The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-29
ANARCHY IN
HIGH PLACES.
Attacks on Federal Courts
Creates Storm in Congress.
LODGE DRAWS DEADLY PARALLEL.

I(Opeclal.) - w n practlcally
amounts to anarchy has found
foothold in Congress. This state
ment is sensational one, but
nevertheless it is founded in
absolute fact. The foundations
| of Justice have been smirched by
no less personages than United
Estates Senator and a member of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission The aspersion of the
Halter was treated in a manner
| it deserved, until the Senator
endorsed the revolutionary at
tack on the Federal courts. Now
Washington is thoroughly awake
to the dangerous times in which
the government has found itself.
Senator Tillman's direct at
tack on the Federal courts of
Justice created storm during
his speech on the Hepburn rate
bill, in which he was arguing
against providing specifically for
the inherent right Of shippers
and carriers to appeal to the law
from orders of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. He de-
clared emphatically that the
people had lost all faith in the
Federal judges, and that the
nation was like ship adrift,
and without the rudder of the
law. Instantly Senators Scott,
Gallinger, Spooner and Foraker
rebuked the speaker, but the
''pitchfork'' statesman, in char
acteristic fashion, repeated his
accusation. He said:
81 did not expect to get into
any unpleasant controversy like
this when l stated, as a general
proposition, the reason why the
passage of this bill is of such
vast importance. 1t is because
the people have lost faith in the
judges. Now, / repeat it. L
believe it. That is all there is
about it,"
Senator Lodge called attention
to the dangerous preachments
of government officials. He first
quoted an interview with Eugene
V. Debs, in which the Socialist
leader declared his views with
regard to aiding certain labor
leaders in the West, accused of
brutal assassinutions unequalled
since the days Of the Molly
Maguires. Mr.. Debs said
"We have no courts to appeal
to; they belong to the pluto
cracy, and | am opposed to-
spending our means going up
against brace of game judicial
ly."
Mr.. Lodge pointed ont that
Mr.. Deb's remedy was civil war,
and asked.
"You may say that is the raw
ing of a man of violence and
anarchy. Perhaps 1t is the last
extreme; but is it wise for
others to encourage that wholly
false view Of the courts and to-
teach the American people that
the courts are not to be trusted?n
Then Mr.. Lodge referred to al
clipping taken from Chicago
newspaper in which Charles "A.
Prouty, a member of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, was
quoted as saying:
'flf the Interstate Commerce
Commission were worth buying,
the railroads would try to buy it.
The railroads, it is well known,
own many Of our courts and.
other public bodies.''
After drawing this deadly
parallel between the inflamma-
tory utterance of a man pledged
to out and out anarchy and the
more deadly statement of an Of
ficer of the government, pre-
sumed to be forswcrn to law and
order, Mr.. Lodge said:
ut is when a man of ability
aud character holding high gov
ernment position like that of an
Interstate Commerce Commits
siones uses the language that |
have quoted that the matter be-
comes deeply serious. 1t is when
the doubts and suspicious in re-
gard to our courts are suggested
10y the words Of men eminent in
public Office, as has been the
lease ia the past months during
the discussion of this question;
it is when every effort is made
to shut the courts out from all
reconsideration of the momentous
questions raised by this Hep
burn bill that the matter grows
grave indeed, for it is in this
way that the distrRst is bred Of
which the Senator from Texas
4 cpoka and which avorv rat3 aotIno