The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
WASHINGTON: A SPECTACLE
Representatives the Railroads Passing Anti Railroad Bill How the System Works Consre Bnteyo SnesBu It's Big Business System Run Business
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ator Fogaker is great lawyer st least. he was very successful n tns higher courts of his State. He wants rate regulation to be reviewed m thc courts Indeed, he is said to naxe been the first man to suggest snrs Massachusetts led the people to think (for two days) the President had been induced 10 accept. s'oraker is against our" blil and us Clapp. of Minnesota, Is the next to the ia~t on the Republican list. Rereaa the paragraph on Deliver, and you have Ciapp. He says he was the at torney general .,f Minnesota who en- forced the rate-rcgulation laws of that State. but his people suspecteq ntm when he was returned to the senate, and aoma Of them made him sign . pledge to vote for rate regulation. he says it wasn't exactly pfadges " was a paper" he had to sign' tots oI papers, So we'll say, he had to sign a paper" instead of pledge. but whatever 1t was le is keeping 1t, like Deliver, most literally. He was men tfoned with Deliver in the converse tion I heard about the necessity to ex- plain to his people any changes In the
 bill. even to perfect 1t He also goes
 back to his people this winter Tor reelection to the U. s. Senate
 The last man on the Republican side is Senator Crane. He took the place of Senator Willard. Willard is bank CT. and his natural sympathies are with railroads, but the people of his State. Nebraska, are, strangely enough, ''antf-raifroad" The sight of rate bill coming towards his committees compelled Mir. Willard to take q side, SO bankerlike, he fled Gle also comes up for reelection this wintero He got off the Interstate Commerce Committee, and Mir. Crane took his pla~e Mir. Crane is not afraid He. comes from Massachusetts. He has been something of 8 boss theres not a boss in the crude New York sense, but nice. dignffed New Engiand par ty leader. A business man, he believes in business
 Saels are the Senators to whom "our' rate bill had to be referred. Oh, there are some others on the committees; Democrats: and they are important. I don't understand their democracy yet. but they are said to be against the Re- publican party and for our bill. In deed. without their help. Deliver and Clapp could hardly have got the bill out with whole skin. But we--the most of us--didn't vote for these Dem ecrats. We voted for the Republican party, and the majority and the strong est members of 'teur'' Senate Committee represented 'the Party" As a mat ter of literal fact. they represent the very interests we are petftioninRs against. Isn't it absurd?
 Everybody is blaming the Senate" the friends of the Senate complain. Fl don't I blame you and me The ma jority of the majority members of the Interstate Commerce Comnittee were sent here by ''our" legislatures to rep resent not us. but those of us who insist upon being represented by our legislatures Deliver represents the public opinion of his State and the New England representatives are said to represent the public opinion of New England. And maybe they do, but pub He opinion often stands by the Sys- tenn. New England may believe in differentiais; it gets the benefit of them and for that reason may back the railroads. Danviiie does not, but Dan vile gets the disadvantage of the dIf- ferentiaL I guess Lynchburg and Rich mond are not anti-railroad. Having their graft; having a business advan- tage over Danvt1le. they probably are satisfied They probably don't mind at all the tyranny that is hurting bush ness" in Danville. Why, else, doesn't Danville get it's remedy from the State of VirginiaT
 Danvilie looks to Congress Many States are looking to Congress for re- lief from the System in the States, and here they find their" representatives from "their''' States representing the national system Whose fault is it? The only citizens who have a right to expect to be represented here are those who have fought for representative government at home, and, like Texas and Wisconsin, having solved their own rate problems. have sent here Senators like Bailey and Culberson and La Toilette, who come from sovereign States And they represent all of us not our whining public opinion, not the cry of the moment, but the true in- terests of all of us. At les st, they are under that suspicion.
 LINCOLN STEPHENS.