Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-21
But Admirers of Roosevelt Poll
cies Intend to Guard 1t
Carefully.
SENATOR KN0x'S FAME GROWS
Story That He Was Out of Harmony
With Administration, Branded as
Canard by Big Men.


Washington. Feb. 16-There is talk
OF making some changes in the rail-
road rate bill at this session of Con-
gress, but if this is undertaken, it.
will be only for the purpose of perfect
ing the law and making some minor
rought places. Friends of the Roose-
welt policies viii see to it that moth
ing is done to weaken the law or make
it less effective.
KNOX HELPED.
Senator Philander C. Knox, Pennsyl-
vanias candidate for the presidency,
had great deal to do with the enact
ment of the railroad rate bill and it
was principally due to his efforts that
a specific provision was inserted for n
court review of the findings OF the
Interstate commerce commission.
Senator Knox contended for this pro-
vision because he believed It would
strengthen the law and that without
II the act might be unconstitutional.
Because of these views, those who OPP
posed his ideas gave out the impress
sion that Mr.. Knox was not in harmony
with the administration and went so
far as to try to make 1t appear that
he wanted TO weaken the measure.
HARMONY PROVEN.
The falsity of these statements is
proven by the utterances of at least
two eminent Witnesses one of them
Attorney General Moody, who succeed
ed Mr.. Knox in the cabinet, and is now
a Justice of the supreme court of the
United States, and the other Senator
j. p. Dolliver, of Iowa, who. more than
any other senator. was potential in de-
termining the form of the railroad rate
bill. These two gentlemen are better
qualified than any other person upon
this subject and both have testified to
the sincerity and Importance OF Sena-
tor KnoN's work in connection with that
legislation.
STOOD BY PRESIDENT.
Mr. Moody made a speech at IKE
Academy OF Music IN Philadelphia on
Oct. -, 1905, at which time he said:
II think it was provldential that
your great citizen tMr. Knox be-
came attorney general and ] also
think II was providential that you
withdrew him and put him in another
place For no man was more poten-
tial in the framing of that law than
vania. None stood more firmly at the
back OF President Roosevelt. and /
wish to say now. and / consider my.
self hcnored In SAYING II. that in ev-
cry principle OF law involved In that
bill there was not an lota of differ
ence between the senator from Penn
sylvanla and myself"
MADE GREAT SPEECH.
Senator Dolllver, one of the most
ardent friends Of the cate bill upon
the committee on Interstate COM
merce, said in the senate on May Z,
1906;
Now in drafting this bill the franz
ers of Il, | will say. were guided very
largely by the speech delivered at
Pittsburg by -he honorable senator
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Konx) on the
third of November. a speech which
reads almost like judgment from the
supreme bench. His notion was EVIL
IDENTIFY that the commission ought 10
have the discretion to prescribe the
rate. for he says; THE commission
should have the power, II II finds tho
complaint well founded, TO declare
what shall he Just. fairly remunera-
tive and reasonable rate or practise
to DO charged or followed In place II
the one declared to be unreasonable"