Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-27
DoLLIvER SCORES RAIL BILL.
Iowa Senator Says Too Much Power
Is Given Financiers.

washington, April 2o.--ln a vigorous
attack upon the administration rail-
road BILL which held the attention OF
the senate for more than two hours
yesterday afternoon, Senator Dolliver
of Iowa, charged that the enactment
of the bill into law in its present form
would place control of the transporta-
ton lines and the industries of the
United States in the hands of two men.
Senator Deliver did not specify
which captains OF industry he meant.
His colleagues on the floor exchanged
glanees and decided he re-
ferred to Morgan and Rockefeller.
The railroads of the country" de-
clared Senator Dolliver, within the
last twenty years have passed into the
concerns that have grown up under
the protection of the law
II stood in the rain with Mckinley
in town in Indiana in 1890 and helped
him dedicate one of the first tin plate
mills established in the United States"
he continued In the twenty years
since then those fellows who stood
around US in their overalls and who
had laid the brick for that tinplate
mill have bought the Rock Island road
out of the products of that business
not from manufacturing tinplate, but
from manufacturing certificates.
Il have no objection to the man who
buys property with money, but we
have allowed the industries of the
United States to be consolidated with
out the use of money. We have al
lowed the industries of the United
States to assimilate the transportation
systems. To pass this bill in the form
in which it is before US would be to
put the transportation systems of the
country in the hands Of two managers
of great Industrial organizations.
ITO invite these men or their agents
to parcel out the cities, towns, and vii
lagos of the country on a map and say
TO the Industries of America under
what terms they would be allowed to
exist: to deny TO the government the
right to step in and stop proceedings
with its peremptory order, would be to
strike a blow not only at the shipping
community, but at the industries
which are the life of the country We
represent and which we ought to pro-
tect"
He also said that while he had high
regard for Pres ident Taft, he did not
know of anything in the president s
training. experience, or legal knowledge
that warrants Us in silencing all voices
of controversy"
Il intend to follow the lire which
seems to me and the people l repre-
sent to be right" said the senator. "and
to ignore everything except the htness
Of things and the merit of the PROPOSE
ton before us. If there ever comes a
time when cant do that. there will be
a back seat vacant in the senate and
no artificial explanations will be Of
fered as to the reasons for my ap-
sence."
Senator DolIiver paid his respects to
Attorney General Wickersham and the
latter's Chicago speech, but in terms
much milder than had been expected.
After explaining tht republican plat
form as he himself interpreted it, the
senator said:
THE hand that wrote this original
bill did not even pay the republican
platform the poor tribute of a passing
notice. The voice that now feels au-
thorized by little brief authority to
purge the republican party of unworthy
members, when this bill. was Written
either did not know what the republic
can platform was or felt at liberty to
treat it with that silent inattention
which is the Characteristic of really
great minds"
Senator Dolliver concluded his speech
with the remark that when other Sec
ton Of the bill were taken up he would
have more to say.
He was followed on the floor by Sen
ator Root of New York, who defended
the portion of the administration bill
against which Senator Dolliver nau
launched his criticisms.