Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-26
SENATOR FORAKER
ISSUES S STATEMENT
Continued from page eight.)

sentiment of the people OF Ohio in a
Te solution asking the senators TO sup
port the rate bill.
Senator Foraker declined to follow
y this resolution,
! w '.h1en the issue lis whether%he shall
u pc returned, 1t must be determined ie
N this Is to be a representative form ~
5l government not by the auestion
X neither he has followed his conscience,
sssl D1ut by! the ne question whether he really
" epreserts the principles that his con-
4 81 j1tuents desire supported and put into
= practise. e :, = Il y
iS55 This quotation shows that the
y grounds llt OF Nh. arts opposition to me
We're Two V, fold the rate bill and the
AS to the rate bill, Mr.. Taft saws ~
Y me NJ IN his letter enumefating the rna-
e SON Why he could not accent an 9n,1-J
for the presidency il co,lrle55
IN an endorsement of me for senator.
y g mas opposed the vital policies
Y ana principles of the administration,
Ii q and nd ,8a ADDS as another reason that i
would not vote for the rate, although
ture. J .
" s3S.j w HAT MR.. TAFT KNEW.
NJ 1. Taft knew had never opposed
( the policy of supervising and reeulnt-
4 ing the railroad and Interstate carriers
5g Isi,, Knew thatmy opposition to the rate
wis = moi seause 1t was opposed to
u ne policy of regulation and supervision
but only to some few methods proposed
ny that measure.
r for instance, he knew that my OBJ
4Je tsltslNon was confined to certain clauses,
among them the rate making clause
and tho commodities clause.
This bill contained some provision
8on account Of which / dsikcd to vote
against It and SO stated in The 5se1,a "a q
but II contained others that seemed I'd Il,
me SO vicious that ! could not doubt
4 l tilaL lt would bring upon us not only
E panic. ldlencss, suffering and distress,
; but still other evils that did not then
seem q be generally foreseen.
'ltlntertalning this View OF the meus-
: ure. y studied the bill with very great
care and felt when had reached nv
conclusions that t was my. duty to nv nv
constituents and the whole country to
disregard the instructions of the Ohio
legislature, most of the body Of which
had probably studied the cues
{ Tons involved but very little il at ull.
SENATOR'S DUTY.
I Y do6not agree with Judge TAFT that
q senator should be controlled by the
legislature Of his own state against his
1.ntelliGence. his conscience and his
Judgment, about a great public ojics-
stion Of far-reaching consequence. ~
think a senator who would thus yield
10 public clamor against his intelligenco
ana his Judgment would be unfit to rep.
resent "a great commonwealth in this
Congress of the United States.
Having such views / felt that II
was my duty to present them to the
senate and not be coerced into a sl,r
render of them or to cast o. vote IN con
1lictRwith them.
y ~ ICED not repeat the arguments I
nave so often made to show that
turning control of the rate making
power over toIa commission was cal
5culated to, and has, impaired conf
dence in railroad securities to such an
extent as to stop railroad construction
and do immense injurysto al II kinds Of
business. from which II will require
us q long time to recover. Sss
Y INDICATED ON ONE CLAUSE.
&c Already the commodities 4 use
has been declared unconstitutiona by
one of the most respecta bio courts in
thaS country. 1t Is commonly ac-
that it will be an a bso-
Lutte disaster TO the whole country If
the supreme court should reverse this
decision.
''There We're other objections to
the rate bill that are ow 4 making
themselves painfully felt. The an
nouncement was recently made that
because of abolition of low through
rates for our foreign commerce, our
transcontinental lines have practically
abandoned competition for oriental |