The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-07
INVIDIOUS CONTRAST
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT CON-
PARED.
Mr.. RICHARDSON WAS SEVERE
CONDEMNED THE MEMORIAL DAY
ADDRESS.

Mr.. McKinIey's Visit 10 Huntsville,
Ala, Recalled and His Noble
Words on That Occasion Contrast
ed With the Remarks of Mr..
Roosevelt at ArIinEton-Thc Lat
ter's Address Criticised Inap-
prOpriate and UntimeIy and Ln-
tirely Out of Keeping with the
Spirit of the Occasion.
Washington. June General debate
upon the anti-anarchy bill closed to-
day. The incident of the day was a
speech by Mr.. Richardson, Democrat,
of Alabama, condemning the President
in severe terms for the references in
his Memorial Day speech at Arlington
to the epithets applied TO Lincoln and
Grant during the Civil War and to his
illusions to lynchings. Mr.. Richard
son declared the Presidents remarks
violated the prophecies of the occa-
sion.
Mr.. Richardson of Alabama, during
the course of his remarks, recalled the
visit of the late President Mckinley
at Huntsville, Ala, a year ago, the
reception given him then by Confed-
crate and Union veterans. The noble
sentiments Mr.. Mckinley uttered upon
that occasion, he said, endeared him to
the South, and Mr.. Richardson told Of
the great sorrow felt there when Mr.
Mckinley fell at Buffalo. Reluctant
as he was to do so, Mr.. Richardson
said, he felt it was his painful duty
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at Huntsville with Mr.. Roosevelt's re-
marks at Arlington on May 3d.
He then read that portion of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech in which he
referred to the epithets to Grant and
Lincoln, and the resolution passed by
the Confederate Congress denouncing
the methods of warfare employed by
the Union armies. Mr. Richardson said
he should not so far forget his envi
rons as to characterize as it deserved
the language which came from the
President of the United States upon a
solemn Memorial Day occasion, when
honor was being done to the thousands
of brave dead who died in defense of
their flag. But he would dare to say
| that it would have been far more APP
| propriate If the President had referred
upon that occasion to the magnani-
nous terms which Grant accorded Lee
al AppomattoX, which had done so
much to reconcile the divided sections.
II doubt whether there is said Mr..
Richardson, "a brave Federal soldier
within the sound of my voice who
would have uttered the sentiments eX-
pressed by the President, even in the
heat of debate, much less upon Me-
mortal Day. / say the proprieties of
the occasion were violated when the
President referred to what had been
said about Lincoln in the heat of
blood, when men were aiming at each
others lives
Mr.. Richardson also condemned the
Presidents reference to lynchings in
the South.
Mr.. BARTLETT of Georgia said that the
provisions of the Senate bill were un-
constitutional
Mr.. Littlefield made a legal argument
of an hour and a half in closing the
debate upon the anarchy bill.
No Body Guard for President.
The section of the Senate bill provid-
ing a bodyguard for the President was
stricken from the bill as a precauton
in case the House substitute failed.
An effort was made to strike from the
first section of the substitute the words
limiting the crime of the killing the
President to the President in his official
capacity, but the motion was lost. SO to
80. Only one section had been dispos-
ed of when the House adjourned.