The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-06-28
T|LLMAN OPPOSES
Rate Bill Agreementin State
ment Before Senate.
FIXED BY OIL COMBINE"
Such is Charge Made by WieIder Of;
Pitchfork, Who Declares He Won't
Face People with rs. O."
Brand on His Forehead.

A Washington special says: Imme-
diately after the senate met Monday
the clerk of the house Of representa-
tives announced the action Of that.
body on the railroad rate bill, but it.
was allowed to lie on the vice pres
ident's desk until 2:30 p. M, when It,
was called up by Senator Tillman.
After the conference report was
read, Mr.. Tiilman called attention 70
the fact that his name was not at
tached. He presented and defended It
at the request Of the republican ses-
ate conferees, but he said he was op-.
posed to the agreement regarding one.
amendment, to which he would later
move that the senate disagree. He
had reference to the McLaurin amend
ment divorcing the carrying and pro-
ducing business, which was amend
ed so that it does not apply to pipe
lines.
The change in this amendment, lin
plain English he said, meant that
Standard Oil had got in its work." "
The agreement in reference to this.
amendment, he said, relieved the
Standard Gil company from control
and regulation by the interstate com
mission.
When the bill was sent to confe
ence the second time, Senator TILL
man said he found an entirely differ.
ent atmosphere from that Of the first
conference, as the house committee
insisted on opening up the whole sub
ject, including all matters en- which
an agreement had been reached.
'"Then I began to smell mouse, or
something" he said.
"Or something, probably" Mr. Elk
| ins remarked.
Continuing, Mr.. Tillman said he "be-
came more or less skeptical as to mo.
tives, etc., as one is likely to do af-
ter service in the senate" He, said
the change would simply destroy the
effect of making the pipe lines com.
mon carriers.
There you see the result OF this
additional deliberation," he added.
"The house had us up a tree and
insisted upon taking the senate pipe
line amendment as it was originally
inserted, thus changing the commod-
| fly amendment. 8
"By this change the enforcement OF
TRANSPORTATION from production would
be confined to railroads, thus leaving
the Standard Oil company from the
operation requiring that transports
ton companies shall not carry artt
cles produced by themselves"
So firmly was he convinced OF the
tnstrumentality Of the Standard OH
company in securing this change, that
In his estimation "every senator who
voted for the conference would have
| s. o. branded on his forehead. He
did not mean to vote for 1t because
be did not want anybody saying.
you've got s. o. branded on your
forehead, Ben T1llman."
He considered the dependent COM
pantes whose interests are supposed
to be involved to be myths.
Senator Bailey took the position
that the change made by the confer
ence committee in the commodity pro-
vision would nullify the pipe line po-
sition. It was equivalent to making
the Standard OIL company the one
exception to the requirement that pro-
ducers shall not transport their OVID
articles. He did not .'large the STAN
dard Oil company with direct efoFt
to influence legislation, but to fr1gnt'
en- independent companies, who, i
had transpired, sell their, oil to the
Standard.