Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-14
PRESIDENT ATTACKED
By Ti||man and Bailey on the
Railroad Rate Bill.
They Charge Him With Breaking Faith
With Managers Of Measure.
President, Through Lodge, Declares Charge
Fa|seh0od--- Issue Statement.

Washington, May 13.-The Senate
exclusively to the consideration Of the
railroad rate bill and included many
Interesting and sensational features.
OF the latter class was Il statement by
Senator Tillman covering the details
of his and Senator Railcy'S negotiations
through ex-senator Chandler, with The.
President regarding the rate bill ana
Senator Lodges reply for The Present
to that Statement. Scarcely less cXcit-
ing wa: an attack made upon the Pres
ident b. Senator Bailey ana q defense
by Senator Carter.
IN his statement, Mr. Tillman said
that Tie President had referred slight
ingly to Senators Knox. Foraker and
SpOOncr and in his answer Mr.. Lodge
said that the President had character
lied the statement as falSehoOd.
Senator Bailcy's criticism of the Pres
ident was made i'll reSponSgc to
speech by Mr. Carter lauding the chief
executive iii high terms ana contrasting
his course with that of the Texas SEN
atOr and other Democrats, who had, he
said, done comparatively little to meet
the demands of the people for railroad
| legisla ton. Mr.. Bailey accused the
President of vara bility and said that
instead of being a man of iron he is a
| man of clay. And very common clay"
The actual accomplishments of the
| day consisted in the completion of the
cOnSiderat ton Of the Allison amend
mcnt. covering the questions Of Il re-
view by the courts of the orders of the
Interstate commerce commission
| There We're several Of these provisions
and all We're accepted us presented or
suggested by the Iowa senator, show
ing an almost perfect agreement among
| Republican senators.
| Senator la Toilette continued to act
with the Democrats. The session began
| at II O'Clock and continued until almost
six and when an adjournment was
| reached there was still IL prospect of
much debate next week.
| Washington. May 13-In one of the
| bittercst combats that has been made
upon President Roosevelt during the
debate on the railroad rate bill, Scna-
tor Bailey Saturday charged that the
executive had surrendered his position
advocating IAN effective measure and
| had abandoned his demands for tariff
| re1ision.''
| The senator closed with this state
ment.
| but let us have no more talk in
the Senate and talk in the country
about this iron man. He is Clay. and
very common at that"
| The speech WAS in reply to Senator
Carter, who had defended the President
against criticism, saying that no one
could charge him with cowariice.
Senator Bailey said that the Prcsi-
1ens secretary had written to the edi-
tor Of a paper knnwn rs Freight in the.
| summer of 1904. declaring that in his
| letter of acceptance the President
would speak out on the railroad qucs-
tion. but the Presidents promise had
not been redeemed. Continuing, he
said:
II do not say that the President nut
it in his letter and then when his
! aStute political advisors told him that
| the railroads would not contribute.
| that he cut it out. / only put before
| the Senate and the country the fact
that his secretary said the President
would speak on il and he did not speak
on it.
| "Perhaps those Insurance companies
| which were contributing the trust
| funds of widows and orphans to secure
his election owned so many of those
railroad bonds that they deferred not
the Preside mt. but the Presidents ad-
visers from incorporating in his letter
| n message against the railroads imme-
dately preceding the election.
| MT President love n brave man.
| | love n fighter and the President Of the
United states is both on occasions, but
lie can give up with as much alacrity
as any man who ever went to battle.
either civil or political. He fights fu-
riously when it is a physical contest, |
| grant you, because this is a question of
| courage as well as endurance, but it
| seems tn have no endurance in these
political contests here. Why. he was
going to revise the tariff: he was going
| to have The railroads regulated. and it
was announced that Congress would be
convened to extraordinary session tC
senblcd with the President and no call
was issued for an extraordinary session
of Congress. He waited until the regu-
lar session. and five months of that has
elapsed and still no legislation. When
we do get & bill. God save the country
from such a bill as it will be.
IF the President had been the hero
ic figure which the senator from Mon
tana would have us believe he is, you