Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-15
Iowa Senator Says Presidents
Views Will BE Embodied
in a Committee Report
MINORITY MAY TAKE ACTION
If Majority of Senators Follow Dicta-
ton of Railways and Refuse to Re-
port Measure Satisfactory to Presi-
dent, DoIIiver and Others Will Take
Up the Issue-The Senator Talks.

November next, to frame a bill in re-
lation to the matters which We're dis
cussed at the hearings after congress
adjourned.
Il hope thai the committee will be
found unanimous in it's support of the
presidents policy.
81 think it will, but whether it is or
not, a bill framed in accordance with
the presidents recommendations will
be put before the senate, even If 1t is
necessary for members of the commit
tee to part company with the majority
of their colleagues"
In this language United States Sen
ator j.. p. Dolliver in an interview
here yesterday set at rest the rumors
which have been widely circulated in
Iowa to the effect that he would be
aligned with Senator Elkins and the
majority Of the senate committee
against the presidents recommends
lions, and in effect stated that he would
bring in a minority report, along with
Senator Cullom of Illinois.
No Tariff Legislation.
Relative to the tariff Senator Dolli-
yer said that the fact that the extra
session of congress was not called last
snriny indicates that the president
looks upon other things as more I'M
%portant than the ov~erhauling OF the
tariff law of 1897 at this time.
ct is also probable that seeing the
bitterness ~engendered in various parts
of he country by the agitation OF the
tariff question:" said Senator Dolliver.
"and considering the conflict OF sei1ish
interests which would be likely to take
the stage as soon as the question comes
nm the president is not disposed to
take the risk either of the business DIS
turbances which sometimes 1oliow .a'-
iff legislation or Of the political dis
turbances which might cost his aornlll-
istration it's majority in the u OIL
representatives. These are all mat
ters which the president is bound 60
weigh in the relations which he holos
TO the party turnout the country.
In his address to the editors at inc
Auditorium in the evening senator
Doliyer reiterated the sentliletes
which he had expressed In n inter-
view of the afternoon at the slavery
and enlarged upon them. He sa1d, TO-
ward the close of the address,, after ne
had spoken to the editors OF the mpor-
tance of their mission, and of the vaiue
of the of the country;
"There are two great political par
t,es in the United States; n OF them,
unhappily, in a bad state & lapia
ion, produced by the ambition OF In
dividual leaders to place the party up
on ground which a large portion OF Its
membership could not CONSCIENTIOUS
occupy. The political party which for
the time being Is triumphant In the
United States will be fortunate II II es-
canes a similar disaster. 1t has with
in it's ranks millions of people, vi
in scattered regions of h country, en-
gagged in a great variety of pursuits,
and representing that almost infinite
y variety Of opinion which is found
wherever speech and printing are
free.
"The problem of holding these scat
tered millions together is so great as
TO tax the skill Of partisan leadership.
It can, only be done by printing the
fundamentals Of the party faith In
capital letters, reserving the things
about which the party is not agreed
for temperance argument in smaller
type.
"Here is a great political organlza-
ton which Is held together by the ties
Of a common faith, as old as the ma
ton. and able to call to It's support the
unanswerable witness of the national
experience for more than a century. In
that faith the party is one, but in the
application Of II to the conditions OF
business and industry which arises
from decade to decate there Is room for
opinions without number.
eft is a hard matter to get two peo-
pie to see a thing in exactly h same
light. To get millions OF people to do
it is a superhuman task.
"But is 1t the business Of a newspa-
per to suppress IT'S own convictions
and have no part IN the irrepressible
debate within party lines which goes
on generation after generation? OBJ
viously not. There ought to be the
largest liberty Of individual opinion.
and with 1t a perfect charity toward
the opinion Of others. Without that the
party influence is impaired and It's
| strength wasted in vain personal con-
%tentions.
Tariff Revision.
II say vain contentious, because
everybody who has participated in an
| actual revision OF the tariff knows that
practically every schedule is a COM
promise of the extreme views which
usually struggle for the mastery. Why
| should you and I call each other names
| over a matter in which it is morally
certain that neither Of us will ever get
exactly what we want?"
Senator Dolliver referred bri ely to
| the legislation likely to engage the at
tention Of congress In relation to the
settlement of disputes between rail-
ways and the public in the matter of
freight traffic. He expressed che opin-
ion that the recommendations of the
president looking to an effective
amendment of the interstate commerce
law would be followed by congress.
and expressed his regret that the able
| speeches which have been made In
Iowa, where every member of both
houses Of congress has given the pres
ident active and cordial support. could
not have been made in those sections
of the country where the popular mind
! has so far manifested little concern