The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-31
ROOSEVELT'S 1
 CRITICISMS
TAKES ISSUE WITH PRESENT ADMINISTRATION IN SPEECH
 DELIVERED AT DETROIT.
Attacks Railroad Rate Bill and the Lorimer Case--Says Latter Is Case of the Government
 of the People.

Detroit, Mich, March SOFT '.sf sue between Theodore Roosevelt and the present national administration was emphasized by speech which the former president delivered here tonight The railroad rate bill pass ed by the present congress and the Lorimer case furnished the themes
 for his speech. With his visit to De troit, which he reached after an all day ride from the west, Colonel
 Rooseyelt's campaign tour of the
 Central states virtually came to an
 end, as he expects to make no stop
 on the return trip to New York.
 Colonel Roosevelt said the railroad
 rate bill as submitted to congress
 by the administration was "a thor
 oughly mischievous and improper
 measure" The progressive senators, he said, reconstructed the bill | against the violent opposition of the reactionaries VITO supported the ad-
 ministration," retaining as the one
 essential feature of the original bill
 the provision for commerce court. | This court, he said, has worked bad
 ly. Passing to the Lorimer case,
 Colonel Roosevelt declared the vote
 of tine senate committee this week
 recommending that the Illinois sen
 ator be allowed to retain his seat iE- lustrated the working in actual prac- tice of the presidents theory of gov
 ernment of the people by what he calls a representative part of the { people" .lt | The Roosevelt meeting here to- night took place in the light guard armory and was crowded On the
 trip from Chicago this afternoon the colonel made a number of speeches from the train. The crowds gathered
 at the railway stations as he passed
 through Michigan, to hear the col oneI from the rear platform. In these speeches he discussed the presidential primary.
 At Ann Arbor the students of tho University of Michigan were on hand and gave the colonel an enthusiastic greeting.
 Colonel Roosevelt went from the mass meeting to the train for the trip to New York. He expects to reach home late tomorrow for q short rest before starting on his southern tour next week
 In his speech tonight Colonel Roose- welt said:
 "The one great bit of progressive legislation in the last congress was the railroad rate bill. As submitted for action by the administration this was thoroughly mischievous and improper measure which would have meant the undoing of most of the work that had been done in the last 20 years. for it legalized monopoly without furnishing any additional safeguards in the way of control. This was doing the exact reverse of what the progressiyes have always stood for. for we have insisted upon q most thorough going and far reach ing control of monopoly whereas practical matter it proves unwise or impossible to break it up.
 eThe administration plan was re- upon the floor of the senate, but one of the essential fea- lures of the original bill was left. This was the provision for com merce court As matter of fact that is the only provision of the bill that in practice has worked badly. But the rest of the bill, for which the progressive senators alone are entitled to the credit. has represents ed real and great improvement.
 T wish to call your attention to the last instance of the working in actual practice of the presidents the ory of government of the people by what he calls representative part of the people. The immediate illus. tration of this fact is afforded by what the senate committee has done In the Lorimer case The reactlon,. ary members of both parties, or the have stood by MT. Lorl mer and against the protest of the have recommended that he he allowed to to continue in his place.