Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-06
Norris Tells of Tactics Used to
Delay Passage Of Rate
Bill
SUPPORT is NoNPARTlsAN
Attempt Made to Scare Democrats
Away From Supporting the Bill But
They Will Make 1t Possible for SEN
ate Committee to Report Favorably
Ship Subsidy Incident.
IByD. w. Norris at WASHINGTON

10y d. w. Norris at Washington
The debate on the rate bill in tn,
mouse has grown very monotonous
most OF the speeches being for tn
purpose of putting the speaker on rec
ord as favoring it. Occasionally
however, there is descendant note
then the house and the galleries pricl
up their ears, wondering what sin
ducement" has been offered to tina
speaker to go counter to such cur
rent, for it can not be denied that the
American people, like the house, arr
almost unanimous.
The other day Sibley, of Pennsyl
vania, entertained us awhile Sibley
is a very rich man. He owns nearly
everything in sight, so it goes withou,
saying that where his sympathies are
his interests lie. Just what satisfac-
ton such man gets out of a seat il
the house, it is difficult to understand
Personally the man is all right, but
no one listens to him with any respect
because no one knows when he is sin.
cere. He first represented the dem
ocratic party in congress, then the
He is as versatile in his politics anc
as inconsistent as that rich man OF
Maine who was Bryan's running mate
in 1896. / have forgotten his name
such is fame. He is as absurd as Hen
ny Gassoway Davis, who was Parker's
running mate in 1904. These men are
always democrats or republicans. just
as Jay Gould was, and for revenue
only.
'Sibley is opposed to rate regulation
in any form and he was afraid the Am
erican people wouldn't know it, so he
told them. If he had given us a list
of the securities he holds and owns
and had told us how he got them, we
would have known he was opposed to
government control. He had no argu-
ment to offer against the Hepburn
bill, no reasonable, valid argument
can be urged, so he tried his best to
throw obstacles in the way. He de-
cared that the Hepburn bill was d
populist measure, and yet this mar
supported Bryan. He said that all its
supporters We're not socialists, ano
anarchists, but that all socialists ane
anarchists We're supporters of the bill
Before he sat down he gave notice
that this was positively his last APP
pearance as he had made up his mlno
to retire and not stand for reelection
and I think the American people viii
heartily agree with him in this If il
nothing else.
Mr.. Sibley's object in addressing
the house was to give notice that he
= To G.
the salary of the chairman of the
commission created by this bill te
$4,000 and the other salaries to $lo,-
600. and then he went on to nominate
Mr. Hepburn for chairman, and he was
fulsome in his adulation.
Now could a public man be guilty
of more contemplate trick? His
only object in Offering such an amend
ment is to destroy the bill by MAX
ing it unpopular. BY holding out te
Colonel Hepburn the inducement thai
he may be the beneficiary of this
5000 salary he hopes to seduce him
into the support of his amendment
and if it should become part or the
mill that alone would kill it, for the
American people won't stand FOR sucf
salaries.
Isn't it queer what an evolution mas
been going on in this matter OF sal
aries? There seems to be a. hopeless
in the minds of some men
especially in the minds of men VINO
cot wealth easy. They hold that sal
aries should be regulated not by merit
hut nv the nature of the business car
r;ed ON. In other words, if Mr.. Sib-
lev should want a secretary or treas
urer. or laborer in one of his mills, ne
would paw Just what the labor mar
ket compelled him to pay, but II ne
were selecting an official where the
people pay the salaries, a government
or a life insurance official, then ne
would multiply the stipend by TWEEN
ty-fve.
Rut it is very kind of Mr.. Sibley to
suggest chairman to the president
Mr.. Hepburn's chances Tor
such a posttion would be better II his
name were not suggested by Mr. Slb-
Law of PENNSYLVANIA. Why don't MI.
sihlev offer an amendment providing
th,t the members of this commission
shall be appointed by the president
and confirmed by the president OF the
leading trunk lines. Then l think 1t
would be an entirely safe body.
" Roosevelt Will Not Weaken.
Aldrich has been a daily visitor at
tho white house. a place where ne sell
dom goes. Why should he go there
Let the president come to MIN IL ne
wants favors; and so persistent be-
came the rumors that the president
vas weakening that Friday morn
inp Dolliyer and Clapp called on him.
n is not considered in good form for
anyone to make these conferences
nuhlic. but in some way the morning
napers have published what passed,
and if is now admitted to be correct.
The president told his managers that
there should be no compromise, that
thew would secure what the people
were entitled to or nothing. So the
cont goes ON. The unheard of action
,f the house committee in reporting
The bill unanimously. thus diVestlng 1t
of all partisanship and making II
matter of business and patriotism,
has greatly strengthened Delivers
,ause in the senate Democratic sem
ators who might have looked on the
Dolliver- Clapp movement with IN
difference. will now give 1t their en-
thusiastic support.
Soaring Democrats.
All sorts of tactics are resorted TO
to block the bill Saturdays New
York Times gave some very startling
in it's Washington letter.
It seems that Friday a senator who
is very close to the president called