The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-30
PULLMAN MEETS BAILEY IN ARENA South CarO|inian Expresses Con- tempt for RaiIroad Lawyers RESPECTS ID MR ROOSEVELT Says Big Stick" Deserted the "Pitch- fork" on Firing Line and Sunk
 Between Father {
 sons Legs.
RESPECTS ID MR ROOSEVELT

Washington. June es.--sena.o. ll,lr,.lu called up the conference report on the railroad rate bill today and renewed his attack on the pipe line amendment as being in the interest of the Standard oil company.
 About the time the Allison amendments were incubating,' he said, there was a great furor about. the Garfield report on the Standard oil company. and we were told that the exposures of It's crimes would help the vote on the rate bill and under the cost of this dust the President pl retired from his advanced question on railroad legislation and accepted the ALI sion provision. There the big stick and pitchfork, which had been in alliance, found themselves separated and the pitch fork. while doing duty on the firing line, looked around only to see the tail of it's associate hustling towards the rear-slid- ing towards the Allison base to use a baseball phrase. The big stick was rush. ing on all fours to get between father AL | lison's legs.
 l President Has Been Inconsistent. l He had no fault to find. he added, ex- cept that he considered the fact that the l President had been inconsistent Tn not coming to the assistance of the Senate | eonferees. He considred 1t little re- markable that just when he might do something to thwart the policy of this gigantic monopoly he Is as mum as a mouse except that there Is another hur- rah about what the President Is going to do to the Standard oil in the way of leiti IJp hat , ata Iprosecution had been decided on we are carefully told in advance that the high officials such as Rockefeller Rogers and Archibald are not to be molested. I He ther commented upon employment of T Distris' Attorney Morra aon,.ss llinois ,as ! ss,eciai ounsel in r'skesse sayins rag he had demonstrated "how not to do 1t
 in the Walsh case If" he added. they wanted expert In that line he Is as good as could be found In the same connection he said that he had been in- formed that Hon. Frank Monnett the most competent of all attorneys is to lose his job He added 50 1t goes the dear people are bamboozled every day but the hurrah goes on. The President assures us from time to time that the crimes of the Standard oil company are to be pun | ished, but when 1t comes to a real fight and when there is an opportunity to do something, he sits dumb and allows the House conferees to compel the Senate conferees to yield to the demands of the Standard Oil company
 Senator McCumber protested against the elimination of the provision of the pass amendment permitting the free transpor- | tat of Ia var and Tillman agreed in assuring him that they could be carried as at present as harvest excursionists," to which the North Dakota senator replied that if that was true the bill is not worth the paper 1t is written on.
 EIkins Defends the Report.
 Senator Ellxins defended the conference report on the commodity amendment, say
 ing as originally adopted the provision meant a conhscation of the property of the independent oil operators. He also took exception to Tilman's criticism, saying in that reply that he, MT. Elkins, Is as free from the influence of Standard oil as any member could be. He also declared | that the President needs no defense. and he charged that the South Carolina sen | ator was aggrieved because the President did not agree with him. He declared the effect of the Tlman policy would be to break down the independent company. and said apparently that was what MT. | Tillman was trying to do. He admonlshed the South Carolinan that even if he de- sired to injure Standard oil he should not at the same time destroy the busi- ness of thousands of others. He said Standard OH Is able to take care of itself and to the latter point Senator Bailey 1 replied, that whether that company | upeds help not. II gets 1t. "
 l In a colloquy between Senators Elkins and Tillman relative to what the former knew of West Virginia, MT Tillman said: What you want in West Virginia Is | votes." to which MT. Elkins retorted: You are hunting votes in South Carolina yourself"
 Bailey Criticises the Provision.
 MT. Bailey announced his intention to vote for the report. but confessed that neither of the new provisions was to his liking The pass clause authorizes rail- road to transfer the families of its en- ployes but making no provision for the 1 families of railroad officials or attorneys was denounced by him as a transparent piece of demagoguary."
 | He considered 1t an appeal to prejudice | entirely unworthy of Congress. He crftf- | cized the conferees for so shaping the provision. and was sharply challenged by Mir Tillman when one of the sharpest conflicts of the session occurred between the two democratic leaders. standing el- bow to elbow. The clash came when MT, Tillman interrupted Mir. Bailey.
 "An attorney authortatively in the em- ploy of a railroad" said MT. Tillman. may be classed with the other employees. | but the attorney who gets pass and docs nothing else but watch juries, round up the conventions and do little odd jobs. and never gets any compensation except transportation for himself and family. Is the man I was after. I do not know what | the senator thinks about 1t. but l think that class have got no business riding on the railroads at all unless they pay for it any more than any other man" 1 To this MT. Bailey replied that he did not regard such men as attorneys and Mir. | Tlman proceeded. asking: What about the man who works with his hand and the man who works with his brain when the man who works with his brain only works | a little while and Is pettifogger, and >~~~~~~~~>~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~->~~~~-~-~~~~~>~~>~~~~ l DanA1