clause, a railroad before issuing any additional stork, must obtain an ordr from ihe commission which must, among othr things, fix the price at which Mm securities of the road may be sold. A similar provision Is carried In respect to railroads organized through the courts. A prevision la made that upon the reorganization of a railroad through court proceedings, proceed-ings, stocks and bonds can.not be issued for more than a fair value ot the property. The long and short haul clause ot the measure provides a railroad cannot, can-not, without lirRt gaining permission, charge more for a short haul tnan for a long haul over the same line. The Interstate commerce commission commis-sion also Is given authority whenever a new rate Is proposed to suspend the Mr. Ilalley admitted he bad done o, but said he had adopted that course to create confusion on the Republican tdrto of the chamber. "Up to the time of the adoptiou of a measure I will vote for any provision provis-ion that will make mischief for you; but I will stop short of doing mischief to the countrv. Does the senator understand un-derstand It now?" he asked in con elusion. "I regret to t-aj that I do" laconically laconical-ly responded the Idaho senator. Mr. Rrlstow closed with an appeal for Justice for the prairie states. He said tho chiding of those communities for such a pleading came with poor grace from "those who represent the railroad Interest." The debate closed for the day wlih nnother effort by Mr. Elklns to explain ex-plain away his invitation to the people peo-ple of the inland country to move to other sections. i taking on or thaf rate during consideration con-sideration at In reasonableness. As amended, the bill proponoR to bring the telephone and telegraph companies under the control of the Interstate In-terstate commerce commission. It provides for the valuation of railroad property to aid the commission In the consideration of railroad rales and gives to the commission authority over classification, regulations and practices of railroads. lnd r Its terms a railroad company must quote a freight rate accurately upon demand of n shipper and the shipper Ik given the right to route his freight whenever It passes over more than one railroad. The commission itself U authorized to establish through routes, whereas under tho present law it cannot make a new through route If such a route Is already al-ready established. Severe penalties are provided ngalnt-t shippers, v.ho through false claims for damages or loss of property, prop-erty, obtain secret rebates. Speaking of the bill as it passed the house today, Mr. Mann, chairman of the committee on Interstate and foreign for-eign commerce, said: "Under the existing conditions, through the non-observance of the existing ex-isting long and short haul clause, a very large proportion of the freight of the country Is carried by the long distance around Instead of being carried car-ried by the most direct route, whorw-a, whorw-a, If the railroads are compelled to cease doing that each would carry the samo amount of freight hy the most direct routo and be able to save expense ex-pense and reduce railroad rateH." Champ Clark, leader of the Iemo-cratlc Iemo-cratlc minority, explained the Demn-( cratlc course In opposing tbe bill on final vote, said: "The Democrats who voted against the 1.111 did so because they considered that there were more bad features In the bill than there were good ones. Wheu it was first brought Into the house, it waa a railroad bill, pure and simple. It was drawn In their Interests. Inter-ests. Not a railroad lobbyist appeared In opposition to this bill, which bays more eloquently than many volumes could do, that tho railroads were in faor of this legislation. Every amendment adopted In the house helped help-ed the bill, but thero were not enough of them. "Had the court of commerce feature and some parts of sections 13. 14 and lj been stricken out I would have voted for the hill." WASHINGTON. May 10. Mr. Piles undertook to show that the adoption of the long and short haul amendment amend-ment by forcing up rates and Increasing Increas-ing water transportation would cause tire transcontinental railways to abau-dou abau-dou the coast business. Tho assertion asser-tion was challenged by Messrs Dixon and Srnoot. Cuming Into the controversy con-troversy Mr. Elklns declared that the pending amendment tears down and destroys tho business of the country. "Then" said Mr. Dixon, "you antagonize an-tagonize the interstate commerce commission." Mr. Aldrich declared the commissions commis-sions advocacy of the amendment was convincing and could be explained by Its desire to control all tbe ralt-filations ralt-filations of the federal legislation ot railroads. "If oi are going to destroy tho busincs sof the country" continued Mr. Aldrich, "to mako Missoula, Mon-tant. Mon-tant. or Salina, Kansas, (the homo towns respectively of Senators Dixon and Rrlstow) tho metropolis of tho world then thero should be some reasonable rea-sonable rule under which the work of destruction Is to be carried on " Mr. Dixon replied with bitterness. He found In the Rhode Island senator's sen-ator's remarks a repltitlon of tho recent re-cent invitation of Mr. Elklns tu tlio west to "move out." Mr. Ivlgc opposed tho amendment as "an attempt to fix rates by law" which, he said, was equivalent to an effort to place a straight jacket on an ever shifting scale. He thought I the present law ample protection. Tho i distance rate had been a failure wherever tried, Mr. Lodge asserted and ho declared such legislation as was under discussion tended Inevitably Inevit-ably In that direction. After Mr. Lodge had concluded, Mr. i Pristow took up Mr. Klkin's recent invitation to the people of the Interior towns of tho west "to move out." "I dldn t say If protested the West Virginia senator, his face redder than usual "1 dld'nt say it" ho repeated and then read from the congressional record rec-ord to .'how he had coupled a condition condi-tion with the suggestion. "I said," he proceeded, "that if they wanted the advantages of tho coast eltle they should move out; lhat Is what I said, and I said it with deep regret. J meant no offense The senator from Kansas does not love his state any belter than I do." Mr Dlvon and Mr. Bailey engaged !n a controversy over an expression of the former In which he spoke of sonic senators as "champions of the railroads." rail-roads." "Does the senator mean to say any sonstors are here as the champions cham-pions of the railroads?" asked the Texas senator. "I wish the senator would withdraw that question or address it to some one else,'' responded Mr. Dixon. Kllcitlng from Mr. Hailoy the fact, that he would noe vote for any of tbe long and short haul amendments, .i... Heyburn called attention to the fact that on a previous occasion the Texas senator . rmri oupported the meanr. I |