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Show : tet eee He Hee eee HHH HHH + + 4 e eee Heese HH HHH HHH HEHE HEF HH HEHE HH FH HEEFT 7; + + + + + + + + + + + + There tation, con- | and his colleagues of }confidence measure this enact we If ) stituents re as disappointing, it proves and hear) not will people the | lieve it will, legis- | ts to say in our defense that we demands. their to> response in lated intelligently, | to act us expect. They In a point at given a and 60 a perens AESL BE PU at} point a cents become these| sense, |. ‘ 1 ‘m1 ; 1. ur" Ae som I . raises we questions legislation important eee since si ; with deal i . rav NeSSA to ; war the civil iw and all great be to ly In these ‘of view ; : senate subject, the the contine shall T sion ath this se oceato chiefly myself 1 do not for my- arising. only ‘else, shy more» to + as IS' | the DIT. the. jurisdie- wrong the in it laws the that doctrine that we ought not to leave account the infinite forces lasting, and It} by | purpose accusations : reckless a are they their derisive and taunts : i} that from aside turned a DOO direction right the pushes | out of the for E = ¢ ~ . c : falt and for : righteousness make which people American that the sino allHohiilthis nuidantiike Gitte be'|| dealing ‘ otwho£0 are ¢7teframt . ane Z vemnents ‘ p . ¢ . i . | denied are the in pla market the control that, | which understand me terances to make whieh laws other the with common not| [I did which position a in am Great the like are world the govern con-| my upon which, from but seek, everlo. everlasting from oath | Lawgiver, my upon as a citizen and sejence te the| of Ee their . . * in curative and auxiliary statutes | purpose rate ‘ | of mob it is TheGaceis in- property legitimate a the ET the my Be To that able reais = a hisatrieles the | market. wheth shippers of | complaint submit to proposes bill his fear! _They administer they | to occasion had ever have justice violators Only them? law the by stands| "| li on ted ai t 1 : con- felt committee the wonder No | un- ns most am Net't ti iase pie Pace 'demaccenes if. clamor | the from removed be men business. whose demagogues, mere of of the reach the | of the street, out politics whose merchants, Ween and ofnot Mere au-| no jelitics,Sy "CUNG he reach ut aEee zeal, prejudice or unbecoming one. i crowded have jis. business, SS auke pre. are } of in the toaffairs to meddle the popof there is a complete provision for this| | thorized presentation' the ain ioe balance the railway, not authorized as well as for the peraeenen |"eview, War. Commies. we Bae the competitive other each }against of the right of trial by jury es bh ae a ee cE ee a4) oe ‘nited States, t 2 long politicians heard of this matter; Cae attention to pnt ee ager : govern- | will now it as law the in intensified is this" All that Ameriean in factor |TCassuring }fact f a particu-| against directed omplaint lar Fee railroad that atthe rate charged is | |!" yiolation, of Jar whether out find™ to Ti power Their ic 1. (f-foubdeEoct te-6e Hat ts +o Rate hy mn theic eauaritathn A ae O'Cer its report to in concluding to receive favor- | strained Uled ' ")) The | say. that-- in the senate. aD ae oe cae 5 i > residen No member of the committee on THETA a8 tg tion. ir Ries ma commerce beand interstate and foreign; last annual massage,greater | his e a ; | even with house: has'pvow, the bill of this provisions the that At greater | jieves He ;; ase i mangraits epburn' Dill. | will be satisfactory to all persons who SD ESICOY UIE Ys ANEMIC may be affected by it, nor that it will} . : = = ‘of| time the Jo speak,.at although| Sen, the legal questions speak for anybody make ts hui anfmoualie I facts taking apology | for no confidence far-reach- and unusual most yet 4 one God If t to i be a wie orces on review denlal ment. . ; , co the commanded ghlyclasses people, of thoroughly of so was popularity His so he people, our fi to the-spirit-of so contrary ana | ‘Mat there was an Immediate and very drastic stitudléns: "and: of such acceptance of his recommenrevolutionary found expression in the This "lation. age-if not- in|4 &cheral attdiat re that, ie ate character ic Roese ss Di m Wi dexter 470 co a like- | msch-Townsend the consequences dt aresat precedent, red as true be this sMu & caarrier. ee' accept teak: not oO a the of: one-tenth representing extor- | terest, of questions involve they the of | the beginning from election, | Have been : ; : { lisertmi s of the| ¢jtion ~~ ap f}eommon law the sure bulwark fortl diserfmination, to a | national wealth, should be allowed to unjust or . of forth a number. its hand where attitude into an integrity | drift of approved of men Anglo-\ tribunal the of ‘rights. and) liberties in Democratic way general ii a imes by passion, | and capacity, whose business it shall | shall be against every man and eyUnmoved |52xon race. commanded {t never but jetforms, against it ‘ | ery: man's ‘hand examination after an an end{impartial "5¢ 5 " they have) |tobe, make public clamor, steadying. or They Prejudice, Presi- | |&Ye" the annual until of the dispute. attention serious the conservative, been his in it mentioned dent eat had have th where ut-| 1 in things moving needs| we aR Ae ) aat set bee had [It As Pill Rate Proposed Opposes . + ' ; * Me Against Constitutional Rights proposed this President, rhe a was It year that of the until after campaign of heard contemptuous nor to| able It cause. great lis. sneers af |neither ea ide iIs a goo? ea inxie "4 a .ought of forms worldld many this; depressed' and: dise been I are not fixing rates: they They and) gxers. all fix: They civilizati fixing strong proba-|} theresuchis questions, can the last week more than et [ den aslek 4thAV Oe ley fearere ; fixation. URIS lati pare. ; : ‘ Sas f jnge that) certainty, absolute not {f bility, It has kept coming into my prop- | say here. relation of a gigantic bel ees and irreparable wrong may |great oe: sarene: "ieee iret heeet | ae:8 eee g oa el ee SO this ; jurisdiction noua : Why done te 'S begun no have eeetO SS 4Re¢See ney anc > | i'whole, = AG a" s mip oe early disbe withheld - from the courts? d Who trusts ul ADDICESS FORAKER'S turn f \ o 1 eS tion mn thisto 8 yd 4S 8, wi per the.cent,and. | or.2 courts framed and, enant Ns f1 eens Co rei] university, wascae graduated captain; N Ithaca, : Tuly ee toae eetheee t . was : i ; 1 adnritted 1869:. of thi practice the: : Cincinnati Ohio, October et Cincinnati, ee of the superion as dupon elected judge 1oe4. 1 at Jaw ay heal ill of account on resigned 1879, April, in court ecof Cincinnati May alth ' n 4 nh to 1896, 15, ae cnator Sti United 1842; Calvinwas Ss. elected 1succeed was S rece lected 4, 18 March ei hi too and Brice, ; succee » : of service will expire term liis himself ‘ to succeed March 3 , Ta08 brevet SENATOR o might the poet aia eric caniecol the held no t ! county yy Highland .E ighty Cre= ain BY ~ i tains : ‘ eee a eee, é I present might iste a ial Sa ane aa at "if Heil 1 a it ne , il ren 2 no al eae iG at or | 28 a senator, I will not run away. of cents A a once might as well be i understood cer! cent. Ts wt i be, under uven"Orper z> easonably ciret , . *e > LA t } all ) al unrea al Im st stane es it ain ye hard: Raine a on 1846. 5, July born 1862 14, July enlisted : ne velactces hia time aY the War. at which " at . if eed: a \ nxec een «per of revi nue ne a ia Soe eet .O re venup, ne : cents a it aH‘ents ah at o Fitea xed: Dee noe ra e Proposed Bill, and Its Constitutionality. how poorly I am know ola- 1 a ga arenes yer an Sspod ole fcc 7 Defends \ Gs Pr ‘ Supports and beyond the power of reasonable, without special statutorythe courts. f { fh, Rena ie ee lexiala vue DO oii ; | ADDRESS | ,,,, DOLLIVER'S confisca- | SENATOR between legal a anywhere in. be, rate would tory figures become| would rate would year are the they public | needed to disregard us binds |Which 8 Boy public the for legislate and clamor bevendetta no to be ought There it understand and we see as welfare the and people American the tween it to ourselves, as well as our. Ve owe counthe of interests to meet this Just expecta- | transportation constituents, ‘ (Applause) &@ | ijon. be might dollar case which a rate which be- reformers professional the before tq perceive the earning powers : "me the 2 petition of. that of the : movement, lquict and least demonstr: ative section i > quaint the goes PF law which public, || 9fthe by Snelish of peolaince the name of the "traders,"" was sleep} if in the files of both ling peacefully (1) : statute, | the to conforms judgment houses of congress. } const! t] 1¢ Durit carrier, the leavin~dewho to those even our | be satisfactory of stiperiod Whole uring ; wherever € ) »% f aaa ; srialalt da. te teh oe no by the orexiste ae rights are invaded tutional the countr of lines the upon legis lation "at to oreo ope e a nt ihe IL shall which position the Whether the by yacation secure to -\der, a : or | bi aimed, Se ‘ ee country this'. oe UTIs hal POAC whether anybody, by approved is take | the in exercise will which courts, confessedly thus bill, this yet And or bar the at cither ested a Degin- j even ea 1830. about commenced aré speak shall I which ‘words not |the does | which Jurisdiction ee tiaa Art the of member every to unsatisfactory | intenthe was it that bench, the now | 0 we are ning was like that which exto I venture anybody, by believed | in A. away take o congress are lie to probably and committee house Constituthe of framers the of Hon | -electric interurban to as witnessing | press the hope that 1 may be acquitted battle is the ae abridge way any of reprehouse of the member every by congress on confer to rail- | Uon all beginning the At railroads: ; sel 8 at: tig S.ea pees. nt os rat are 1 7. oe might there while that, forth" "1 - o > ate anaula' ue a che He eee Day . -ar-* ep aauie .é BNecessar) senate, to the The bill came |allowed. conis so far as the committee and, ‘ of a repetition there has been cerned, may No matter what con- | that experience. that assumed be o at this, com- | be its defects and no matter what the to fix pow? the think, may that, or the other senator transthe for a carrier of r |. } "t' a a; nor be dotted hehe "TI"; shall an not further) the then s¢sell Beacd. on Brat "cr reac, s eae oho rte mis Iam that be if it should But line lateral end Brita ere ate ae e : ‘er ae mere "ried he ZIT : » later ins. ¢ n ts thbaie carly at *Z to wore th that sarc o o th in\thatearly<period later ane within is not compre hended rates separate | "xX So. were. railroads different {to t} 12 i iin theivi com- | isti llate interstate power: and organization and distinet eres Pa : themiselyve consider ad and operation, hrs that | sres ether, euch of competitors such pensation .co-)) of suggestions. all resisted they ation I rortatic operation. * ae. appears' It further Rede Interstate of the there that sion from ba Commerce about. are question exerelse report) this i; : commis1;300,000} utterly : is to statute. iti by bill a is ee ao (fled . unconstitutional with ® committed be can place of a leties MR which offense grievous most. that of | control. , World | race question, au pe ty ae€ b a ae 5 braactical , oe a 7 pro- . has|~. error BOP mule Sera to Commission, ltion a the cnseeh= fare eee importan the] led. : i. that } Croke of all this crossed To even suggest sh; | shall congress be § measure. shall how arises, that power? s Mi 1 nifestly congress, railway © ee propri- the against offense this-the ‘ own my either he exploiting through- ‘of stationary are rates The 5 { . io . 1 ' clamor incoherent the on ce and Kingdom, United the out with r hers agaagainst the corporations others dares to put rate > | of anager his dares manager no concerned is legislation this which interminable of the on ‘account down . 3 : : : ‘ propof law the in believer a am pergetting racials of difficulty from Inherited have we which lerty mission to put it back u the statI look upon | our fathers, and @ €¢ * : corbusiness modern the creating Utes | proposal which Iam here to adThe ste , i as z effortN step I : p aol an : important the > most5 as to aure- || P noreration honest makes vocate he! of. civilizahistory the in taken | ever has error shich t steps phe > y are > , . ve Pry merce. Thea} Baie. or effective to- movement popular the house without |. Gund of the to fix rates of | sentatives, passed under | Commerce clause for power were as organized: companies: rosa an ara newspa-| as the because, }amendment, of carriage the a rule, to build | Compensation laws. and, the state ‘i : gers or freight in foreign com- | pers announced, "the order had gon ces only short intra-state lines. The prinvee > SS J bring erie . : aey TS Te ssources. theut a the ue of. oe human e o service the into bo a oe . , BDI ~ lit all the knowledge you have and all| ra _ sable 4 to me xpects anybody then, If. em-|.rates for interstate commerce. eat you can get, and the information individuals, officers, agentspth and. as is heralded operation in | cable aah -ccom- | | ad lls. of these } loves on the indifwith question this parties | approach the of lfetime: the. it in le disloyalty-to | and treason of species ® oo * payee rolls ployes interests property the great > to fere the | t thi cers I aganestede THO knows nobody st or to what than | whom prof of more great legislation the the to In all nee pay | | railroads: the these to to whom panies, nothing says Interestec | ‘nny, . . ; ‘ century that wages)a_ exhibit to and or salaries involves, in it which | annually stand out they knows it because lcourts, precea is without which bigotry whole fi proceeding has | dent jurisdiction | intemperate a with clothed proposition. of | ready as a member my experience presenta) successfully been such before no We fe is)18 farted | ever a.century, urther Geen its ‘Ss whteth shuts $8800,000,000 a b out pré- | whieh congress cad nof take away, to |eyes to the advs aes for probably without a shown by this report that the, Br - ;ed to the American congress. It would | this body and history of the nation. earnings ageregatled almost $2,000,-| be an absolute disaster to the coun-|cedent in the funetions our to abdicate are we pre-/ successfully be should it if ex-|try operating their while 000,000; I . awit : : 1 we now, to) sented penses amounted in round figures $1.328.000.000: HE ; or 3 > in amounted hii ete re such sould follow iLa , ie fro sancti the eee $636,-| ests | ceive 3 to igures roun 3 for oe ima posalble a ng Si re ot : ca enines the me: thathe bahich that not measure to is| it re-| > cour eee bane results Ls particu- Jetje: art this from follow would (whieh : Reel i because also but legislation, enormous, | lar the show figures These powe of a commingling of} such aggregate incomprehensible almost far-reac tremendous, the and fies, h- ) ly tion as to fasta proper- | sustalned railroad in invested values be war : : the legislative we This |}a one. eaten, get | tility government of departments con-| dinate be to. not: are. which: ‘of are |.the. powers immediately not lions of people who: rallroads: the with nected in their interested of ers otherwise. and. securities their vote we when time; |:fitting merged and hold- | blended as prosperity will t on there be miliay | Millar ¢ | changes and conditions, requirements local with with bill, | time. they are. | may stil] not be doing pass. to come suddenly this time as from In conditions the act to perform necessary perfectly. their work the required the United at that the It is not to be wondered nterests great such of upbuilding with many have been attended should many in and in of aggregate, the themselves rates |tended where are -excessive:| does the that show to not: fix any specific. commission eran rate and: put | ‘ke to enaet this "measure reports annual have repeatedly fact the for rate, |mum 8 $e RoosePieter nt gihient this On railto the pelt said bel his remarks | as) Now. application: the to} of. all requiring or welfare | tice the that belleve | member. or af- | to beneficially is most of the nation ith suprem-| by the promoted and fected oth within merce it exercises | case of Republican policies and on this ao be- | that is to say, the who man every think count do of policies the in eves should. that to power his in all power the ty. party about learn to Beerolgn govern' to of surprise after that, also re- the of certain that all esand world, the in happened has speaking| English he in pecially anyfor be necessary world, it should ; public of position to restate the body laws the under corporations service | Ge but land, the so when as Mr. « lawyer learned secretary formerly ney. t! 6 jman- to have ‘their policy public a ronfess the to States. degree | t instrur certain: regulate MONS | 0 com~ | | limits, in every "" | ‘ the power of. Beaters ..| "el selected selected ‘en been haveae who {lations United es things. secure | engi So that if the have something States mene courts establish to or a | fenses to proud IT am which of that | party remains ecommisthe of judgment. the is /}it in said they what effect, in stated, judgeme mt of Conthe not BRS ‘extortion-.| ston, their veport for 1893, that and ate, the prescribes. at : of the subject ate charg es are seldom CGcams 5 aint' ee atid i i that "rates as a whole that to the best a thoritig eertolng measure to the fatal lis e low enough," e United 7 ofthe properties railway our |a6e about learn to ee ening few their any than more which property of up in an absolute unity other is bound of the the prosperity with of interest ao market whole a : nothing | ithe nature and Justification of a railue on less t h an the powers of gov- |. 3) rate, the accomplished gentle- sovereignty said | nherentof in{ts every dominions. tie extent the * a 4 that it | but " only" er peration, are but || it~ into operati these these yet. comparatively AVE Li re so the in Tanev, Justice Ghise or agreeable ty easy It is not either judg-| fits. "in which,. a rate This is shown | names unimportant and canen cense THelGhisner netics Gases> is the He President. the with rate, | differ just and reasonable is/a have | ment," who all of testimony the by . ae state a whether And | of only not being, for the time to | head operates. law the thereupon Inter-|and . The eabyect the con spoken a a, oe law or a law. political | quarantine the of also but nation, as & maxi-'|the effect judgment that give in| commissioners. Commerce state ae jue and form that toward States of we a ore it will be a serious mis- | mo | He w light, that people the of will con- to intended i it good |vey that demonstrate on | walking was law, by the human| of them No are. they claims government, |Nobody of departments... |three decisions | great the of highway are| ithe they but perfect, be can |@ftort as our fathers are still, |and that they than it is possl- | that date back to the very foundation | independent as | going this work better | intended, separate and the | are government. our to do it that jot commission any for lble as co-ordinate }well evil practices. abuses and of a a ee yr thee? these considera- Mne Bead of All create. may we . * | aw Portuhe nation o the state-and_ son. || nately, , eH the cons "Tes ; impel me irreelatihly a = our defincd-an ete well' Saigo : are, jare. they =all this iy is true, : there not | Chast ean he effeet of this provision hile Ww Thile | They Jurieprud o absence the in irrevoca le jon in-|)° words: of a-juggle by | be avoided. perhaps instances, some nevertheless, ito Sere the een eee ieee eae RU Daiite ie SEwhich have both Hak through of word are functions whatever with charged They betw of a line of it Not possible any toward has been drawn in malice inEventerprsse. American its | legitimate commission | ery a through or act to |own fix by congress can either charges that fa- | Proposition. railway of| terstate direction understanding Se Pa eras an This work is done today by thou- | ter it will be a. ing character of the business of these | precedent of such commanding force ao RED AL a Savane ATO that it will ‘be idle to ever hereafter |S8Nds8 of expert rate makers scatter ‘ed earriers; the great number of persons is, that the Supreme | mentalities Now, the truth by country, familiar talk | throughout. the. with legislation with |in,. connection made in. connection |about the | been enunciated immediately andemployed they court, | when fathe business, experience | eng co-orand inde pendent three" milare. there that therewith, hosapes sys act of ail railway the in creasuch no is measure "| American is a step better bet-|a the jurisdiction x the to definition | tem. a court Supreme the our | OF pees . . Me a or sooner . : the : nerves of aon living like 1 will have to disappoint if7 | steel no|ture, Interstate in chai to ee commerce, wer from coun of the whois jail the people to}, people American to the nana ' -Rd a the within who those of labors the :¢ aDOrs have spread lifetime Space of a single of a network this continent upon out . e « perOLE enjuatic e.; an ‘concerned, am has congress it as far that ture be crued error against any vhiel € Gomme which sion nx oppression e or an f the as Ke So ‘rier the protect If and ee : ; and disap z attach law, discredit will not only to}it follow, pointment will as legislation," desire such | "those who but if |the house committée suggested, che . roses : alia of thi is un it chari acter, important ill-a bee ats imperfect, an such permit{ll-eqnsidered to bill and PP I : impt acti- prove will it that or | visions "the fix and adroit O)Richard state, of unity of ac-| and of purpose harmony undertake | to eae ie congress | this. ; .. 4 rat i respect | regulation ‘ JT am glad for one. though T do not i}writes of the government malle its : members with respect| es es |cise its pews, to. regulate. interstate | lon among me es nee, called uA e mn ovee were agit' theslaw Of "allways exactly else may know what behalf he) |ahout - interIn this concessions unwarranted affairs. to make an national willing that ||Snouldebe not | attempting does think exercixe must the: this question it, thatanybody ea MgORen capi :1905. to protest against ‘redtrictions {Sallis Sec} | ynower proposed this Bee priof sacredness the with ference | our of differences ‘the of any Involve | questions when upon it by in minor matters; but e ground that they |and limitations imposed on peat road en vere feared | il prejudice them" by Constitution: | the Tt must: therefore, |2™!se. o£ such commanding are? Ther polities, importance | partisan : for disputes solemnly and property, fortu- | vate the power of congress Lo discharge the ree ex ercise the¢ in javoid. peene in thelr ‘bed wages putting for institutions like ours, some nately of this power |*as those now under consideration it iS) yately avoi : tas errere: duty which the constitution exJittle}to regulate, coming in cenflict with |e duty of every man who has an | questions so far reaching in their sig- | ¥°'% been comparative has tere pressly assigns to it, it is for some aire ‘ 5 nificance that mitical constitutional » provision official responsibility to discharge with! ther complaint to me of the railroad mee one who does not have to unload a lot Ne 82> p being, The efficient us a : whole, 3] Elkins law mueaare its passage since ine rebates ang {0% ae for preven good, has as that high, a and most that Ape ; an tla app: Hes ition order be only charge of giv-|shall the practice allowing diserimina- | the transportation tions among shippers ly discontinued, and to made a_ of it. that i respect to | vestigation wake a carrier |a for rove vate certain a certain article | the result. done to them and then convictions o the that, make best careful in-! } jot | jn act inaccordance he 1 we bill, this framing in Therefore, to do exfree railroads the left have on renting in now, do they as actly satisfacfind they which terms any so cars, freight private these tory prese ribed at the rate penalty be $5,000 per day, or would of $150,000 per month a : the. extortionate, ---- ‘ be kept fn use svith | that they day. | patriotically, and in accordance violation is to be only $5,00¢ W here sent our oath of office round and judgment and But assuming that this construction is|/our then that agi- from different somewhat his self-respect, | of mind inaintain his duty ov present the actuated has | or he entilled to retain the respect and | which s or a hundred be ten or twenty might thousands, even or offenses, these of this of all top yn a single in there violation, of a continuing in ease additional') an. day each for be to is the that claimed It has been $5,000. in ease of a continuing entire penalty correet, frame a in subject the approached do} can character, this of siderations increased commission, the by of officers, : by the number the - offense, in participating + demanded they have would all, if at people, American amendment their con-| con-) be by to himself allows his judgment, st wie ship- | man pres- | trolled there were those than et tee ttt tee tee settee ee eee Hee HEHE HEH HHH HEH FF HHH FFE FFE HEHE FEE $5,000 each as at rates other ties of ments cribed Was. + . + REEF Ohio; ee eioac + + + + + + + + + a a + ~ + + As bill rate the has than attention general more attracted has congress before rate exacted of him by a railthe by oppressed unjustly feels if a shipper that it provides reported commission The redress. for commision commerce interstate the appe al to he may company road conditions certain Under is equitable its judgment in which will fix a rate sides, both will hear i Pending amendment proposed of matter now are conditions These appeal. may side elther commission the that bill the of sponsors ‘of the contention It is the court Federal the by hearing and until the litigation is concluded, stand shall rate ola the held it is some By stand shall rate over charged the excess of amount shipper to the refand is to It looses, company railroad the if held the excess paid into court and have to is plan favored most the Perhaps rate declared the Senof the measure is champion Iowa, of Dolliver. Senator is determined, suit the until in eserow bill pends the in. proposed sort the of vegulation rate to any is opposed of Ohio, Foraker, ator Foraddresses-N beth from extracts illustrative today presents Republican Inter-Mountain The 27. Feb. Dolliver. Mr. of that and 26, Feb. delivered been having aker's question No te | Legislation Rate of Railroad Vows - cL owe 11, 1906 MARCH CITY, SUNDAY, LAKE SALT REPUBLICAN, INTER-MOUNTAIN THE may of my reach ability af) ‘ has been Jarge- | between given points, every charge of | I dislike exceedingly, as every that in so far|a different rate for such Said ae public man does, to be arrat other d be- divided ed yiew stake I! drawn agers senate to in of up or upon the permit by them. and interests ought that themselves not are at | 0%, in the ie battle 2 count array ‘allway quire are for enterprising sta ee pantominic the the principles, ihe | securities spiritual task if to only in to Oe to Order preparation au tk If the interstate commerce law had | the United ac- needed few them' background to the educational paign been going which has a States first as cam- on JONATHON PRENTISS DOLLIVER Republican, of Fort Dodg was born. near. Kingwood, Preston county, Vest the Trom 1875 in graduated 1858: reo aary. lon), (now 1 politany held never in 1878; bar to the was: adr yea university; Virginia from representative sa congress pitty- five to the elected until office fcal alse house the of member é of district congressional Tenth the Pifty-sixth and Fitty-fifth Fifty Srourtts Fifty-third Fifty-second, the in congresses; August 23, 1900, was appointed. senator to fill. the yvacaney United the in seathis took and Gear, H. Hon of death the by caused succeed to. 1902, 21, January elected vas 1900 3 December senate States eae over Jahn J. Seerley. antiebat by a vote of 120 to 26 Hiis erm of office will expi March. 3 ) mode of effecting cepted, take upon ¥en Te I do Olney North DISCLAIMS - SOCIALISM. Interest= Business Threatens Which ts Coming Storm Belleves not know what business Mr, the I perused but as is in now, American Review ‘containing While, one side has. been. industriword unpalatable the stamping ously "taxes" upon the traffic sheets of the with othe re the companies, subject, | railway this on essay ponderous his Hk Ber exceplol. 79 thatS : My ote zs the object sox themselvés the bur- NG; 154" oa ‘ trying to been e ns : tna has ea with its curious warhing to congress| not to exercise its power for fear that equal ingenuity ad the BOE clause of the constitution round power enough in it to send the army ucross t 1e borders of IHinoil tnd ovel riotous cily Jimits against the protests of panic-stricken mayors and scream- defend the law of property had better |eonsult together to bring back the old institution ot societ to . situatiol here jit-ean be de fe nded am ensted for that fight Lhave not a trace ing: governor to keep the peas Of the United States and to open the) highways of interstate traffic to the American people. I do not Know what} lor socialistic spirit' in my thinking. I qo not look forward to rovernmenl: ownership of anything-governmeist ownership of railroads or farms 6 ri es s ‘ex States engagec in. discharging s as a constitution "the under function ae ok tidise thoes vee ree ie into intvuder ‘prove | Tete fixer, a meddiesome to attémpting: seriously' and that the collection ‘of unreasonable | private busines rallway rates is substantially the same . ° * thing as the government ownership It has: been rid) that have hee: of railroad and-caualls A Conltra= misled into a socialistic agitation now vention. of) ou fundamental LN reneral in the countrys | do not found it. hard. to believe that this islo,7 will tell vou one thing, however, the same man. who, when he was at- | that 1 believe I believe that the ume torney-general, searching. that simple | jcooart nana eis thosewho desire to has come sle over the spirit of the old) panks attorney-general, but he is certainly | nol as vigorous as he once was lt may be that in trying to protect the constitulion of the United States he.) has broken dow his own, or it may | be that he is ea ere the effects of » pamphiets which | swarmed in iG mails Marne the past | summer. (Laughter 9 * We the have right terpose upon too In been accustoined, to to govertiment the of matters narrow. .a_ of base in- (transportation inie. The prin powell of conert over interstate commerce would be just as complete if no railroad had ever exercised. the power of eminent domain, the of hands the at enjoyed franchise or concession. of f it were literally the private capital, unassisted spect 1 uublic aril still ie face sovereign authority if it state any creation in, any late them nature t is on and * €¢ Ruel of in which which the the account service business the of engaged, community of "onder. penes ere iaver reletion ing ing ‘8 Deonicas th the. of the they Litera: tainly not since the great opinion of Marshall in Gibbons ¥ Ogden, when any shadow has rested. upon the sov- ereign prerogatives of the commerce. of, the from 1826, when-the- locomotive on the was rude puffing the state over people, Yet first : American and tramwa Quines believe the in instrurberntalitir the laws that have basi present its on up vclety Twill those y of toyouyouwho gerltlemen, esare concern- when the American an inquiry to make Paes eo vundreds ee te oP of ae nr Ame COMA aerend the law 7 he earnings ie I Dee le are g0into the right few" years milltons of eee that Se annette the | nited States - a inquiry my of and believe in 1 acquire dollars and threatens to sovernment He made of When Will be on hand to property Capital the ‘saving of Ja- that trying charges me with scheme for government Whoever any forward to ownership of Se Pea tg socilistic exa mn Une hited States, misunderstands both my public record and 1 V rt se " re aaa ce See worker In . I say mmon . and now |C4@l in some way here agree citizenship that unless upon an we effect |ive_regulation of ratiway. rates we are tee to face in America with problem wheezing | Which it of rbout the Bre at. Interests of _property in the United St ites, that a storm is gathering, and the time is approach- a contribution to face ,with th It? is not calon any I nd sort on account of the privilege: hich common carriers putes Phat natin reserves to itself power to regu- are life pul Soe had no of re- or of commeres do not wish to ser the government doing the business of the American people and dll the rest of us standing around in front of the gilded domes of our state capitols or our national ecapiol waiting for our occasional dividend out of the gross pro duet of nothing in particular, (Laughter.) do not yield to the fascinations of that cheap philospohy of human ultimately ious harm to our may inyolve institutions e- by the Mass., carrying down to the sea the | foreed resort of the people to untried granite blocks out of Which Bunker |'ethods in our business-organization Hill Monument was built. it wes more 1 do not want to see that day ast I than forty years before Chiites Sum| think I see far enough Into the "movener Introduced into this Chamber the |™ents of publie Opinion to understand first act to regulate commerce amone that: unless. the people of the United the states, and it was twenty years |>ltles are given some adequate el longer before the interstate commerce | tection against or the the.abuses of railway S posstbility been | Management, have we which passed, was law trying to amend. They were troubled he h abuses arising in the future:-the1 and uncertain years, to "Where combination competition be is impossible." is sure possible railroad is a monopoly, beeause the ordinars motives af competition do not app to it In ordinary business if you ave a competitor and want to get him out of the, way, you can hammer down ‘prices, -yé@@hice his vi- tality, and finally get vid of him. But you can not-handle a vailfOad in that way. worse you. reduce *f tality, the greater inroad:.yout rps upon the earnings: the mofe peri | ously you push if to the precipice, the more. fatal tion becomes; and when brink ae the its competiat last you eet it entirely swamped in bankruptey ind the creditors gut, ound, you Have succeedéd oducts worst: only possible Comet to which thea vill be a formidable |™Much before the end: tion in favor, heart movement af this ge! and"Seul »e&roamental. assumption ae. thie instrumentalities of: cor pie business. DOB YE S.. es -B One. thing: mores pe ve : - ou ek er ae and <Ehavexbeen ac- cused by some of carelessness and. indifference to the politteal. party to which I. - belong.) de not. intend to Spene very much time de ‘fending my*°! against that charge, 1 Rave alWayscenjoved the reputation at hore and nearly everywhere else of being little violent asa Partisan and a little low in-percetving even: the ‘most .ob vious merits and virtues of. our bréth. |e" the: I other may Upon be that have side outgrow recke mn it it as there are still violations of the |tion will be a separate offense e|fore the country by unfriendly erities | been obediently accented by the rast-| ' : statute of that character they can be |may be, therefore. many naan eos as prompted by unworthy motives it, | way world and by the business comIt is a scitiea wprincsDie of constitu- solvent and self-respecting corpors ae deal of that; at. any rate, Id te Bod broken up altogether by a mere en-| each day that the order is not ob-|the attiLude assumed ,and to suffer in | munity-for ho a been narties| tonal law... tha the government tion can be exposed | tice it in myself as J used for Maton s . e ' forcement , of its provisions. Such served, There will surely be as many | conseqifénce in the esteem of the peo- ' to their mulitication:-it it had been | which has a right ae an act. and with reverence -and vane- | has imposed on i the duty of perwell-grounded and was the general. situation. when, in 1 | a8 there are shipments charged for | ple. s far pleasanter to go with| treated ipneeee aoeehoee tc In executing the tits powers conferred | vice the D. lection that the best December, 04. a demand arose for |at arate. And there will be as ee \the tide of public sentiment and enjoy ‘tity the Jaws of the |forming that act. must, beaccording without wEiGh to allowed of gna the dictates vain of upon it by the constitution it is eyithe Ame sear akan render echo legislation giving the rate-malking |More as there are officers, agents, et | the benefits of harmonious relations \lan mere 4 b on is to canstand. people arly een a pa q ‘ Interstate Commerce a ane carrier participating in the of. | with coworkers in the public service| moral aspirations, if they had been|$ lect the means; and those who con- dent that congress cught to have se in the Selection of | wel raat See that their affairs are violated only by bad men sniftarent tend that it may not select any appro- large latitude commission. This deman had no Upon this theory the result to|and have the acclaim instead of the nd truly administered by the place_ in the discussions of "the politity railroad would be as many penal-|disapprobation of constituents; but no to' the disgrace of lawlessness, the |PTiate means, that in any particular iheans other party. (laughter and applouse. )) |