The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-17
PULLMAN SCORES
 PARTY IN POWER
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE D ~1~--~~-~~> ~~-~- reading especial pleas and sophistical abuses of republican editors, are led to think the President alone is honest, and patriotie," said MT. Tillman.
 ''They believe religiously that the Sen ate is corrupt and the House debauched and that the policies-my policies which are so exploited in the press, must pre- vail and become law before any relief can be obtained. Senators who don't agree with the executive and refuse to abide by his will, must not be reelected Congressmenv who refuse executive dicta- ton are replaced by those who will obey
 PIacating Negroes.
 'In the mad rush to placate the negro vote, we may expect to see before the Chicago coinvention meets, to quote great New England newspaper, the Pres ident reviewing the re-enlisted negro bat- talion on the White House green, after which there will be luncheon at the eX- ecutve mansion.'
 "The Presidents action in that mat ter was nasty and unjust inasmuch as the innocent were punished along with the guilty, but it is a pitiable spectacle all the same to see the mad race for negro votes.
 MT. Roosevelt is always loud-mouthed and vehement in the proclamation or his own purity of purpose and patriotism. He has absolute faith in his own infallibil- ity and is apparently so drunk with power that he unconscously lapses into the imperial we and sends cablegrams about me and my people, but these things are of small moment-'vagaries of a noble and impetuous spirit, and we could pass them by were it not for the existence of cold-blooded facts to show executive responsibility for many of the evils which exist without dispute.
 Paul Morton as vice president of the Santa F'e railroad" said MT. Tillman, 'in the rebate cases laid himself open to indictment and liability to personal punishment, but the President perempto- rily refused to permit Judson Harmon to prosecute him."
 MT. Tillman related the incidents of the late currency crisis, and charged Wall street with many misdemeanors.
 Nefarious Profits.
 "The profits of this nefarious stock mongering have," he said, found their way into the pockets of the very men who with the evil results of their fraud manifest, pose as 'saviors' and 'uncrown- ed kings and are lauded to the skies when they try to save themselves from
  them, along with their deluded victims. One of these 'savors' had done more than any other of the money kings to deluge the stock market with watered stock"
 Referring to recent conferences in the White House, to consider legislation, MT. Tillman asked why 1t was that the ef- forts of the republican party in the Sem ate had been ignored.
 Thn fC niYacr fn ha Ina n senger to bring these bills here?' de- manded the senator, looking about the Senate. as if waiting for a reply. "I am going to watch and see," he added, amid laughter from all parts of the cham Der
 MT. Beveridge asked the speaker if he would name the radical legislation he had said the President is sending to the Sen ate. He replied that he disagreed with the doctrine to permit railroads to pool.
 MT. Beveridge asked whether Mir Till man favored the labor legislation pro- posed by the President.
 q shall never yield that one man shall say to another that he shall not work declared Mir. Tillman.
 Roll of Certificates.
 Unfolding roll containing exhibits of clearing house certificates he handed them to MT. Beveridge, and asked him, ito pass them along among the faith ful'' on that side. Shaking their heads, republican senators declined the offer, amid general laughter.
 Senator Hale suggested that NIr. Till man address himself to the question of a remedy, and not merely condemn what has been done
 ''The harangue of the senator-the able speech of the senator" said MT. Hale, amid laughter, as he corrected himself
 Take the harangue back, or take back the able address," said MT. Tillman. "It can't be both.''
 Mir. Tillman spoke again of the acts of John R.. Walsh of Chicago, in connection with the banks of that city, and chided the committee on finance because it had not acted favorably on his resolution for an investigation of the acts of Walsh.
 Mir Aldrch replied when that resolution was considered, all transactions concern- ing Walsh were before the grand jury in Chicago, and since that time he had been indicted and convicted; and, he added, that the action of the clearing house in Chicago in respect to the Walsh banks was, in his opinion, not only justified, but entirely legal.
 Senator Hopkins declared that the &C., tion of the clearing house was patriotic and just
 Mr. Aldrich stated that he would not
  duiry whether the national banks of New York are in the habit of furnishing per manent capital for speculative purposes. and the Senate passed the resolution without further discussion
 Beveridge's Defense.
 Senator Beveridge then made a spirited defense of the President and the repub- lican party declaring that what had been termed the subservency of republican senators was merely an evidence of har- mony between the President and his party in Congress. He took MT. Tillman to task for having spoken of the ignorant masses" and having referred to them as ''poor simple souls"
 Johnson, he said, had been treated as he was because he had not the confidence of the people while President Roosevelt possessed their entire confidence. It was, le said one of the characteristics of the American government that that branch which is most benefcient is the one that has the confidence of the people.
 There is no subserviency on this side to any power on the other," he said. "ex- cept to the demands of the people, and what the senator calls subserviency is nothing more than harmony with the wishes of the people"
 By slip of the tongue, MT. BeveridGe referred to the South Carolina senator as the ''corn-fed lawyer
 Mir Tillman objected to that title, but added that he was mighty fond of corn bread.
 A long review was given by MT. Rev.