Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-16
TILLMAN BLAMES KNOX
Senator PaisiOnately Declares Administra-
ton and Press Responsible for Famine,
THINKS MORGAN SHOULD GO TO PRISON
Draws Parallel Between Debs ana
Great Trust MREnRte, Holding
Both Equally CuIpabIe, ThOuEh
one IL Rich and other Poor.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-In the senate
today Mr.. Tillman Is. CO. continued his
arraignment Of trusts and monopolies and
again charged the attorney general with
responsibility primarily for lack Of action
against trusts.
The statehood bill was under discussion
for a short time, Mr.. Foraker CO., urging
the right Of Oklahoma, Arizona and New
Mexico to be admitted into the union.
Mr.. McLaurin CMiss.) called attention to
charges that the people of 1ndianola, Miss,
had been guilty Of threats and intimidation
against the postmaster and declared them
to be untrue.
TiIIman President.
The resolution introduced by Mr.. Hoar
(Mass.) yesterday calling on the president
to inform the senate what government now
existed in Guam. and asking why Mablni
was detained in that island, was adopted,
and then the Vest resolution regarding the
revival Of duty on coal was taken up and
Mr.. Tillman resumed his remarks.
He declared that the railroads we're abso-
lutely in the saddle on the coal question.
They mined and marketed coal and fixed
the prices without regard to a solitary in
dependent operator.
He said It was an infamy the way the
press OF the country was prostituted and
lent itself to befuddle the minds OF the
people and deceive them into the idea that
the railroads were willing and anxious to
relieve the stress occasioned by the coal
famine, but that somebody, somewhere,
called an independent operator. was re-
sponsible for the present condition Of af-
fairs.
The president deserved credit, said he,
except for his attempt to effect a settle
ment of the question, but the actual fact
is" he added, that J.. Pierpont Morgan
gave orders to his co-conspirators or serv-
ants to attempt the arrangement between
the monopoly and strikers"
The attorney general has been derelict
and criminal, and was the man to whom
the people could point and say: you have
murdered all those who have frozen to
death. You are the man who deserves the
opprobrium and hate Of the poor and OPP
pressed Of the land"
w. r. Hearst had charged that the United
States district attorney OF New York had
received orders from the attorney general
not to submit his report Of his investiga-
ton regarding trusts.
To his mind, he said, a case had been
made and the evidence and facts had been
unanswered. The law was too plain for
anyone to dispute It.
Morgan should Go TO Jail.
why he inquired, ARE ]. Pierpont
Morgan OF his co-conspirators any more
immune from the proceedings Of our courts
Of justice than Eugene Debs?
Mr.. Morgan. he said, had such a s~anctity
thrown around him on account of his vast
wealth that to imprison him would cause
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sun to stand still. He said he had brought
in the presidents name because he was the
boss" OF Knox. and II Mr.. Knox was re-
sponsible he either had misled the presi
dent or somebody else hal misled him
but, primarily, Mr.. Knox. was responsible
for lack of action against the trusts.
Upon the conclusion Of Mr.. Tillman's re-
marks Mr.. Spooner stated that several sem
ators desired to speak on the resolution
and asked that 1t go over, which was
agreed to.
The statehood bill then was taken up and
Mr.. Foraker CO) spoke in favor Of the
omnibus bill granting statehood to Okla
homa. Arizona and New Mexico.
The ~Indianola (Miss.) postofice case was
brought up by Mr.. McLaurin (Mlss.), who
read an article in the Washington Post
to the effect that the postmaster's resig-
nation was forced by a brutal and lawless
mob. In denying that this was so, Mr..
McLaurin said the president had treated
him with great courtesy, but that he was
acting on misinformation. The people OF
Indianola were not lawless and brutal, but
heightened. honorable, ehivalrous. intelli-
gent, Industrious and thrifty.
He read a letter from a Mr.. Chapman OF
%Indianola. which stated that the ~resigna-
tion Of the postmaster was submitted vol
UNFAIRLY and not under threats OF intimida-
ton.
Mr.. Fairbanks gave notice that he would
call up the immigration bill on Monday.
At 4:3O the senate went into executive
session and soon afterwArd adjourned until
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