The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-20
FORAKER SPEAKS
ON The ISSUES
FATE LAW uMNEcESSARY--EL-
KINs BILL ALL-oUFFIciENT
TO CURE RAILROADS..
WANTS NEGRO SOLDIERS
Orpocao General Revision Of Tariff
Laws ON Ground That II Would
Cause Ind 'stria Disturb,
~nees.

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Cincinnati July 19.--In an address
Ibeeorc the Miami Valley ChautauqAa
lat Miamishurg. Ohio, today, Senator
Foraker called on tariff reyislonis s
foe a Bill Of Particulars and ex-
plalned somc points in the recent rae
legislation which did not seem TO him
to have been clearly understood by the
p bic. fe spoke in part as follows .
was not in error in thinking the
rate bill unnecessary. for ime has al
ready indicated the contention that
what we needed at the time the Hep
burn law was passed was not more
legislation. but only the enforcement
of he laws We already had
1t il not too much to say that il r.
now coafessodly established that the
courts have p wer under the Elkins
laws to prohihif any Kind OF a discrim
nation or any kind Of rebate, o.
any Kind Of a preference, NOT matter
in whal way it may be Disguised or
by what method it may be pgacticea
The Interstate Commerce act was
rassed in 1857 the Hepburn rate law
in June 1906, and the Elkins law ~
February. 1909. An examine ion
whai has been done under these re
spcctiyc laws shows that Hnder the IN
terstate Commerce act in the twenty
years it mas been in force there have
been all { Id but eigh ytwo indlct
mcnts ami under these eighty-tw0 in
dictments there have been only six
teen convictions. Thrty.flse Of then
We're nollied, twenty two were quash
ed, two 0 / hem We're dismissed ana in
seven eases the defendants were ac-
quilted The total amount Of fines i'm
posed Ender sfis act in the Whole
twenty years IS but $4,000
The Hepburn Law went into effect
in Angus, 1906 but until this time, al
most a year, there has been no prose
cution under it, and not enc dollar Of
fines or any kind of punishment has
been imposed upon anybody.
Although the Elkins law was enact
ed in February. 1913, there was no at
tempt to enforce 1t until October, 1905
less than two years age, but during
this period, short as it is, there have
been more than one hundred indict-
ments under 1t, and these Indictments
contain in the aggregate more than
two thousand coun s. There have
keen numerous trials and numerous
and numerous injunctions
to restrain frther abuses, with nu.
mer0Is iniunctions to restrain further
with numerous impositions of
fines as penalties. AS against $4,000
Of fines under wenty years of the In
terstate Commerce act of 1887, and
its amendments, there have been in
less than two years since the govern
ment undertook to enforce the Elkins
law an imposition of fines under il
amounting 10 s5G6,075 and this does
not include the fines that will be as
sessed by Judge lands upon the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
which has been convicted under the
Elkins law on fourteen hundred and
,ixty-two counts
These facts disclose conclusively |
hat the ElSins law is an efficient and |
easily enforced statute. Everybody |
now recognizes and comedies that |
act In simplicity, efficacy ana cer
ainty. it is so far superior to all 9th |
er laws that all prosecutions here
lfter. as heretofore and now, will be |
brought under it, instead of under the |
Hepburn law, or the general Inter
state Commerce law.
| have been charged with voting |
against the rate bill, with opposing |
oint statehood. with trying to secure |
/ hearing before the American people |
or the negro soldiers who were dis
charged without honor. but | feel |
thankful that no Democrat has ever
nominated me for office: not that
dislike Democrats as men but be
,aise | am a Republican and do not |
ike their principles and politics
1t may be pleasing to Democrats
VI the South 10 see the negro soldiers |
hns put out Of the service. for the |
sentiment there is well nigh universal |
har they should not be allowed 70
wear the Uniform even OF private
,oldier But where is the Republican. |
North CT Sorth. who believes in the
eaching Of Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses
s Grant. Oliver r. Morton, James G |
Blaine benjamin Harrison and VII |
lam Mckinley. who does not believe |
hat no man car be so black. nor can
10 be so humble but that he shall
rave his day in court When the Re /
party falters in lis devotion
o this duty. it will dissolve and perish
IS the Wing party did and It will de-
ierve the fate that so overtakes It."
As to arin revision. the senator
aid.
Tariff schedules are not intended 4