Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-03-03


fail 20 smile and no true friend of
the bill can fail to shudder at the
prospect ahead of this most remark
able piece of legislation. II is Ike
coniding a masterpiece of the paint
er's art TO the keeping of a third
rate artist with Instructions TO re-
touch but retain its appearance
YOU Will not know the original.
when he is through with the lob.
To emphasize the admiration that
Senator Tlllman has for the meas
ure, it is well to quote his previous
remarks upon the pending bill.
Here they are;
81 believe there are too many
words I'm the Hepburn bill: &c Is "a
maze OF words through which YOU
can stumble and every man will dis
agree as to what it means"
81 want provision which viii
prevent any monopoly OF the bitum-
nous coal lands on the Atlantic
slope by the Pennsylvania Railroad
aud its allies, and YOU have not got
it i'm this bill"
81 want more light before I a.
gree TO vote for bin that may con
tain half dozen snakes i'm it,"
And, certainly we had better
pass none at am rather than pass
something that viii fool the people.
They may find next year when
the Supreme Court has gotten
through with &C.. that this maze of
words-thesc thousands OF phrases
and lines am doubled and twisted
nid muddled up-have i'm them 81
loop hole through which. with lit
tie stretching, you can drive not
only am automobile. but q whole
freight train.
Now these words We're uttered in
the United States Senate as recently
ass February 18TH. 1905 and it is To-
the hands of this man that the SEN
ate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee has entrusted this measure. IT.
President Roosevelt has smiles ON
his countcuanco and is happy over
the prospect of the passage of his
pet measure. DE is more than human
and is mo- doubt ready for immeI-
late translation 10 the other world.
From Party standpoint. the five
Republican members should have
had restraining effect upon the
other three.
Senator Doliiver and his associ-
ates laid down new platform.
They laid down the precedent.
however that the bin was not par
ty measure and the Republican mil
nority had a right To- form % coali-
tion with The Democratic minority
Senator Aldrich accepted the gage
of battle and PLAYED his hand"
with the skill of ana adept at the bust
ness. Tie has made the whole
world laugh over Che mdicrous ape
pearauce of tho situation and nc
has eiven notice that there viii Doe
something doing" before the DEM
ocratc measure championed by the
Democratic clown of the United
States Senate SIS engrafted upon tho
statute books OF this country.
President Roosevelt is q rough
rider and Senator Tmman may wou
Doe said Co be q rourher rider. He
has seldom met with success out
side of South Carolina. lie is most
unpopular i'm the North and has but
recently experienced "a rebuke at the
hands of his own party in the Mrs.
Minor Morris affair. It IS but safe
90 say that the clements OF death
were injected into that Hepburn
Rate Bin. when he was given
charge of that measure and the cast
OF decay Is already upon it's counte-
nance Unless something is done
and that quickly. the measure viii
be "as dead as Julius Caesar"
It may be we'll TO remark that
while the Democratic Party appears
TO be "a unit in support OF the meas
ure, there are many Railroad Dem
ocratic Senators, Who will join with
the Railroad Republican ones in so
amending the present measure as TO
make il practically worthless AMI to
cause many tears from the presi-
Dental eyes at the White House over
the muulation of his child that had
been left to the tender mercies"
OF the "Pitch-fOrk" Senator from
South Carolina.