Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-17 | Page 3 | Senator Long Declines

SENATOR LONG DECLINES will not announce his position on railroad rate legislation wichita kan nov 14 senator long thia afternoon addressed the commercial club in response to a reso ution asking him to announce his stand on railroad rate legislation he to tell in advance what his on president Roosevel ts rate plan would he giving bis reasons in a statement that occupied wenty minutes in delivery he poke while the resolution you present does not so state yet I 1 am advised 0 get right with the president I 1 was to do this on the each town end bill and yet ohp president now a his raleigh speech takes a lon that conflicts with that measure do not know what the ion of the president to congress on bis subject will bo nor do the coun ry yet you sk roe in advance to say that I 1 shall agree ie may recommend I 1 decline to ab or shift my responsibility on his measure 10 the president of the united states or to any other person