The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-13

feet within thirty days.
 Do you think the Hepburn bill meets
 the requirement of the Presidents recom-
 mendation or exceeds them2" MT. Foraker
 next asked.
 MT. Tillman again referred to the pro-
 oeedings as a farce. For himself he
 thought there were too many words in the
 Hepburn bill.
 we are to understand then that the
 senator is not entirely satisfied with the
 bill, said Mir. Foraker.
 T am not" replied Mir Tillman, and
 he added that he intended to offer amend
 ments to remedy the situation in West
 Virginia. He asked MT. Foraker if he was
 for the House bill. The Ohio senator re-
 piled that he was not 'I don't have to
 be- he said, adding that if he had bean
 favorable. MT. Lodges speech would have convinced him that he was wrong.
 MT. Tillman insisted upon knowing
 whether MT. Foraker was going to vote
 for the bill MT. Foraker replied in a sen
 tence. 'I am not" he said
 MT. Tillman replied that he was sorry
 that MT. Patterson. 7such a stickler about
 senatorial proceeding" was not present to give MT. Foraker the right hand of fel
 lowship.
 Senate Under Cloud. The South Carolina Senator then went on to say that the Senate was under a
 cloud and should take steps to clear its good name. ''The newspaper press asso-
 citations, however, are controlled and I
 have my suspicious on that point" he said. 'They have educated the people to believe that Theodore Roosevelt is their | only friend here, and that the Senate is the supple tool of the corporations unless 1t takes their ipse dixt." He then told how the Hepburn bill had been gotten l through, saying that the President had l said to the representative whose name | bo Data tnlr fad get it through" and that the latter. wad- ding about through the words of the | bill. had sworn that there were things | in it which are not and that there are not things in it which there are. "Why should it be suspicious?" asked Mir. Tillman.
 He declared that the bill had loop hole in 1t that freight train might be driven through, and added You will never stop the deviment till you put some millionaire in prison and put the stripes on him."
 He said that he had asked the interstate commerce commission to make the inquiry called for by his resolution, because for 1 one reason the Senate has not the time, and because "We know better how not to do it than anybody on Gods green l earth"
 He then proceeded to give reasons why | he thought the President could not be | depended upon to serve the interests of I the people.
 MT. Tillman referred to Former Attor- ney General Griggs, saying that immed- | lately after retiring from office he had taken the merger cases of the Northern I Securities company against the attorney general, and also referred to Former Sec retary Morton.
 l Speaking of Mir. Morton, Mir. Tilman l said that he had resigned from the navy | lpraa 1sff1 ftxxfff1 fba n1fn
 bates on him made by his own mouth, and
 the proof hanging over him." Respects to Morton. l "IIe Is promoted" Mir. Tillman contin- ued, land made head of the great insur-
 ance organization in New York which has | been made the stamping ground for as l dirty a lot of thieves ever walked l Gods green earth. And they sent man | with this nice clean record and put him | in charge of these scores of hundreds of millions, which are the savings, so to | speak, of widows and orphans, who have l policies in that company. 1 Yet, here we go on the theory" he went on, that the White House fig im- | maculate. do not doubt Theodore Roose- l velt's integrity and patriotism. As l stat 1 ed the other day, he is monstrously per | suaded by some people who get around l him and honey fuggle him with flat
 
 he stands by his friends.
 "He gave Morton a good character" !" 1 MT. Tillman then referred to dinner l recently given at the White House to the l executive committee of the republican | ma ational committee. and said the Pres | ident has been elected nearly year and l a half and never has it been found nec- l essary or desirable to bring these friends | of his, these true and tried leutenants 1 and counsellors in his last race for the | presidency to dine with him. The in- 1 evitable conclusion in my mind, at least, | it ought to be if 1t is not, is that these people were brought together to confer how the money could be raised to help l poor old Mccall out of the bog into which he has sunk, and refund s14S,0 which he stole from the policyholders of | the insurance company, and contributed l to the campaign funds of the national re- publican committee. For surely this man | Mccall is not going to be left in the lurch l and run the risk of bankruptcy, or of | being sent to the penitentiary because
 of the fact that his love for the repub- | lican party got him into this trouble.' | He closed as follows:
 Roosevelt and Jackson. | "The other day somebody here made an | allusion to the comparison between An
 drew Jackson and President Roosevelt, | let us look at 1t.
 Andrew Jackson never put Nicholas | Riddle in his cabinet. In his fight against | the money power he fought to the bitter end. He used no blandishments. he used
 a bludgeon The President had no money for any campaign funds but his lieuten- ants did. MT. Bliss collected it, MT. Cor 1 telyou spent it. MT. Cortelyou Is in the cabinet and as I said is the trusted friend | of the money power in New York. MT. | Elihu Root-I acknowledge he is a very | bright and great man, and l admire him. I But Andrew Jackson never would have I taken as a cabinet officer a man so close | ly allied with Nicholas Riddle in the na- | tional banks.
 '.So we have a condition in this country | today which should make every thought l full man pause to see whether or not 1t IS nsu G