The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-20

les Of a noble and i~npetuous spirit
not for the existence OF cold-blood-
ed facts to show executive response
bility for many Of the evils which
exist without dispute"
Paul Morton, as vice-president OF
the Santa Fe railroad, said Mr. TILL
man. in the rebate cases laid him
self open to indictment and liability
TO personal punishment, but the pres
ident peremptorily refused TO permit
Messrs- Judson and Harmon TO pro-
secute him"
Senator Tillman denounced Presi-
dent Roosevelt for not prosecuting
land CRATES" and Senator Beve-
ridge interrupted to a that the on
ly difference between the president
and Senator TIlman is that the for
mer would prescott upon evidence
and the latter without it Mr.. Beve-
ridge wanted I o know why Senator
Tillman, in his flood of messages,
had not covered the subject
Mr.. Tfllman replied hat IL Mr..
Eeveridge wants me to make any
criticisms than / have the sen-
ator from Indiana Is a great big
glutton."
Mr.. T1llman reviewed the events
Of the recent currency crisis and
charged Wall street with many mis-
demeanors-
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
'saviours' and 'uncrowned kings and
are lauded to the skies when they
were really trying to ave them
selves from the disasters which
threatened to overwhelm them along
with their deluded victims. One Of
these '%saviours' had done more than
n other of the money kings to
deluge the stock market with wa
tered stock"
Referring to recent conferences In
the White House to consider legisla>
ton Mr.. Tillman asked why it was
that The efforts Of the republican
party in the senate ha been isnoc-
ed.
Who is going to the spaniel mes
senger to bring these bills here?" de-
manded the senator.
MIR. Beverage asked the speaker
if he would name the radical legis-
lation- he had said the president is
sending to the senate. He replied
that he disagreed with the doctrine
to permit railroads to pool. Mr.. Bev-
erddge asked whether Mr.. Tfllman
favored the labor legislation propos-
ed by the president.
L shall never yield that one man
shall say to another he shall not
work." declared Mr.. Tillman.
Senator Beveridge took the floor
n made a spirited defense of Pres
1dent Roosevelt and the republican
party, declaring that what had been
termed the subseviency of republican
senator's was merely as evidence of
harmony between the president and
his party in congress.
Johnson, he said, had been treated
as he was, because he had not the
confidence OF the people while Presi-
dent Roosevelt and their entire con-
fidence.
MI. Beveridge's r.feence 10 Senator
Iillman as a corn fed lawyer caus-
ed the sontherner to remark that he
was mighty fond of corn bread.
A long review was given by Mr..
BeVerldge of democratic policies and
he declared that a conference had
been held Ia this city for the purpose
of coming to a plan for asking Mr.
Bryan not to again be a candidate
on the democratic ticket; but when
Mr.. Bryan came he said not one OF
them had the courage to tell him
what they had planned to do. This
statement called forth denials from
Mr.. Tillman, Mr.. McLaurin and Mr..
Raynor, all of whom declared that
there had never been any idea of
asking Mr.. Bryan not to run on the
democratic ticket and that the stories
to hat effect were mere myths.
! HOUSE.
Washington, March 16.-The whole
| of today's session of the house was
devoted to the consideration OF bills
under suspension of the rules.
A number were passed, including
one providing for the restoration OF
the motto "In God We Trust" on Am
erican coins and another increasing
the efficiency of the medical depart
ment of the army. Other bills passed
were the following:
Providing that appeals from the
district court of Alaska may be heard
either at Seattle, Wash, Portland,
Ore, OF San Francisco, Cal Grant
ing to local steamboat inspectors au-
thority to pass upon he fitness OF
officers and crews of steam vessels;
reorganiZing the consular service;
and amending the game laws of AL
aska 50 as to substitute the license
system for the present permit sys-
tenn.
At 5:35 p. m. the house adjourn
ed.