Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-05-19

republican party. All, he will find that
The The people of this eGqnry viii demand
IL Will be truer saner, more permanent
than the choice few that this censor Of
American policies and American morals
would gather about him.
That bill came into the Senate fresh
from the pen of this attorney general and
Aldricll--l happened to be member Of
ferred--Aldrch very kindly told us that,
he knew all about the bill and that 1t was
a good bill and that he intended that it
discussion whatsoever, without permitting
a single amendment, not even was any
man to be permitted to offer an amend
voice: Well you did.
Senator Cummins: No, did not There
was one place Where he had the power
to do what he desired. And he said at
the same time that it should pass through
the Senate in the same untouched way.
He got 1T through the committee because
we could not help it. The rules of the
committee did not give Us the right to
oi1ef amendments against the wishes OF
the majority of the cominittee and tell
Sou-and You can take ii if you believe
me-that not one man on that committee
except Mr.. Aldrich who dictated the bill
60 the attorney general, Moses Clapp Of
Minnesota who is as fine figure in
these days of reform as ever opened out
the only men who had ever read the bill.
1t was voted out of the committee and
INTO the Senate without a single word
OF explanation or OF defense and 1 repeat
that there We're not more than three men
upon the committee who had ever read
tn, the bill And this is the bill and you can
nave nave some idea what its size is, 1t is
composed Of about thirty pages. Mr.. AL
allch sad that this was an administra-
ton measure and that was the end of 1t.
But said, "Aldrich, think you are do
ing a great injustice to the President OF
the United States, because this bill has
some SOM, OF the most vicious features in 1t
INA mat ever found their way into the legis-
lation of free country in the last fifty
years, and L did not dream that there
was any man except the attorney gem
eral SO bold, SO brazen, so Indifferent
offer it to the inspection of a great
Intelligent constituency (Applause)
But I said to Mr.. Aldrich, You can
force tee h, this .r, bin through the commit
II reaches the Senate it will there
be exposed to the gaze of the peo-
PIE OF OF this 3, country and it's rottenness
! nave Kept my word, haven't 1? Cap
plausee and calls you did.") And with
the, aid of the valiant blows that have
ana by ms eloquent tongue in holding it
up SO that all men might read it, it has
nappened that two of its worst sections
the scrap heap, there to decay under the
universal odium of a great people, Do
you know what their sections were? I
X wv we " =. have an antitrust law There
Is no law in the country more greatly
feared hene, "a ana d. none that has been more
h aM Under Ito the ae ts people It is the
Company was dissolved 1t is the law
under .iai which the Standard Oil Company
wa was condemned; It is the law under which
tne american Tobacco Company has been
dissolved e.E and it is the mightiest protec-
tloh that is known to the people Of this
great land.
Prouty and Byers Needed.
Well, this section repealed the anti
trust law as to traffic agreements among
railroads. and said that all the railroads
OFT, TINS country could get together could
mat mat they thereafter should charge to
those to whom they rendered their SER
vices, without any approval whatsoever Of
an; any government authority. That is the
bill that Aldrich said should pass through
the Senate without any amendment And
that t., is i the bin. end that is the section
Washington he would have had an op-
poIannity OF voting upon, (Applause and
ia agt 81 Ahd that is the reason that
Hull 5Applause.) If he. We're there I
believe he would have voted against these
llaul'o9 Isl PROVISIONS. But Captain Hull
course inns is mighty fight that wa ges
IRON one ocean to the other-but Can
tam o Hun ieft Washington about the 18th
who, If he had been permitted to vote.
would have voted for all these amend.
mf aea taking out of this bill the vicious
to intimate that if Captain Hull had been
there he would have voted against all
ines 1hese amendments ,ll, and he by his absence,
been cast in the right way, and has with
held his own. You can depend upon If
t mar such such men-and they think suppose
ership of Aldrich, of Cannon non" of f''G p i,.au
and of Dalzell and all of these other
passing wonders of the world (Appls, .isef
and laughter.) Icy ~
That is the reason l am for Webb
Byers against Walter Smith for Congress.
rms blll has been debated in the House
I bave e hsen weeks onenly and freely and there
ments PROPOSED to it by the various
members Of the House of Representatives.
1t is the first bill OF. any Importance in
the House of Representatives has the
right to offer any amendment to what
ever save with the consent of the commit
tee on rules. The great tariff bill passed
the House of Representatives under = Inie
that gave the right and it was under the
guidance of the committee on rules, that
gave the right to offer amendments and
have vote on Just five disnuted II a a,as
out or the six thousand composing that
great measure. Yet here we have hill
upon Which the light of intelligence and
patriotism has been turned and it has
been debated there from day to day until
it will emerge. probably has emerged at
this moment because L believe the final
vote upon it in the House of Representa-
tives was to be taken today, a fair meas
ure, not to my liking wholly and / re-
serve the right to dispute some of it's pro-
visions still, but infinitely better than II
was when reported by the chairman of the
committee on Interstate commences Rnt
if Waiter |. Smith and if Charles A. Ken
needy had had their way there would have
been no amendment to the rules thai
would have permitted this debate. there
would have been no amendment to the
rules that excluded that pathetic old man
how pathetic--from the chairmanshin Of
the committee on rules. | do not like TO
see anybody in distress and I am "a finer.
fond of old Joe Cannon in personal way.
but / will tell you, Notwithstanding nv
liking for him-and I won't insist on thai
Notwithstanding that, it does my heart
the House of Representatives without
the power to coerce every vote in it To
suit his own peculiar views. 1t would do
you good (Applause.) When Won send
Byers there and Darrah there and Rronl,-
hart there, for Proutys nomination 7 am,
told is assured when you send them
there they will make just one further adj
vance. They will see to it that the speak
er is shorn of the power to appoint the
committees and then the American peonle
and their representatives will have re-
gained the power which justly belongs To