Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30
SENATOR I|ILMAN NOW At HOME.
WILL REST A FEW DAYS BEFORE RESUM.
ING WORK IN WASHINGTON.

United States Senator Tillman ar
rived in Columbia last Friday from
Washington. He left that city Thurs
day night, and Immediately upon his
arrival in Columbia went to the den
tai rooms of DR.. Moore, where he had
some work done, and then he went
to the home of DIR. Babcock, where
he spent several hours before going
to Trenton.
Senator Tillman expects to spend
ten days at his home and will leave
here next Monday week for Wash
ington, when he will resume his work.
He says he has had his head to the
.grindstone and worked as he has
never done before and is entitled to
some little rest.
Senator Tillman in talking about
the rate bill, as it has been adopted,
said that he did not think it was
what ought to have been passed, but
he was convinced that it was better
than nothing. He thought it was at
least beginning. The bill is not in
such shape as he would have liked to
have had it, but some good can be
gotten out of it if the railroad COM
mission is made up of the right sort
of material.
Senator Tillmau said that it has
not yet been determined how many
members are to be on the board of
commissioners personally he favored
large board, say of nine members,
but the house favors board of five,
and he did not, know what would be
done in this connection.
Senator Tillman said that he ex-
pccted to have thing or two to say
about the Barnes appointment. He
expected the appointment to be con-
tirmed, but that would not prevent
his saying what he thought about
the matter.
Senator Tillman was not very talka-
tive about State politics. He did say
that his first duty was to his people
and to his work, and that he did not
expect to sacrifice his work in Con-
gress to making campaign for re-
election, as he regarded this as per-
sonal matter. 1t appears that there
is little, if any, prospect of Congress
adjonrning before the 4th of July,
and from the tone of Senator Till
mans talk he does not expect to take
part in the campaign.
He said in joking way that it
looked like they were trying to as
sassinate the dispensary and last
January they had it down by the
jugular vein.
Senator Tillman said he was deeply
appreciative of the goodwill and
vote of confidence passed by the
Democratic convention, and wanted
to thank the Democratic party for
its kind expressions towards him.
Senator Tillman had good deal
to say about the contention going on
between himself and the President,
and incidentally Senator Bailey and
Mr.. Chandler. He was fulsome in
his tribute to Mr.. Chandler and said
that Mr.. Chandler was standing up
like man, and showed the highest
type of moral courage in the position
ne had taken. Just at this time it
may not have been the popular thing
Cor Mr.. Chandler to antagonize the
President, but Mr.. Chandler had
done the right and the honest thing
all the way through the dispute.
Senator Tillman suggested that
every Senator knew who had told
the fairy tale, and that was the rea-
son no one had come to the defence
of the President on the floor of the
Senate.
Senator Tillman looks well and
does not seem TO have suffered at all
In loss of flesh or sprightliness be-
cause Of his hard work on the rate
bill.
lie expects to take thorough rest
while at Trenton.-Columbia Cor.