The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904. GORMAN SHARPLY CRITICIZES COURSE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SENATE Renews Demand for an Investigation of the Oharge:é of Corruption in the Postoffice Department and Early Adjournment Opposes an h 30.—The Ben- nsideration of the n bill snd it was 2 renewal of the Demo- an investigation of ption in the Post- WASHINGTON ted by German, two hours In of the Repub- e in refusing 1e time charg- mmittee with un- the bill, as he party with a desire at an exceptionally der to meet the wishes Clay contended that a Congressienal in e charges against Assistant Postmaster as to demand in- ¢ and Ledge spoke side of the cham- he Committee on Post- her e upon which to GORMAN OPENS DEBATE. n ostoffice appropriation bill G an addressed istanding 00 the Senate eration, and y four days havc 1 came from the as asked to pass 19t comprehend the eed, he asserted, persistent estigat e Depar as not he urge & d he reason t Con- P —— Y DE. SHOOP’S REMEDIES. DON'T RISK A PENNY. GET WELL FIRST. 3¢ years 1"ve been a physicia ~ wo million cases that such expenence must have w of disease and cure,—al} b knowing—is condensed t practically al! h the Sympa- hear with, rate the vital for six bottles, i reatment ¥ book, which tells how to cure, o-day, —mow. —yop can’t get well toe six you need Adulteration goes ful length in spices and flavori extracts—you think it isn’ worth while to cheat in suckt trifies—four-fifths of “vanilla’ is tonka; cost’s one or twc cents for “$1-worth” toffices had spent | ders’ has gene out; that it is incon- venlent for ene branch of the Govern- ment to have Congress on its hands; that if there is delay there are likely to be disagreeable inferences from what has already been developed.” In face of-Mr. Linceln's greatness, he | sald, $he Senate had insisted on fin- | vestigating the conduct of the Civil | War. After the close of the war there |had been much corrupuon, and then | the Republican majority In the Senate | did not hesitate te autherize an Inves- | tigation. “S8e,” he sald, “yeu may fellow It through all administrations to McKin- ley and there will be found ne denial of the right ef inquiry.” McKinley, he continued, was glad te |afford oppertunity for examination of the conduct of the Spanish war. “He was a wise and.patriotic man and had nothing to conceal,” said German, “and he knew that the honesty and fair deal- ing of his administratien should be to examination. We have ed a time when there is much preaching of honesty and high-mind- edness, but corruption Lubbles out. It came Iike a fog and has not yet lifted and we cannot tell whether all the in- formation is yet out.” - Gorman said the charges made by the Postoffice Department he belleved had been made for the purpose of. di- verting attention from the guilty ones, who had fiiched meney from the treas- ury and abused their trusts. For himself he was of the opinion that members had not done more in the matter than their duties required. In this connection. Gorman called at- | tention to the habit of criticizing men ! engaged legislative work and he concluded that this criticism grew out of a well-directed effort to build up a one-man, Czar-like government. POWER OF PATRONAGE. “The power of patronage is great,” he went ‘6n. “The Commissioner of Pensions is relleved and sent out of | the country and another man brought | to Washington and given a place. But that ot enough. The pension roll is increased by an executive order to the extent of from $5.000,000 to $15,- 000,000 He (Gorman) had never made to liberal pénsions, but his criticism was that Congress was becoming a mere recording body “We now told,” he continued, “that, having approved the plans of | the executive, we must adjourn and | g0 home because of the fear of damag- | closures. There are matters | t is almost criminal not to give | to. Yet we are not to be v.” He then referred to ending legislation and ist Foraker's bill for of the anti-trust law trensportation. He referred 1ey General Knox's statement he bill, saying that it was a artmental measure. nator Foraker said Gener: in obiection are the Attorney | had not given out this state- challenged to do so by the | ment rémark, Gorman retorted, was tterance of a true soldier in the Discussing the anti-trust law Foraker's amendment, Gorman the effect of the law was to re- | e the publicati of rates 1ikc} ose given by H on his trans- ontinental oceanic lines with the re- sult that competing nations got the in- formation. Amendment therefore was | ry and Foraker’s bill had been | d to meet that demand But | as with other matters of | slation, said Gorman, the executive | es and notwithstanding the | legislation the mysterious order is sent out that Congress must | adjourn without takiRg up the ques- n. “How long,” he asked, “are we to submit to such a system?’ The idea was, he said, that all should be| e hands of the executive and | nothing should be done until after November next. In the meantime, he , continued, the law would be suspended | and the matter controlled by the exec- utive order, with the result that trade conditions would be so disturbed that the farmers of the Northwest would 20 in enormous bodies to the country across the line. HONEST MEN NOT RARE. for The American people do not want one-man control, Gorman continued, but they would have the law itself changed and then would have the law obeyed. He hopved that such action would prevent one-man control in the next four years, whosoever might fill the White House. It was not enough to say that the President was honest, for honest men are not rare. “Occasion- ally a dishonest man may creep in, but e on disposed of, aid Gorman. Judgment and good discretion also were necessary in the conduct of pub- lic affairs. It was not so much a ques- tion of honesty of the chief executive or his immediate advisers. Gorman said he did not hold Roosevelt or his binet officers responsible for the thievery in the department.” Gorman said he did not believe ex-Postmaster General Smith had been cognizant of the bad condition of affairs in the Post- office. Department, as Bonaparte had charged. Bonaparte was of the class of reformers who believed that almost all men in Congress and other places were corrupt, and he (Gorman) knew Smith tao well to follow Bonaparte in the charge of corruption made against him. Still he felt that sufficient has been | shown to demnostrate that an investi- gation should be had. He closed by de- | claring that the Postoffice Department | was “honeycombed with corruption end inefficiency.” Penrose, chairman of the Committee on Postoffices, said that while originally he had favored an investigation he had now reached the conclusion that none was necessary. Penrose challenged the accuracy of Gorman’s statement that extraordinary haste had been exercised by the Committee on Postoffices in the preparation of the bill. LODGE MAKES REPLY, Lodge alse replied to Gorman. There had been no undue haste in bringing the postoffice bill into the Senate, and Schilling’s Best are entirely pure; at your grocer's. he declared all suggestions made to the committee had been thoroughly consid- ered. “The party in power,” he pro- ceeded, “the party responsible for the | ment, he does not need any defense. | Postoffice Department, | had been accomplished by Heath by | first appointing Louis as cashier in the | but he has done a work that I appre- I which it was put. | of Congress coenduct of affalrs, has deemed it best to bring about an early adjournment if it can be done. So far as I am aware there have been no instructions received from anybody in any quarter. It was not on- this side of the chamber that the expression ‘cuckoo’ originated. That word is chargeable to the Senator frem Alabama and applied to his side of the chamber.” - Lodge declared that the Democrats had criticized the early meeting of Con- gress and now was criticizing the pros- pect of early adjournment. It could not possibly be that their vain efforts to| secure a campalign issue after their fail- ure te secure it in the efforts already made by the navy and pensions could be a new departure. Nor was it reason- able to believe that such an epporunity was wanted to review the anti-trust| law, in view of Cleveland's explanation that he had failed for want of time to put the anti-trust law in force while he was in office. Bo far as the postoffice investigation was concerned Lodge said no general inquiry was necessary after the ex- cellent work done by Bristow and his corps of trained detectives. TAKES ISSUE WITH LODGE. Clay took issue with Lodge's state-, ment that the Democratic party had- opposed the called session of Congress | last fall. On the contrary, he said, the opposition had come from the Repub- lcan party. He charged that the early adjournment of Congress was sought to prevent the opening of the books{ and the getting at of the truth. He | declared that if Bristow’s accusations | | against ex-First Assistant Postmaster | General Heath were correct he was| as gullty as Machen. He was pro-| ceeding with mentioning Heath speci- fically, when Mallory interrupted to ask if he meant the present First As- sistant Postmaster General. Clay re- plied that he did not, that the meant the ex-First Assistant Postmaster | General, not Wynne, “whom ¥ esteem most highly as an upright man.” Clay referred to the charges against Heath In the matter of the employ- ment of J. H. Livingstone, O. H. Smith and M. W. Louls, superintendent of supplies, saying that the charges had | been made that Heath had escaped in- dictment only because of the statute of limitations. H Scott read a letter from Assistant | Attorney General Robb of the Post- office Department, saying that the evi dence did not warrant the indictment of Heath, i Clay replied by saying that Scott was the only champion of Heath that had appeared on the floor of the Senate, and Scott replied that it was Mr. Robb | and not himself who was the cham- | plon. i “Then,” responded Clay, “he has not a single champion here to defend him.” Scott—According to Mr. Robb's state- | CHARGES AGAINST HIM. Clay replied by giving the detalls | of the employment of Mr. Louis as| superintendent of supplies for the | which he said Kansas City postoffice and then hav- ing him proceed with the work here | without ever having seen the Kansas City postoffice. Heath, he said, had | been anxious to secure a man in sym- | pathy with himself in the purchase of supplies, and the appointment to Kan- sas City had been made because of | Louls’ inability to pass the civil ser- vice examination. Reviewing Louis’ career in the department, Clay said | that he had increased prices paid for | supplies from 20 to 75 per cent. | “All this,” said Clay, “is interesting. | You may pick on Bristow if you wish, | ciate.” He then proceeded to give specific instances of the charges against Louis, | including in them the one that he had | ceased buying good ink at 16 cents a | pound, and Instead had contracted to| pay 30 cents. Nor would he concede, | he added, as Scott suggested, that this | had been done because the 16-cent ink | was not adapted to the purpose to He urged an investigation as the | only method of determining the truth | of the charges made. The “President, | Bristow and Messrs. Conrad and Bona- parte had all said that Heath should | be investigated, and he thought they should be taken at their word. If Bris- tow’s charges against Heath were not true they constituted a slander, and Heath should have the right to defend himself against them. Scott said it had never been his pur- pose to believe a man guilty until he had been proven to be, although Heath | may be all the Senator from Georgia had charged mmfin He read from ! a statement by M eagh, attorney for the District of Coluimbia, to the effect that all of the evidence was before the Grand Jury, and that it was re- | garded as insufficient to warrant the | indictment of Heath, The Senate at 5:10 p. m. went into| executive session, and at b6:15 ad- journed. TR Foss Explains His Arbitration Bill. WASHINGTON, March 30.—Arbi- tration, as proposed in the Foss bill, drawn by Volny W. Foss of Chi- cago, and providing for a permanent national board of arbitration in labor disputes, consisting of seven members, of ‘which the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall be an ex-officio mem- ber, was discussed to-day by the House Committee on Labor., Mr. Foss ex- plained the provisions of the bill. S Tawney Bill Is Not Favored. 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