The San Francisco call., 1906-06-30

amendment as being in the interest of
the Standard Oil Company.
About the time the Allison amend
ments were incubating," he said. there
was a great furore about the Garfield
report on the Standard Oil Company
and we were told that the exposures
of its crimes would help the vote on
tine rate bill and under the cover of
this dust the President retired from his
advanced position on railroad legisla-
tion and accepted the Allison provision
There the big stick and tie pitchfork,
which had been in alliance, found
themselves separated and the pitch
fork, while doing duty on the firing
line looked around only to see the tail
of it's associate hustling toward the
rear, sliding toward the Allison base.
to use baseball phrase. The big stick
was rushing on all fours to get be-
tween Father Allison's legs"
He had no fault to find. he added
except that he considered that the
President had been inconsistent in not
coming to the assistance of the Senate
conferees. He considered 1t "a little
remarkable that just when he might
do something to thwart the police of
this gigantic monopoly he is as mum
as a mouse, except that there is now
another hurrah about what the Presi-
dent is going to do to the Standard Oil
Company in the way of suits"
He added that, Notwithstanding the
prosecution which has been decided
upon, we are carefully told in advance
that the high officials, such as Rookie
feller. Rogers and Archbold, are not to
be molested.
CLASH WITH ELKINS.
Tillmen then commented upon the
employment of District Attorney Nor
ri An nf al -
this case, saying that he had demon
strated how not to do it, in the Walsh
case
"If.' he added, they wanted an ex-
pert in that line, he is as good as could
be-
In the same connection he said he
had been informed that Hon. Frank
Monnett. the most competent of all at
torneys, is to lose his job" He added:
80 1t goes; the dear people are bam-
boozled every day. but the hurrah goes
on. The President assures us from
time to time that the crimes of the
Standard Oil Company are to be pun
ished, but when ii comes to a real
fight, and when there is any opportuni-
ty to do something, he sits dumb and
allows the House conferees to compel
the Senate conferees to yield to the
demands of the Standard Oil Com
pany."
Senators Cullom and Hopkins de-
Tended Morrison as a painstaking and
diligent attorney, and Senator Foraker
asked for the source of the South Caro-
lima Senator's information concerning e
the probable retirement of Monnett
This, Tiliman said, he was not at lib
erty to give.
Senator McCumber protested against
the elimination of the provision of the
pass amendment permitting the free
transportation of farm laborers. SEN
ators Dolliver and Tillman agreed In
assuring him that they could be carried
as at present, as harvest excursion
ists." ito which the North Dakota Sena-
tor replied that If that were true the
act was not worth the paper it is writ
ten on.
Senator Elkins defended the confer
ence report on the commodity amend
ment, saying that as Originally adopted
the provision meant a conhscation of
the property of the independent oil op-
orators He also took exceptin to Till
mans criticism, saying in reply that he
(Elkins) is as free from the influence
Of Standard Oil as any member cotild
be- He also declared that the Presi-
dent needs no defense. and he charged
that the South Carolina Senator was
aggrieved because the President did not
agree with him. He declared that the
effect of the Tillman policy would be to
break down the independent companies
and said that apparently that was what
Tillnlan was trying to do. He admon-
ished the South Carolinian that even
If he desired to injure Standard Oil he
should not at the same time DESTROY
the business of thousands of others.
He said Standard Oil Is able to take