THE 31UKMXG OKJ5U-OXIAX, TUiiSDAl. J1A1 3, 1910. 5 RAILROAD BILL IN DANGER OFWRECK Insurgents IVSay Cut Cut Chief Provisions, but Regulars Plan to Foil Them. TAFT WARNED OF TROUBLE If Bill Tails, He Will Place Blame on Insurgents Elimination of Pooling Provision will Be Ine to Fear of Poltl?al Effect. (Continued from Flrgt Page.) ford amendment, but were opposed to the entire traffic section. "These Senators did not hesitate to enter into an agree ment with the regular Republicans to vote against the Cummins provision In return for an agreement to eliminate the section altogether. If the Administration Senators are correct in the poll they took, the Cum mins amendment -would be lost by the narrow margin of one or two votes, and for that victory the Administration agrees to pay the prioe of striking out the -whole section. It Is agreed section 13 must be aban doned also. It Is not certain that even sections 13. 14 and 15. which provide for Federal regulation of the issuance of se curities of railroads, can be saved. The agreement reached today does not cover these sections. Much Jockeying In Progress. The chamber of the Senate and the several adjacent committee rooms occu pied by leaders have not been the scenes of so much Jockeying over legislation since the making of the famous "Allison compromise" to the Hepburn rate law four years ago. As In that case, the radical movo taken by the men In charge of the bill came like a bolt from the blue. That the Administration had not the votes to carry out lt programme was not generally suspected. Throughout the day efforts were made to effect' an agreement between those who favored the Cummins amendment and those who supported the El kins-Crawford provision. The first would require all traffic agree ments and changes of rates to be ap proved by the Interstate Commerce Commission before taking effect. The latter would make traffic agreements lawful under the Sherman law, but would not require that rates made by railroads should be submitted to the commission In advance. Insurgents Will Not Yield. The Insurgents were unyielding. They believed victory was within their grasp. After the adjournment of the Senate, Cummins was called into the final conference. He was asked if the insurgents could not get together on some provision less obnoxious to the majority of the Republicans than was in the pending Cummins amendment. Cummins is quoted as saying per sonally he would agree to the adop tion of some provision insuring sub stantially the same thing, but he did not think his insurgent colleagues would accept anything other than a straight-out proposition compelling railroads to obtain approval of the commission before putting new rates Into effect When Cummins came out of Mr. Aldrlch's room he said: "We are not compromising. We thinlc we have the votes to adopt my amend ment." It was apparent he had not been told of the plan to eliminate section 7 and did not suspect any such Intention on the part of those having the bill In charge. He joined Clapp, Dolliver and IaFollette, who had waited in the cor ridor to learn the result of the confer ence. A newspaperman who Joined- this group of Insurgents was told by all they were confident of winning. Flint Compromi.se Rejected. Harmony was not complete in the con ference of the Senate leaders. Flint was not willing that section 7 be stricken out. At the same time he was opposed to giving railroads full power to raise rates without approval of the Commis sion and. made it clear that on a final vote he would act against his associates and support the Cummins rather than the Elkinst-Crawford amendment. "If you adopt the Eiklns-Crawford pro vision and the railroaiis Increase their rates, as they must do." declared. Flint. "it will be charged that the Increases were due to the removal of the possi bility of prosecution lor violation of the provisions of the Slierman law. If the ummins provision Is adopted. It will be phy."cal!y impossible for the Interstate commerce Commission to pass upon the great volume of new rates presented. I believe the railroads should be per mitted to make trafflo agreements, but they should be prohibited from making any change In existing rates- without approval of the Commission." Flint proposed as a compromise that traffic agreements be permitted and the Commission should give blanket ap proval of existing rates; but that no new rates should be put in force until they had been approved. His propo sition did not meet with the acqui escence of a majority of those partici pating In the conference, and it was apparent also the insrugents would not accept it. Flint then withdrew from the conference. "Cold Feet," Cries Root. Several Senators were asked tonight to what they attributed failure to get enough votes to adopt the Elklns-Craw-ford amendment. They were almost unanimous in the opinion that It could be charged directly to the fact that, if rates were raised by the railroads, the people would say the repeal of the Sherman antl-trast law in Its applica tion to railroads was responsible. Unquestionably the possible political effect of the adoption of that section frightened away some of the early sup porters of the provision. Mr. Root was noticeably annoyed at the outcome of the conference. "When asked what caused the change of front in connection with section 7. he said: "Cold feet. Some of those who ought to support the bill were afraid of the political effect. The action of railroads In the Western Trunk Line Association in flllng new classifications with the interstate Com merce Commission, giving notice of ma terial increases, was referred to by & number of those attending the confer ence. As wages have been Increased, It was agreed there would certainly be other advances and certain Republicans feared the political effect. Attention was called to the fact That the New Tork. New Haven & Hartford today increased passenger rates between 15 and 30 per cent. Whit Mill Be Lert of Bill. VTiether the showdown between regu Jar Republicans And Insurgents will oome tomorrow depends upon the debate and. the attitude of the insurgents when they learn of the plans to deprive them of victory. The adoption of the programme agreed upon today would leave the first six sec- tions of the bill relating to the proposed court of commerce: the section under which railroads would be required to fur nish applicants with written statements of rates; the provision authorizing the commission to fix rates upon its own in itiative or complaint that existing rates are unjust and providing for a suspension of a change in a rate for a period of 60 days pending investigation as to its rea sonableness. Practically all sections that would re main if those relating to stocks and bonds were eliminated prescribe penal ties and the form of reports railroads would be required to make to the com mission. Interior States on Warpath. Elkins, in charge of the bill, encoun tered further trouble on the Senate floor in opposition of Senators from "Inter-mountain" states to the long-and-short-haul system of freight charges. Dixon of Montana, in advocating the adoption of his amendment prohibiting railroads charging more for a short than a long haul, said cotton goods were transported from New York to Seattle for 90 cents a hundred, white the rate from New York to Missoula, Mont., 650 miles shorter, was $3-31. Elkins suggested if the rates were un reasonable relief was to be had from the Interstate Commerce Commission- Dixon replied that small Interior communities could not afford such a course. Smoot of Utah came to TJQxon's assistance and complained of discrimination against Salt Lake City In favor of Los Angeles. "With an air of irritation Elkins said each community should be permitted to enjoy its own advantages and if people of the Interior wanted advantages of coast cities, including lower freight rates due to water competition, "they should move outside." "We are not going to .get off the-mip," exclaimed Smoot hotly. 'we are going to stay right where we are and ask Congress to right our wrongst:" Elkins insisted that he did not "want to put anybody off the map. He charged Dixon with entering an alliance with the Democrats, who he said, for 20 years had been advocatlng'what he was. arguing for. Dixon replied 30 Reptaollcan Senators would vote for his asnendment and he hoped all the Democrats would do like wise. The subject was atillaperrcnng when--the Senate adjourned. Ml -TRUST BLOW HIT SUPREME COURT HA?TD&U0VX TWO DECISIONS. Retail Imm-ber IealeT9r Association in Southern States Is Found Harmful. WASHINGTON, May 2- The hands of the states in their flht agralnst "trusts" -were upheld today by the Su preme Court of the United -States with telling effect. The Association of Retail Lumber Dealers in Mississippi and Ixmlslana was disbanded by affirmation of the decree of the Supreme Court of Missis sippi ; the Standard VM1 Company of Kentucky was ousted from Tennessee by the approval of the decree of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Both the state courts had held they violated the anti-trust act of the respective states. Justice Lurton announced the .opin ion of the court In the Mississippi case. It was his first utterance from the Su preme Court bench, on the trust ques tion. He accepted the flndingra of the state courts and considered only wheth er the statute was in conflict with the 14th amendment by abridging the free dom of contract. "That auny one of the persons en gaged in the retail lumber business might have made a fixed rule of con duct not to buy his stock from a pro ducer or wholesaler who should sell to the consumers in competition with himself is plain," said the Justice. "No law which would infringe his freedom of contract in that particular would stand. But when the plaintiffs in error combine and agree that no one of them will trade with any producer or whole saler who shall sell to a consumer in the trade range of any of them, quite another case is presented. "An act harmless when done by any one may become a public wrong when done by many acting in concert, for it then takes on the form of conspir acy, and may be prohibited err punished if the result be hurtful to the public or to the Individual against whom the concerted action is directed. SOCIALISTS CAUSE WORRY New Mayor of Milwaukee Reassures Eastern Bond Companies. ilH,WAXJKEE, "Wls May 2 (Spe cial.) That Baetern bond companies are Interested In the now administra tion of the city gwemment became ap parent today when Mayor Emil Seidel received a aormmmicejttpon from a Bal timore concern asking; as to the atti tude of the Socialist regime toward publlo service corporations. Presumably the Information Is de sired to guide the action of Eastern bankers In disposing of municipal and public service corporation bonds. It was one of. the topics discussed at a cabinet meeting in the Mayor's office. "We venture to ask whether your administration le adverse to the pres ent methods of these companies T was asked. Mayor Seidel will answer, he says, that there Is no csose Cor alarm that any action of the administration will hinder a ready sale of bonds. PEERS COMING TO FIGHT Iord Lonsdale and Party Engage Rooms in San Francisco. SAX FRANCISCO. May 2. (SpeciaL Reservations were made at the Fairmont today for Lord Lonsdale, of London, and a party of K wealthy Englishmen who will make the trip to San Francisco to see the Jeffries-Johnson fight, on July The reservations for the distinguished party were made by James B. Duffy, of San Francisco, general agent of the Santa Fe Railroad. The Englishmen axe expected to reach San Francisco not later than July 1. and will remain for a week or so after the fight. The personnel of the party has not been made known, except that Lord Lonsdale is at the head of It. He will be accompanied by other titled Englishmen. A. Healthful Hint. A bottle of the Hood Brewing Com pany's famous Bock Beer to ward off that tired feeling. Phone Q. 139, B 1JU. OLD ATHLETE IDOL New York Streets Blocked When Weston Arrives. TRAMP ENDS IN TRIUMPH Pedestrian 72 Tears Young Spans Continent In 7 7 Ia j-sPurse and Championship Belt Given ITim at His Journey's End. NEW TORK. May 2. Onttlng his way through a mass of 20.000 cheering peo ple, his white' locks bared to the breeze and his shuffling feet keeping time to the strains of the "Star Spangled Ban ner," Edward Payson Weston today brought to a triumphant end his ocean-to-ocean walk. He ascended the steps of the City Hall at 3:10 P. 24., completing the transcontinental Journey of 34S3 miles In 77 walking days, a feat without parallel in the annals of pedestrianism. The grizzled athlete was welcomed to his home city by Mayor Gaynor, who presented him with a purse of 400. hur riedly raised by a handful of his ad mirers In the last hours of his spectacular walk. This and the applause of the thousands who have followed his tramp since it began at Los Angeles February 1 is all the reward that comes to the septuagenarian after his - months of trudging through heat and cold across the oontinent Xo Taint of Professionalism on Him. No taint of professionalism, no bargain for the advertising of this, that or the other form of footwear dims the glory of the old man's performance. He has received hundreds of offers from vaude ville managers, but has declined them all. In the last stages of his walk Into New Tork he was the object of an ovation such as rarely has been accorded to any Individual short of a victorious ad miral or a colonel of a rough rider regi ment. From Seventy-second street down, Broadway from curb to curb was black with people. When the Journey was resumed at 1 o'clock after luncheon the crowd had grown to nearly 6000, the police were powerless to clear a way and a call for reserves was sent in. Fifteen thou sand persons crowded Into Times Square to cheer the walker. What Old Athlete Can Do. As he finally turned into City Hall Park, black with thousands, Weston was visibly moved and It was with difficulty that he found voice to thank the Mayor for his words of greeting. "1 wanted to show to the youngsters what an old athlete of 72 years could do,' he said. Then, from the steps of the City Hall- he thanked the crowd for its welcome and expressed himself as well repaid by their cheers for all his exertions. Later, In the Mayor's private office, he was presented with a gold championship bolt by President P. T. Powers, of the Eastern Baseball League. It is the famous six-day go-as-you-please belt, won by Dineen and Cavanaugh in 1902 and 1903 respectively. From Tonkers down Weston was ac companied by his daughter. Miss Anna Hngan, of New York, and a number of other friends. EMPEROR PREPARES TO DIE Frani Joseph to Be Buried in Ornate Monastic Wine Vanlt. VIENNA. May 2. (Special.) Though hale and hearty and. keenly enjoying the prospect of celebrating his 80th birthday in August, Emperor Franz Josef has late ly made arrangements for his demise. Beneath the Capuchin Church in this city is an historic vault containing the remains of all the members of the Roy al Family or two centuries. But it was crowded, so the Emperor decided to make more room before he bad to Join the departed Next door to the vault was the wine cellar of the Capuchin monastery. A part of that big chamber has been ac quired by the aged monarch and out of it two magnificent vaults have been constructed. Their walls are lined with pure white marble. One vault will be reserved for Franz Josef and his Im mediate relatives. The larger chamber will serve as the resting place for more distant connections of the royal house. CEMENT SEWER IS WANTED North ATbina Meeting Declares ' Against Terra CoUa. Pipe. At a meeting of the North. Albina Im provement Association last night in the firehouse on Albina avenue it was decided that cement eewer pipe for the Riverside sewer district was good1 enough and the Council was condemned for holding up the work. 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It was decided to hold a mass meeting next Thursday night in the fire hall on Albina avenue to discuss the sewer question fully. The Mayor and City Engineer will.be invited to attend. Specimens of both cement and terra cotta sewer pipe will be brought to the meeting for examination. Governor Benson Names Judge. SALEM. Or., May 2. 9pecial. Gover nor Benson today appointed J- Fred Tates to be county judge of Benton County. Oregon, to succeed" the incumbent, Ed TVoodard. Mr. Yates will hold office from June 1, 1910. to January 2N 1911. Senate Confirms Rasch for Judge. WASHINGTON. May 2. Carl Rasch. one of Secretary Ballinger's counsel In the Ballinger-Plrichot controversy, who was recently nominated by the President to be United States Judge for the Dis trict of Montana, was .today confirmed by the Senate. 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