Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-27
Relates Talk With Ex-Prest.
Roosevelt in Which Latter Said,
Don't Give Up the Ship
SAYS SHIP HAS GIVEN HIM UP
Declares Democrats Want No More
Combinations With Insurgents
ON Preliminary sl1irmishes

Out ~ senator's present Mtleu AT n
o'clock the senate was called 10 order
in pursuance of the adjournment roso-
luton uf yesterday
1T seems 90 me that we ought 10
have quorum" mildly suggested MT
Overman Of North Carolina.
Does the senator mean % intimate
there is not quorum Inquired Vice
President sherman.
Il think that we ought To- have
quorum In trausacting business said
/ Mr.. Ovcrmau.
THE chair viii assume that the
senator means to call attention 60 the
fact that here is no quorum present
and VIII order rollcal' said the vice
| president
The cam developing sufficient
| number FOR business purposes the rail-
road bill was taken up and Senator
Rayner 0t Maryland was recognized
To- proceed with long promised speech
in opposition Co certain features Of
tine Bill
BADlNAGE FOR INSURGENTS.
Are the insurgents iu earnest or
have they just been flirting and co..
quoting with u.s."
Senator Raynor OF Maryland in mock
seriousness. asked this question and
others even more pointed In a speech
delivered nl the senate today on the adj
( ministration railroad bill lie said that
| the Democrats wanted no more COM
binatious with the insurgents on pre-
lIminary skirmishcs. but that the re-
calcitraut Republicans would De well
coined into Democratic ranks NJ they
only would enlist and take their feel
inVs with them
Pointing ont that ON almost an pre-
liminary moves on various measures
| before the present Congress. tho I'M
surgents ana Democrats have stood
| together Mr. Rayuer said that When
the final vote is taken upr. the biH,
they seem leisurcly 90 stray way from
u.s."
Now" he said. "the question is
what do your friends mean? Are they
I'm earnest or are they simply flirting
and coquetting with us2 Is 10 merely
a temporary engagement or is 10 a
permanent love FEAST
els the senior senator from Indiana.
| for Instance, embracing ms for the Gee
stacy and transport OF the moment or
/ IS be- willing 10 unite With us Boo the
bonds OF holy political wedlock?
would Ike 60 know from him what his
I future intentions are. Whenever we
/ have voted with him ] have noticed
| he cast a radiant smile that is fun of
feeling IN our direction but is this
! merely the symptom Of a momentary
| passion or is il the token OF permanent
| affection?
~ do not know how the rest Of my
| colleagues feel but 1 am becoming
! weary Of being fondIed and caressed
| only To- be rejected and deserted when
| the supreme moment arrives when ]
| listen 90 the siren voices of the intrepid
/ and dashing Insurgents from Iowa 7 am
/ thrilled with tho rehearsal Of the crimes
| Of the Republican party I knew 70 am
! along before they told me but they
/ have recited it with such dramatic fer
! yor and such narrowing details that
| the indignant blood has surged through
my veins and they have my profound
/ est sympathy for belonging to party
| that is governed by such demoraliz,ng
! influences"
INVITED TO JOIN DEMOCRATS.
MT Rayner formally invited the in
surgents 10 come into the Democratic
camp.
we offer you a party that is perfectly
pure and that has passed beyond the
/ stage Of temptation" he said. we
want you and want you badly"
! Through many slccpless nights Mr.
/ Rayner said he had thought over his
proposition At FIRST he had been Of
the opinion that the Democrats might
! themselves solve the problem by going
over 10 the insurgents, but their eX-
pericnce IN connection with the railroad
rate bill had been such that they could
not pursue such "a course with assur-
8nCc Of safety.
ut will he recalled" be- said. that Ia
the railroad rate debate under the lead
! crshlp Of eX-President Roosevelt. we
| Joined hands with the insurgent forses
| OF the Republican party The last words
| the eN-presideut said Co. mo when we
were comforting over the critical situa-
ton were. Now don't give up the ship
"Mr President. ( took his advice ana
! did not give up the ship but the ship
| gave me up. The night before the veto
was taken. the president was ont in o.
| rfeboat with the senior senator from
Rhode Island and the junior senator
from Massachusetts. When tho vote
was taken we discovered that upon
tho evening before the president hal
| ordered those two sturdy sailors To-
man the llfcboat and before he stepped
into Do. he had sCuttled the ship aud
made for the shore 10 tho company OF
these distinguished marines.
Now. we do not want any moro com
binations like these We want the In
surgents ~ come o. u.s. and we VIII
| pilot them 10 a safe dclverauce. To
the senior senator from Indiana not
/ stop with administering a circuitous
| blow beneath the belt that is mere
| mutiuy. that Is not rebellion; that o.
| magnificent but II IS not war"
FAVORS STATES
Declaring himself the advocate OF
! states and not OF railroads. senator
| Raynor OF MARYLAND. today addressed
! himself to the general aspects OF the
/ administration railroad bill while that
| measure was under consideration for
| amendments
MI Rayncr gave special consideration
| TO the provisions relating Go the is
| suancc OF stocks and bonds by railroad
| corporations, which, he coutendod, were
no part of the regulation of commerce.
/ But assuming that they do constitute
| such "a regulation. he claimed that lu
| $40 far as the state charters TO railroads
| were concerned. the provisions were
| contrary 20 the Constitution
he asserted that Congress would
| have as much right 20 lower snlaries
/ of officers OF road or 90 decrease the
| wages of It's employees as h would have
90 regulate its issuance OF stocks and
| bonds
There Is" he declared, mo dcci-
sion % any OF the federal tribunals that
have ever reached such a point Of con
| struction Of federal supervision There
| Is no text writer or commentator that
I i have read who ever has advanced tine
J doctrine that regulation OF commerce
! carries with 10 the right 20 regulate
every act in connection with interstate