Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-29
DOINGs, IN CONGRESS.

Shoal, Cape Hatteras.
Senator Martin thinks the nation
should honor Commodore Maury,
and has introduced bill in the Sem
ate making an appropriation to erect
monument to his memory. We
trust it will pass.
Speaking of the Hepburn-Dolliver
bill to prevent shipment of liquor
for sale into local option districts,
Rev. JAS. Cannon, Jr., in a recent
issue of the Adc0cate has this to saw:
"Fhe unanimous report OF the
committee favoring the passage of
the bill as amended would indicate
It's passage, were it not so late in the
session. The drunkard-makers count.
ed upon a favorable report, and they
set to work to delay the report, and
they accomplished their purpose in
that respect. Congress is eager to
adjourn, and 1t will require a deter
mined, aggressive fight on the part
OF the Anti-Saloon League members
to press the bill to vote. 1t will not
be so difficult to do this in the
House as in the Senate, where one
man can talk the bill to death.
"The editor, in his capacity as
PRESIDENT of the State Anti-Saloon
League, wrote to the Virginia Sena.
tors and Representatives in Con gress.
telling them of the wishes of the
temperance people of the State, and
asking them to support it, and so
give TO our people the right of local
selt-government in the control of the
liquor traffic. He received replies
from Senator Martin and from Con-
gressmen Swanson, Southall, Glass
and Hay, stating that they expected
to support the bill, and from Con-
gresham Lamb, stating that he had
voted for similar bill at the last
session of Congress, but that he WAS
unwilling to state his position on the
measure until it was discussed on the
floor of the House. No reply was
received from Senator Daniel, or the
other congressman.
HOT SPEECHES.
President Roosevelt was asssiled
bitterly in the House by Claud
Kitchin, of North Carolina, who in
cluded in his castlgation General
Grosvenor, whom he charged with
having once Inundated Theodore
Roosevelt, the vice-presidential can
didate, whom in recent speech in
the house he had glqrified as the
worthy successor of Mckinley, for
getting that during McKinley's last
as a contributor to the
New York Journal in signed articles
he (Grosvenor) had referred to the
president, then governor of New
York, as "a brilliant, cratic and
curious sort Of man." Mr.. KitchIn
charged that Mr.. Roosevelt as can
didate for vice. president was distaste-
full to Mr.. Mckinley, and challenged
MIR. Grosvenor to deny it, as we'll as
the statement that Mr.. Roosevelt as
vice-president was Inundated by the
friends of Mckinley, including Gen
ersl Grosvenor himself. "And vet"
ne said, "you men sit here and gulp
down everything Roosevelt says and
not one of you dares raise his hand
in memory of William Mckinley"
Mckinley had right to think that
Roosevelt would be distasteful to
him. Contemplate" he said, "the
amazing spectacle of any Republican
In the United States being Inundated
by General Grosvenor, and oontem-
plate this same man marshalling
under his banner the hosts of Re-
with Grosvenor the
chief bugle blower"
To say that Roosevelt filled Nc
kinley's place, he declared, was a
dissertation of McKinley's name. 1t
was, he said, case of "the ant hill
taking the place Of the mountain:
the OWLS screech taking the place of
the tomb's symphonies; the minnow
taking the place of the whale"
Twenty-Five years after Appomat.
.ox, Roosevelt in one of his pu blica.
lions had declared that until out of
The dictionary was stricken the word
Jefferson Davis would be an
arch traitor. That, he said, was a
strike at the whole south and the
Confederate soldiers. He also re.
.erred to another publication of Mr..
Roosevelt's in which he is quoted as
aging that throughout southern
character there ran streak of coarse
md brutal ba, barism. He compared
the kind and loving words of Nc
AinleS" in an address to Confederate
Ieterans, to "the insulting words of !
Roosevelt" He said that in one of |
lis books President Roosevelt ode
iberately teaches and advocates
ynchings for the stealing of rag
all Texas pony"
The people of the South. he said,
Condemn iynching for all crimes,
because the hand of civilization and
christianity had been lifted against
- Nv h4Sh3 INC ClNtiILcQ WOTlU over.
However, be said, would condone out
ages against women. sand vet we
n'tpreach lynching or teach it, bat
moving the weakness of human
ature mobs cannot be con trolled in
settled communities where
re cannot get "a sufficient police force
n the SPOT at once"
Reading from a speech made by
Ar. Roosevelt while governor of New
Cork, he declared Mr.. Roosevelt had
characterized the congress of the
United States as a "herd of cattle"
on the Democratic side fol-
owed. ''rhe humiliating spectacle,
e continued, sis that since he has
cen president of the United States
g has treated this Republican House
8 a herd of cattle, and the most
umiliating thing about it was that
be Republicans allowed the prssi.
emit to treat them as cattle and laid
own before him in his green pas