The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-04-27


aud yet my competitor went al
the way there to make a speech
that never mentioned it. Further
than that, be actively opposes it
for he said from this rostrum since
bis return that he stood with the
President, and where does the
President standl He once favored
limiting the right to enjoin, bat be
has changed front on that and MIR.
Carmack says he is with him now.
The President summoned some
Senators to the White House and
they concocted an amendment that
ignores this vital provision. When
it was published the next morning
the dispatches announced Senator
Tillman's violent opposition to it
because it failed to limit the right
to .enjoin. This is the same Mr..
TilIman that summoned Mr.. Car
mack to Washington to confer,
and yet Mr.. Carmack opposes the
very thing Mr.. Tillman wanted to
confer about.
Fellow citizens, If the bill
passes as Mr.. Carmack wants it to
pass, it will be nullity and exact
ly please the railroads, and yet
Mr.. Carmack masquerades as the
friend of the people.
RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
''This is not the first time Mr..
Carmack took sides with railroads
against his party and his people.
The Democrats established rail
road commission in Tennessee in
1883, and Mr.. Carmack was elected
to the Legislature in 1885 on a
platform favoring such commits
sion, and yet in that Legislature
he voted to repeal the act and
abolish the commission, and when
Gov. Bate vetoed the repeal bill,
Mr.. Carmack voted to pass it over
the veto, and it did so pass. Gov.
Bate, in his veto message, gave as
one reason for his action that he
was redeeming the pledges to those
who elected him. Not so Mr..
Carmack. He violated his party
platform to serve the railroads.
'But | am not yet done with
him. He introduced an amend
ment to the rate bill relating to
right of recovery for damage to
goods shipped, which, upon its
very face, is irrelevant and not
germane. But let's waive that.
1t provides that shippers, under
certain conditions, must go to the
other end of the line to bring suit;
but let's waive that. | wonder if |
my competitor knew what he was
doing when he tried thus to emas-
,ulate the laws giving the right to
recovery for damage and loss of
goods shipped. The law now
makes common carriers insurers
If freight, and they are liable for
oss, damage or injury sustained
n any way except by the act of
Tod or the public enemy But
lere comes this matchless states.
nan and would lose the shippers
light to recover upon the 'negli-
renee of the carrier. Heretofore
,ou had to prove only the loss or
under this wise
amendment, you have to prove
negligence How delighted the
would be to have 1T thus.
CUMBERLAND RIVER.
my competitor siezes to him.
elf, with characteristic self inn
,ottance, the entire credit for the
Cumberland River appropriation
n the Fifty eighth Congress. One
would imagine that he did it all.
he Congressional Record shows
hat the entire time consumed 10
he Senate by Mr.. Carmack upon
cumberland River was less than
en- minutes, and was done in just
ighty-one words. The indomita- !,
able Gaines had done all the work
q the House and then pursued it !
lto the Senate, and everybody
nows that Gaines deserves all the I