| Show criticizes criticises methods of commission and inquires connection with the clover leaf railroads washington dee 15 the camana canal was again under consideration by the today and sir rihman occupied tho most of the time given to that subject except when he aavo way to questions or interruptions by other senators he did not indicate any in of opposition to the passage of the appropriation bill but he criticized criticised the methods of the canal commission in many of ita transactions he raised the question as to whether president shunts is still in the employ of the clover leat railroad and sald that the railway register still carried his name as lao head of that road he also sharply criticized criticised the employment at secretary bishop na a press representative and mr hale joined in censure saying that mr employment in that capacity la a reflection not only on congress but on the press A part of mr remarks waa devoted to a criticism ot the presidents policy in santo domingo and mr spooner defended the presidents course when the senate adjourned the bill was still bonding pon ding but there nas on agreement for a vote tomorrow defore die panama bill was taken up the senate adopted a resolution calling upon afao postmaster general for information as to whether there la discrimination between college publications in tb matter of admission to the malls ag second class matter mr spooner declared that th e president has not done anything to carry the treaty into effect and insisted upon mr tillman specifying anything in reply mr tillman craton that our fleet hafl kept in dominican waters ho said that mr spooner was a supple acrobat in the use 0 words Is not our present attitude the pame as it would be if the treaty had peen ratified asked mr tillman and mr hooper replied not at all adding that it the treaty bad been ratified the united states would have its own revenue agents in san domingo whereat the present agents were as the result ot appointment by president morale 5 who suggested their appointment mr tillman asked and mr spooner replied that the president of the united states had done so mr tillman contended that this admission justified all that he bald it Is beating about the buah the accomplishment of what k wanted by trickery it is p on words to justify tho t i he said mr spooner insisted that there had been no and defended the ao alon of the president trickery was not a nice thing to impute he said and mr tillman interrupted to say that when a man accomplishes by unlawful methods what he cannot otherwise accomplish I 1 call it trickery mr spooner responded that the term was nasty and undignified and should not be used in peaking of the head ot a coordinate branch of the government mr tillman let the senator suggest one then mr spooner the senator whole idea is so wrong that it cannot ba mado right mr tillman then aaker what excuse tho president had for not entirely withdrawing horn san domingo and leaving tha situation alone and mr spooner replied that the senate should not have adjourned without acting on the treaty as to ratifying or rejecting it as tho failure had had the effect of leaving the president in a position of embarrassment it was the duty of san domingo to maintain the status quo to the end ot preventing mhd seizure of her customhouse or the of her revenues this it was easy for that republic 0 o do in ew of the pressure from european nations emphasized in one case by tho presence of warships in face of this condition president morales had he said appealed to president roosevelt and asked him in his own helplessness requesting especially that ha suggest some honest american for tha collection of revenues these agents while americans had teen appointed by the san domingo government they were appointed by president morales and can be dismissed by him ho said and the president of the united states has done no more than it was his duty to do mr money spoke disparagingly of the presidents disposition to participate in the affairs of san domingo without the consent of congress he ei pressed apprehension that the end of such a tendency might be disastrous in view of the presidents threat to uso tho big stick walk daftly carry a big stock and you will go jar says president said mr money and I 1 interpret expression to mean that the president means to walk softly in dealing with the big nation and to use the big stick in dealing with the weak when he seta aside the law of the land and substitute for it his own judgment mr tillman reiterated his declaration that the presence of united authorities ties iri santo domingo was the result of a trick i speaking of mr mr tillmam said he had understood that mr was to resign as president of tho clover leaf road did anyone know whether he had resigned he appealed to mr alleton but that senator said be did not know mr tillman said that he had found mr name in the railway register as still president of the road mr hale spoke in very complimentary barms of mr shonta expressing tho opinion that his selection was a also one he was certain that whether or not he had resigned from tha railroad he had given his antiro time to tho canal enterprise mr tallman said that he wa not gunning for mr shonta nor for any particular man he had as be understood been on the isthmus but ami then only for a hekt a time since his appointment mr tillman then took up the que aloa of secretary bishops connection with the he said that mr had never gone to the isthmus and that any 2000 pr 3 clerk could perform hla that be ample pay n for a first class newspaper man for such service lie characterized mr bishops work as a process of hypnotize ing public opinion and expressed the opinion that people entirely innocent would need no defense and would not be so worried as to employ a man to defend them the press representatives in washington may be dirty and disposed to lie he said and it might be a fact that there had been an organized crusade against the canal but even it true he did not believe that the method 0 defense adopted could be justified and he expressed confidence that it other methods were adopted all the gnats and that becloud ed the situation would disappear mr halo took occasion to voice bis own disapproval of the commissions employment of a press agent and to say that he was confident that tho entaro committee on appropriations felt as ha did on this subject he believed that it mr or secretary taft had been responsible for mr bishops employment he had made a mistake journalism he went on is a great estate at times the press is cruelly unjust but as a rule its purpose is high and if the government of any part of it selected a press agency tha result will be a prejudiced and a selected press and in caso of a corrupt administration a hireling bresg mr tillman agreed with mr hala that the commission must rely on th purity of its administration to the good will of the republic rather than upon paying for the luxury mr culberson proposed an amendment to the bill providing that no part of the money appropriated shall be used to pay the expenses of a literary bureau or for the salary of any person employed to create popular sentiment in favor of the canal A resolution by mr carmack instructing ting the senate committee on naval affairs to enquire into reports of brutality practiced by cazers upon students at the naval academy of annapolis with a view to putting a stop to such practices was adopted proceeding to discuss the adverse criticism of the panama railroad management mr tillman provoked protests from mr lallinger and mr aall son the former calling attention to preparations to double track the railroad to relieve the blockade and the latter saying that more than halt of the money to be appropriated in the pending bill is to be used for improvements to tho railroad aad sm tillman asserted assert sd that th issuance ofa bonds by the panama legal declaring it amounted to amyy sue of bonds by the panama canala canal 1 he declared that the aholo thing was a hocus and that the railroad and panama canal commission are one and the same so far as the actual conditions are concerned mr allison said that the railroad claims the right to issue bonds by virtue of tha fact that it in a separate corporation organized under the charter laws of new york it would be easy enough for us to legislate so that this anomaly would end said mr hale acut certainly we cannot blame tho railroad directors for exercising the authority that Is given them by their charter the stockholders said mr aall eon but the united states is the only stockholder the whole thing amounts to nothing more nor leas than increasing the public debt ot the statch in a way that you all knosky here mr allison interrupted that may be though technically technically repeated mr man oh yes technically I 1 suppose they were all right technically tatt was a king in the philippines but WB are degenerating far away from a self people in our management of these affairs I 1 think I 1 shall as a former phrase of mine that kaiser like methods have been imported from the philippines of course taft aias been used to having his own way at p m the senate wen into executive session at p in FOURTEEN indictments railroad officials shippers and oth era guilty of giving reaf kansas city mo dec 15 fourteen indictments returned by the federal giand jury bera today against common carriers railway officials shippers and freight agents charging aba giving of rebates and conspiracy to gain rebates indictments wan returned as follow george H creaby of chicago geif eral traffic manager of the chicago burlington quincy railroad george ix thomas broker ot 30 broadway new york merchandise broker L B baggat Tag gat new york crowbars chief clerk tho chicago alton railroad corn pany and john N faithorn and F A wann formerly vice president and general freight agent respectively ot tho railroad company the cudahy packing company swift company tho armour company the chicago milwaukee at paul railroad company nelson morris edward morris and ira N morris comprising the part ot nelson moms corn pany D H kresky kansas caty reiga broker the charges against th chicago alton and faithorn and wann are identical with those made in the indictments returned by the federa grand jury lit chicago on dec 13 WITHDRAWS MOTIONS new york dec IS or william R hoerst today asked the court for to with draw motions to open ballot boxes the motions were accord ady marked oft the |
