The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
T|LLMAN IS STILL
 HARSH ON WALSH Wants Bank to Stop Campaign
 Contributions ALDRICh HOLDS HIS OWN The South Carolina Senator Claims the Banks Will Get an Immunity Bath for All Past
 Cffenses.
ALDRICh HOLDS HIS OWN

Washington, June 1S.-Senator Tillman , again today called up his resolution pro- viding for an investigation of the question of national bank contributions to polit- ical campaigns and also relative to the recent Chicago National bank.
 Speaking to the resorution, Mir Tilman said that Senator Aldrich had waived aside the resolution on the ground that the Senate had recently passed bill pro- hbiting the banks from making cam paign contributions but MT. Tillman con- tended that such action on the part of the Senate was not sufficient. Believing that the banks were the principal source of revenue of the republican political com mittees, he did not believe the House would pass the bill prior to the election of next fall. hence he still felt the ne- cessity for the investigation provided for by his resolution. He insisted that the resolution should be retrospective, but confessed he had little hope in that di- rection.
 Get an Immunity Bath.
 "The bankers will get an immunity bath for past offenses," he predicted.
 Speaking of the Chicago bank failure, MT. Tillman presented extracts from tes- timony of Banker Fenton of Chicago, taken by the House committee on bank ing to the effect that the disaster was due to loans made by the banks to con- cerns in which the president of the bank, John R. Walsh, was interested. He claimed that this testimony showed that the comptroller of the currency had known for months before the bank failure that the bank had in fact loaned $15, ,0O0 GOO to it's president
 Senator Aldrich charged MT. Tillman with an effort to try the case against MT. Walsh, saying that the matter was now in tho hands of the department of justice MT. Tillman replied that he only desired to secure an inquiry, adding that Mir. Aldrich should not pooh pooh his efforts and claim that everything in con- nection with the Chicago bank is whole some and sweet when it is known that some of MT. Walsns actions have been criticised. MT. Tillman referred to a re- port that MT. Walsh was contemplating trip to Europe, but said that instead of permitting him to pursue that course the district attorney should press the case against him and thus ascertain the truth or the falsty of the charges against him. He declared 1t to be the custom of the comptroller of the currency to minimizJ wild cat banking until it became too late 10 apply a remedy.
 Hopkins Defends Walsh.
 Senator Hopkins replied that MT. Till man had been misled by Irresponsible Chicago men, and declared that the South Carolina senators 'tirade' had proved another illustration of the fact that 6 little learning is a dangerous thing
 He charged the South Carolinian with desire to injure the Chicago banks and to exploit himself. q say to the sen ator that he could not serve Wall street to get control of the Walsh interests"
 He again declared that the transactions in Chicago had been entirely straight forward and honest. He said that Mir. EclSles had informed him that not only depositors and stockholders would be paid fully, but that several millions in decision could be saved and delended MT. Walsh as for many years one of tho great bank CTS of the country. He had not investi- gated the question as to whether MT. Walsh had violated the criminal law. but he knew that MT. Walsh has stood ready right along to meet any such charges. No action was taken by the Senate.
 Will Take It Up Today.
 When the Senate committee on finance meets tomorrow afternoon MT. Aldrch will lay before 1t letter from Comp troller Ridgely bearing on the subject matter of the Tillman resolution. The letter speaks at length of the Walsh failures and comments the acts of the clearing house banks in assuming the lia- bilities of these failed banks and pre- venting threatened panic in Chicago securities The comptroller said he had no knowledge as to what acts of Walsh were criminal. but that this subject now