Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1906 — THAT ANTI-PASS AMENDMENT [ARTICLE]

THAT ANTI-PASS AMENDMENT

U ' Senators Hear from Their Constituent* and Will Probably Make a Change. Washington, May *!,■ —The senate has heard from its anti-pass amendment to the railroad rate bill In the •nape of protests-' from many people who will be ffaetced by it, including especially local attorneys of the roads, (senator said —at he had received a number of sucn protests, and he read one from J. 8. Stephens, of Peoria, 111. He asked that it be printed In the record, and this request was followed by others of the same kind from Senators Scott and Dick. Senator oullom made a mild protest against encumbering the pages of the record with arguments from lawyers to the exclusion of other petitioners, but he a.d not formally object and the telegrams were ordered printed. Most of the senators have received such telegrams. gave notice that no would offer a substitute including la those allowed passes all actual and bonafide attorneys with railway briefs and the families of railway employes.