The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-27
IN LINE WITH MIR. ROOSEVELT Senate Committee Will
 Report Bill. THE DEMOCRATS WILL AID Two Members Have Not In- dicated Their Position. Willard of Nebraska and McLauris of Mississippi So Far Have Not
 Made Known How
 They wim Vote.
HE DEMOCRATS WILL AID

Interstate Commerce will report bill in consonance with the Presidents views on the railway rate question. The administration supporters are put down as the three Republican members of the committee. Senators Cullom, Clapp and Deliver. and tho Democrats of the committee. Senators Tfllman. Newlsnds, carmack and Foster. One Republican, Willard of Nebraska. it Is said. has so far given no indication of where he will be on the question. and the same is said to be the case with one Demo- crat. McLaurin of Mississippi.
 The opposition to the administration. as its railway rate policy is understood, consists of the four members Of the committee. Senators Elkins. chairman: Aidrich, Foraker and Kean. Republl- cans.
 Three members of the committee. Messrs. Clapp. Carmack and McLaurin have not yet met with the committee, whose sessions began on Tuesday last, none of them being in the city.
 Roosevelt's Friends Jubiiant.
 This report of the attitude of the individual members Of the committee, the advocates of the Rooseveftian pol fey are receiving with unfeigned eia- tion. This count would give Ahe rate regulators a certain majority of the committee, not counting Willard and McLaurin, With both these Senators for the anti-adminfstration side. the vote on the committee would be: For railway rate regulation, T; opposed. 6.
 Whatever may be represented as to the standing of the committee, 1t is plain enough to be seen that members here who have talked about the issue are either hazy in their notions of the details of just what they want. or, hay Ing Ideas. they veil them in general terms, which serves tho purpose only of indicating whether the member is for or against railway rate regulation as it is understood It will be urged by the administration. The Democrats are presumed to be united in support of the latest Democratic PArty deelara- lions on the enbjects The Republicans are seriously divided.
 The Democrats are insisting that Mir. Roosevelt Is hewing to their lines on the railway question. The National Democratic platform spoke out definite- ly on the subject at the last convention, while the Republican platform was si- lent on the subject, except to boast that new laws insuring reasonable publicity as to the operations of great corporations, and providing additional remedies for the prevention of discrim- mating rates. have been passed by Republican Congress-"
 Democratic Railway Plank.
 The Democratic plank on railway rate matters was contained in the fol. lowing:
 we recognize that the gigantic trusts and combinations designed to enable capital to secure more than It's just share of the joint product of capi- tai and labor. and which have been fostered and promoted under Republi- can rule. are q menace to beneficial and m obstacle to perIna- nent business prosperity.
 private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable.
 "Individual equality of oportunity and free competition are essential to a healthy and permanent commercial prosperity; and any trust, combination or monopoly tending to destroy these by controlling production, restricting or fixing prices and wages. should be prohibited and punished by law. We especially denounce rebates and discriminations by transportation as the most potent agency in promoting and strengthening these un. lawful conspiracies against trade.
 We demand an enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce to the end that the travel ing public and shippers of the coun- try may have prompt and adequate re. lief from the abuses to which they are subjected in the matter of transporta. ton. We demand astrict enforcement of existing civil and criminal statutes against all such trusts, combinations and monopolies: and we demand the enactment of further legislation as may be necessary effectually to suppress theul.
 Any trust or unlawful combination engaged in interstate commerce which is monopolizing any branch of business or production, should not be permitted to transact business outside of the State of it's origin, whenever 1t shall be es- tablished in any court of competent Jurisdiction that such monopolization exists. Such prohibition should be en- forced through comprehensive laws to be enacted on the subject"
 President the Most Radical.
 Democrats say and others agree and admit that the most radical declara- tions looking to railway rate regula- ton coming from any public man since the question has been agitated came from President Roosevelt himself in his speech at Raleigh, N. C., on Octo- Der 10. His platform, as enunciated on that occasion is contrasted with both the Democratic platform. which was explicit. and the Republican platform which did nothing with the issue ex- cept to claim adequacy for the laws on the statute books as the work of Republicans.
 It is pointed out how different are the Presidents views from those of the platform and those ex- pressed by other leading Republicans. At Raleigh MT. Roosevelt said:
 "Experience has shown that the present laws are defective and need amendment. The effort to prohibit all restraint of competition. whether rea- sonable or unreasonable, is unwise What we need is to have some admin strative body with ample power to forbid combination that Is hurtful to he public. and to prevent favoritism to ,ne individual at the expense of an- other. in other words, we want an , administrative body with the power to ,ecure fair and just treatment as among all shippers who use railroads and all shippers have a right to use hem. We must not leave the enforce nent of such a law merely to the De- ,artment of Justice; 1t Is out of the luestion for the law department to do what should purely be administrative