The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-13
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merce Commission go into effect. He had even heard that threats were being made that the President must yield. If he stands firm and does not yield. then I will have more confidence he added.
 MT. Foraker asked MT. Tillman if he did not believe there should be pro- vision for review by the courts, and Mir. TilIman replied that he believed in it if properly provided for. other wise" he said. f"the poor devil of a complainant will be bullyragged and dragged from one court to another until he Is forced into bankruptcy.
 MT. Foraker peresisted in his in- auiries, asking if 1t would not be prop CT to let the courts say whether an or der should go into effect. denend on the phraseology. He stood by tho Presidents original declaration that rates fixed by the Commission should go into effect within thirty days.
 Do you think the Hepburn bill meets the requirement. of the Presidents re- commendation. or exceeds them?" Mir. Foraker next asked.
 MT. Tillnari again referred to the proceedings 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
 win offer Amendments.
 T am not" replied MT. Tillman, and he added that he intended to offer amendments to remedy the situation in West Virginia. He asked MT. For aker if he was for the House bill The Ohio Senator replied that he was not. T don't have to be- he said adding that If he had been favorable MT. Lodges speech would have convinced him that he was wrong.
 Mir. TiIlman insisted upon knowing whether Mir, Foraker was going to vote for the bill. Mr. Foraker replied In sentence. T anu not" he said.
 Mir. Tillman replied that he was sorry Mir. Patterson, such a stickler about Senatorial proceedings" was not pres ent to give MT. Foraker the right hand of fellowship.
 The South Carolina Senator then went on to say that the Senate was under cloud and should take steps to clear its good name. ssrhe newspaper press associations, however controlled, and have my suspicious on that point he said. have educated the people to be- lieve that Theodore Roosevelt is their only friend here and that the Senate Is the supple tool of the corporations un- less It takes their ipse dixit."
 He then told how the Hepburn bill had been gotten through, saying that the President had said to a Represent alive whose name 1t bears, Here, Pete, take 1t and get it through" and that the latter wadd1ing about through the words of the bill. had sworn that there were things in 1t which are not and that there are not things in it which there are"
 LoophoIe of Large Size.
 Why shouldn't he be suspicious?' asked MT. Tillman. He declared that the bill had a ioophole in 1t that & freight train might he driven through, and added:
 You will never stop the devilment till you put some millionaire in prison and put the stripes eE him"
 He said that he had asked the Inter state Commerce Commission to make the inquiry called for by his resolu- tion, because, for one reason, the Sen ate has not the time, and because we know better how not to do it than anybody on Gods green earth" He then proceeded to give reasons why he thought the President could not be de- pended upon to serve the interests of ahe people.
 MT. Tillman referred to former At torney-General Griggs, saying that im- mediately after retiring from office he had taken the merger cases of the Northern Securities Company against the Attorney-General, and also referred to former Secretary Morton.
 Speaking of Mir Morton, Mir. Tlllman said that he had resigned from the Navy Department with the confession of rebate on him. made by his own mouth and the proof hanging over him.
 He Is promoted" Mir. Tillman con tinued and made head of the great insurance organization in New York. which has been mado the stamping ground for as dirty a lot of thieves as ever walked Gods green earth. And they sent a 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 policies in that company.
 White House Immaculate.
 "Yet here we go;" he went on, the White House is immaculate. l do not doubt Theodore Roosevelt's integrity and patriotism. As I stated the other day, he Is monstrously persuaded by some people who get around him ana honey fuggle' him with flattery. Whatever their methods may be. he stands by his friends. He gave Nor
 
 MT. Tillman then referred to dinN ner recently given at the White House to the Executive Committee of the Re- publican National Committee and said' The President has been elected nearly q year and a half and never has IL been found necessary or desirable to bring these friends of his, these true and tried lieutcnants and counsellors in his last race for the Presidency. to dine with him. The inevitable con clusion in my mind. at least 1t ought to be if 1t Is not, is that these people were brought together to confer now the money could be raised to help pooI old Mccall out of the bog into which he has sunk and refund $148,0OO which he stole from the policy holders or the insurance company ard contributed to to campaign funds of the National Republican Committee.
 Must Help Mccall.
 For surely this man Mccall is not going to be left in the lurch and run the risk or bankruptcy or of being sent to the penitertiary because Of the fact that his love for the Republican party got him into this trouble
 He closed as follows:
 ''The other day somebody here made an allusion to the comparison between Andrew Jackson and President Hoose- welt. Let us look at if. Andrew Jack son 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 bludgeon The President had no need for any campaign funds, but his lieutenants did Mir. Bliss collect ed 1t: MT. Cortelyou spent il, MT. Corteiyou is in the Cabinet, and, as said, so is the trusted friend and at torney of the money power in New York. MT Elihu Root acknowledge L L. :. ,,..,... hrlrrht and nrrnt man and