The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-19
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belief that the President would again
change his mind before this controversy
was over and if the speaker of the House
of Representatives would nominate man
on the conference committee who had
the courage of his convictions, and who
would not waiver on the question of con-
stitutional review the President would
abandon the Allison amendment and go
back to the Long amendment, the place
that he started from.
Woman Who DeIiberates.
He said that Allison had once made the
remark that a woman who celebrates
is lost, and while there was no chance
of anybody ever losing the President.
there was no telling If within the next
few days some new Chandler to fortune
and fame unknown. might not get pos
session of the President and tide him over
the breakwater of the Allison amendment
back again to his original terminus. Mr..
Rayner said that he would not pretend
to make any assault on the President
or pretend to charge him with a selfish
or dishonest purpose, but that the pro-
cesses of reasoning through which he
reached a conclusion were so changeable
that 1t was impossible to follow him. He
said that he resembled an adjustant ka-
leidoscope whose rejecting surfaces after
shaking 1t up frequently exhibit its beau
tiful colors in symmetrical forms, but
after you have adjusted and focused it,
flies into its original fragments and re-
solves itself into it's component parts. He
said this was a great era for natural
disturbances and that the President SEEM
ed to be somewhat jealous of the earth
ouakes and volcanic eruptlons that had
taken place and was going through
source of cometic performance himself. IL
Eliminating the horizon but tearing through
space oblvious of where he came from
and with no definite conception of where
ne was going. Mr. Rayner was perfectly
serious In his expectation that owing to
those peculiar fancies of the President he
would change his whole position again
unless the Senate adjourned on him and
prevented 1t.
In concluding his remarks about the
President, Mr.. Rayner said he might have
reunited his party on the floor of the
Senate. but that he had unhappily divided
the people.
Hesitated to Vote.
When he came to discuss the Allison
amendment Mr. Rayner said he hestated
to vote for the bill and had never sup
ported a measure of this sort with more
reluctance because he thought the words
contained in the amendment were fatal.
Mr. Rayner insisted in the strongest
possible way that this unfortunate amend
ment destroyed the efficiency of the en-
tire measure and that in his Judgment, II
il is finally adhered, we might as well
abolish the commission and ring down
the curtain on the comedy.
at deplore the fact" said Mr.. Rayner,
"of the Presidents interference. | regret
1t with all my heart. and | am sorry for
it. He has debilitated and mutlated this
"a |, ha1 only ct q
in his purpose few days longer a united
Senate in response to the voice of united
people would have put upon the statute
books a law that gratified their eXpecta-
tons and responded to the exigencies or
the hour"
When Senator Rayner concluded Sena-
tor Dolliver took the floor. saying that If
he felt about the bill as did Mr. Rayner,
he would not vote for it.
THE bill is not revolutionary or dan
gerous legislation" he said and predicted
that 1t would have the popular approval.
He proposed to defend neither the bill
nor the President, but he would say there
are millions who will not think less of
the chief executive for bringing his party
Into accord in the legislation. Whatever
may be said for or against the President.
Mr. Dolliver said, he comes out of the
fight with every proposition he has adj
yanced written in plain terms in the
statute books of the United States.
Fearless Leader.
Whatever may be said of the Presi-
dent" he concluded "he will be remem-
bered as the fearless leader, who without
regard to personal comfort or regard for
consequences, has taken up these great
questions and secured their enactment
into law"
Senator Teller expressed the opinion
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was a much better measure than when it