The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-16
KNOX BLAMED
FOR INACTI0N.
senator Tillman's Remarks Upon
the Coal Trust.
MORE SPEECHES TO BE MADE
DEBATE ON THE STATEHOOD
BILL DRAGGING ALONG.
MORE SPEECHES TO BE MADE

washington. Jan. 15.-The senate today
passed the resolution introduced by Mr.
1ioar yesterday. calling upon the pre- =
"eht to inform the senate what govern
Iaent is now existing in the island Of
Sfuam and asking why Mabini is detained
IN that island.
me Vest resolution regarding the re-
Inovai OF the duty on coal was taken w.
ma ma MIR lllinnan resumed his remarks
lie declared that the railroads are abso-
duteiy in the saddle on the coal Question
Ihey Inine and market coal and fix the
price 10 be charged, without regard to a
SOntary Independent operator He sail
y was an infamy the way the press of
me me country was Prostituted and lending
Aeset TO betuddle the minds of the Deopits
and deceive them into the idea that TIN.
lalroads are willing and anxious to re-
HeVe the distress oecasiOned nv fhe coal
famine, but that somebody, some where
called an independent operator is re-
sponslbIe for the present condition of ar
The president deserves no credit said
ne, except for his attempt to effect a set
llement or the question. but the actual
TACT Is. he added. that j. Pierpont Nor
gan gave orders TO his eo-consDirafors ar
servants to attempt the arrangement be-
tween the monopoly and strikers"
Knox Blamed.
ne attorney general had been. he said
oerelict, and ne is the man to whom the
people can point and saw: Won have
murdered all those who have frozen 70
1edth- 1ou are the man who deserves
the opprobriun and hate of the poor and
oppressed of this land"
In the course of his remarks. Mr.. Till
ttIdi stated. after being closely questioned
py MI Spooner. that William Hearst had
Sharged that the United States district
attorney OF New York had received orders
from the attorney general not to submit
MS report Of the investigation regarding
trusts. 10 MS mind, he said a case had
.'seh MADE and the evidence and facts
nave been unanswered. The law he said
was TOO plain for any one to dispute it.
MT Beveridge of Indiana took execution
10 a statement by Mr. TilIman. which he
thought imDugned the motive of Judge
7 ~ 2ods IN Issuing his injunction in the
Repiying. Mr.. TiIIman said Judge
oodS went far beyond anything ever
contemplated by any American judge
why ne inquired, are J. p. Morgan
or ms co-conspirators any more immune
from the proceedings of our courts of
Justice than Eugene Debs2-'
Mr.. Morgan. he said. had such a sane
NV thrown around him on account of his
vast wealth that to imprison him would
cause the stars to get out of their course
or the sun to stand still. He had. he
cause he is the boss of Knox and Il
Mr. Knox is responsible he either has
mlsled the president or somebody else
has misled him: but primarily. Mr. Knox
Is responsible for lack of action in re-
ss2rd to the trusts.
fFUpon the conclusion of Mr. TilIman S |
ANAiiflAhCs MI DbDOItI stated L0dl SeAeTdl ]
senators desired to speak on the resolu- /
ton and asked that it go over. which was
agreed TO. The statehood bill then was /
taken uD and Mr.. Foraker of Ohio spoke 4
IN favor of the omnibus bill granting i
statehood to Oklahoma, Arizona and /
New Mexico.
The Indianola Trouble.
Mr.. Foraker did not conclude his speech [
IN favor of the omnibus statehood bill.
The indianola pOstOffice case was brought |
Up by Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi. who
read an article in the washington Post /
10 the effect that the postmaster's resig-
nation was forced by a brutal and law
less mob. IN denying that this was the
state of the case. Mr.. McLaurn said that |
the president had treated HIM with great /
courtesy. but that he was acting on mis-
information. The people of IndianOla he
declared. were not lawless and brutal. but
were hiEh-tOned, honorable chivalrOus
Intelligent. industrious and thrifty. He
read letter from a Mr.. Chapman OF /
IndianOla which stated that the resigna-
ton of the postmaster was submitted
voluntarily. and not Under threats or in
timidatiOc. Mr. McLaurin said he put !
full eredence in the statement of Mr.
Chapman
Mr.. Fairbanks gave notice that he
would call up the immigration bill on
Monday.
At $50 p. m. the senate went into exeou-
tive session and soon atterward ad-
1ourned until Monday.