The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-13
MIR. TILLM
 SC0REs POINT Senate opts His Joint
 Resolution. PROVIDES FOR INVESTIGATION Interstate Commission Will Hold
 an Inquiry. Charge of Discrimination and Combi- nation in Reatraint of Trade By Railroads VIII Be Looked
PROVIDES FOR INVESTIGATION

Washington, Feb 12.-The Senate today adopted a joint resolution re" ported by MT. Tillman from the Sem ate Committee on Interstate Commerce which directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the charge of discrimination and combination in restraint of trade made against the railroads.
 The adoption of the resolution was preceded by a speech by Mir. Tiliman in which he practically charged that the administration was not proceed ing in good faith to secure railroad legislation because he was not satis- fled with the Presidents advisers.
 Among these he mentioned Secretary Root and Senator Knox, the former of whom he said was ar adviser of the "magnates responsible for the devil ment," and the latter of which had been for years attorney for the Penn sylvania Railroad Company. Mir. Knox C tradicted the charges relative t. himself. saying that he never had been attorney for the Pennsylvania Rail- road.
 MT Lodge also spoke at length on the railroad question. He delivered carefully prepared speech in which he took position for governmental reg ulations of rates, but advised the ut most caution against too radical action. He expressed the opinion that the giv- ing of rebates was practically the only evil existing in connection with the railroad system of the country.
 MT. Lodge said he was prepared to vote for bill embodying the princl~ ples of the Esch-Townserd bill of the last session. He confessed that he would do so with reluctance because of his doubt as to the wisdom of rate making by the Government in most lim- f~k ta lat a aNn1 supervision of the railroad systems seemed so essential that he was not willing to oppose it even if he did feel dissatisfied with some of its features. But" he added significantly. If the policy I have outlined is to be modi- fled. the case will assuredly change"
 Mir. Lodge Congratulated.
 Mir. Lodge spoke for two hours. He was congratulated by many of his col leagues. When he concluded Mir. Per kins asked Mir. Lodge to define his at- titude towards the pooling systems.
 The Massachusetts Senator expressed the opinion that the operation of the economic forces would compel a proper regulation of the pooling problem.
 Mir. Tillman then called up his res olution regarding railroad discrimina- tion with view to asking immediate co lsideration of 1t. Before doing it he explained the resolution by saying that 1t was very comprehensive and covered a wide field. He said that the language of the resolution was largely the same as that of the resolution presented In the House few days ago Mir, MT. Gil- lespie.
 Giving his reasons for asking for the inquiry, he said that he was convinced that evils existed in connection with the railroad systems of the country. He said that he had no desire to do injus- tice to the railroads, and he believed they should have a fair return on the money invested. We find, however, a ssytem of combination resulting in trusts which are grinding the people to death He believed there should be a remedy, but added that the present proceeding In Congress is a "stupend- ous farce"
 Every paper you read" he said, brings assurance that the President has won his fight, and yet when you examine further you find that the Pres ident's two principal advisers are Elihu Root. who has been the closest adviser of the railroad magnates of New York, who are at the root of all the devil ment. and MT. Knox, the junior Sem ator from Pennsylvania, who has been for I don't know how many years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail- road and its closest friend and coun- sellor.
 Pennsylvania Hends the List.
 When you look further you find the elnsylvania Railroad at the head of the list of the oppressors of the peo- pie"
 Hence, he contended that the people were being "bamboozled" by the talk of protecting the masses against the classes. He confessed that with such cooks. he was inclined to sniff at the dish that is set before us." There was, he declared. much evidence that those charged with the execution of the laws were not sincere, because. he said, they had long been aware of the evasion of those laws.
 MT Knox was not in the Senate chamber when reference was made to him, but he came in before the South Carolina Senator had proceeded far He immediately interrupted MT. Till man to say to him that he had been en- tirely mistaken in saying he had been attorney for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, 'I never sustained that rela- tionship either permanently or tenn porarily. directly or indirectly at any time during my career" he said. He | added that he would not consider such | connection at all improper.
 Mir. Tillman expressed satisfaction over the denial saving to Mir. Knox | that he would respect nm more TOT | the balance of his life"
 Continuing. the south Carolina Sena- 1 tor said that the three principal lines | of road south of the Potomac were in a merger which was controlled by the Pennsylvania and New York Central.
 The people were being aroused. Even l the poor. besotted Pennsylvania Leg | islature. owned body and soul by the | Pennsylvania and the Reading, had | shown signs of life by adopting res | olution as to the control of the coal output by the railroads, as If everybody did not know that the anthracite out l put is and has been for years con 1 trolIed both as to quantity and price He declared the Pennsylvania road to be the head devil in the whole policy of monopoly" and, referring to he Baltimore and Ohio policy In West Vir- | ginia, he said that road had practically told the public that 1t might be damned"
 Threats Against President. He declared that very strenuous effort had been brought to bear on the -o iaent to grant 70 the railroads the
 of appeal to the courts be-
 . orders of the Interstate Com.