The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-26
BRANDED IS. O."
ON FOREHEAD
TilIman'S Opinion of Senators
Who Vote for the Rate
Bill Agreement.
STANDARD OIL TRIUMPH
REPORT PRESENTED IN THE
SENATE.

Washington, June 25.-ImmediateIy
after the senate met today the clerk of
the house of representatives announced
the action of that body on the rail-
road rate bill, but it was allowed to lie
on the vice presidents desk until 23o
p. m when it was called up by Senator
Tillman. After the report was read Mr..
! Illlman called attention to the fact that
his name was not attached. He pre-
scented and defended IL, he said. at the
| request OF the Republican senate con-
ferees, but he said he was opposed to
4 the agreement concerning one amend
Hleht' TO which he would later move
/ Ihat the senate disagree. He had ref
| erence 10 the McLaurin amendment,
/ divorced the carrying and producing
business, which was amended SO that
/ II does not apply to pipe lines. The
CnanSe IN this amendment lin plain
English he said, meant that Stand
ard Oil had got in its work. The agree
/ ment IN regard to this amendment. he
/ Sald, renewed the Standard Oil COM
Pany from control and regulation of the
/ interstate commerce commission.
He sn1eIIed a Mouse.
When the bill vas sent to conference
/ the second time. Senator TilIman said.
| he found an entirely different atmos-
! phere from that Of the first conference,
/ as the house -conferees insisted upon
opening up Che whole subject, including
/ all matters on which an agreement had
been reached. Then / began to smell
a mouse, or something" he said
Continuing, Mr.. TiIlman said any way
ne became more or less skeptieal as to
motives, as one is likely to do after ser
vice in the senate
He e6Htehded that the change Of the
words "eehlmen carriers to railroads
would simply destroy the effect Of MAX
ing pipe lines cOfnhioh carriers. BY this
! change the enforcement of transporta-
ton from Production would be confined
to failftads, thus relieving the Stand
ard Oil company from the operation of
the requirement that transportation
companies shall not carry articles pro-
| duced by themselves.
IS o. Company" Brand.
So firmly was he convinced of the
instrumentality Of the Standard Oil
company in securing this change that
/ in his estimation every senator who
( votes for the conference report would
/ have :. Q. company branded on his
forehead. He did not mean to vote for
/ it, because he did not want anybody
I saying you've got S o. CO. branded
on your forehead, Ben Tfllman." He
/ considered the independent companies
/ whose interests are supposed to be in
/ vOlved. to be myths.
Senator CulberS0n insisted that the
word company should be inserted after
the word railroad" otherwise the rail-
/ roads themselves might be relieved from
/ the operation of the law.
Lodge Agreed With TilIman.
Senator Lodge agreed that the purpose
/ of the change from common carriers 10
/ railroads mad been to let out the
Standard Oil company so that it could
continue both to produce and transport
I OIL Under the amendments of the SEN
ate he believed that the Tipe lines could
/ be compelled to carry the product of the
/ independent companies lie could see no
reason for the charge. because he be
/ lieved that transportation companies
should give their efforts to the carrying
/ business. He believed that all of the agi-
! tation in the supposed interest of the in
! dependent companies had been instigated
by the Standard company.
Senator Bailey took the position that
| the change made By the conference COM
mittee in the commodity provision would
nullify the pipe line position. 1t was
equivalent to make the Standard Oil COM
/ paHy the one exception to the requirement
I that producers shall not transport their
( own articles. He did not charge the
Standard OIL company with direct ef-
/ fort to influence legislation, but to fright
en- independent companies. who. IL had
/ tTanspired sell their oil to the Stand
ard.
Should Not MonopoIize
IF" he said. the Standard company
/ wishes to be a producer, a transporter
/ or a refiner. let it engage in either of
/ those lines Of effort. but don't let IT mo-
nopolize all those branches of the oil in
Mr.. Bailey also took exception to the
/ pass agreement. He said that as it reads
/ it legslizes and authorizes the giving of
/ pass. which is q discrimination that
/ should not be practiced.
J Senator Foraker contended that there
was no proper analogy between a rail
I road and a pipe lines. As a rule, he said,
pipe lines are not built with the purpose
/ of doing a carrying business for hire,
/ which is not the case with the railroads.
/ provision as it passed the house would
| be to cOnfisCate the property. and that
therefore it would not have been sustained
/ by the courts, hence he was going to
| say that he thought the conferees had
acted wisely at the risk of being brand
/ ed in the estimation of Mr.. Tillman by
the Standard OIL company
Why CulIom Backed Up.
I Senator CuIIom. one of the conferees.
I agreed with Mr.. Tilman that the present
report was not as good as the first one
! He had originally stood with Mr.. Till
man for everything calculated to inJure
/ the Standard Oil company. but since then
he had received many protests from inoe-
pendent oil producers in his own state, in
which he had absolute confidence. He
was not willing to punish his own people
merely for the purpose Of Furnishing the
Standard Oil company
Mr. Cullom defended the anti-pass pro-
vision. but Senator Bacon conceded that
it was in violation of the spirit of the
entire bill.
senator Lodge objected to the anti-pass
provision excepting persons engaged in
The postal service. and Mr. TiIlman re-
piled that the intention had been to re-
heve railway postal clerks from paying
for transportation which would cost the
government not less than $1,000 900 an
nually-
General Criticism.
Mr.. Lodge declared the provision &c
fuaIIy authorizes and invites method Of