Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Mr.. ROOSEVELT'S r..
FOES ON RECORD
CreaJy's Anti-Rebate Resolution Op.
posed BY Republicans
Now on Ticket,

Now on Ticket.
Lewis Emery, Jr.. recently referred
to the reputation Of President Roose-
velt's interstate commerce policy by
the present state house OF represen-
tati' es, which McNtahol, Durham and
Pebfoss absolutely controlled in the
regular session of 1905. At the very
moment when the president was O
guest within this state, Representative
William T. Greasy, now fusion nom
inee for auditor general, presented the
following resolution on the evening of
January 80:
Whereas, President Roosevelt has
announced his purpose to procure leg
islation by congress which will effec-
tually stop the discrimination of freight
rates and the payment of rebates by
carrying corporations engaged in inter-
state commerce; and,
Whereas The enlargement Of the
powers of the interstate commerce COM
mission to the end that the travelling
public and shippers may have Prompt
and adequate relief from these abuses
to which they are subject in the matter
Ol Transportation ii esSeHtia' 20 tne lul-
f1lment OF this purpose: therefore,
Resolved, by the house ci representa-
tives OF the general assembly of Penn
sylvania, That our senators in congress
be instructed, and our representatives
requested, to vote for such measure as
will give the interstate commerce COM
mission larger powers. to the end that
shippers may have prompt and ade-
quate relief, and that rebates be pro-
hibited.
At first the house, seeing nothing but
Justice as we'll as common sense in the
resolution, together with a deserved
tribute to Roosevelt, passed it unani
mously.' But presently the gangsters
learned that the Democratic chuckling
was over the fact that the wish of god
speed to Roosevelt was connected with
a clever abstract from the Democratic
platform.
When the gangsters recovered their
breath they prompted Shern, of Phila-
delphia, to move for reconsideration of
the vote by which the resolution had
passed. He did SO half an hour after
Creasy's success. HUM, of Phiiadel-
phia, seconded Shern. Greasy. after
giving fair warning that the Republi-
cans would slap their president in the
face If they adopted Shern's motion.
caused the resolution to be read again.
Then Farmer" Greasy pleaded:
Mr.. Speaker, this resolution is in
the plain line Of what the president
is trying to get through congress.
1t is exactly what was published in
the newspapers of both political
parties during the last campaign,
and | think II Is in line with what
every industry except possibly few
in Pennsylvania, want and | can
not see why the vote should be re-
considered when 1t Is as plain as
this is. All the industries in this
state passed resolutions for several
years back asking for exactly what
this resolution and what the pres
ident of the United States today Is
trying to get through congress, and
It seems to me that with the great
powers that are against the presi-
dent land this house knows that,
we should give all the encourage
ment possible to the president. and
I ask for the yeas and nays.
But Shern frantically resumed:
Mr.. Speaker my reason for MAX
ing a motion to reconsider Is SIM
ply because the members OF this
house at the time did not have suf-
ficient opportunity to consider the
resolution, anu luTlNeTHloIe, De-
lieye that this house feels that the
president is fully able to cope with
the matter and that the members
in congress from Pennsylvania
should be uninstructed in matter
of this kind because they know
what pertains to the manufacturing
Industries of Pennsylvania better
than we do, in the form of the reso-
luton offered by the Democratic
member from Columbia.
McNichol and colleagues In the mean
time had hurried into the house from
the senate upon an alarm call and the
vote to compliment Roosevelt was re-
scinded through adoption of the Shern
motion by vote, as announced by
Speaker Walton and Clerk Garvin, OF
100 to 81. Then final vote on Creasy's
resolution squarely defeated 1t by a
vote of 11S to 23.
Many of the Republican representa-
tives who thus finally voted to repu-
diate the president whom the Penross
state platform processes to compli-
ment, are now on the machine tickets
for reelection to the house that will
convene next January. Here are the
renominated members who put them
selves on record in favor of continuing
the discrimination Of freight rates and
the payment Of rebates, when they
slapped Roosevelts face by voting to
kill Mr.. Creasy's resolution:
Josiah NJ. Landis John E. Rex. George
A. Weida and Charles A. Amber, OF
Montgomery county; Edward e. Beide
man and Frank B. Wickersham, Dau-
phin; James Braun, Warren; Frank
Craven, Washington Frank d. Coun-
Gilman. Potter; A. d. Dunsmore and
A. d. Hitchcock, Tioga; Fred G. Ehr-
hardt. Lackawanna: James w. Endsley,
Somerset; Roland Flack, Bucks; James
L. Marsteller and Calvin S. Haines.
Lehigh; Frank b. McClain and John
G.. Homsher, Lancaster; Josiah How
ard, Cameron; Edmund James, Cam
bria Griffin e. Jones and George II.
Ross, Luzerne;. Edgar r. Kress Ly-
briel ii. Moyer. Lebanon; s. Taylor
North, Jefferson; Charles A. Snyder
ana John w Woodward, Schuylkill;
William L. Wood. Fayette; John W.
Carson. Beaver; William II. Irwin,
whom the McNichol-MartinP Penrose
conventions have put upon the present
tickets: Joseph Call. James Clarency.
Edwin H. Fahey, William Fl. Funston.
John r. HUM, James A. Kennedy.
Frank @. Mumma, John H. Rebel.
Samuel Ripp, John o. Sheath and Rob
ert H. Smith.
Neither these candidates FOR re-elec-
ton to the house at Harrisburg. nor
their sponsors on the stump. can con-
sistently appeal to the voters to sus-
tain Roosevelt nor can they claim to
be as valiant as Lewis Emery, Jr., In
fighting to bring law-defying corpora
ticns within legitimate bounds.