The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-11
A Three Column Synopsis - Of
the Senator's Speech
Following With the Full Text
Of the Invective.
MAKES 21 COLUMNS.
A Carefully Collated Interestine
Political Document.
Only a Part of the Big Speech
Is Spoken.
REMAINDER PRINTED.
Appearing in the State Journal
and Other Papers.
A Red Hot Readable Presents
tiOn of Longs Case.
REMAINDER PRINTED.
Appearing in the State Journal
and Other Papers.
A Red Hot Readable PRESENTS
tion Of Longs Case.

by President Roosevelt and resulted In
tne construction of the present Union
station in Washington.
The Uintah Indian Reserya&ion
Opening.
Senator Long stated that the onlv
question involved in this was whether
certain rights that had been ACQUIRED
under prior legislation by congress.
and confirmed by a lease approved by
the secretary Of the interior should
be recognized by the government. He
showed that his vote was to approve
the conference report signed by all
the senate members of the committee,
and by Mr.. Sherman of New York and
Mr.. Curtis Of Kansas. He also showed
that all the senators and the repre-
Sentatives from Utah, where the land
involved was located, favored the leg
islation and that President Roosevelt
approved it,
The Ellxins Law.
The criticism here is for voting TO
repeal the law providing for impris-
onment for rebating. He showed that
$50 members voted for this bill and
against it, and that President Roose-
velt approved the bill, and comments
ing on this charge Mr. Long said:
Under this Elkins law, which I am
here SO severely criticised for sup
porting, and the president for approv-
ing, all the fines for giving rebates
have been imposed
Among those fines are the % mil
| lion dollar fine against the Standard
Oil company, fines imposed against the
| Santa Fe in California, and many 9TH
er fines against the railroads and cor
porations throughout the country"
| Senator Long expressed surprise that
/ any one should omit one, vote In the
Fifty-fourth congress when giving q
| list Of his wall street" votes. This
vote defeated him for congress in 1896
and was generally referred to In that
campaign as a wall street" vote. It
was his vote against free silver
! Senator Long also referred at length
| to Mr.. Whites charge that he had been
elected to the senate by the railroads.
and showed that his election was
| brought about by the transfer of the
| Stanley votes to him after the prelim-
| mary balloting, and that one Of the
/ prominent leaders in making this trans
| fer was his accuser. William Allen
White; that If the railroads elected him
| they must have done 1t by using Mr..
White as their instrument.
To add emphasis to his refutatfon of
the charge that these 16 votes while he
was in the lower house were cast in
| the interest of Wall street Mr.. Long
quoted at length from both the papers
| of Mr.. White and Mr.. Bristow, after all
| these votes had been cast in which the
! most fulsome praise had been bestowed
| upon him.
Coal Oil and Asphalt Lands.
Senator Long showed that these wers
Indian lands and not government
lands; that his vote was to reserve
them from sale preserving their title
| to the Indians. He showed that Pres;-
dent Roosevelt made no order as stated
| by Mr.. White In relation to these lands.
| but that instead he had approved and
signed the bill voted for by Mr.. Long
reserving them from sale.
Lake Erie and Ohio River Canal
| AS. to the LaFollette amendment to
this bill, Senator Long showed that.
sufficient justification for his vote ID.
| contained in the fact that although
| these amendments were lost and the
| bill became law through the approval
I Of President Roosevelt without them.
yet no work has commenced on the
| canal for the reason that the measure
was so restrictive as voted for by Mr..
Long and approved by the president,
| that the enterprise has not been pro-
Senator Long stated that IL he took
! the Wall Street end Of the ship subsidy
proposition when he voted for the bill,
then President Roosevelt was equally
guilty with him when he recommended
| this specific bill. He also read from Q
letter Of President Roosevelt to Repre-.
sentative Pollard Of Nebraska strong.
| ly endorsing the bill and commencing
western members as patriots who
! voted for it. Senator Long stated that
he had always voted for legislation
| that would restore our flag to the high
seas.
Senator Long condemned in the most
severe terms the misrepresentation Of
| the record as to his action on the -
| hour bill. He showed from the record
that he had a general pair with Sem
ator Dubois, who was absent. The REQ
| ord showed that this was the reason
Senator Long did not vote. He said the
| ''unreliability and unfairness'' Of this
whole article is clearly shown by this
charge, and the answer to r which the
record furnishes.
Commodity Clause of Hepburn Law.
Senator Long then referred TO the
criticism made in the article for his
votes against certain amendments that
were offered to the Hepburn rate bill
| He said that his reasons for voting
against some of these amendments
were because amendments had already
been made to the bill covering the same
points. Other amendments he objected
! to because he believed them unconsfs.
tutionaHstill others because they
would have endangered the passage OF
| the bill He closed the reference to
| the votes against amendments to the
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