The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-17
PULLMAN USES
 HIS PI1CHFORk
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 ~~~~~~~~~-~~-~>~~~-c>~~ ~~~~~-~~~~~~-~-~~~~-- whether the criticism of the chairman of the house committee on banking and currency Fowler of New Jersey) had caused the Secretary of the Treasury to halt in the issuance of bonds, but a change of plan seemed to have been made and he had not been able to learn how much of athe proposed bond issue had been put out He expressed the opinion that the Secretary had violated the spirit of the law if he had not violated the letter. Although Mir Tillman was speaking on resolution providing for an investi- gation by the committee on finance. there was not single republican member of the committee in the Senate chamber d few minutes after he began his address.
 Ananas Candidate.
 Speaking of a published interview with the President by Mayor Dahlman of Omaha, in which the President is al- legged to have said that if he was respon- slble for the panic he was glad of it. as 1t had brought to view the rotten con dtion of the country's finance, he said:
 q fear that MT. Dahlman is in immi- 
 Perhaps somebody here will use the tele- phone and find out that"
 He said that he would not worry about the panic, but he found so many facts connecting the treasury department, even the Senate and the House of Represen- tatives with Wall street, that he was obliged to recognize them, especially as the farmer, the cotton planter and the manufacturer were affected. He said he wanted to know who struck Billy Pat terson."
 He spoke of the manner in which the financial stringency has operated.
 And he added the President says says the President is proud of it. I cannot believe he said 1t. He has said many things lacking discretion, but do not believe he is so calous as to feel any pleasure in the condition of paralysis which confronts us.- I believe he is a patriot, though he has perhaps shown 1t badly at times"
 The senator held aloft banking house certificate. and in loud voice called upon the Senate to look at it.
 Here is a specimen he declared. "I,ooks like what you call confederate money; shin plaster; and yet they are recognized by the national banks. Look at 1t! 1 dIIl BOlHs to idbC IL CHE a Ncu if it can be done without destroying 1t and put it in the Congressional Record. But 1 don't propose to have it destroyed and lost $1 just to enlighten you on cur rency.''
 Good Money Needed.
 He wanted only good greenbacks, and in rasping tones speaking of the neces- sity of money, said:
 You will have to go to the boneyard if you can't get it.
 As between the "shin plasters' in the form of clearing house certificates and greenbacks, he said he would prefer greenbacks based on railroad and other stocks and bonds, although they were. in his opinion, filled with water.
 He was, he said, in daily receipt of let ters from people who think they know all about the currency and have schemes for currency reform.
 But I do not even read them," he said. It had been alleged, he said, that the bonds recently issued had not been sold to the highest bidders. and he read a newspaper copy of letter by MT. lGchram of New York, saying hs had bid 1Osh on 5000 of tho bonds but had not