The San Francisco call., 1904-04-23
KITCHEN USES
STINCINC WORDS
Congressman Says GrOsvenOr
Ridiculed Roosevelt as
Vice Presidential Candidate
SCORES THE MAGISTRATE
Ohioan Gives Sharp Reply
TO South CarOlinan and
Lauds Course of Executive

WASHINGTON, April 22-In the
House late to-day President Roosevelt
was assailed bitterly by Claude Kitchen
of North Carolina. who included in his
castigation General GrosvenOr. Pre-
ceding this episode the House debated
The bill 10 create a commission 10 in
vestigate the merchant marine. but
took no action on il.
Spight of Mississippi said he recog-
nized that the American merchant ma
line was languishing and that too
much OF the exports cf the United
States We're being carried in foreign
bottoms. The remedy. he suggested,
was q return 20 the policy of discrimi-
mating duties and tonnage taxes.
Gardner Of Massachusetts said that
the American tonnage was not as great
to-day as il was hundred years ago.
In 1901. he said, men speculated on the
passage of a subsidy bin and some
ships were built. but since June. 1901,
not a keei for steel seagoing vessel
had been laid in the United States.
KITCHENS BITTER LASHING.
Claude Kitchen (Dem.) Of North Car
oiina strongly assailed Representative
Grosvenor andA President Roosevelt.
General Grosvenor. he said, had glori-
hed President Roosevelt as the worthy
successor Of Mckinley, forgetting that
during McKinley's last campaign Gen
eraI Grosvenor, in signed articles, had
referred 10 the President. the Governor
of New York. as a brilliant, erratic
and curious sort Of man." Mr.. Kitchen
charged that Mr.. Roosevelt, as a can
didate for Vice President, was distaste-
ful to Nj. Mckinley and challenged
GrosvenOr 10 deny il, as well as the
statement that MT. Roosevelt as Vice
President was Inundated by the
friends OF Mckinley. including General
Grosvenor And yet" he said, you
men sit here and gulp down everything
Roosevelt says. and not one OF you
dares raise his hand in memory OF Viii
liam Mckinley" Mckinley had a right
10 think that Roosevelt would be dis
tasteful to him. Contemplate" he
said. the amazing spectacle Of any
Republican in the United States being
humiliated by General GrosvenOr and
contemplate this same man marshaling
under his banner the hosts OF Republi-
canism with GrosvenOr the chief bugie
blower"
To say that Roosevelt filed McKin-
ley's place, he declared, was a desecra-
tion OF McKinley's name. 1t was. he
said. a case OF the ant hill taking the
place Of the mountain. the owls screech
taking the place Of the tomb's sympho-
nies, the minnOw taking the place Of
the whale
GRIEVANCES OF THE SOUTH.
The people Of the South knew. he
said, that twenty-five years after
AppomattoX Roosevelt had in one Of
his publications declared that until the
word treason was stricken from the
dictionary, Jefferson Davis would be
an arch traitor. That. he said, was a
strike at the South and the Confeder-
ate soldier He also referred to another
publication of Mr.. Roosevelt's in which
he said that throughout Southern
character there ran a streak of coarse
and brutal barbarism- He compared
the kind. loving words Of Mckinley
in an address to Confederate veterans.
10 the insulting words Of Roosevelt"
He said that in one Of his books Presi-
dT-AA IODSCNEll uEllDtIdlelA ledC0E&
and advocates lynching for the stealing
Of nagtsil Texas pony" He asked If
that book did not have something to
&c With stimulating the great people
Of the North to lawlessness." The
people OF the South, he said. condemned
lynching for all crimes. because the
hand g civilization and Christianity
had been lifted against it. No man the
civilized world over, he said, would
condone Outrages against woman. and
yet We don't preach lynching or teach
it; but. knowing the veal akness Of hu-
man nature. mObs cannot be controlled
I'm sparsely settled communities where
we cannot get sufficient police force on
the spot at once" He believed that
every decent Republican in the country
NOuld pause IN shame that the Presi-
dent Of the United States had scattered
books advocating lynch law.
Reading from a speech made by Mr.
Roosevelt while Governor Of New
York. he declared Mr.. Roosevelt had
characterized the Congress of the
United States as "a herd of cattle"
Laughter on the Democratic side fol-
lowed. The humiliating spectacle"
he continued, lis that since he has
been President Of the United States he
has treated this Republican House as
a herd OF cattle and the most humil-
iating thing about il is that the Re
publicans allowed the President TO
treat them as cattle and lay down be-
fore him in his green pasture
lie provoked laughter when he said
the President looked upon Congress
as his great ranch" with the Repub-
licans as his "rOund-ups."
Speaking deliberately. he declared