The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-20
IOWA GOVERNOR
PIERCES ARMOR
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committee remember. No railroad rep
resentative sat where you could see

committee remember No railroad rep
resentative sat where you could see
him.
Apparently this gives the lie to Gov
ernor Cummins. L have been informed,
however, that the person who did sit
by Senator Elkins was former Senator
Faulkner Of West Virginia, who COM
monty is credited with being in the
employ Of railroad companies and who
was earning his money honestly, as
he had a perfect right to do, by repre-
senting them before the interstate con- CON
on the left Of Senator Elkins and a
little bit back of him, and it is pos
sible he was not within sight of the
chairman. He was there, however, and
he was not there as witness nor as
an idle spectator.
Former Senator Faulkner is too good
a lawyer to fool away his time. He
was once a member Of the senate from
the same state which Senator Elkins
now represents. He since has been en-
ployed in Washington as attorney. and
claim agent, his former membership Of
the senate giving him the right, which
is a valuable one, to enter the senate
chamber itself. Long acquaintance
with the methods Of the body has made
him valuable to many individuals and
corporations to which he gives his serv-
ices for a retainer in the ordinary way.
Governor Cummins knew him, and re-
ferred to Senator Faulkner in his Fort
bod &c speech, and Senator Elkins knew
perfectly we'll, when he wrote this open
letter, to whom the Iowa governor re-
ferred. ~ ~
Gives Lie to Cunnains.
AS to the question as to whether for
mer Senator Faulkner suggested the
questions to be propounded to Governor
Cummins, Mr.. Elkins also inferentially,
in his open letter, gives the lie to the
Iowa chief executive.
In another speech, delivered at Spirit
Lake, Governor Cummins said:
"The bill is now before that GEM
etery which we have established in
Washington. While I am engaged in
this, I want to put headstones for some
Of those there. They seem to be en-
gagged in hurting galleywest every
measure proposed by the people. 1 be-
lieve that even that mausoleum Of
good resolutions cannot now refuse to
pass the bill.''
Attack Of Governor.
If the Fort Dodge speech pierced the
Elkins armor, the Spirit Lake address
rubbed tabasco sauce into the wound,
and this moved Senator Elkins to re-
ply:
elf this were the attack of Albert
B. Cummins uponB the chairman Of a
committee Of the United States senate,
I would not notice it, but you are the
governor of great state and your
wholesale denunciations of the United
States senate as a body, with the sin
gle exception Of the junior senator
from your state, must not go unan-
swered.'
To show that the examination of
Governor Cummins proceeded along or,
binary. lines and that questions asked
were not necessarily hostile, Senator
Elkins, who, by the way, does not speak
for the committee, but only for him
self, quotes large part Of the testi
mony of Governor Cummins. He asks
whether any particular question was
hostile and, if so, what one; whether
any was suggested by an outside attor
ney, and if so, what one.
Apparently it is up to the gov
| ernOr.