The age-herald., 1902-03-20
PROTECTION OF
 THE PRESIDENT
Teller Objects to the Provision Giving to the President Military Guard The House Spends Day On
 Rivers and Harbors.

Washington, March 19.-During the en- tire session of the Senate today the bill providing for the protection of the Presi- dent of the United States was under con sideration. Mir. Spooner of Wisconsin con tended that the government had an ab- solute and inherent right to protect itself against assaults made either on itself or upon any of it's officers. He maintained that an assault on the President was in the very nature of things an assault upon the government, for there never was time when the President was not in the exercise of the duties or his office. His argument was largely legal and consti- tutional, and throughout was forceful, en- tertaining and instructive.
 MT. Hoar, in charge of the measure. elucidated some arguments he had made previously. and Mir. Teller of Colorado and MT. Baily of Texas spoke briefly up- on the bill The Texas Senator said he could not support the measure as it stands because he could conceive an as- sault made upon the President other than as person and not as an official of the government. The assailant in any event ought to be punished precisely as if he
 
 oulberson Offers Amendment.
 MT. Culberson of Texas offered a sub stitute for the pending measure It makes the assassination or attempted assas- sination of the President Vice President or the sovereign of a foreign country within the Jurisdiction of the United states punishable by death; those who snail counsel or advise the killing of the President, or who shall conspire to kill him or the sovereign of any other foreign country, shall be punished by imprison- ment not exceeding twenty years.
 MT. Teller of Colorado objected to the provision giving to the President a mili- tary guard, and suggested that the guard about him should be from the civil de- partment of the government MT. Bailey or Texas maintained that the government had ample authority to protect its offi- cials in the performance of their duty, but said he doubted its authority to pun ish man who should assault or kill any government official merely as person. The demand of the people was that the government should lay its hand heavily uron the anarchist
 Favors Suppression of Anarchy.
 He was in accord with that demand and would hound the anarchist from one sec tion to another until he had no resting place; but he warned the Senators not to make anarchists of themselves in the effort to protect the President against anarchy A properly-drawn bill to meet the demand of the American people would command the unanimous support of the Senate. Holding the views he enter tained, he could not support the measure as 1t stood.
 In line with MT. Bailey's remarks Mir. Bacon of Georgia introduced a bill for the deportation and exclusion of alien an- archists. It was the bill, he said, which was introduced by former Senator Hill of New York; 1t had been passed by the Senate but had failed in the House. He offered it as a suggestion of the judiciary committee Possibly he was in favor of the most extreme Legislation that can be devised and justified for the accomplish ment of the purposes stated.
 The Senate then, at 3:45 p. m., went in- to executive session and a few minutes afterwards adjourned.
 THE HOUSE.
 Washington March 19.-The House to- day made fair progress with the rivers and harbors bill. After the close of gen. eral debate twenty-seven of the 116 pages of the bill were disposed of No amend ments were adopted. The general debate today was featureless.
 MT. Wiley of Alabama made protest against discontinuing Improvements on the Coosa river.
 MT. Fitzgerald of New York offered an amendment to appropriate $3O0,0OO for widening and deepening Buttermilk chan nel, New York harbor. Mir Reeves of Illinois spoke against the amendment and Mir Mcclellan of New York favored it. The amendment was lost-27 to 73.
 Twenty-seven pages of the bill were completed and then the House, at 5:1O p. m., adjourned.