Show INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL ielntor Ilt l I 011 Jrll tlu Old Unte nr Incl WASIIINOTOS Jln8The Sennto resumed tousideration of tho Inter btate Commerce hi Ihursdnj nftornoon nud Plntt continued us nrgument PI itt contmumn his address on the In cr Stnto Commerce bill Hall the Senators xero not hero to nriko I raid on the rnilrond iropeitx They xxero hero to do justice bj tho railroads and by tho people Al unre nunoritno rnto xxns just ns unreasonable aa tuo high I rate all tho raihond companies xxould Imxo to see to it if the public welfare was to be promoted I that remuuer itivo rates for freight and passengers xvero received I wns not dealing in stock of remunerate e nilroadsthnt produced panics and made uillionnircs nud paupers in this country Ho clnimed thit tlio bill was m the direction of forcing n CONSOLIDATION OF T1IL I1AILUOAD COMl XNUS And said thnt some imlrond len behoxed in that ns tho best outcome of tho railroad problem No truer sentence has excr been uttered than thnt where combination Is pas iiblo competition is impossible lliis bill left open nnd invited the worst kind of com lunation and consolidation of railroad cor porato capital Whit wero the rmlronds to do if prohibited from making pool arrange mcnta Lxpcnoiico taught thnt tho old rate I J ett fb h fn wars would begin i again nnd the end of it would honq it nlxx nj s hna been consohdn ton Iho monopolies of this country had been built on tho graves of xvtnk competitors 1 tg MY I tors llio bill united f bl J grand monopoly of road capital in tins couutry which would Ibo I-bo built on tho graxes of railroads thnt me not able to stand in tho competition Morgan opposed the I bill Aflor somo further debnto nnd nftcr an 1 xecntixo session Ihe Exeellio thobenatoadjourned LSTEPDAVS XXOItK WASIIISOTON Jnn s Senator MoPhorson xesterda submitted nn amendment to tho Intel Stnto Commtrct bill proposing tho addition which prohibits of the following pooling xxords to Section I Provided however that if after I full in x estimation tho Commission or I majontj thereof mo of tho opinion thnt the interest of both shippers nnd carriers xvill bo best piomoted by nn equitable dixision of tho tnrill or tho piocoeds thereof betxvoon tho cnrricrs the piousions i of this section max rtenli tl J fl qt l not bo enforced prior to Jinnar 1st 1H89 nud it shall bo the auty of the Commission to icport then actions xxilh Iho nasons Ihorefor to Congress in Di comber next llio amendment nlso increases tho num her of Commissioners of tho Inter Stnto Commerce to bo appointed from llxo to nine and tho number of Commissioners who may bo of ono pirl from Ihrio to six |