April 5, 1006
PAGE S
O&r Nobrasko. Kndopondont
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO
THE RAILROAD RATE BILL
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Now before the Senate of the United State The Bailey amendments repre
sent the demands of the democrats The White House amendments rep
resent the views of President Roosevelt and his republican followers
in the Senate.
The Bailey amendments are definite and explicit, leaving no room for
doubt as to their import or meaning. White House amendment is indefinite
in everything except that it explicitly confers jurisdiction upon the courts
to suspend the orders of the commission upon application to do so by the
railroads. The White House amendment is expected to unite in its support
the republican members of the Senate, and avoid the disruption of the party
in the senate which was threatened in case the Bailey amendments were
insisted upon by. the president and his republican followers. Under such
circumstances it ought not to be difficult for the. average man to understand
that there must be a wide difference in the meaning of the two amendments:
BAILEY AMENDMENTS
"A rate or charge which shall af
ford a just compensation to the car
rier, or carriers, for the service or
services to be performed; and a-regulation
or practice which shall Tie just
and reasonable. The rate, or charge,
regulation or practice so determined
and prescribed shall be the only law
ful rate or charge, regulation or prac
tice, and the carrier or carriers shall
not thereafter demand or collect any
other rate or charge or follow any
other regulation or practice." -The
other amendment provides :
"Any carrier, or person, or corpora
tion, party to such complaint and dis
satisfied with the rate or charge, regu
lation or practice, so established and
prescribed, may file a bill against the
commission in any circuit court of
the United States for the district in
whicbany portion of the line of the
carrier or carriers may be located al
leging that such rate or charge will
not afford a just compensation for the
service or services to be performed, or
llntirm nr practice is un-
inot and unreasonable: and if upon
the hearing the court, shall find that
such rate or charge will not anora a
just compensation for the service or
tn he nerformed. or that the
regulation or practice is unjust and
unreasonable, it shall enjoin the en
forcement of the same; provided,
however, that no rate or charge, regu
lation or practice prescribed by the
commission shall be set aside or sus
pended by any preliminary or inter
locutory decree of order of the court.
"Said proceedings shall have pre
cedence over all other cases on the
docket of a different character, and
the court shall have power to make
orders to secure the attendance of
persons from any part of the United
State3, and the existing laws relative
to evidence and proceedings under the
acts to regulate commerce shall be
applicable. Either party to said pro
ceeding shall have the right to ap
peal directly to the supreme court of
the United States, and such appeal
shall have precedence in said supreme
court over all other cases of a dif
ferent character pending therein."
WHITE HOUSE AMENDMENT
It is proposed to strike out the par
agraph at the bottom of page 14 and
insert as a part of section 16 the
following:
"That all orders of the commission,
exceDt orders - for the payment of
money, shall take effect within such
reasonable time as shall be prescribed
by the commission, and shall con
tinue for such period of time, not ex
ceeding two years, as shall be pre
scribed in the order of the commis
sion, unless sooner set aside by the
commission or suspended or set aside
in a suit brought against the com
mission In 'the circuit court of the
United States, sitting as a court of
equity for the district .wherein any
carrier plaintiff in said suit had us
principal operating office; and juris
diction is hereby conferred on the
circuit courts of the United States
to hear and determine In any such
suit whether the order complained of
was bevond the authority of the com
mission or in violation of the rights
of the carrier secured by the constitution."
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'Artie tribes reported to have been
driven by. starvation to cannibalism
and self-extermination.
Thirteen men, entombed in a French
coal mine twenty days, living on hay
and putrid meat, escape.
Natal crisis is debated in the Brit
ish parliament, the ministers explain
ing the suspension of executions.
Power of new labor members of
the British parliament is shown in the
the army and church, and the escape
from punishment of army officers who
refuse to take church inventories
may lead to the abolition of the court
martial.
The kaiser has responded to a re
quest of the young women of Cre
field for dancing partners by station
ing a regiment of huzzars in the town.
"Fashion's decree that women must
wear long tight gloves will result in
a marked increase in diseases of the
circulatory system, English physicians
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poff, is flooded with insults and
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British agitation for the protection
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People of St. Petersburg will choose
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today and there are rumors that the
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at the polling places.
Moroccan conference virtually is
ended,, a' proposal by Ambassador
White, the cmet American ueiegaie,
resulting in a complete agreement.
It is seemingly a victory for France.
The first election is neia m hi. Pe
tersburg, . resulting in a , decisive vic
tory for the constitutional democrats.
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nt thf outcome of . the Moroccan . con
ference, which removes the threat of
a great European war.
Fight over the enactment of laws
for the benefit , of labor unions is
opened in the house of commons, the
government measure being opposed
by the workmen's representatives be-
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munity for' funds of the unions.
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Women explorer, escorted oniy Dy
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African wilds, visiting many districts
never before seen by a white person.
King of Wurtemberg reads a sharp
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crowded the queen from a sidewalk.
Austrian - government is embar
rassed by President Roosevelt's sum
mary action in the Storer case, and
and executive's request that the am
bassador be superceded before he has
presented his letter to recall violates
precedent
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is not such that we can count on not
having another war, and, as congress
is unwilling to appropriate enough
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