The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-06-27
RAP At SENATORS
FOR PIPE LINE
EXEMPTION
TlLLMAN BRANDS EVERYONE
VOTING FOR THE OUTRAGE
WITH rs. o."
CULLOM RESEnTS DIG
Attitude is Righteous and tile
Standard OIL Does Not
Own Him.

Washington, June 2G-The railroad
rate bill came back from the second
conference today and once more the
eenate talked al great length upon il.
The Standard Oil han succeeded in the
second conference In getting its pipe
lines exempted from The authority of
the interstate commi sion. AMI Sena-
/ tor Tillman made the most bitter
an ansational peech of the session
1 about IT,
! II dil not sign the second confer
ence report" he said, "and the fact
may demand some explanation from
me. ! want 10 make it. The usual prac
] tice' would BE-, in view of my dissent,
| for one of the two senators who signed
/ the report to manage II on the floor
and ! am in charge only because my
colleagues asked me TO do it,
| 81 ask the senate 10 insist on its
4 amendment which divorces the bust
ness Of producing from that OF car
riage In the conferenCa the Standard
Oil got in it, Influence | don't know
just how. ! would not say that the con
/ ferces were Improperly Influenced
/ but it &c In It's work. and the report.
which ! have refused TO sign. lets the
i Standard OH and its pipe lines out
! from the authority Of the interstate
cOmmi ion. The senate amendment
subjected pipe lines to this authority,
making them common carriers the
conference leport,s wtil nisfIsing i he
pipe lines common carriers, expressly
avepts them from the operations Of
that secti n which provides that a car
rer shall not be a producer of th2
things he transports.
conferees changs Minds.
Il don't want TO reflect on anybody
but somehow the house conferees
changed their minds between the first
and second conferences AT the first
conference they were willing enough
to stand hv our amendment; but
mean Inc there has been a food Of
letters and telegrams of protest from
the go.called ind pendent oil pro
ducers of the country: ami az the sec
ond conference the effor of the enate
TO break M this gigantic company
wore rendered nugat nv If the senate
stand for II | viii feel thar. So far Is
my own estimate OF iaem, every sen
ator voting 20 desperate tais outrage
put on himself the brand s. o."
S 1ator Tllman declared his conf |
dent belief that there were 40 real in |
deprud1nt producer who were pa
testing against having tle pipe lines |
placed under the conmie ion He in. /
listed thar those Hho claimel to be
iglep2uicnts were really sub idiary |
Standard Oil
"Smells 4 Nous"
AT the second conference the
change OF attitude Of the house cen
fore IS was very noticeable and | |
snclled a mouse am naturally a sus.
- cious por nn believe auyholv
being around the senate for q while
would becoma suspicion a. 10 the
motives of people"
Senator Lolee supported The pipe
line amendment which he o iginaliv
offered. and asked the sclate to stand
bv IL. Bailey warmly insisted that {
should be retained. and Forake~ dc
rlared that he was still opposed 10 II.
as he had been from tn beginning.
and cor ldoreI t. would work an in
iusrice TO Independent producers.
Cullonn Resents Thrust.
Cullom Of Illinois. warmly resented
he Tillman suggestion that men op
posing This amendment bore the brand
3. o. He did not believe the pipe
inc owners should be- prohibited from
'arrying OF which wss produced by
hem. and ~ea1 letter. and kilograms y
rom independent oil producers Of his
iome stare eanestlv nro. ssting against :
he legi lafiCn. He aid 10 was q Dlysi .
al impossibility to transport the oil c
4 many producers IN a pipe. because =
Is were of all grad IS and qualities q
nd would become mixed II
Spooner sprung CONSTITUTIONAL q
uestien as 70 the anti-pass MEASURE. II
IS brought from conference. this pro j
ided that no pa should De issued a
b federal state 0r county Officials He n
ecla-cd senators and representative %
'eTe not federal officer They renrc- "
ented The states and were primarily ii
gents Of fhe staies 1uf their status RI
- 1ch ilri 1e gravr ~ doubted whe d
&C. fiey would be reached by, the 'tl
mendment it Rad co-re r-o~r ffa a
difference. Bailey agreed with him 81
NJ they a-ked that the canfereTr Z n
snart be- aEiu rejected. m