The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-16
ROOSEVELT IS BLIND
 TO LAW, SAYS PULLMAN
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~~-~--~-~---~---~-----~~ appointed by the Santo Domingo govern ment.
 MT. Mooney spoke of the numerous rev.
 olutions in Santo Domingo, and on the status of this government there, charac- terizing the condition as a pretty mess, and spoke disparagingly of the Presi- dents disposition to participate in 1t without the consent of Congress. He ex- pressed apprehension that the end of
 such tendency might be disastrous, in view of the Presidents threat to use the
 ''big stick" The influence of obligation
 under the Monroe doctrine to interfere in Santo Domingo, MT Mooney charac-
 terized as "a pure fiction, tigment of the Presidents brain.'
 Reverting to canal matters and speak ing of MT. Shonts, MT. Tillman said the
 Clover Leaf road, of which that gentle
 man had been president, runs through a
 prairie country, and that 1t does not pre-
 sent any special engineering feats He understood that MT. Shonts was to resign as president of that road. Did any one
 know whether he had resigned? He ap-
 pealed to MT. Allison, but that senator
 said he did not know.
 Mir. Hale spoke in very complimentary terms of MT. Shonts, expressing the opin- ion that his selection was wise one. MT. Tilman said he was mot gunning for MT. Shonts, nor for any particular
 man. He had, he said been on the isth- mus but twice and but a week at time.
 MT. Tillman called attention to the fact that MT. Pepperman, assistant secretary. was connected with the Glover Leaf and
 asked If that gentleman still held that
 position. MT. Hale said he did not know but he was confident that he was not After some further discussion and the
 reading of a note by MT. Tillman, he ex-
 onerated MT. Pepperman.
 Useless Position.
 | Mir. Tillman then took up the question of Secretary Bishops connection with the | commission. He said that MT. Bishop had never gone to the isthmus. and that any 5000 or 5000 clerk could perform his services He characterized MT. Bishops
 work as process of hypnotizing public 1 oplnion.' The press representatives in Washington may be dirty and disposed to
 lie, he said, and it might be fact that there had been an organized crusade | against the canal, but even If true. he
 did not believe that the method of de- fense adopted could be justified. and he | expressed confidence that if other meth
 ods were adopted, all the gnats and mo-
 souitoes that beclouded the situation would disappear. He defended the news
 paper men against the imputation thai
 they desired to misrepresent, and said
 that they wanted the trust.
 MT. Hal6 MI. to | call attention to the fact that MT. BishoI | had expressly disavowed any effort tc manufacture public opinion, but that he had preferred the expression ''creator of public sentiment"
 Mir Hale took occasion to voice his own
 disapproval of the commissions employ ment of an official for this purpose. and to say that he was confident that the en- tire committee on appropriations felt as he did on the subject. Mir. Culberson proposed an amendment to the bill providing that no part of the money appropriated shall be used to pay the expenses of a literary bureau. A resolution by MT Carmack, instruct ing the. Senate committee on naval af- fairs to inquire into reports of brutality practiced by hazers upon students at the Naval academy at Annapolis, with view to putting a stop to such practices, was , adopted
 Professing to discuss the adverse critic ism of the Panama railroad management Mr. Tillman provoked protests from MT Gallinger and MT Allison, the former calling attention to preparations to double track the railroad to relieve the blockade
 and the latter saving more than half oi the money to be appointed in the pending
 bill is to be used for improvements to the
 railroad and wharves. MT. Tlln,an assert cd that the issuance of bonds by the Pan-