The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-20
ROOSEVELT UNEASY
ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE IN HIS
SOUTHERN MIDDLE.
IT'S SPooNER TO THE RESCUE.
HE WILL MAKE A SPEECH IN THE
SENATE TO-DAY.

Crumpacker Introduced a ResOIu-
tiOn, Calling ON the Postmaster
General to Furnish All COrre-
spondence and Official Documents
Bearing Upon the IndianOla
Case - Democrats Want All the
President Has, TOO-McLnurin Says
IndinnOla People Court Investi-
cation.
Washington, Jan. 19.-The widespread
criticism of the administrators atti-
tude in the matter of the Indianola
postoffice, the appointment of DR.. Crum
to be collector at Charleston and other
phases of the Southern situation has
caused so much uneasiness at the
White House and in administration
political circles that Senator Spooner
TO the defense. In accordance with
this request, which ii is understood
came from the President himself,
Senator Spooner will, it is announced,
address the Senate tomorrow, upon the
general subject of the administration s
attitude towards the South.
This uneasiness in administration cir
Giles was revealed in another direction
to-day. Acting on the suggestion of
Postmaster General Payne. Represen-
tative Crumpacker of Indiana, the rec
ognized leader of the anti-Southern
element in Congress, introduced in the
House a resolution calling upon the
Postmast er General to furnish all cor
respondence and official documents
leading to the resignation of the post
master at Indianola. The resolution
reads as follows:
Crumpacker's Resolution.
Resolved. That the Postmaster Gen
eral be requested to transmit to the
House of Representatives, if not in
consistent with the public interests, a
copy of all correspondence and other
documents in his possession or under
his control, pertaining to the recent
resignation of the postmaster at Indi-
anola, in the state of Mississippi, and
to state why, so far as he may know
such resignation has not been accepted
and a new appointment made so that
the people of said town may be pro-
vided with the privileges of postoffice
service"
This resolution was referred to the
Committee on Postoffice and Post
Roads, and will probably be favorably
reported from that committee at it's
first meeting. Democratic members
of the committee say there can be no
objection to all the facts being made
known.
Democrats will move to amend the
Crumpacker resolution by providing
that in addition to the papers in the
hands of the Postoffice Department, all
these in the possession of the President
be sent to Congress also. They will all
so endeavor to have the resolution re-
quest the President to inform Con-
gress why he has not instituted prose-
cutions under the conspiracy law, which
1t was announced would be the basis of
an action by the department of Justice
Attorney General Knox seems to have
done nothing on this line Senator
McLaurin says the people of Indianola
court full investigation.
McLaurin Their Champion.
Judge Crumpacker in discussing his
resolution, expressed the opinion that
1T would be shown that the resignation
of Minnie Cox was not voluntary. but
that on the contrary she had been
threatened and given to understand
that if she did not resign at once she
might be in danger of rough treat
ment When Senator McLaurin first
talked with Postmaster General Payne,
the Postmaster General suggested to the
Mississippi Senator that 1t might be in
teresting to put in a resolution calling
for all the facts in the case, but SEN
ator McLaurin has taken the position
that this was unnecessary. He con-
tends that all of the facts are on the
surface, that the resignation of the
postmistress was voluntary, and that
there was no occasion for the officials
to go behind the returns.