Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-04-15
LA TOILETTE
POURS VOLLEY
INTO MORGAN
WISCONSIN SENATOR ATTACKS FL
NANCIER IN SPEECH ON TAFT
RAILWAY BILL.
CALLS HIM FINANCIAL BULLY.
"Bawls His Orders to Stock Markets,
Directors, Courts, Governments
and Nations"
CALLS HIM FINANCIAL BULLY.
DISCUSSES STOCK ACQUISITION.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April - -
Senator La Toilette today took the Sem
ate floor for the purpose of making BIS
long promised speech in opposition to the
administration railroad bill. Th speech
was a severe arraignment of the depart
ment of justice.
The Wisconsin senator's remarks were
largely devoted to the provisions of the
bill authorizing the acquisition of the
stock of one company by another, and he
used the merger of the Boston & Maine
company with the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford as the basis of his ac-
cuSationS.
Charging the attorney general with
undue haste In disseminating the suit be-
gun by the Roosevelt administration
against these roads, he declared that
judging by what that official did in that
case, 1t was not a violent assumption to
state that if the pending bill had been
law he would have entered into ,Stipu-
iatlon with the New Haven road that the
roads proposed to be acquired were not
directly and substantially competitive;
that upon such stipulation Judgment
would have been rendered by the court
OF commerce III accordance with the stip-
ulaton, thereby estOpping the govern
ment forever from making any claim
that such acquisitions were in violation
Oh the sherman antitrust act.'
Railroad States Master.
Asserting that Massachusetts had
found It's master in the New Haven COM
pany, Mr.. La Toilette entered upon a
detailed statement of the steps by which
thai company had acquired control of
the Boston and Maine, a rival line, in
defiance to the antitrust law and in
DDnnSltTOn IN 10 ISl,a Of h.
MASSACHUSETTS where most of the state
proceedings were conducted He char
acterlzed Charles S. Mellen of that road
as "Alorgans man" and undertaking to
show how Mr.. Mellen had sought by va
rlous devices to bring about the complete
merger Of the two roads prior to the
national administration of President Taft
and the state administration of Gov.
Draper, lie strongly cOntrasted these ad-
ministrations with those preceding.
Mr.. La Toilette declared that every
proper effort had been made by the
Roosevelt administration to prosecute the
merger suit against the two companies.
and expressed horror over Attorney Gen
eral Understands prompt dismissal of
the case within three months after he
came into office.
Morgan Is Denounced.
Speaking of President Mellen and Vice
President Byrnes of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railway, Senator La
Toilette said: THE mask is off We
have all of US done injustice to Mr..
Melen, gross injustice. Nor is Mr..
Byrnes in his private secretary capacity
u i'll any capacity except as corpora
ion employee, the truculent braggart that
he seems in the press reports of railway
hearings.
Both Of these men and others of
their kind are but hired megaphones
through which a beefy, red faced, thick
necked. financial bully, drunk with
wealth and power, bawls his orders to
stock markets, directors, courts, govern
mertS and nations.
We have been listening to Mr.. Nor
gan"