The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-13
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When senator Bailey gained the foot
1 no charged that the Montana senator
ebullitlnn was due to the fact that h
Ind not been mentioned by Senator Ray
! ner In his speech yesterday AS one .
The Presidents special ambassadors II
defended his own record on the srotint
that d,,rflng his congressional service l,l'
party had been IN power only the frs
four years. If, during the time the Demo
Gratis we're III the minority, lie had IN
/. trodtced a bill to regulate the railroads
the Senator said lie would have beer
performing an act Of bunconbe. He re.
pe.ed charges Of Inconsistency OIL the part
OF the President In his Legislative pro.
xran1me, saying that the "nbsolute rate,
first contcnded for, had been deserted
for the "npXimum rate and that inc
President had changed his position on the
subject Of suspension OF rates penang u
reversal bv the courts
Taking up statement made by MI.
Carter that tho President had during
HIS campaign for the Presidency dis
played mntchess courage II denying the
railroad power of the country, Senator
Bailey said Of the Presidents attitude
In that election:
''lIas the senator from Montana
examined the record on that question,
from Maryland and myself? What
will the Senate say when tell the
senator from Montana that IN his
messages of 1902 and 1903 the Presi-
dent was as silent as the grave upon
the question OF regulating the rail-
roads: that, standing in the presence
Of The American nation. pending tho
great contest of 1904, he spoke never
word in its favor, either IN MS
letter of acceptance or III ms speech 5s
OF acceptance. Only after his cleo
ton in 1901 did he challenge the rail-
road powers In mortal combat Did
the senator from Montana know that
when he declared that the President
had exhibited the marvellous courage
in defying It prior to his elevation? 2"
Senator Carter replied that in a public
address. delivered in the city Of Mime
apolis before his nomination, the Pres
ident had in clear, distinct and uneauiv-
ocal terms announced his position upon
the subject and likewise upon necessary
anti-trust prosecutions and legislation.
In reply Senator Bailey said he did
not know the President had discussed
the railroad question in his speech at
Minneapolis, but he had eSnInined the
Presidents public messages prior to the
election and had found nothing Of that
character in them.
Surrender Of President.
Senator Bailey said that the Presidents
secretary had writer to the editor OF
( publication known as Freight In the
summer OF 1901, declaring that In his
letter Of acceptance the President would
speak out" on the railroad question.
He said the Presidents promise had not
been redeemed. Continuing. lie said:
IT do not say thattthe President
tInyN INi'h nyo
his astute political advisers told him
that the railroads would not contrib
ute, that he cut it out. ! will not
say that, although there are many
men uncharablc enough to say 1t.
only put before the Senate and the
country the fact that his secretary
said the President would speak on It,
Il and he did not speak on It.
Perhaps those insurance companies
which We're contributing the trust
funds of widows and orphans to
secure his election owned so many
OF those railroad bonds that they de-
tered not the President, but the
Presidents advisers, from incorpor-
ating In his letter Il message of hos
tility against the railroads mmedi-
ately preceding the election.
'Mr. President. | love II brave man.
4 love II fighter and the President Of
~ the United States is both on Occa-
sion. but he can give UP with as
{, much alacrity as any man who ever
went to battle. either civic or politl-
cal He fights furously when It is
a physical contest grant you. be-
cause that is question Of courage
as we'll as endurance but he seems
II, to have no endurance in these politi-
cal contests here. Why, he was go
ing to revise the tariff and his
friends called him off. and then that
great voice that was filling the ma
ton with a demand for tariff revision
suddenly sank into the gentlcness
and weakness of {; whisper
Y Then he was going 10 have the
2" railroads regulated and 1t was am
nounccd that Congress would be con-
vened in extraordinary session to
deal with it, but the great leaders
assembled with the President, prayed
with him Il little while. and no call
was issued for an extraordinary ses-
sion of Congress. Hc waited until
the regular session, and five months
of that has elapsed and still no leg
islation. And when We do get a
bill. God SAVE the country from such
bill as it.wiH be,
p Man Of Conon Clay.
III the Ere 'uenl lad neeH Inns hc-
roic figure ~. 'ch the Senator from
Montana would have us believe he
was, you know what he would havo
done. He would have summoned
these Republican leaders to confer
cnce, from the House and the Senate,
and he would have said to them:
Gentlemen, | am not talking to you
xow as the President of the United
States. am talking to you as Theo-
dorc Roosevelt, the Republican.
am talking TO you as Republican. !
want TO tell you that happen to
have learned that unless you pass n
good bill. the President of the United
States intends TO veto IT, And they
would have passed n bill fulfilling in
some degree the audahle eNpecta-
,ions of this people. ] Congress had
failed to do it, and he vetoed the bill
they passed and then convened them
in extraordinary session TO pass
good one, he would have written his
name side by side with the names of
Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln,
and others among his ilustrlous pre-
decessors.
but, Mr.. President, let us have no
more talk in the Senate and talk IN