The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1905-01-19
A BLUFF
At RAILROADS
10 Aid Fight on the Roads
Roosevelt May Force
Law
LIKES DEMOCRATIC Waws
His Crusade for More Power to co,,.
mission in Line with Democratic
De"'nds-sOme Railway Leg
isIa.ion Probable.
LIKES DEMOCRATIC Waws

islaoion Probable,
Washington, Jan. 18-pras,dou4
Roosevelt is again resorting TO btS
familiar "blufing" methods this t,ma
however IN crusade not political n
us oha@&ter All his talk ~ ~
q session is for a purpose and that
purpose is clearly understood bv tho
leaders in congress at whom tho tam
IS aimed He is no more anxious fo,,
an extra session of congrAss than ar.
those esteemed republican senator's
VINO have engaged passage for Eurone
uIon steamers sailing early in the
sprihg and whose plans would also ba
eisarTahged by a session in October
and he is no more anxious for tartr
revision than the srity Of reprr,.
lcans-not Dea1 &nxious as uaanv
oi them. But hs.d been holding over
lhe heads OF te republicans the threat
tariff revision for the purpose OF
forcins through some railroad Iegtsla.
ton at This session.
There IS a s,rong suspicion here tina,
President Roosevelt first injected this
railroad question into conversational
discussion for the purpose OF COVERING
~ his apparent bac8down upon tarifr
revision. He had found the stand pat.
ters Of his party too strong for him.
He did not at all enjoy being put In
the attitude of surrenderiug to these
clements, 50 he hit upon the freight
discrimination question rs one wngca
could BY he raised.
Democrats Took the Initiative.
For good many years democratic
members Of the senate and the house
have been presenting each session bills
designed to give the interstate com
merce commission more power, only
to find these bills religiously pigeon.
holed by the republican maiorities un-
or the two committees having to do
with legislation Of this kind. Here
and there republican had done the
same thing but if credit Is due for
originating agitation upon this Inc It
Belongs to democrats rather than to
republicans, Having upon their shout
ders the responsibility for all legisla.
tion and noniegislation. the republf-
cans could have put through some cura
live legislation at any time during tho
ps st eight years. The evils now made
prominent were Just as acute when
President Roosevelt first assumed Of
hce as they were when he wrote hIs
message submitted to congress last
December. Because of this conceded
fact. a good many people here. repuD-
licans as well as democrats. believe
the prime incentive of that message
was to cover up the presidential back
down upon the tariff.
Whatever the motive, however, Il is
undeniably true that the message and
the discussion which has followed It
nave served to make this railroad Quea
ton just now he issue paramount and
President Roosevelt is earnestly deslr-
Gus Of seeing early Legislation upon the
subject. He ants action at the pres
ent session. IN order TO rorce senate
and house republicans to come to his
views, he sprung the idea OF an early
extra session for the purpose Of tariff
| revision. knowing that the men repre-
scntlng the great protected interests
| O. the country would consent to almost
anything rather than have the DingIey
achedules touched lie still hopes Tor
railroad legislation at this session. II
tuis is not accomplished. he expects
the party leaders to agree 70 an extra
session early in tho fall with the un-
llerstandnls that 1t is to DO devoted to
railroad lesislaton--tariR legislation,
Il there IS TO Re any to come laeer.