The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-30

devoted most or US time today 10 con- ference reports on railroad rate and pure food bills and the meat inspec- ton provision of the agricultural bill. All were adopted.
 The principal controversy was over the rate biIl when Senators Bailey and Tillman had a heated colloquy on rail- road lawyers. There was also much discussion of the meat inspection pro- vlsion. A number of senators express ed themselves as willing only to ac- cent the House provision because it was attached to an appropriation bill and deadlock would cause the failure of the supply bill.
 Tlliman Reneyvs Attack.
 Senator Tiilman called up the con- ference report on the railroad rate bin today and renewed his attack on the pipe line amendment as being in the Interest of the Standard oil Com pany.
 About the time the Allison amend nnents wore incubating,v he said, there was a great furore about the Garfield rapcrt on the Standard oil Company ard we were told that the exposures If It's crimes would help the vote on the rate bii1. and under the cover of this duty the President retired from H4B advanced position on railroad leg lslation and accepted the Allison pro- vision There the big stick and the pitchfark. which had been in Alliapce. found themselves separated ana the pitchforks while doing duty on the fir ing line, looked around only to see the tail of it's associate hustiing towards the rear--sliding towards the Allison base. to use a baseball phrase. The big stick was rushing Tn on ali foura to get between Father Allisonss legs
 He had no fault to find, he addedA ex- cept that he considered the fact that The President had been inconsistent in not coming to the assistance of the Senate conferees. He considered 1t "a little refnaykable that just when he might do something to thwart tRs poll icy of this gigantic monopoly, he ie as mum as mouse except that there Is now another hurralA about what the Presiderf is going to do to the stand ard oil n the way Of suits," -
 f1e atfzsa tiaat notwithsfandfng the prosecution had been decided on, we are carefully told in advance that the high ofiicials such as Rockefeller, Rog- CTS and Arehbold are not to bc molost- ed
 He then commented uuon the employ ment of District Attorney Morrison of Illinois, as special counsel in this case. saying that he had demonstrated how not to do it." in the Walsh case. If" he added, they wanted an expert in that line, he is as good as could be found" In the same connection he said that he had been informed that Hon. Frank Monett. "the most competent of ali the attorneys, is to lose his job" He added;
 The People BambOo4led.
 ''So it 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 all lows the House conferees to compel the Senate conferees to yield to the demands of the Standard Oil Company"
 Senator Mccumher protested against the elimination of the provision of the pass amendment permitting the free transportation of farm laborers. Sem ators Deliver and Tillman agreed in assuring him that they could be car- ried as at present harvest excursions" to which the North Dakota Sem the bill is not worth the paper 1t is written on.
 Senator Elkins defended the confer enee report on the commodity amend ment. saying that as originally adopt ed the provision meant a conflscation of the property of the independent oil operators He also took exception to Mir. Tillman's criticisms. saying in that reply that he (Mr. Elkins) Is as free from the influence of Standard as any member could be. He also declared that the President needs no defense and he charged that the South Carolina Senator was aggrieved because the p8Nsident did not agree with him. He declared that the effect of the Tillman policy would be to break down the independent company and said appar- entIy that was what Mir. Tillman was trying to do.
 He admonished the South caroIin- ian that even if he desired to injure Standard oil he should not at the same time destroy the business of thousands of others He said Standard on is able to take care of itself and to the latter point Senator Bailey replied that whether that company needs help or not 1t gets il"
 In a colloquy between Senators El- kins 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 e'hunting votes in South Caro- lima yourself"
 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 author fEinR a railroad company to transport the families of It's employees but mak- ing no provision for the families of railroad officials or attorneys was de- nounced by him as "a transparent piece of demagoguery-"
 TiIIman and Bailey Clash.
 He considered 1t Gn appeal to spreju- dice entirely unworthy of Congress. He criticised the conferees for so shap- ing the provision and was sharply challenged by MT. Tillman when one of the sharpest conflicts of the ses- sion occurred between the two Demo- cratic leaders
 Standing elbow to elbow, the clash came when MT Tillman interrupted Mir. Bailey.
 "An attorney exclusively in the em- ploye of d railroad might be classed with other employees. but the attorney who gets pass and does nothing else but watch juries. rounds up conventions and do their little old jobs and never | gets any compensation except trans portatIon for himself and family, is the | man was after. I do not know what | ths Senator thinks about it. but lthink