Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-12
5aTH CONGRESS.
Continued from page IL

OF the case. the answer is that the
charge is true"
continuing, he said: is Beavers TO
DIANE: Yes, sir. Are the members oc
inc House TO blame for it? No"
II members had made unusual re-
'lueSts upon the department. he said.
me pfoprIetE of their conduct WIS =
question between themselves and THEN.
! constituents. 1t is not n violation Of
ii'W' re insisted with omyhas;S. Tha
, committee, he said. could nor undertake.
!" tc!t the departments report, nor
co"in th@y disc Illuminate between IN.
c'tses cited. If they had done so. tho
committee, he said, would have been
i'Shtd from the loor of the House.
EuriesoH CTexas) vigorously asserted
mat the department had given the com
INIT" information not asked for. and
Hrt' lie said, You laid it before this
Louise. | say it is an outrage"
Ahd say that the committee could "a
nothing eIS"," hotly rctortcd Cowhcrd
lie members Of the House. h. sajd
owned it to the ns,l Ives; tl:at the truth be
given
William Smith NIicl1) jumped up md
hoiding ~ copy of the report. called
| "t':htlon to the fact that onr Of tn. ,.x-
n!piis showed the wrr,l; White House"
| on 1t. lie had. h. said, examined tho
ollPlnal papers and the words "Wl,itr
louise Were rot ON them II would like
I" know. he asked with considerable
VA who who had the audacity to write
! kin. name "N-h-i-t-e" in that :c;ort
ii@ committee Of pest offices and post
! roads never @adcd a WCrd" answered
| 'nWher' Sn2rtinG under the imnutation
,l,ft.l Ill 4
warmth.
well. it was done in the DEPARTMENT.
then" Cowhcrd said amid appatlNc,
so"ntfd uttered upon a vigorous and
thetS which members had hurled at In"
department.
Members, he said. had stated the ,le-
nltment had lied AN! published malicious
SlanderS against members OF the House
Continuing, he inquired: Are you GO
lhg 10 say !" IN" country thAt the depart
mgit tlat ii's about You tells the truth
ABOUT Its own actiOES?'
DO you intend to go before yorr con
stituency and the good people If thr
nited States and say that this great de
lrirtment which has published THE report
, conceived i'll sin anG born in iiiGjIty' is
the purcst and the hest and the most
capable to examine into its own ini,iui-
ties
Loud applause followed this ut:crance.
He was. he said. partisan and party
man, but he put the honor OF the House,
and the honor and welfare of the -nited
t. and honorable mana gerlent of a great
department of the government above the
demands of any party that ever lived
II say here and nov, he continued.
that the sunlight of publicity never hurt
an honest man or an honest admins, IA
ton
| There was loud applause Mt this romar5
, " Mich was repeated when COWherd SHid:
| IF there is an unwhocsome growth the
sunlight of publicity will kill it,
Nlrtz On g. maintained that mcmlers
! had been charged with no violation of
law. but with a violation of a secret reg
lation of the post office department which
! could not have been known to The III m
h"rs named in the report, who made the
requests for additional clerical as: ist-
1 ancc.
! What is more dctesiable," he vrhc-
/ m"ntly inquired. than the hycna in EU-
man form who would tear aside the s,ph
nlchre of the dead and seek 10 b"smiich
ana heiUul an honorable reputation"
! This remark WAS made because irc,ud
| cd in the name mentioned in the report
! Moody Of Ncrth Carolina.
! KlutZ also vigorously defended former
{ Senator and now Justice PritcEard. He
! closed by demanding an invcst;sa tion OF
! the department.
i Hepburn Gowa) said there was nothing
in tho report he did not avow. What he
! had done. h. said. was within The iimita
| ton of the law This he said. was A Gus
tom which had grown up and mad a
: member of Congress the means Of c!m-
munication between the constituent in, =
: cSted and the executive department..
They have no other agent mere" .'aid
i he. TO represent them bat ourselves.
In Justification of his efforts to secure
| additional clerk hire III an Office in his
! district HcmenwGT Gn'll declared that
! the department liGd failed to use $1,000
/ which was the appropriation mate for
/ this purpos".
! Crumpackcr UndD put himself on ecord
in favor of committee Of members OF
, both sidos of the House 10 investigate
the "inIictmcntS" made against members.
tinlay IS. O., minority ,mcmlnr OF