Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-26
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in the report of your committee. Ihe
croSs-eXamination is not brutal, uol
did 1 ever say it was brutal. It Is
from beginning to end, however, just
such a cross-examination as an attor-
ney for the railway companies would
have conducted, and it was unseemly
for you to assume that attitude AS
I said in my speeches, l cared nothing
for your cross examination, but l was
indignant because the chairman of q
committee appointed to investigate and
hear evidence became the advocate OF
one side of the very controversy 1t was
his duty to settle and adjust. So
much for the cross-examination.
"Your second, third and fourth ac-
cusations present pure questions OF
fact l said in my speeches that sit
ting at your right hand was the gen.
eral counsel, as l was Informed, for
all the railways OF the country. em-
ployed for the specific purpose of OBJ
structing and defeating the measure
lnaL naQ De0Il INCONVENIENCE W S-S
president of the United States
1.-THE scene in your committee room
is sharply stamped on my memory,
and it is impossible that can be ms
taken about 1t. You sat at one END OF
a. long table, and / sat at the other. On
the right side Of the table Cooking
from your point of view sat the fol-
lowing senators, and in the following
order: Cullom, Kean, Foraker, DOLL
yer and Newlands; on the left SIDE
CLAMP. and part of the time one other
whose name I do not know. Slttlhg
sauarely at your right hand, just
trifle behind you, sat a gentleman Who'
nc was afterwards informed, is ex-
senator Faulkner. / inquired what
relation he bore to the investigation,
and / was told that he was employeu
by the railway companies to resist .he
proposed law. / do not know Whe'ilei
the other Senators saw him or not, LOT
their faces were turned toward me, ana
therefore away from him; but 90
know that YOU saw him, first, because
he was SO close to you that you couio
not turn your head without seeing hl'ii'
second, because you were IN CONVERSE
tion with him part of the time; thlra'
because | saw him with his mana OH
vour shoulder, pass to you questions
which YOU read and then put to me-
There can be no mistake about this,
for my senses were as alert JUST eheii
as human faculties can be.
when l discovered who this man
was. and his business there, 1T seemed
to me that more shocking and indie
feasible spectacle could not be pre-
sented. You were charged with an inn
portant duty-one affecting not only
the interests of railways, but OF mil
lions Of people, You were, in a large
sense, a Judge sworn to render true
judgments and yet while the trial was
proceeding, and before you delivered
your judgment, you sat there appar-
entity taking counsel of a lawyer VINO
was there to defend the railways
against the proposed authority OF the
interstate commerce commission. IL
Won can find better words to character
ize such a proceeding than have used,
it is because your vocabulary is larger
and Won can nut condemnation in more
emphatic terms. 9F@
You may believe that an lnvestiga-
ton carried on in this manner is IN ae-
cordance with fairness and decency.
do not. You may continue In your pc
lief if YOU like, but ! shall continue III
my denunciation. Be careful TO I'M
derstand that I appreciate the LATITUDE
of honest conviction. / have never
said that man could not conscientl-
ously oppose the regulation which IS
sought to be put upon the railways.
think YOU have men on your coIn1hlt-
tee who are honestly opposed to IL. MY
criticism related entirely to the unr
seemly way in which you sought no de-
stroy the statement that was offered IN
support of the regulation. l rarely
challenge any mans motive, and unll
now I have not challenged yours, Tor
in everything l have said have as
sumed that you faithfully represented
the views with which you entered the
senate. l am trying to convince the
voters of Iowa that men with ENVIRON
ments such as yours ought not 10 notu
public office, for the obvious reason
that corporations should not make tns
law. but should be regulated by uhe
law.
81 venture now upon the proof that
your letter to me is not in good laltn'
but is intended to aid the men who
are opposing me for denomination
"First-,I have been giving my view
of YOUR conduct at the time l appeared
before your committee ever since l
returned from Washington. 1t has
been a part of probably fifty speeches
that I have made all over the state OF
Iowa. and yet it seems not to have
come to your notice or excited your in
terest until now.
..second-Your fidelity has been re-
peatedly questioned from places much
higher than 1 occupy for months past,
and vet you have been dumb as an
oyster. 1 believe am right in saying
that the governor of your state is re-
publican and it would be natural to
expect that if he desired to communl-
cate anything to the senate of which
YOU are a member he would select you
as the medium 1t appears, however,
that about a month and a half ago.
when your governor desired to protest
against the tyrannous practices of the
railroads in West Virginia, he sent his
complaint to Senator Tillman, and his
statement is so interesting that l
quote it:
cit may be that the Pennsyl-