Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-11

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hood Tor New Mexico alu AZ iNo' 49,, "a
sisltng thal they shpulel hot He y" eea
tnto the Union as one state, u,iiysS
majority ol lhe cliiSens OF taoh ittI
tors might 50 vote me ptopVsillou
favored was adopted by congress wy sl
the p"ople of me territories NvNe.l
against Joint statehood. Ihh' was u
proposition about which men lNlsn-
well dlffec There was no ocrasion Yer
any bitterness of feeling In connection
Win it's consideration. ana ihere was
none O1 my part. and never nee !"
that thcre was ANY ON the part OF me
president
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" WAS also unable to agree with abe
president as to comforting the rate
llleNl.e In,'sst .o' ,,,e r,s,leS in fbn
Hepburn Jaw. passed at the first session
OF the E'ii'S- ninth Congress. ! was not
opposed 10 that propositions, however,
because l did noI want governmental
control and Supervision of railroads en-
gagged In interstate commerce. for l was
among she first to advocate such a
measure but because L thought tho
Hepburn law In that particular was
bnIh demonstrations and unnecessary
ana that IL was a long and serious step
In the wrong direction as a matter OF
public policy.
II did not believe either that II Con-
gress had the power to make rates. it
had the right TO delegate that power
~ amy administrative body. Whether [
was right In entertaining this opinion
VIII be determined when The supreme
court OF the United States passes on the
question, as sooner or later IL must"
An Fora keT said all the prosecutions
against the railroads, the sugar and
beef trusts and the Standard OIL COM
pany and other corporations have been
brought under the Elkins law, and the
government secured convictions speed-
~ in all cases aNcept where its own
e s'imonY failed. but THAI no suit OF th9
kind mas been brought under the Hep
burn law
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Another session OF Congress has just
closed" he continued There were
measures pending and acted
upon with which the president was
identified. SO far as can
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which have taken different view
from him, l refer to the discharge,
without honor. OF the members OF com
oanies Il, and ID Of the Twenty fifth
niautry, ON account OF the shooting af-
ray MT brownsville, Tex. This VAS AN
Incident not policy Bat 1t was an
Incident of such character that felt
my duty as a representative of the
people OF Ohio to do with respect 10 II
what ! have done.
1t WAS charged-and the president
vas made 10 believe--thai certain men
IT the TWeuty-ftfth infantry had made
| murdeFOus midnight assault upou the
sleeping men. women and children OF
that they had shot up the
Own as the expression goes. and that
hey had killed one man. and wounded
mother, and put In Jeopardy the lives
If many ETe believed thai this was
lone 10y a few, bun that others OF the
battalion knew and refused 10 disclose
he Identity Of the men who did IT.
AS Il result he ordered that the
Whole battalion should be dismissed
without honor. the Innocent and tho
fuily alike. the guilty because they
we're guilty., the Innocent because they
Guild not be distinguished from the
guilty.
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Among these men were old soldiers
Epo hau 9ee9 many Years Of service
'u. gallant and distIngutshed. one Of
hem had served continuously for pa
years. I'm Is months he could have re.
lIeq on pension for llfo His seEy-
ee had been rendered not only on tina
'tohtler of this countTS but in Cuba
ana m the Philippines II had covered
9th war and peace. In ala the Iona
lerot Aot one single black mark Mad
lcen registered against him No nevet
lod bern court-martialed; he had never
leen punished He had meyer nee,
'v"n rcprlmanded. on every one OF his
numerous discharges IL was recorded
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