The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-05
l GENERAL DEBATE
rouw sHARR WILLIAMS ATTACKS
 PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
ue Says There are Things in IL That Arc senmm1sennl, Eedera1fstte anG Duugsruus fs Amerf-
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 Washiu@ten. Feb. 4--GeaeFal debate eu xf1e Indian appropriation Dill m ne Houne sf Representatives today vas ex- tended 90 as to permit it's centinusnee uufif Inc clase of the session tonight
 Mr. Williams (Miss) was recognized af once for an hour. and. taking for hfn fexf flte Presidents recant message. which was 50 thoroughly discussed yesterday, said he disagreed with MT. Hepburp's statement of yesterday that the message met with the approval or the entire Amerieau people.
 Indeed" hel said. "there are things in it's sensational. federalistic and dan- gerous to the American public" MT. Hepburn, he declared. had threatened the pig four" of the House-the Speaker and Messrs. Payne, Dalsell and Sberman--when he asserted that the House would pass the remedial lesisla- ton the President had recommended. He hoped to see the standard of rebel tion raised by MT. Hepburn,S and he said he hoped to see soma of the things spoken of in the message enacted into law. He was, not q hero worshfpper, and, therefore. he would consider the message without any regard to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, from whom the message eunanafed"
 T shall consider it," he said, amid loud Democratic applause. ~just as if 1t had been a message emanating in the past from Grover Cleveland or Will liam Mckinley. or a message which more nearly resembles in it's substance one to emanate in the future from the Hon. William ]. Bryan"
 Mr. Williams declared that he was not one of those who were afraid of a radical in the White House. He dis cusaed briefly the history of railroad rate ta9isIatfon and insisted that 1t was of Democratic origin
 Returning to the Presidents message. Mr. Williams said 1t was not deserving of an aII-around eufogy upon the part of any man who loved Democratic tn- stguctfona. There were, however, go0d things fin 1t. He did not think, he sad, that the Democrats would endorse that part of the message which recommend cd restoring to the railroads the power to pool, or which advocated Federal licensing of corporations, or which de- ciared 1t useless to attempt to punish "the men flesh, the beings" who vto- lated the law sn the name of corporate aufhority. AS to the corporations MT. Williams declared that they never would be properly punished "untfl you visit punishment upon the ftesh and sfood from whose brains and by whose acts the violation takes place" In this connection. he referred to Paul Morton, former Secretary of the Navy, and asked: 'sDid he get out of the Cabinet to 10 to a prison after q confession ot a long violation of the very fawsf No.' he said, but instead he jumped into q lucrative position in private life, with letter of conmendation from the President of the United states."
 MT. williams insisted that a corpora ton as such could not commit 8 crime and. therefore. he advocated puntshinH tfon. Punish one" he said. land you wsil not have to punish any nnore-s..4sl
 Mfr. Williams touched upon the fnan. cial questions and referred to the As drich bill as "the railroad bond credit strengthening bill" Again referring to the Presidents message. Mfr. Wil- Hams received more applause from his nfde of the chamber when he said its omissions we~~ r.e-e significant thar it's commission
 ''He had ta 70 Ff V.liisuas A. 10 about predai f-1. aa.. ricL e.. powerful erin af 11r UDlot -a, - it fs to shaei 4rlt fNl
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 utterances ab f-'1E st-1t wood, pulp al cH fn-e he has never s- Lss .ples as /. the very poison that lies at the heart Of your entire system"
 '"The President" he continued. -snas spoken of rotten business methods but now" he said, ''he comes forward and reads us q lesson. Not only does he leave out the central. corrupt and corrupting evil and states the sociaIis- tic influence of .t all, but he forgets to tell us why, with regard to the things he aoes mention. that he did not mention them in 1901, 1903 and 1sos."
 Mir. Williams was granted an exten- sion of time. part of which he devoted to 6 discussion of the financial sItua- tfon. He agreed that if given the power, the first thing the Democrats would want to do to prevent panics would be to build up sn the treasury by c tax on the banks, a redemption or insurance fund of about SI5.000 ,00O. A tax Of one-eighth of one per cent he thought. would be sufficient.
 Passing to other subjects. Mf, Will Hams served notice that the Demo- cratic party iS going to insist on legis- lation to accomplish the following ob- 5eets:
 The publication of the names and p0stofiee addresses of all persons con- trtouttng to the campaign funds; five days notice to the opposite party be- fore a writ of injunction involving property rights can be sued out; thd right of any one charged with a con- tempt of court committed outside the view of the court to be tried before a neutral judge; the election of United States Senators by the people; the en- forcement of collections under the in- come tax laws; investigation of the so- called white paper trust; restraint of over-capita1izatlon of combinations amendment of the interstate commerce. act so as to further do away with de. structive methods of crushing compe- tftton.
 Further, he said, he earnestly hoped the Republicans would not prevent the enactment of laws to admit free of duty all ship construction materials: to re- move duties from goods carried in American bottoms between the United States and its insular possessions; to reconvene the joint high commission for the purpose of furthering reciproc. ity between the United States and Can. ada; to put into operation the terms oi President McKinley's proposed reel procity between this country anC France and a minimum tariff schedule to admit coal free of duty: to reduce to 100 per cent any duty excessive o that; to reduce the duties on hides a, to cut by one-half the present profits on certain leather goods; to reduce tn, duty on watches to IS per cent; to ad init free of duty the products of thos. American nations whose ports admi free our breadstuHs, other necessitiel of life structural materials, imple- nents. etc.; to establish the independ enee fths Philippine Islands; to ere