Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-11
llV[RS Or HOUSE
AND Of PRESIDENT
o,otse Cochran Makes a Strong
'''' Soeech in Favor of the
Former
v,vRpATIoN BY EXECUTIVE
-, Pension Ruling as Power of
% Y,ntoreta,ion" Savagely Attacked
By the famous Orator

Nv ~
wellington. April 9,--ln the house
"sMr. cochran az, - spoke on his
, 81, directing an inquiry BY The
nI,r committee as TO whether
p'D nas authority in the law for the
wv executive order relating to pen
Wv" Wv, or age debility. The committee
W.. -olss reported an order directing
,m IL lie on the table. Mr.. Cock
" ,,narks we're the first he has de-
D,,,.d since hIs entry into the Fifty
,,A coneress as the successor TO
cs.r,e B. Mcclellan When he began
Ting he was warmly applauded'
...n at once commanded the closest
',.,,lon OF members OF both sides of
a, house. He said the resolution was
,...1 qolelv 10 vindicate the dignity
V,V ,se house. He did not, he said,
.s,Iop ,he proprIety OF paying liber-
.,nslons 10 federal soldiers, but he
,.,.rsd that the basis of these pay
u' WV, should be the laws OF Congress,
., .S rol any self-constituted author
,uS n he said. the presidents order
@,,oognl7ed BY the house, what frag-
1,ot Of power is there left to the
py o,e stroke Of the pen, he de-
.,',sa the president had appropriated
n6N 400 and he said II was a matter
I'm which Congress must deal II II has
,ry regard FOR lts own power or II 1t
I. animated BY a shadow Of loyalty
\, me- Constitution which created II,
u, vigorously asserted that 1--WE are
s,n al the parting Of the ways" and
l,,plted N this order be tolerated
vtboqt protest by the house, what
,oo,r Is there that the executive order
Grrot uurp? What fragment OF con-
mi over the counlrys purse cannot II
hye,'
Continuing he said that this pre-
tense Of Interpretation Of the law Is
bt hollow mockery Of word, and
,diA 1T Il known by the man who
wrote H. as shown by the order itself"
lher attacking what he declared to
10 me presidents usurpation Of power
Interpretation In which he said that
a, order should not be retroactive, Mr..
Cochran appealed to members on both
,ls Of the house to consider the
romIty Of this proposal" which, he
nd affected the liberty and safety or
Ne government.
IN Ms opinion the steady decline in
ne dignity Of the house had attracted
| much attention,
N sarcastic vein he declared that the
wesdent allowed Congress the prlvil-
ge Of declaring war. and he was loudly
lr1auded by the Democrats when he
&itd but the president makes war
when he chooses"
hthIs condition was hopeless. he
nd amid more Democratic applause,
live cannot rescue ourselves from the
t'gniatOn and deCrepitude into which
" seem to be hurrylng, then we had
hiitr leave the condition to be lament
NHlher than TO be discussed"
Tears, he said, belonging to women
ny conditions which We're helpless
vale discussion belonged to men The
dignity and power Of the house. he
Maintained were Within the control OF
rs own members and he said, III
LEEDS out loyalty ON our part TO restore
= lol merely to an important, but Ia
dominant position"
me Congress, he declared, has 50
~ caste that today there was not a
NFl outside of Washington that
ut more than one or two paragraphs
'oul It's proceedings. In stentorIar
roS he demanded To know why has
w, .s' Decline come upon us? why has
US decreptudc oyertaken us?"
VGunulng he inquired II il was
F%Iole That the house must confess
eN lnat It's last entrenchment had
wv made by % subordinate execu.
we ohCer ANA said that the con,
gp'N which had been extended 10 IN,
MuW ana the violation OF It's right,
INSTITUTED The measure Of respect, at,
.auoll ana submission which Il de-
NnN' Amid 400 Outbhrst OF Demo
a,I applause he declared that wher
w mouse shall stand on It's rights "th,
N'aler Will be the security of llbert,
ni tie wider tbc progress ~ - hmU Uv,r'
w
hitting 'a hc g' 5.g5a oI ~ members STo ST for per
'ipense Of tbc I bon. 80 grow h UP at ln'
IL house had TG G.in He HE charged ,ha
ID lol asserting 1I ., i r,ln IN It's dutl
oil tSs' Of , yo' oG5. applause s from
dared no,ni, ' 'h1hper When he de