The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-26
Carnegie a Man Who Might
Be Charged With Treason
and President a Bulldoze.
According to Attack.
Sensational Debate
On Panama Repeal
Skating on Thin Ice" Charge
By President In Bad Form
According to Letter From
Massachusetts Man-Repu-
diation of Platform Charged

WASHINGTON. March 25.-The
first day of debate in the senate OH
the Panama canal tolls question clear
,iy indicated the extreme bitterness that
lis 10 characterize the fight that this
president has undertaken.
In the course of the days proceed
ings, Andrew Carnegie was decribed al
a man who might be charged with
treason, and his estates confiscased, il
he lived in some other country han
this. The name of the president him.
self was repeatedly dragged into de-
bate In an uncompiimentary way, and
one letter was read in whch'Ihe presi-
dent was charged with 'bribing and
bulldozing the members Of congress.
Intense feeling was aroused by the de-
bate which was the most spirited
heard in congress in a long time.
MIR. Chamberlain, of oregon, waA
the senator who attacked Andrew Car
negie and his peace foundation, which
has diligently urged the repeal OF the
free tolls clause.
Jones Starts Trouble.
Senator Jones, OF Washington.
started the trouble by reading lot OF
letters he had received commencing
his course in advocating a resolution
demanding from the president infor-
nation a. to the delicate foreign
questions that had made ii necessary
for the president to ask for the inn
mediate repeal OF the free tolls legis-
lation. The letter that aroused tho
most interest was one from Boston,
signed by William Is. Larkin. The
letter follows:
Dear Senator.--A Massachusetts
Democrat wants to thank you for the
able and courageous fight you are
making. not only for the whole peo-
pie of the country. but for the euture
Of the American name.'
Il see by the current newspaper re-
ports that Mfr. Wis.,. in criticism OF
your attitude. said that YOU were skat-
Ing on thin ice. You stand. MIR. Sem
ator. not with our executive, who has
betrayed his party platform. and his
personal word as announced i'll his New
Jersey speeches. but with the great
rank and file of the American people,
whose eyes are you In the fight
Mr.. Taft stood for toll exemption Mr..
Roosevelt and the Progressive party
stood for the same. The Democratic
platform declared for it at Baltimore,
and the American people formerly in
GLIDING Mr. Wilson,, have endorsed the
same.
1T may be skating on thin Ice to
stand with the American people, Mr..
Senator. but that charge comes in poor
form from the man who rcpudiates HIS
party platform.
IAN accredited representative to the
court of St James has made US the
laughing stock among the nations. II
seems a weakness in our republican
institution that until presidential
term expires there is no method of
calling our highest official to account"
The Presidents Motives.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the letter. Senator Thomas. of Colorado.
jumped to his feet.
II cannot understand the motive. of
the senator from Washington in intro
ducing such matter In the congressional
record" said MIR, Thomas Does the
senator believe the president is act
ing from any sinister. or improper mo-
tive in the position he has recently
assumed upon the canal tolls Ques-
tionc'
Senator Jones replied that he was
not questioning the motives OF thu
president He had introduced the 1et-
ter into the record simply to show
the expressions of sentiment OF the
people.
IF I felt that all nations were not
included in the terms of that treaty.
he said. little later. Il would go 10
war with Great Britain, or any pow
er on the face Of the earth, to in
sist upon what knew was the cons
struction. and was intended to 10
the construction Of the treaty. The
then president of the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt, says there was no vi
olation of the treaty.
II know there are some OF my
friends here who do not like the man
who was president when that treaty
was negotiated, but whether they like
him or not. he is a man OF his own
convictions. and he Is not afraid Of
any power on the face OF the earth
when it comes to asserting doctrine
that appeals to the American peo-
pie
Recall Rooseyelt's Words.
Senator William Alden Smith. Or
Michigan. after obtaining permission
from Senator Chamberlain read
what President Roosevelt had said
Of the provisions Of the Hay-P aun-
cefote treaty. and its effect on thu
exemption OF tolls for American coast
wise vessels.
At the conclusion OF Senator
Smiths reference to Fresfdesk
Roosevelt's views, Senator O'GcrmAM
said:
"In an article over his own si1s
nature. written over two yaar4 a1p&
In The Outlook. Mr.. R0pDseit y4
iterated his views that thNrA Naus
nothing In the treaty that rR0xAnto;
the American government ffo1
empting its coastwise trada. Ss| HUH sag
s.Fhen ii IL renasHsp~re9
July 3. 1919. the British 1A1 \
cnncnaAd that M ahiaat tim