Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-04-05
Washington Letter.
(FRoM OUR REGULAR CoRREtPoNDENT.)
Saturday, March 81, 1906.

(FRoM OUR REG ULAR CoRREsPoNDENT)
Saturday, March 81, 1906.
Never in the history of the United
States Senate has senatorial dignity
been so assailed as during the past year.
The theory that the Senate was created
as the conservative balance Of the leg
islatiye department of our government
and was above and beyond the criticism
or disapproyal Of the people has been
rudely shaken Of late. Journalists fol-
lowing the lead of courts and editorial
writers are filling the magazines with
attacks individual and collective az INST
the integrity and honor Of the Senate.
Since the beginning of the scandal In
which Senators Mitchell and Burton of
Oregon and Kansas were INVOLVED the
"Treason of the Senate" has been the
theme for magazines throughout the
country and if onehalf of what has been
written could be proved, many of the
most prominent Senators would 60 out
under a blacker cloud than followed
Senator Mitchell. Compared with the
accusations against Platt and Depew
of New York, the charges against Sen
ators Mitchell and Burton are FOR pee
cadillcs. Where there misdemeanors
brought them few thousands, theirs,
according to the magazines have rob-
bed workingmen, children and widows
of millions. But Depew and Plat are
not the only ones against whom these
serious charges have been brought.
Senators Aldrich, Lodge, German
and others have or will come in for
their share of Exposure The effect
of all this unpleasant notoriety is very
disquieting to many senators. Senator
Depew is sick and sequestered in New
York. Once the good comrade of all
successful men and the most desired of
dinner guests, he IS now without wife
or boon companions. A devoted niece
takes care Of him while Mrs. Depew
who it is thought to escape the scandal
is spending the winter in Paris. Sen
ator Plat is wrecked in health and
spends his time journeying from santa
rum to cure but finding as little rest
as the wondering Jew.
Those senators who keep their seats
in the Senate and who have come be-
fore the public as participants in the
senatorial treason are either defiant or
carefully trying to hedge, Senator
Lodge who has fallen under several
hammers of the press and is scheduled
for magazine denunciation offered an
amendment to the Dolliyer- Hepburn
bill this week which may have the eff
feet of softening the heart of the public
toward hiim. His amendment provides
for the inclusion Of pipe lines in the
operations of the proposed railway rate
law authorizing the Interstate Com
mission to fix the rates Of carriers. For
many years the independent oil opera
tors have been endeavoring to have the
government control the pipe lines but
the influence of the Standard Oil has Of
course been thrown against it and has
been SO powerful that no progress has
thus far been made. If this amend
ment is pushed it will cause great
furry in the Senate and the public
which has a sharp and cultivated eye
for trust representation in the senate
by this time will have an opportunity
of seeing just who are the agents Of the
Standard Oil in Congress.
Many of the greater newspapers OF
the country are not standing with the
magazines in their censure of the senate
and believe with Andrew Carnegie that
the senate is stlll the fortress of the
government. But according to the
magazines this is not the question at
issue. The senate, they say, has ideals
and traditions that are above reproach
but it is with individual senator's wi Q
60 to make up the body that they deal
When these are the paid agents of rail.
road, meat, insurance, oil or other
trusts, and are representing not the
people, not the nation or their state,
but the interests of these corporations
in Congress, they are fit subjects for ex.
posure and censure, and the magazines
have succeeded no doubt doubt i; IN irving ma.
ny an unpleasant hour to Aldrich, the
car Of the senate, German, Keane,
Lodge, Elkins, and several other veal
thy representatives of oppressive and
tyrannous corporate interests.
Nothing will relieve indigestion that Is
not thorough digestant. Kodol Dyspep-