Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-13

the schedules to fix them up in their
own hands, and parse the sentences
in which they were expressed. | 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 a statute
written by it's 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. 1t 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. | 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"
Proeressives Continue Fight.
While the Progressives 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 for week upon this one
section. Under 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 SEIZED
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 general
prepared proposed federal incorpora-
ton law. Section 7, as prepared and
published, contained this: ANY cor
poration organized hereunder may ac-
quire and hold not less than a ma
this twilight zone of SO per cent. came
from in all these bills. If it is right
to hold more than a majority, what
earthly harm could there be in hold
ing less?
Il should like to inquire Of the at
torney general of the United States
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.
Il can tell you, Mr.. President, and
senators. where the council was held
that sounded the death-knell Of that
proposition before it ever reached this
body. It was held in the homes from
New England to California
I'VE come now to inquire as to the
council which framed some other pro-
visions in this bill prepared by the
attorney general The congress in
1906, obedient to the great spirit and
purpose of the American people, wove
into the law of this republic, pro-
vision that in contest between a
common carrier and a shipper, the
shipper might have the right to ap-
peal from an interlocutory order.
But the attorney general, in draft
ing this bill, struck that out of the
law. | should like a photograph of
that gathering of sage and reverend
Republicans, honored by their party,
who sat around the council board,
when it was decreed that the right of