The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19
MESSAGE TO TIE CONGRESS- ROoS felt Will Deal With I Many Things.
 D. EUMENT IS IN TYPE
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 Railroad Rate Matter Of Greatest Importance.
 Not Believed That President wili Recsmmend the rearing up of the Tracks and Destructio. ef the Rolling stock.
By R- N. watkins.

| -| I Washington, Nov. tS.--fSpecial)-- From all available indications Presi- dent Roosevelt's forthcoming message l to the Fiffy-ninth Congress is going \ to be at once the, most varied. the l largest, widest. deepest document that ever emanated from his important pen. l It is conceded that If 1t is not quite the biggest and most significant paper he ever prepared. it will not be for lack of
 materials to which he has been recently devoting the ardent energies of his | extraordinary nature and the unterri- ] fled versatilitjes of his anfractuous in- I tellect.
 The document has been put into type 1 and the President has had it several
 days going over the proof and amend l ing and revising it to suit shifting exi- | gencies. Of course, railway rate l legislation will be the foremost theme 1 Of the paper. and 1t is to be expected | that 1t will he a very resounding dec- ! laration. It is understood that 1t will ask that Congress provide for an ad- ministrative body of men--either the I Interstate Commerce Commission or some other---which shall have the power I to fix a reasonable rate in place of any I found to be unreasonable and discrimi- hating to go into effect within q | reasonable time. subject, of course. to review in the proper courts.
 Substance of Raleigh speech.
 | This is the substance of his Raleigh speech, and it Is at the same time the substance of old Democratic doctrine. There Is given out by his friends who are faiu to agree with Mir. Roosevelt the soothing assurance that he has no Eintention of overturning the railroad l$business. In other words he does not mean 10 tear up the tracks and destroy l the rolling stock He does not even Task for .a general revision of rates He allows the railroads to do somethtnE | In the way of the ft1ftiative. as Minuri- I ty Leader John sharp WilttamH would ldc. All he demands at this time IS the subsfitution of reasonable rate tor ! one found to be unreasonable iu any pnrticulsF instance. Hk tntends also 3fo repesst his declarations in his last message against rebates and abuse of private car and terminal track systems.
 So earnest and insistent VIII the Rresi- dent be on this subject that he makes the tariff question a secondary matter. postponing settlement of that question I in his mind to a more suspicious occa- sion.
 The Presidents message. it Is under stood. will take a regardless whack at ! insurance matters, going much further | than he did in hts last message. He | will ask Congress, 1t Is said, to allow the Bureau of Corporations to do iit- tie supervisory Investigation along in- | terstate commerce lines of the insur- ! ance corporations
 The Insurance Scandals.
 This Is another of the numerous | things that Mir. Roosevelt in his survey of the things that are out of joint he conceives he was born to set right. but he will run up against the proposition. which many Congressmen are ready | to spring. that the insurance business | ia not interstate commerce. Anyhow I ,t is well understood that MT. Roose- welt will make the subject of the in- surance scandals. notwithstanding they 1 involve in the stickiest muck of cor ruption some of the most prominent RepubIican nnanciers of the country | the occasion Of one of his most strik' ing homiletics to humanity on the evils ] of grating and frenzied finance, etc, 1 The usual run of subjects. covering pretty much all the current affairs or | inc government will be handled.
 It Is said. by the way, reverting 10 the railway question, that Senator El- | irins called to see the President the other day and had with him one or the | hottest interviews that ever happened | to him in the White House. President | Roosevelt has been pretty we'll ad- vised that Elkins more than any otner | man in Congress. notwithstanding ms WOnQeTful utSpldy Ol thtStSES "HN | erRy in ostensibly seeking solution 1 for the vexed issue. has been and Is In | the way of a bill such as will meet the | approval of the administration.
 Mp E.IIkins AEtonished.
 Mir. Elkins learned as much from
 the President when he saw him the | other day. It is related that the West | VirKjnian came away astonished at the ] vehemence and partisanship of the President in his references to the rail- | roads. It is believed by not few that l President Roosevelt Is about to try a | huge Jacksonian stunt in that he will I fight the railways as Old Hickory | fought the national banks | A veteran Senator took that view or | the situation today. and recalled the l astonishing animadversions against | the railways in which MT. Shonts of | the Panama Canal Commission. in-
 dulged the other evening in his rec markable address to the National Hard 1 ware Association. The same Senator 1 recalled his conviction at the time that Mark Hanna made his great effort fin
 behalf of the Panama Canal, when dis | cnssion of that route was revived in | the Senate, because he was thoroughly ! convinced the canal would never be
 constructed across the Isthmus of Pan-
 anna. Tn that way Hanna was serving the railroads. 1t looks as though | there Is a great war on between Pres | ident Roosevelt and the railroad inter-