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Show broad purposes which tho executive proposes to accomplish, tho moment he asserts his indopendont view of the best way to accomplish the purpose, he finds himself In direct conflict with the president, and ho must choose between losing the presidential favor and doing a thing m a way his conscience tells him lt ought not ho done. "I do not far that In a slnglo instant in-stant or during one administration the independent will of the members of congress can be overcome, but. If upon subjects like the one before ur, the practice of having a bill prepared in the executive office and presented to congrss for passage, accompanied with nn implied message that punishment punish-ment follows disobedience Is continued continu-ed from year to year, In the end congress con-gress will become a mere form In organized or-ganized society. Protest Against Practice. "With the utmost respect for tho exalted office of president of the United Unit-ed Statw and for him who occupies It at the present time, I record my protest here and now against a practice prac-tice which I believe to bo full of dangers dang-ers and disasters." Declaring to bo extraordinary tho circumstances connected with the origin ori-gin of tho bill, the Iowa senator detailed de-tailed the meeting last August of Attorney At-torney General Wicket-sham In New York with others who ho said hail undertaken to put into thapo for enactment, en-actment, the various recommendations recommenda-tions of tho president on railroad legislation leg-islation Tho report as mado to the chief executive was suppop--dly confidential, confi-dential, he said, 'but as a matter of fact, long before it reached the president presi-dent it had fallen into the hand 3 of tho railroad men. Discussing tho progrp6s of tho bill after It reached tho president, Mr. Cnmmlns declared that lt had boen changed. Indeed, he declared, "but for tho birth mark of tho commerce court, no one would recognize tho measure horn In tho 'dog days thcro in N&w York' WILL FIGHT TAFT BILL Washington. Maanchl 15. That he would oppose the administration railroad rail-road bill, even though lt might result in an effort to read hlra out of tho party, Senator Cucamins, of Iowa, In effect declared In the 6eaatp today, In the initial speech on the railroad bill. He commented especially vjtpon the history of the measure which ho said had originate in tiie executive branch of tho government rather than in congress. con-gress. , Afler oocuylng its place on the wn-ate wn-ate calendar, for eighteen days the bill was taken up at 2 o'clock and thus was launohed tho discussion of what the members of the senate regard re-gard as the mobt Important legislation before congress. The Iowa senator had spoken about two hours when he asked leave to suspend until tomorrow. tomor-row. The leave was granted, but Senator Hale, chairman of the Republican caucus cau-cus gave notice that here after tho bill would be kept constantly before the senate. In language Just as positive, posi-tive, Mr. Bailey declared that tho bill could not be rushed and declared that congress was liable still to ba considering it when the "dog-days" arrived. In the mala, Mr. Cummins speech was dovoted to a general review of the railroad measure, but It was proceeded pro-ceeded by a roeitel of th history of tho proposed legislation. Will Fight to Last. "If the contraoicted and apparently authorized statements of the newspapers news-papers bo not in error, every Republican Republi-can at least is expected to vote for It JiiHt as it is, unless he dares to in-icur, in-icur, not only the exeoutlve displeas-uro, displeas-uro, but to be banished from the Republican Re-publican ranks." said Mt. Cummins. "I do not speak ot this phase of tho Bubject iu a spirit of angor. I am conscfoua of no other sentiment than profound regret I recognize that It is not only the privilege hut the duty of the president of the United State to make 5vch. reoommendatiou) to congress, ok, in his judgment, will promote the general welfare. He Is quite within his priviles and bis duties in expressing his views upon such subject as often as he likes nd as emphatically as he pleases, "Whether ho Is within his privilege privil-ege of hia duty when he undertakes to prescribe the precise form that lc-islatlon lc-islatlon shall assume may well bo doubted. His great predecessor evidently evi-dently thought that executive propriety proprie-ty did not permit it, for when he was dealing with the Mime subject In hia message at the boginnlng of the first session of the C9th congress, in 1905, ho eald: Cures Disastrous. "'It Is not my province to indicato th exact terms of tho law which should be enacted, but I call the attention at-tention of congress to certain exlbt-Ing exlbt-Ing conditions with which It Is deelr-i able lo deal.' " "I would not, however, b Inclined to attach much Importano to the practice n h!"b now si -n to be very general were It not I ha' its rin-os, In the very nature of things, must be dlnoptmiiH. Although a senator may bo in full aymoathj with the |