The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-06
Says Members Confer With
 Presidents of Railroads
ALORIcH QUICK TO RESENT
Bailey and Tillman Take a Hand and Foraker Is Quick to Say He Has Never Held Any Such
 Conference.

Washington. April 5.-(special. )-Senator Deliver of Iowa, stirred up the republi- can side of the Senate today in a man. ner little short of sensational.
 Tn seeking to defend the Presidents interference with the legislative branch of Congress he declared he saw no more objection senators conferring with the President than in conferring with rail- road presidents. Senator Foraker Sena- tor Aldrich and two or three others were Immediately upon their feet with hot denals of the Senator's imputation and before the debate had quieted down Sen ator Bailey and Senator Tillman had so tied up the belligerents that an execu- tive session seemed the only solution.
 Contributed Nothing to Harmony.
 The days developments contributed nothing to the harmony rumors which have been so rife within the past week. The stand of Senator Deliver and his faithful but few republican colleagues who are honestly in favor of railroad rate legislation. which will accomplish some thing. seems irreconcilable with the views of the Aldrich- Foraker organization. The latter claim to have the votes to pass bill over the Deliver faction. They. of course. are depending upon democratic votes to accomplish this
 The President today called number of democratic senators in conference with him on the rate bill Most of them are of the class always under suspicion of being White House" democrats None of them Is taking prominent part in the railway debate in the Senate, rillman and Bailey. especially the former who l Is in charge of the bill. should have benr i sent for liI the President at tue De- l ginning of the debate, but he has been en- tirely ignored by the President, owing to a personal dislike.
 Talks of Democratic Caucus.
 There was renewed talk among the democrats today ot holding a caucus or at least. conferentd n the railroad rate bill The splendid effect of the cau- eus on the san Domingo treaty affords an example of the unity with which tho democrats might act on the Dill now under consideration. The important point of the visit to the White House by demo- crats today is that it is evident that the President has again changed his po- siion He now declares that he is not 
 welded to any particular amendment whereas only Tuesday, he was reported for the Long amendment.
 Deliver Starts Trouble.
 When Mr Stone ceased speaking MT. Deliver took the floor and commented on the criticisms of the President saying that he was not one of those who have felt lrritated over the Presidents interest in the pending Legislation. He did not
 4att tqrC dent had shown partisan spirit, nor that he had departed from the customary methods of the executive. He said he dd not purpose 10 be disparaged by any sneering allusion to the President be- cause he considered it just as consistent to consult with the President on this suo- jact as with the presidents of railroad companies. as the opponents of the bill were doing. He did not propose that the bill should be turned over 10 the tender mercies of it's enemies. and while he as- serted that the bill had sufficient support to insure its passage in satisfactory form, he warned the opponents of the measure that the friends of rate legislation had on their fighting clothes, adding that if effective legislation was not secured the result was merely postponed. In sharp language he opposed any stronger court review than that proposed by the Long amendment. saying that the opponents of the bill WOuld reduce the iitslueilt recommendation to q practical and legal absurdty.
 Mir Bailey responded. saying that the present sitnati presented peculiar req sons why the President should not inter fere with legislation. He expressed the opinion that not third of the repub- lioan senator's agreed with the chief ex- ecutive.
 Senator Adrich Rises.
 rfc nd ha ao Mr Bailey expressed the hope that he would be able to include himself as in the one- third.
 "so far as I know there Is no repuh- lican member of the Senate who does not sympathlze with the efforts of the Presi- dent and others to secure proper legisla- tion," said the Rhode Island senator, but he added that there were many who did not sympathize' with the effort to limit and cirenmscribe the proposed law as to effectively prevent an appeal to the courts.
 MT. Bailey then turned his attention to Mir. Delivers assertion that some sena- tors had been conferring with railroad officials on the subject of railroad legis- lation.
 We want to know who has been con ferring with the railroad presidents?" he said. Not the Senate only. but the country at large Is interested, and has
 
 Mir Foraker endorsed the statement of Mir Bailey, declaring that the Texas sen- ator had anticipated what he wanted to say.
 ''rhe charge. for 1t is nothing less than q charge, Is most serious. and | demand that the senator from Iowa give the names of senators who have, as he says, been comforting with railroad presidents with a view to influencing rate leRislation.
 "I shall take the liberty of not pur- suing that counsel' said Mir. Deliver. deliberately rising from his seat
 "The Senate has a right to know Mir. Foraker insisted.
 Never Dreamed of lmpropriety.
 Mr Deliver then said that he had never dreamed of committing any improprlcfy in his statement. He sriC the railiDe'f had spent s2 .oOa.ooo in their .fforts to H'i- tagonize the legislation. He did not be- iieve that the Senate had the right to in ------------~~-~--~--->--~-- Continued on Second Paosl