The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-06
Declared President Roosevelt
Was interfering in Present
Rate Discussion.
DoLLIvER DEFENDS HIM
THINKS IT BETTER FOR RoosE-
WELT TO ADVISE SENATE
THAN FOR RAILROAD PREsI-
DENT TO 20 so.
IPnhlishers' Pressl

Publishers Pressl
Washington, April 5.-Mr. Stone, OF
Missouri, cast a bomb into the SEN
ate late this afternoon and the fuse
he ignited sputtered and sizzled for
an hour until 1t was extinguished by
the good natured exchange of ameni'
ties between Mr.. Allison of Iowa and
Mr.. Foraker of Ohio.
Mr.. Stone in a somewhat bitter
speech charged executive interfer'
ence in the pending rate discussion.
Mr.. Dolliver. of Iowa, defended the
President, but referred to railroad
influences" In such a manner as to
bring sharp retorts from Mr.. Foraker
and Mr.. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, the
former defending the senate from
what he considered to be aspersions
against its individual integrity, and
the latter repudiated the intimation
that any one senator was more ear
nestly desirous of securing wise leg.
islation for the prevention of railway
dDuSe IMAM dHOlIltI-
Mr.. Foraker and Mr.. Bailey of Tex
as, demanded that Mr.. Delivers re-
marks could only be construed to
mean that certain senators were i'm
properly comforting with railroad
presidents. They demanded names.
stones Attack on Roosevelt.
Mr.. Stone In declaring his allegi-
ance In principle to the Bailey propo-
sition, in lengthy speech. sarcastic
ally referred to the division in the
Republican ranks on the question of
railway regulation and of the Hep
burn bill being finally reported to the
Senate through the Democratic mem
bers of the committee having had the
measure In charge.
Then war cry, not quite so re-
sonant as OF old. but still defiant. is
sued from the White House," he ex-
claimed. THE President. as he is ac-
customed to do on great occasions,
forthwith summoned the newspaper
correspondents to his august pres
ence and through them informed the
country that he would stand resolute-
ly and mistaken for the house bill
and against any amendment authoriz-
ing a court review of the orders of the
commission. AS the press pictured
him he stood before the country as
grim and immovable as old Horatius
at the bridge.
Since then, however, whisperings
have come of caucuses, concessions
and compromises. Those of little
faith took on prophetic aspect and
smiled, while those of great faith still
avowed their confidence in the un.
yielding firmness of the iron man at
the White House. But those of little
faith were wiser. The Presidents alb
ject surrender has justified the pro-
phecies.
IF this amendment, proposed by
the President through the senator
from Kansas contains anything the
railroads not not want. II will require
the superfine acumen of a lawyer as
versatile and obliging as the present
attorney general, who has 'Ok'd' the
amendment to point It out The very
proposal Of that amendment there
was triumph for the senior senator
from Rhode Island tMr. Aldrich' and
his party coadjutors. But it affords
sad and sorrowful example of a
presidential fiasco. However, 1t is
only another instance of our mighty
men of destiny or duly beacking
away after one of their spectacular
grand stand performances. We may
all be sorry. but we have no reason to
be surprised"
Dolliver Defends President.
AS Mr.. Stone concluded Mr.. Dolli-
yer, a member of the Committee on
Interstate Commerce. and through
whose instrumentality the Hepburn
bill was reported. got the floor. He
warmly defended the rate bill. and
expressed his utmost satisfaction
with 1t as 1t stood.
Glancing sternly about the cham.
ber. and speaking with unusual clear
ness and firmness, he referred to the
recent white house conference, and
exclaimed:
Il thought II just as respectable,
and In line with public duty to hold
council with the President of the
United States on this question as 1t
was for my colleagues here to hold
sweet counsel with the presidents of
the railways of the United States on
this question"
He said he would not admit that
the. President had surrendered his po-
sition, and he quoted from former
and recent utterances of the Presi-
dent to prove this.
II close by saying" he exclaimed.
''that the institutions of the American
people. even here in the Senate. are
In greater danger from interference
from other quarters than from the
patient suggestions OF the President
Of the United States"
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