The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-07
TEFF DAVIS MEAT AK
SENATOR WILL co FOR
 TRUSTS. .l
Washington Discovers that New Man is Not as "W0OIly" as Was Ex- pected-Other Statesmen
 Disgusfed.

Washington, Dec. 6.--(Special)- Between now and the holiday recess of Congress. Senator Jeff" Davis or Arkansas. will make a speech on the bill offered by him to break np, if pos sible. the combinations in trade com Ihonly alluded to as trusts.
 The successor to Colonel Berry, al- though such a new Senator. is attract. ing widespread attention by reason of the fact that readers of newspapers, from the accounts they have had or him, are inclined to believe he is even more radical than was MT. Tillman of South Carolina on coming to Wash' ington. MT. Tillman. metaph orically speaking, came up here with pitch fork with which to stir up the more solemn and sedate among his legis- lative associates. Mir. Tillman shows up in the cartoons with that pitch fork almost invariable. though he has toned down so much in recent years that 1t is not exactly appropriate to represent him as continually prodding Senators of great dignity.
 It will not be strange if the inven- tive minds of the press do not fasten something on Senator Davis by which he will be instantly recognized when his pictures appear In the dailies, ana especially in the illustrated weeklies.
  says he seems disposed to go for the trusts with a meat ax. He has been cogitating over the subject for many months and has collected n mass Of information to back the argument to be presented irf favor of legislation calculated to rip the trusts wide open. He is not sanguine enough to hope TOT success with a body as heavily He- publican as the Senate Is with its pro- ~l, riA ty, F..y of pat" on the tariff, which one of the Havemeyers told the Industrial Com mission here in Washington several years ago was the mother of all trusts.
 MT Davis is bent on firing away TOT the effect his attack may have on those who are compla ming of the combina tons in trade. >
 Were Senator Davis an older man and had come to the Senate twenty years ago to serve notice that In less than a month after being sworn Tn he proposed actually to make speech on any subie 1t would have resulteu in his being given the cold shoulder py most of the Senators on both sldes ol the chamber Until about ten years ago a new Senator was expected to take the oath, answer the roll when his name was called, and. never open his mouth in that body for two years unIeSo dIlSlIlB lOl tilS PNt PNSS
 nouncing the bills, petitions and reso- lutions offered by him.
 If new man so far forgot himselI as to make what might be termed a speech urtil he had warmed his chair during q whole Congress ho was os- tracked and considered IS "fresh oy such austere sticklers for Senatorial dignity as the late George FrisDie Hoar of Massach usetts and former sem ator George F Edmunds of Vermont The latter became disgusted ana re- signed his seat on the admission or so many territories in the Union during the Harrison administration. Those Western Senators who came Tn theh not only popped up early and made speeches. on all sorts of subjects wlth- out consulting Messrs. Edmunds ana Hoar. but they joined d combinatlon to break the power that the New Ehs- land element had had for twenty years or more in the Senate MT. Edmunus saw what was coming and retired to the shades of private life.
 New Senator's now speak whenever the notion seizes them. MT. BeVerldge of Indiana onlyN few weeks atter taking his seat positively shocked the Senators by making speech on leading topics and held the noor Ior nearly two hours. It required some time for him to recover from that ''break" but the "Hoosier" statesman has demonstrated to the older men that he's a bigger man intellectually ana po- litically than they were willing to ad- init when they took dislike TO nm