Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-05-13
Vital Washington News.


Washington, D. c.. May 8, 1910
The Democrats. assisted by handful of
fighting progressive Republicans, have
forced Republican administration to aban-
don some of the worst Of the corporation
serving clauses placed in the railroad regu-
lation bill by Attorney General Wickersham.
Wichersham framed this bill after con-
ference with six railroad presidents. Wall
street knew long before the public appear
ance of the bill that it would be so drawn
as to annul that feature of the Sherman
antitrust law which prevents MERGERS.
Railroad interests bought and sold stock on
the strength of their advance information.
II is not plain as yet who supplied Wall
street with information as to the kind of
bill Wickersham would draft.
Had the bill become law as prepared
by the attorney general, 1t would have
practically destroyed all that has been ac-
complished in the last twenty years to give
the government some measure of control
over the railroads of the country.
No attorney general of the United States
has ever been revealed in Just the position
MIR. Wickersham now occupies.
Instead Of having drawn bill that would
tend to place greater safeguards about the
rights of the people, as might naturally be
expected from public officer who is re-
ceiving salary on the assumption that
his office is giving protection to the people,
Wickersham has been charged on the floor
Of the Senate with having attempted to
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ment it was averred that he had been Sc
lected by President Taft in Difference to
the wishes of the corporations Of the coun-
try, who had spent money and coerced
workingmen to vote the Republican ticket
and who demanded as compensation for
this service the privilege of naming the
attorney general.
The feverish interest of special privilege
in this Office may be realized at full value
when it is understood that the attorney
general is in absolute charge of the prose-
cutting machinery of the government.
Whether Wickersham's appointment re-
ally was the result of prediction ar
rangemeHt or not, the trusts have had no
occasion to be dissatisfied with the Presi-
dents selection. Whenever the rights of
the people and special privilege come into
conflict, Mr.. Wickersham decides favorably
to the corporate interests and against the
people. Some assert that Wickersham leans
toward the corporations because of his
temperament, others attribute his attitude
to force of habit, he having long been
corporation lawyer in New York What
ever the reason, the records of the Attor-
ney Generals Office show that Understands
opinions are invariably favorable to the big
campaign fund-cOntributing corporations
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The President complains that the insur-
gents visit him at the White House and
assure him of their GREAT personal respect
and well wishes and then 90 to the Capt.
toll and vote against his railroad regulation
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sive Republican was asked. DO you not
respect the President of the United States 2"
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personally and officially" was the reply.
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one Of which Speaker Cannon was chair
man Not a single resolution which might
adversely affect unlawful combinations
such as the sugar trust has been reported
favorably by the new committee. Speaker
Cannon dominates the reformed body lust
as effectively az he did the old Rules COM
mittee.
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