The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-24
Warns Legislature Against
too Much Capitalization
of Government
TAKES A WHACK AT
RAILROAD UNIONS
Says They Bulldozed Congress into
Passing Adamson Bill, Which He
Didn't Vote for-Explains His Po-
sition on Woman Suffrage.
Especial to The Reformer)


Especial to The Reformer)
MONTPELIER, Jan. "a.
Legislation was laid aside in both
houses of the general assembly of Yer
mont during the greater part of this
morning to listen in joint assembly to
message delivered by Hon. William
7. Dillingham;, for the past Is years
a member from Vermont of the United
States congress. Senator Dillingham;
eentered his message upon "eertain
elements in puGc affairs, which, If
fostered, win work badly for the his
tory of the country and of the world. -
Ills arguments were against the con
tinuance of centralized government in
the hands of the chief executive of the
nation, such as had been delegated TO
the President as war measures, hut
which Senator Dillingham; thinks are
! dangerous as n principle Senator Dill
] fngham made a clear and unmistaka-
BILE definition Of the rights of the
| state government and of the federal
government and called attention to the
extraordinary powers conferred on the
/ President by the war-powers which he,
| like most other men, was likely to per
Ipetuatc
i The war, said Senator Dillingham;.
was responsible for many exeesses in
government. The constitution was in
vaded repeatedly under the argument
Of war necessity. We ought to get
lack TO the old basis. The general
government ought TO stop dominating
the states. There is no government SO
safe as a government right here close
at hand, no government like self-gov,
eminent. What do the Rocky mountain
states know or care about the require
ments and needs of Ncrmont?'i
The senator traced the progress OF
Presidential and department power ii
Washington up TO the time when The
cables, six days after the signing o1
the armistiee, were taken over by Mr.
, Burleson, the order dated back TO Nov
..
Why were they taken over?" asked
= the speaker. - All ] know is that whel
| go to the war department to find on
something about some of our boys owe
there, ! can find out because tn
cables are too burdened to get me th
information. You re reading in tn
: newspapers what those cables ar
;. burdened with (applause).
: Tracing the history of taking owe
! the railroads and the big deficit o
$l5o,Go0.000 in the first year of gov
! eminent control. the senator said tha
the railroad unions bulldozed congress
i into voting for the Adamson bill unde
i threat of nation wide strike.
i 1.-The majority of the senate vote
/ for it, said Senator Dillingham;. q
~ didn u (aPplause).
d Referring to southern rivers an
A. harbors bill, he quoted the souther
4. congressman who said that the bes
,c time to do such work was in the sun
A. mer when it was possible to burn til
20 logs out of the river bottom. 0aughte
al and applause).
n Making his position clear on th
woman suffrage amendment to til
,e federal constitution. Senator Dilling
1T ham said that the suffragists ha
,e transferred all their activities to Wasl
ington and maintained lobby, whiel
DC outside of the antisaloon lobby ha
Is never been equalled in Washington.
IN Il couldn't vote for it as lawyer,
e said Senator Dillingham; nor as rel
le resentative of Vermont, because We
AZ mont should have the exclusive rigf
M to regulate its own suffrage, nor as
Republican because the party is o
record in behalf of state control of su
Ifrage.
~ want to say to you ladies in We
OF mont, continued the speaker, 'thi
You have been misrepresented by II
women who have been maintaining tn
lobby in Washington. The Presider
" under pressure, yielded TO them, and a
" tually took part in the debate in Il
!" senate by appearing and advoeatir
= = the Anthony amendment as a measu
- - necessary to win the war. when evel
- one of us knew that it could not be I
ferred and ratified under three year
=. Yet, after that address, received
70 dead silence, every senator stood fiji
Of and voted with his convictions.
he What did the President gain
that9 Now they are burning
nd speeches because he did not force
,ft party to submit the Anthony amen
lid ment If men had done one tenth of t
he things the suffrage lobby has done
er- Washington, they would now be behi
IN the bars. (applause).
an Immediately following the addre
the Cudworth resolution, protest.
against further encroachment by t
falaral ooyppnn1ent was ,ufrod,ead n