The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-16
Rate Bill scope
oNEsvIEWsIsT @sENaTESGoES
FARTHER THAN HouSE-THE
PRESIDENTS COURSE.
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What he (the Presidency has want
ed IS the best rate bin he could OBJ
tain The rate bill as it now stands
nearly finished in The Senate is far
better than as It passed the HOUSE
It is much more comprehensive.
searching, and drastic It touches
subjects and contains provisions like
4 those on pipe lines. which the House
biz Gid not include at all. It reaches
abuses and establishes safeguards
which were wholly beyond its scope
as It came to the Senate
a Remarkable Exhibition.
TIE remarkable exhibition has beer
S.rea Of the Senate. which was charS-
ed with being the bulwark of the rail-
roads and corporations. going far be-
yond the House In its remedies. pen
alIies. and punishmenrs
The President. therefore. gets a
much better bill than he hoped for.
He cannot be accused of taking TIE
back tack in supporting it as it now
stands, for it is an advance along the
whole line.
Even on the single question of the
scope OK the court review the final
Senate provision. while recognizing
the broad review which assures the
coostieutionalIy of the bills. surrounds
It with full safeguards
When this is made clear the larger
charge OF Senator Bailey against the
President Of retreating from his posi-
ton and changing front falls to the
ground The only issue left is the
petty personal question involved in
tas statement OF ex-senator Chandler
20 Senator Tilman-
OF Small Importance.
This is Of small consequence one
way o. ths other Mr.. Chandler tells
AR 7ElJnaa. according to the latter.
SaaI the President in conversation re-
6ec-sd on Senator's Spooner and Knox
as ioju-ins the rate bill by their atti-
Iuce and amendments. The President
says as did not What of it any way
The fact that the President is in full
~~~~S' - ,iHA4 oSAdAOIS >olIooHeA <tIS0
Knox at the end shows the real truth.
Even If the President had been
what 3- Chandler alleges it would
signify nothing. He is to be Judged
not By any casual observation made
under z possible misapprehenslon. bu,
by the record. Nothing is easier than
to @5sioterpret chance remark and
nothing more unjustifiable than to
make such a remark, given in the con
f1oe2cs OF free and easy conversation.
the basis Of public criticism.
Relations with Spooner and Knox
ton that Nv. Chambers statement as
repeated by Mr. Tillman is correct.
But the President says 1t is not. and.
independent OF his word. this pre-
sumption IS with him.
What he thinks of Senators Spoor-
are his true and trusted friends
We accept his statement because
be makes It and because it is IN I,ar-
no0y With his relations with these
Senator's; but he might easily have
been under a momentarily misappre-
hensica and might easily at sucn Il
moment spoken word of Impotence.
and If he had done so it would have
possesses no importance whatever.
The: attempt to make such an allie.
Satiou the foundation Of public at
lack is unwarranted and Indecent.
and viii -econ On the authors.
Il the Democratic Senators hoped
10 bling about breach between tho
President and the Republican Senate
they have signalIy failed. and they
have only exhibited their own defea,
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involved Vociferosity.