The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09

"We. are there. In a powder house"
he exclaimed. The principal govern
ments engaged in the negotiations are
ready to jump at each others
throats."
Mr.. Spooner, in replying to Mr..
Bacon defended the presidents course
In sending delegates to the confer
ence. He said he would never have
objected to the Bacon resolution, II
it had been presented behind closed
doors instead of In open session. He
denied the propriety of senators dis.
cussing such international questions
publicly. He declared that Italy and
Austria had declined to enter the
Moroccan conference unless the Uni
ted States joined.
''If there is anything that tended to
peace and toward the prevention of
war between two great European gov
ernments," he said. 'it was the action
of the president sending delegates to
Algeciras," he exclaimed.
Mr.. Bacon objected to Mr. Spoon
er's imputation that his motive In in.
PRODUCING the resolution was to bring
the president to book before all the
world" IS
81 emphaticaiiy deay it,. he stated,
"and more. SO far as parliamentary
language will permit resent to the
utmost. the charge of improper mo-
tives."
Mr.. Spooner explained that he
mi nnont N ~ s,,Ao
rupted 20 quiz the senator on the
question of advising with the presi-
dent. He said he noticed by the press
that the two senators from Wisconsin
went to the white house together and
that when they left Mr.. Spooner an
nounced: "It was merely q matter of
an appointment"
"Will the senator explain whether
he went there with advice or to be ad-
vised?" sarcastically inquired Mr..
Tillman.
"I might say that it is none of the
senator's business" good-naturedly
but emphatically responded Mr..
Spooner.
ut is plain [ have the senator Up
tree" retorted Mr.. Tillman.
Mr.. Spooner said he had not con
cluded. THAT is what l should tell
the senator, but will inform him that
there was u difference of opinion be-
tween the two senators from Wiscon-
sin, that we went to the president and
submitted our views and left in friend
ship" he explained, bowling and wav-
ing a hand in the direction of his col
league, Mr.. La Toilette, who occupied
his seat in the rear of the Democrat
ic side of the chamber. and his col
league blushed at the attention given
| him.
Mr.. Tillman pressed the Speaker, as
to the right of the president to ap
point with or without the advice of a
senator, and as to whether geograph
ical lines had been established in Wis
consin for the better division of the
federal plums, but Mr.. Spooner de
clined to take the question seriously.
Fifteen speakers fiayed the railroads
in the house today, during the debate
on the Hepburn railway rate bill. To
morrow, when the general discussion
closes late in the afternoon, the big
guns, such as Bourke Cochran, of New
York; John Sharp Williams, of Missis-
sippi; Mann, of Illinois, and Hepburn,
of Iowa, whose name the measure
bears, will bring the oratorical con-
test to close.
The speakers today were all for the
control of railroads rates by the gov.
ernment, although many believed that
the present bill was not strong enough
to cope with the evil as they saw It,
Mr.. Gillespie, who introduced res
olution of inquiry, concerning the
combination of railroads controlled by
the Pennsylvania and New York Cen
tral in the bituminous coal trade,
and directing the interstate com,
merce commission to being a search.
ing inquiry to show the unlawful COM
binatiOns, In his remarks, paid atten-
tion to the report sent to the house
yesterday by the president, on the
Pennsylvania merger with the Balti.
more C Ohio. the Chesapeake & Ohio,
and the Norfolk and Western. He
said: Look at the report sent here
yesterday by the president. say it
is an insult to those in control of the
power Of this great government to al.
low these things to exist without put
ting into motion the machinery at
command and In the interest of com
petition"
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