The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-12
HERRICK SAYS THE
 STATE IS INVOLVED
IS DETERMINED THAT GUILTY PERSONS AT SPRINGFIELD SHALL BE SOUGHT OUT AND PUNISHED BY LAW.

Columbus, o. March Ex-Governor Her rick today had conference with Attor- ney General Wade II. Ellis and State Fire Marshal Hollenbeek regarding the Springfield riot, and as a result strenu- ous efforts will be made to ferret out and punish the leaders of the mob which lynched the negro Dixon, and the men who fired the buildings in the negro quarter of the city.
 "The good name of the state must be protected" said Governor Herrick. At torney General Ellis has been empowered to assist the county prosecutor In the in- vestigation. If there is any disposition on the part of the local authorities to be weak-kneed about the matter, the state will take 1t in hand directly"
 
 office department" was the statement of MT. Pou of North Carolina, and the house laughed
 William Alden Smith of Michigan, said fervently:
 q denounce this report as a voluntary and gratuitious insult py a great execu- tive department of this government. That department undertakes voluntarily to cast a stigma on this great chamber of people. It has gone out of its way to keep facts back which should have been given out" he continued He then threw the house into state of wild excitement Men of the highest character he declared, had been asasled by the report, among them the speaker of the house. "I hope" said he, his words being almost completely drowned by the cheering and handclap- ping with which his remarks were greet ed, that the day is not far distant when with the general consent of the American people, the speaker will be lifted into the executive ofhce'
 Scene Is Indescribable.
 The scene which followed this remark was almost lndescribable The entire membership of the house, as to a man. wildly cheered. The echoes had not died out when there was another outburst of yelling. screaming and cries of Hear" "Hear!" Speaker Cannon meantime was vigorously rapping for order. When quiet was restored Mr. Smith said there was not a bureau of the government that shows proper respect for the direct rep resentatives of the people. Members of congress, he said, constantly were being shunted off for senators and made to wait by bureau officers. Mir smiths time had expired, whereupon MT. Clayton of Ala bama asked amid shouts of approval that MT. Smith be given thirty minutes to con clude.
 q object" shouted MT overstreet in the midst of the uproar MT. Clayton's mo- ton had caused. MT Overstreet then asked unanimous consent for the contin- uation of the debate for three days.
 T object" came from MT Williams, the democratic leader who was crowded off the floor by MT Clayton and who, facing MT. Overstreet, said 'temptuously You're the grandfather ol t.is.
 Why. you only wanted an hour on each side" excitedly shouted MT Gaines of Tennessee.
 The utmost confusion regned.
 MT. Overstreet failed to secure an ex- tension of the debate for even one day on the objection of Mr. Hay.
 Complains of lncompeteness.
 MT. Gardner of New Jersey complained of the incompleteness of his record in the report. It was by no means a fair meas ure of his activity for his constituents. E Why" he exclaimed amid laughter, ''the people of the various towns for which I have worked. will say, why did he come here strutting with his wing over his leg; he did not do this for us after all |"
 MT. Thayer of Massachusetts, read from the original Bristow report that the sys- tenn of organized corruption disclosed in 1893. had continued until stopped by this