The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-04-06
CARMACK GIVEN
EAGER ATTENTION
THE BRILLIANT TENNESSEAN
SPEAKS IN THE SENATE ON
THE RAILWAY RATE BILL.

| WASHINGTON, March 29.-Sena
tor Carmack had hoped 10 prepare
speech discussing the principle issue
hitherto brought out in the railwa.
rate discussion before he returned t.
| Tennessee to resume his canvass, bu
every moment since he came back t
Washington has been crowded eithel
by visitors or business and he has haC
no time to get himself ready to speal
on the question as he desired. He
had intended to speak tomorrow, in
any event, when the Senate today de
cided to adjourn until Monday and
at the instance of Senator Tillman, he
this afternoon, made a statement OF
his position as given below.
Mr.. Carmack was heard with ex
treme interest on both sides of the
chamber and his deft satire on the
spectacle of the Republican President
and his faithful following in his own
party clinging with tenacious grip to
the railroad plank of the Democratic
party was keenly enjoyed. He said:
when the big stick is confederate
with the pitchfork surely the halcyon
days of political peace and concord
have come. 1t is a happy omen of
future tranquility when the Senator
from South Carolina appears on this
floor as the special champion of the
Administration favored measure, es-
pecially chosen for that purpose by a
committee of the Presidents friends
Fitting That it Should.
"Yet there is nothing at all singu-
lar or homogeneous in the fact. AS the
Administration got its policy from the
Democratic platform, it is but fitting
that is should choose it's spokesman
from the Democratic party. Again
and again has the Democratic party
demanded the legislation now pro-
posed and it did so in the last cam
paign. | am informed on most excel
lent authority that a similar plan was
offered to the Republican Committee
on Platform at the last National Con
vention and that, with vociferrous
it was rejected. There
was no hint of such legislation in the
platform or in any of the
utterances of the Republican nominee
for President from the first to the last
of that campaign. The Democratic
party alone had the courage to Shout
der the responsibility of such a de-
claration and to encounter the antag-
Onisms thereby aroused. But it has
even in it's defeat The
stone which the builders of the Re-
publican platform rejected has become
the head of the corner.
THE Senator from Iowa, in his very
able and interesting speech, says the
best service the Democratic party can
render is to stand on guard and see
hat the Republican party does right !
It is no mean or ignoble task and | |
will add that it is by no means an
easy one. 1t has often happened that |
he party in opposition has imposed
is views upon the party in power, but
when before was it ever known that a
'arty just routed at the polls has seen
is platform so soon appropriated by
is victorious adversary?
From Practical Mind.
The demand for this legislation does
lot come from misunderstanding agita-
ors or professional corporation bait
rs, but from practical, conservative
nen of affairs who, as class, are
lore strongly adverse to radi-
al changes in existing law We have
cen warned that this measure will
e far-reaching in its consequences.
hope and believe that this is true. |
elieve that in its practical working it
ill remedy evils of which the people
lstly complain and without bearing
arshly or unjustly upon the business
railroad transportation. / believe
nat it will remove a great source of .
Opular discomfort and that the fears ,
the railroad companies will prove
} be nothing but horrible imaginings.
such shall be the result, this meas
re will not only be far-reaching but
Universally beneficent in it's effect
ut If this measure is defeated or is
raftily deformed so as to obstruct
lie perfect administration of the law =
nd disappoint the just expectations
the people, the consequences will
e found more far-reaching, and those
no now complain of radical legisla-
on may live to see some that is rad
al indeed
THE necessity for effective Govern
ent regulation of the rate making
over exercised by the great trans
Drtation companies of the country is,
} my mind, so apparent as to need no
'gument. OF all the business in the v