The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-19
ROASTED BY RAINIER
MARYLAND SENATOR RIDICULEs
 THE PRESIDENT.
Says MT. Roosevelt May Have Re-Unf- ted the Republicans of the south Hut Has Divided the
 PeOuie.

Washington. May 1s.--After tho Sem ate concluded the third reading of the railroad rate bill today, Senator Ray ner took the floor to discuss the gen eral aspects of the measure. His speech dealt mainly with the Presidents con- nection with the legislation and was largely personal throughout.
 Mir. Rayner said he was firmly of the belief that the President would again change his mind before this controver- sy was over and that if the speaker of the House of Representatives would nominate a man on the conference conn., mittee who had the courage of his con- victions and who would not waver on the question of constitutional review, the President would abandon the Ali son amendment and go back again to the Long amendment, the place he started from.
 He said that Allison had once made the remark that the man who deli berates is lost and that while there was ao chance of any body ever losing the President, there was no telling If with m the next few days some new Chand- Her, to fortune and to fame unknown, might not get possession of the Presi- lent and tide him over the breakwater of the Allison amendment back again 70 his original terminus.
 MT Rayner said that he would not pretend to make any assault on the President or pretend to charge him with 2 selfish or dishonest purpose, but that the processes of reasoning through which he reached a conclusion were so changeable that it was impossible to follow him. He said that he resemb- led an unadjusted Kaleidoscope whose reflecting surfaces after shaking 1t up frequently exhibits it's beautiful colors In symmetrical forms, but after you have adjusted and focused it, flies into its original fragments and resolves it. self into it's component parts.
 He said this was a great era for na- tural disturbances and that the Pres1- dent seemed to be somewhat Jealous of the earthquakes and volcanic erup- tions that had taken place and was go- ing through a sort of cometic perfor- nance himself. Illuminating the hori- zou but tearing through space, obli- vious of where he came from and with no definite conception of where he was going MT. Rayner said he (Rayner) was ,nerfectIy serious in his expectation that wing to those peculiar fancies of the sresident he would change his whols ' position again unless the Senate ad- journed on him and prevented 1t.
 In concluding his remarks about the President, Mir Rayner said he might have reunited his party on the floor of the Senate, but that he had unhap- oily divided the people.
 When he came to discuss the Alli- son amendment. MT. Rayner said he hesitated to vote for the bill and had never supported measure or this sort with more reluctance, because ne thought the words contained in the amendment were fatal.
 Mir Rayner insisted in the strong est possible way that this unfortunate amendment destroyed the efficiency or The entire measure and that in his Judg- ment if 1t Is finally adhered to we might as well abolish the commission and ring down the curtain on the comedy?"
 Y depIore the fact" said MT. Rayner of the Presidents interference. l re- eret 1t with all my heart and I am sor- ry for it. He has debilitated and mu- tiiated this measure. while, If he had only persisted in his purpose a tew days longer. a United Senate in re- sponse to the voice of united people would have put upon the statute book a law that gratified their expectations and responded to the exigencies of the hour"