The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-16
At Different Times He
Impaled the President,
Morton, Moody, Hep
burn, Griggs, Knox
and Railroad Trusts.
Senate Adopts Resolu-
ton of the South Car
Gilman to Investigate
Railroads Engaged In
Coal Operations.
Coal Operations.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The senate,
before adjournment this afternoon,
Mr. Tillman and sanctioned by the
committee on interstate commerce,
calling for an investigation of rail-
roads engaged in coal operations.
The resolution is a veritable drag
net in it's scope. 1t recites the COM
plant of the Independent shippers who
say that undue preference is given
to shippers of coal from = mines in
which railroad officers are interested,
and that the railroads virtually con-
troll the traffic in bituminous coal.
The interstate commerce commission
is to investigate whether the rail-
roads control the coal they carry or
when they are interested in the mines,
whether contract in restraint OF
trade exists among the common car
riers and whether there is a monop-
oily. The effect of such combination,
If it exists, on the independent ship
pJIb Ia W Dt ltpltSGuICu, dlSO WutlL-
er the system of car distribution is
fair and equitable. 1t was drawn as
a result of the charge of Governor
Dawson, Of West Virginia that his
state was in the absolute control of
a railroad trust. 1t was during the
consideration that Senator Tillman
went upon the warpath today in the
h1tt1n ha clair ho is, pir Z lo
masses against the classes.
He had at different times impaled
upon his political fork, the president,
former Secretary of the Navy Morton
Attorney General Moody, Representa-
tive Hepburn, former Attorney Gen
eral Griggs, of New Jersey; Senator
Knox, the Republican majority and
railroad trusts"
1t was upon the latter, however
that he opened wide the food gates
of invective and abuse. Then, fairly
in a frenzy over the enormity that
he had pictured some railroads guilty
of, he used his "bludgeon" and his
meat axe"
At times his criticism of his fellow
senator, Mr.. Knox, ef Pennsylvania
as former corporation attorney, be-
came trying. A number of senators
left the chamber. 1t was toward the
conclusion of the senator's fiery re-
marks that a sensational scene was
enacted
Pausing a moment, and bending low
in crouching position, with teeth
showing and hand clenched Mr.. Till
man fairly snarled:
you'll never stop this devilment
until you put some millionaires in
prison with the stripes on them. This
is my sincere, honest belief"
Later he declared that President
Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania, woulC
like to have the Senate investigate
because" he shouted, I'VE know
better how not to do things here thar
any other body on earth"
He referred scornfully to ex-Govern.
or Griggs, of New Jersey. retiring a;
attorney general and Immediately TAX,
ing the case of the Northern Securi-
ties against the government
$50 far our eX-Attorney General
the honorable senator from Pennsyl-
vania has not yet been retained by
any corporation" he shouted, point
ing as he, spoke to Mr.. Knox, who sal
as an attentive listener on the back
row of the Republican side of the
chamber. 1--WE been watching ant
praying therefore" he continued, "that
the attorney will not fail to brine
evidence that is already in his pos
session to the investigation commit.
tee."
He diverted to the Paul Morton
case with the remark that it takes &
long time to get people high up in
life. In speaking of his taking the
presidency of the Equitable, he said:
'And when he left the cabinet he
was elevated to the presidency of an
insurance company, that trampinl
ground Of the dirtiest lot of thieves
who ever walked Gods footstool"
The senator characterized human
nature as an absurdity, for" exclaim
ed he, "a more stupendous farce thai
the one being played in the congres:
If the United States, with s5,OOO,OOC
people looking on, has never beer
enacted in the worlds history"
The senator sarcastically referred t
reports crediting as the president
closest counselors on the railroad rat'
legislation, Secretary Root and Sena
tor Knox. The former he charged
had been indisputably tho closest ad
visor before he entered the cabinet
"of the railroad magnates in New
York City, primarily at the root o
al the devilment in this railroad