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company The Interstate Commeree ca,
mission was already investigating the Ioui
vllle q Nashville Railroad, and WIN Senat
Lea Dutted IN no one seems to know. 6nle
II was That ne expected to gain some polite
advantage by fighting the L. & N. Road
NUMBER OF republican Senators got bul
M MLI senator Lea's resolution came Up
resolution out Of business before he anna
emily knew what had happened to it. III
nterment of the resolution, however. ws
postponed until March 2, 1914, when the ma
ter ended.
Senator Lea lays great stress OF, what h
mas accomplished in The Senate by means &
ms resolution aimed at the Louisville & NasI
vllle Railroad Company. / invite the after
tlon OF every interested person to peruss
OF tne, congressional Record bearing on Sena
Tor Lea's efforts to get his resolution passed
He was attacked by half dozen or more Ser
ators, led by Senator Sutherland and Others
and his resolutions would have been defeate
instantly but for the appearance Of Senate
Kern with motion to postpone | thinl
Senator Lea takes himself too seriously abou
that resolution. doubt very much whethe
the Louisville & Nashville Railf6ad has am
fears of any action that Senator Lea MAY
take in the Senate, if it Judges the future
by the past. This resolution came up in thu
OF the Senate laid down on it and mashed it
The second time the Senate itself laid dowr
on 1t and mashed it, and the third time Sena.
tor Lea said he was sick and he laid dowr
on it, and there it ended. Judging from the
way this resolution was handled, many peo-
pie will believe that the Senator was batting
the railroad company rather than intending
to regulate it.
The fourth public servicce of Senator Lea
occurred on September 3, 1914, and Septem-
Der rs, 1914, on which dates the record shows
that ne had running talk with Senator Bur-
tor on behalf of Cumberland River project.
The questions asked by Senator Lea Of Sena-
tor Burton were of real interest to Tennes-
see, and may properly be called real SER
vice. While Senator Lea was unable to Sc
cure an appropriation for the Cumberland
River, and while his action in the matter con-
sisted in asking only few questions, still
they were asked on the right side of the
question, and this running conversation con-
stitutes the fourth and only service of Sena-
tor Lea during his term in the Senate that lis
really worthy of consideration by Tonnes
scans.
On July Is, 1914, Senator Lea attacked his
former friend and benefactor, Major E. B.
Stahlman, on the floor of the Senate. AS to
this matter | shall have nothing, to say, ex-
cept that if Major Stahlman had delivered
70 me the votes of thirty-two republicans and
5hirty-two independents, and thereby elected
me to the United States Senate, would have
tut off my right arm before / would have
attacked him on the floor of the Senate, or
anywhere else.
The sixth and last public service performed
by Senator Lea was on October 16, 1914,
when he made an attack in the Senate on the
doke Smith and Bob Henry amendments, by
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we're endeavoring to get the government to
end to the cotton producers and to the tobac-
% producers of the South money to tide them
'ver during the period of depression brought
m by the European war. Senator Lea
bought the principle in these amendments,
which were substantially the same, was all
wrong. He urged that if the government
oaned the cotton farmers and tobacco farm
RS two hundred and fifty millions in the year
914, that it would have to loan them four
hundred millions in the year 1915, and that
his would continue until the currency of the
United States would reach the level Confed-
rate money struck at the close of the civil
var, when it's purchasing power for fire wood
vas only sufficient to enable it to be swapped
ord for cord"
This attack of Senator Lea on the cotton
nd tobacco farmers interests no doubt con-
rlbuted to the defeat Of those amendments,
nd aided in preventing the Southern cotton
,rowers and tobacco growers from getting
he money last year to tide them over If
senator Lea performed a service to the peo-
lie Of Tennessee in aiding in the defeat of
he cotton and tobacco growers of the South,
hen he is entitled to credit for that service
The foregoing six subjects, according to
he Congressional Record, were the ones
yhich took up such of Senator LEAFS time as
e spent in Washington since his election.
Senator Lea and the Farmers.
Senator Lea and his paper are already en-
eavoring to claim that the Senator is the la
oring mans friend. No doubt he NAV I'M
ertake to pose as the friend of the farmer.
gain let US examine his record. On July 8,
Ola, there was an appropriation under con-
Iteration, which appropriation was to be
sed for the purpose of prosecuting the
rusts, and an amendment as follows was Of
cred
"That no part Of this appro-
priation shall be expended for
the prosecution of the produc-
ers Of farm products and asso-
Citations of farmers to cooperate
and organize in an effort to aid
and for the purpose of obtaining
and maintaining fair and rea- =,
sonable price for their products"
C1AcRGO4 Lea ulu uOG care SllOuBn dDOuL Gue
armers to be present and vote on this i'm
ortant amendment.
When the great subject of rural credits
as up an amendment was proposed to have
lie Secretary of Agriculture to make study
cooperation among the farmers on mat
RS Of rural credits, and Senator Lea did
)t take enough interest in the farmers to be
resent and vote on this resolution.
When the question of free seed for the
Irmers was up, on May 10, 1914, Senator
ca did not take enough interest in the farm
IS to come forward and vote on that sub
ct. And so, on October 16, 1914, when the
Inject of lending the cotton and tobacco
rowers $25O,000,000 was up, Senator Lea
liked against it and then got scared and
tied for it. Is this the kind of friend the
tton and tobacco growers of Tennessee
ant to represent them in the United States
enate? | do not want to do Senator Lea
/ injustice, and here and now call on him
produce the record of single vote during