The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-17
LONG IN DEFENSE.
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road. The amendment only makes
the valuation prima facie evidence.
The court viii make its own valuation.
The carrier is only entitled TO a fair
return on the valuation of the proper
ty employed in the service"
Referring to the judicial amendment.
whereby Senator La Toilette would
have prohibited a judge holding rail-
road transportation or being a stock.
holder in any railroad interested in the
suit from. trying. a case IN which that
road was interested, Senator Long said
that part of the amendment referring
to judges and passes was covered in an
other amendment - the antipass
amendment Senator Long continued.
1.-The part of the amendment forbid
ding a judge to hear a case When ne
owns stock in the railroad company IS
an insult to the judiciary. It shows
the venom and incapaeity of the
author. A federal judge who would
t1.v a case wherein he was Interested
would be subject to impeachmen t. This
is the only way I'd remove "a federal
.jutlge. The statute would have been
worthless.
Senator Long referred to "the reck-
less manner in which Senator La Fol-
lette makes his statements" and term
ed them assertions not founded in
fact. and utterly unrelia bic. He con
tinued:
senator La Toilette says the long
and short haul amendment would have
saved millions of dollars to the people
of this state, and that the valuation
amendment would save 400 millions
year. These are mere assertions, as
untrustworthy as his statement that
the coal lands in Indian Territory were
worth 4 billion dollars, and that he
saved these lands from sale. The rec
ords show that the committee on In
dian affairs of the senate-indicentail
Twill state that44t was over nay OBJ
so1 tnd a 4C oil fhace c0gl
Senator La Toilette offered an
amendment providing that no officer OF
stakeholder in any railroad corpora
ton could acquire any interest by pur-
chase or lease in any of said lands.
After discussing this amendment Sem
ator La Toilette admitted it was faul-
ty, and asked that the matter might go
over to give him opportunity to perfect
his amendment This was denied him
by the senate. A motion was made to
lay on the table the amendment of the
committee and Senator La Follette's
amendment as Well This carried. So to
T. 1 was one of the thirty-eight. Senator
La Toilette one Of the seven. This de-
cided that the coal lands in Indian Ter
Fitorys should not be sold, and pro
vision iu the FIVE tribes act which later
passed provided that neither leased nor
Unbiased coal lands in Indian Territory
should be sold until otherwise provided
by law
Senator Long then stated what the
president thought of such as Bryan,
Hearst and La Toilette. without men
tioning their names, however. by his
reference in his recent Harrisburg
speech to those who follow the mid
die course" keeping free from ultra
conservatism or ultra-ra dicalism.
Senator Long also quoted E. P. Bacon
one of the leaders in the movement
to clothe the interstate commerce
commission with the power it has UNI
der the Hepburn act; and Commits
sioners Prouty as to the good and ef-
fective Legislation the Hepburn act IS.
Senator La Toilette to the contrary
Notwithstanding He also cited SEN
ator La Follette's Evansville, Ind.
speech. when he declared how useless
was the Hepburn act, and said he
would assail it IN every platform
speech he, La Toilette, would make.
Senator Long read a lot of corrob-
orative matter to prove that the Hep
burn act is a good one, and a measure