The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-28
PULLMAN AND McCUMBER
 TAKE UP TIME OF SENATE

mediately repeated his conviction that we were "too internal anxious to pro- | tect the beneficiaries of the corpora | tions." He declared that the attorney general was the direct progenitor of l the doctrine that the corporation could l be punished, but not their officers and | stockholders. He had laid down the | principle in the case of MT. Morton | and the president had accepted the doc Urine. both exclaiming, Hes clean and honorable and should be immune; go after the dirty railroad" The decision in the packers case was Ia natural sequence, he said-the attor- ney-general had been hoist by his own petard." Moreover, he was afraid that we were trying to find some way of how not to do it in the matter of l the railroads. Always Before Senate. '1f the senator would get rid of some of his jaundice, remarked MT. Spooner, and put aside some of his suspicious of his fellow senators, he would get on better" D MT. Tillman declared that he could not accept legal refinements, in the place of common sense
 MT. Foraker made an inquiry as to what question was before the senate. T am before the senate" responded the South Carolinian.
 Nothing unusual in that; the sena- tor is always before the senate" re- torted Mir. Foraker.
 MT. Tillman said if the Ohio sena- tor desired to take him of the floor he could do so, but he would give him warning that he would make his speech on me other bill.
 MT. Foraker referred to Mir Tillman's resolution concerning national banks, saying that the subcommittee having the measure in charge had not been able to proceed because of the neces- sary absence of MT. Bailey. He said he had only yesterday explained the situation to Mir Tillman. and therefore felt surprised at today's criticisms
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 Mir. Tillman said that the situation in the Walsh Bank in Chicago and also the situation in connection with the County Treasurer of Hamilton County Ohio, were sure indices of the need of legislation.
 Referring to the South Carolina Sena- tors criticisms of Judge Humphrey, MT. Foraker eulogized that official as an honorable, upright, able and capable jurist, in whom the people may we'll have confidence. He expressed the opinion that Tt does not come with good grace in the Senate to criticize
 
 public in another branch of the Gov ernment"
 Mir. Tillman declared that he had not intended to criticize Judge Humphrey. He also vowed his faith in the Supreme Court. saying that he did not believe that 1t would refuse to relieve the dis tress of the people.
 MT. Foraker reminded Mir. Tillman of his recent remarks concerning the nnEQihIh Supreme Court, and Mir. Tillman re- piled that his former utterances were merely a warning. T have a right to warn the court, even though l am mere- ly a cornfield lawyer" he said.
 Mir. Foraker said such criticism of the court had a bad effect. At o'clock, MT. Tillman again sug- gested the desirability of securing an agreement upon a day for vote on the rate bill and read an outline of his plan for voting.
 Mir. Aldrich objected to fixing a time for vote at this time. He said he had no desire to cause delay, but that there were still so many speeches to be made that it was evident that the Senate was not yet prepared to enact a voting day.
 MT. McCumber was th6n recognized and addressed the Senate on the rate bill. He had read a resolution offered several weeks ago, setting forth a num- Der of subjects that should be provided for by amendments to the bill. These included terminal charges of all kinds, private line charges and many other subjects not covered by the bill. He referred to the popular demand for the passage of the pending bill and con tended that when 1t becomes a law the people will not find in 1t all that they expected to find
 He traced the popular dissatisfaction to a worldwide restlessness and not to the narrow field of the fixing of rail road rates. It Is a contest between the individual and the corporation, he said. The trusts fix everything for us far in advanced; each of them has a definite mortgage on the future of all of us.
 AnimOsity Against Railroads.
 The individual sees his opportunity cut off in all directions and there can be no wonder he s restless under the circumstances" he remarked. The general animosity is directed at the railroads most especially, he said be- cause they are more in evidence than other corporations. He did not believe that relief would be secured until a way was found of controlling the cor pOrations that control the railroads.
 What we want is a law that will break each of the trusts into thous- and pieces and then another that will prevent the pieces from getting to- gether again."
 for the enforcement of the existing law rather than the enactment of new laws.