The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-03-30
I'VE TELL PEOPLE We
are DOING OUR BEST"
"But" Senator TiIlman Adds
"The Dear Old Constitution
Stands In the Way"
WANTS LAW
Says Jerome Has Fallen from Grace
Tickies the Galleries When He
Gets Back at Senator
Spooner.

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ting to the senate and house the report
Of members of the international water
ways commission regarding the preser-
walton OF Niagara Falls, President
Roosevelt sent today a recommendation
that q law be enacted for the preser-
walton of Niagara Falls without walt
ing for negotiations.
Senator Tillman presented his dairy
communication on the question OF rail-
road discrimination. 1t was q letter,
IN this case, from Samuel k1nsey, OF
SCarrick, Pa, president of the Plttsburg
Standard Coal company, who made
complaint thai the Pittsburg, Cincln-
natl, Chicago and st. Louis railroad re-
company's mine, thirty-one miles west
OF Pittsburg.
In the same connection Tillman re-
ferred to his resolution concerning the
contributions of national banks to cam
paign committees, and made 1T a basis
for reference to d1tterences
District Attorney Jerome and Judge
O'Sullfvan as to the applicability OF eX-
listing law to liability of insurance conn
panies for the same offense.
Bank i~nexcusable.
Whatever doubt might exist as to
Insurance companies, there could, ne
said, be none as to national banks.
These. he believed. constitute malfeas.
ance in Office, and call for punishment
under the law. He knew Of one case
in which $4,000 had been contributed
to the republican campaign fund OF
1896. and hi had reason to believe no
less than $1,000, 900 had been so given
by the national banks that year.
He also spoke of Judge Humphreys
recent decision in the beef packers
case, and declared that the tendency
was to punish the man of straw n
corporations, without paying attention
to the individuals.
He declared we We're too INTERNALLY
anxious about this artificial man he
wanted beneficiary locke after. No
doubt. he said. the law was correctly
interpreted, but that was the trouble
he wanted the law reformed.
jerome Falls from sGrace.
Now there is Jerome he said. He.
too. has fallen from grace, n is u
against reform.
so here we go. The dear people are
told we are doing our best for them.
but the dear old constitution stands in
the way"
(. Tilir1ah quoted spoones's recent
speech devoted to pointing out the
necessity for careful legislation, and
also made mention of a cartoon illus
trating the effect Of Humphreys de-
cision.
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his friend was going too far and de-
clared it was the first time he had
ever known judicial opinion to be i'm
peached by a cartoon.
Cartoons often point out some perth
nent facts remarked Tillman.
Tillman's Effectual Retort.
1.-THE last cartoon I saw of the sem
ator from South Carolina" said Spoon
er. "shoWed him being kicked over by a
donkey"
THE last 1 saw said Tillman,
Showed me riding a donkey, and an
elephant was tied to the donkey's tail"
There was q roar of laughter in the
galleries and on the floor.
IT saw q cartoon Of myself" said
Spooner. when he could again be heard,
which showed me in a suit Of Secre-
lary Taft's clothes, but 1t did not illus
trate any principle"
.sTillman admitted that often his lam
EuaRe was too lurid." He declared the
attorney general was the direct pro-
genitor of the doctrine that corpora
tions could be punished, but not their
officers and stockholders. He had laid
down the principles n the case of Mr..
Morton and the president had accepted
the doctrine. Both exclaiming:
He's clean inc honorable n should
be immune: go after the dirty rail-
e0ads."
The decision in the packers case was
che natural consequence he said and
he attorney general had been hoist
by his own petard."
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