The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1910-05-12

in which they werssexpressed... read
to the senate In the extraordinary ses-
sion an autograph letter in the hand.
writing Of Governor Dingley. now
dead. in which. writing confidentially
to the chairman of the board of gen.
eral appraisers. he said: You are
aware that the iron and steel manu-
facturers wrote those schedules in the
Wilson bill. You are aware that the
cotton manufacturers wrote that
schedule in the Wilson bill
'And so throughout that historic
measure. which was the first and only
fruitage the American people have
ever had Of Democratic fidelity to
their principles, we had statute
written by its beneficiaries. and de-
nounced by the president. great
Democrat. as an act of perfidy and
dishonor against the people Of the
United States. and Especially those
confiding citizens who had looked to
their party for tariff reformation in
our law-making here. It is Just such
little incidents which have stopped
me every time look toward the Dem
ocratic side of the chamber for genu-
inc tariff revision.
my friend says you have made an
alliance with the Insurgents. do not
know with what Insurgents an alliance
has been made. l know all the In
surgents on this side of the chamber,
and want to say to you. my honored
friend from Maryland, that they have
just one hard and fast alliance, and
that Is with that sense of public duty
which keeps them here as servants
of the people whom they have the
honor to represent"
Progressives Continue Fight.
While the Prpgressives in the
house have been perfecting the rail-
road rate bill, the Progressive SEN
ators have been fighting one of the
greatest battles in the history of the
upper house against section of that
bill, by the terms of which the Sher-
man antitrust law is set aside so far
as the railroads are concerned.
Senators Cummins, Dolliver, Clapp.
Bristow, Borah and La Toilette held
the debate fol. week upon this one
section. Undef the section as re-
ported. traffic agreements between
railroad companies are legalized by
simply filing the same with the Inter-
state Commerce commission. Under
an amendment proposed by Senator
Crawford these agreements would
have to be approved by the commits
sion. Under an amendment proposed
by Senator Cummins, not only the
agreements between railroad com
panies, but all of the rates and sched-
ules affected by such agreements
would have to have the approval OF
the commission before they could be
come operative.
The senate organization was willing
to accept the Crawford amendment
Senators Cummins, Dolliver, Borah
Bristow. Clapp and La Toilette con
tended that the Crawford amendment
would in nowise relieve the section
from the charge of attempting to set
aside the antitrust law. During the
consideration of this section the Pro
gressive Republicans have again and
again attacked the attorney general
In his Chicago speech Mr.. Wicker
sham virtually told these Republicans
that If they did not accept this legis
lation they were not members of the
party. In the course of his speech
Senator Clapp said:
This winter the attorney genera
, prepared proposed federal incorpora
, tion law. Section z. as prepared anG
published, contained this: ANY cor
poration organized hereunder may &C
! quire and hold not less than a ma
jority.' would like to know where
this twilight zone of SO per cent. came
from in all these bills. If 1t is righ
to hold more than a majority, wha
earthly harm could there be in hold
ing less?
Il should like to inquire Of the at
torney general of the United State
who the old and venerable and re
spected leaders of the Republican
: party were who constituted the coun
: ell that gave birth to that sentiment
:. II can tell you, Mr.. President, ant
senators, where the council was he'll
!: that sounded the death-knell of tina
. proposition before 1t ever reached thi
body. 1t was held in the homes from
New England to California.
!, I'VE come now to inquire as to tn
> council which framed some other pre-
: visions in this bill prepared by tn
= attorney general The congress II
+ 1906, obedient to the great spirit am
purpose of the American people. WOW
into the law Of this republic, Pre-
6 vision that in contest between
common carrier and shipper. tn
= shipper might have the right to al
!. peal from an interlocutory order.
"But the attorney general. in draf
!. ing this bill. struck that out of tn
: law. should like photograph c
: that gathering of sage and reveren
;. Republicans, honored by their part,
who sat around the council boart
when 1t was decreed that the right c
:. shipper to appeal from an interloc,
:. !. tory order was the decree of the part
: council of the party to which b.
:. long.
'"This same bill went step furthe
{ In 1906 we wove into that law rul
!. THAT no injunction should issue to Ell
join, restrain. modify or set aside a
{ order Of the commission except Q
J, five days notice. But turn to this bi
: which the attorney general says is nj
81 the result of sudden impulse. but