The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-11
GREAT DAY FOR
THE RATE BILL
Senator Bailey Roundly Scores
Railroad Senators Knox
and Spooner.
SENATOR HALE WON OVER
iLLUSTRloUS REPRESENTATIVE
FROM MAINE TAKES SIDES
WITH BAILEY-"BlG STICK AND
PITCH FORK" MAY WIN.
Publishers Press1

Washington, April Ex-senator
Bailey, of Texas, the minority lead
er of the senate, in an earnest speech
this afternoon arraigned at great
length Mr.. Spooner of Wisconsin, and
Mr.. Knox of Pennsylvania, who had
some days ago, in prepared speeches
denounced as unconstitutional the
Texans contention that congress had
the power to prohibit the inferior fed
eral courts from suspendin9 the inter
state commerce commissions rate
pending final and full review by the
supreme court of the United States.
With a score OF authorities, and be-
fore an audience that was only limit
ed by the capacity of the senate
chamber and galleries and corridors
adjoining the latter, the Texas sena-
tor for almost five hours pounded
home his arguments, concluding at
one time with the remark.
This may not be accepted as good
law in the senate but it is by the
plain people
Appeals to the Public.
At another. 'If anyone in the SEN
ate believes the fal1acious argument
of the two senators, | want to warn
them that no one outside of the
chamber does"
The event was marked by several
sensational incidents.
Mr.. Hale (Republican) Maine. who
has been considered as being oppos-
ed to any regulation bill that did not
permit the fullest judicial powers by
the inferior courts unequivocally en-
dorsed Mr. Bailey's attitude.
When the Texan concluded the gal
leries broke into applause which con-
tinued for several minutes. Among
the senators who congratulated the
speakers were LaFollette and Bur-
rows from the Republican side of the
chamber.
Surprised at Mr.. Hale.
The interruption by Mr.. Hale came
as surprise to his colleagues. 1t had
been understood that the New Eng
land senator had been standing unit
edly for full judicial powers for the
circuit court, with . the consequent
right of suspending a rate.
The senator from Maine made his
position an unqualified one.
Mr. Bailey in expressing his graft
fication over the endorsement of the
senator from Maine, said that he
thought the senators from Wisconsin
and Pennsylvania had committed
themselves to wrong proposition
without due consideration and then
had hated to confess their error. He
characterized it as intellectual firm
ness
Pitchfork and Big Stock.
He declared that it was nothing un-
usual for advocates to advocate what
they did not really believe. He
thought that as a finish, if he could
secure the concurrence of the two
senators who he had been criticizing
the millennium would have been at
hand and the carrier and the ship
per could lie down together and a
new national emblem could be form
ed of the pitchfork and the big stick
(laughter.)
He thought that if corporations
could be removed from politics there
would be no more talk of railroad
senators and railway influences.
1t was a dramatic moment when
Mr. Bailey cited the unanimous pas
sage by the senate of the Hill bill,
depriving the courts of the power to
punish indirect contempt and leaving
the case to the judgment of jury.
This followed the "Debs" case in Chi
cago during the railroad strike.