The San Francisco call., 1904-04-15
Former President Cleveland
Is Attacked by Represen-
tative Cochran of Missouri
SAYS HE is IN EXILE
Ayers That Friendship and
Support of the Democratic
Statesman Means Dish0nOr

NO-AaN IdSStu tAAt i AllAAjIitiG eaAAs III
lowing which there was an extended
debate over a resolution TO permit Col
onel Thomas W. Symons of the Engi-
neer Corps. L. 5. A. to serve on the
advisory board of consulting engineers
in connection with internal improve
ments in the State of New York. After
several fiery speeches had been made
in opposition il was adopted by an
overwh Ginning vote. The general de-
ficiency bill was taken up. ana Hamli-
ton OF Michigan discussed capital ana
labor. while Cochran of Missouri crit-
cized the 'usurpation of the legisla-
tive power by the executive and SAID
that ex-President Cleveland had given
the most notable instance of such
usurpation in forcing his financial poll
cies on the people. Cleveland, he de-
clared, was a man whose friendship
meant destruction, whose touch meant
paralysis and whose support meant dis
honor. He declared Cleveland had been
put into exile never again to be rein
stated in the confidence Of the people
LABOR QUESTION.
Hamilton Of Michigan, in speaking
of the labor situation, said the ques-
tions that trouble US were above politi-
cal issues. but cannot be separated
thing about the Republican party that
sends things above par, whereas the
opposition sends them below par. From
the offices of stock jObbers to the
heights cf political economy, he said,
lit is everywhere apparent that we
are prosperous" But, running like
discord through the hum of industry
he said, there had been and is an un-
dertone of discomfort. which breaks out
So, z~snfnfapn and n1rTl1al re-
elimination between labor and capital,
TO their injury and TO the injury OF
the whole population. Unprecedented
prosperity. he asserted, had forced en-
plOYers into active competition for Ia
Dor TO keep their plants running, and
labor, keenly alive TO its opportunity,
had been pushing for a larger share
OF the profit it helps to make. The
millennium had not arrived, and there
fore the situation was presented of
union against union, boycott against
boycott and injunction against inJunc-
ton while outside the lines OF organ
lied labor and capital was the great
body of American consumers, v1tally
interested in all that affected them, and
who. in the long run, paid the bills.
Hamilton said IL was not true that
trusts were fostered by protection, ex-
cept in the sense that protection makes
good times. The antitrust and inter
state commerce laws both bore the
names of Republican Senator's He
closed by saying that organized capi-
tai and organized labor owe and must
render obedience TO the law.
Cochran of Missouri, in speech on
the ustrpation by the executive Of the
legislative power, criticized the prac-
tice of a small coterie of members and
Senators going to the White House
and conferring with the President at
his bidding on matters of legislation.
He said il had become an uncondemn-
ed custom and that when the lead
ers do this the destruction OF this
bolv. as a representative and delib-
erative body. is complete" He took
issue with BOurke Cochran regarding
the disposition of the Speaker to re-
assert the dignity of the House and
inquired What evidence have we OF
that"
ATTACKS CLEVELAND.
Cochran attacked ex-President
Cleveland for forcing his financial
policies on the country. He said these
of the majority of voters and that
CIeveland's arbitrary way of doing
things was a menace to constitutional
Cleveland, he said. was
"A man whose friendship means de-
struction: whose touch means paraly-
sis. and whose support means dishon-
or" and who had been eXiled, never
again to reinstate himself in the con-
fdence Of his countrymen." Now that
the country was returning TO patriot
ism and sanity, ne (Cochran) would
commend to those In charge of the
booms Of certain men seeking the
Democratic nomination to bear in
mind that one of the most circuitous
routes possible or imaginable will be
= r.1aa Isfo frfar,
Cleveland. Late Republican President
Of the United States"
In some remarks on the protective
tariff Baker of New York character
led Joseph Chamberlain as "a traitor
to the cause OF free trade" and said
that he had been Overwhelmingly re-
pudiated by the people Of England
because of his tariff views. He then
turned his attention to President
Roosevelt, and said the country dur
ing the coming campaign was going
to know who paid for the twenty-five
special trains in which he Travelled
anc for the food, wines and cigars
consumed. The country he said, also
would ask if the President could ac-
cept these courtesies and still do his
duty toward bills affecting the great
railroad interests of the United
States.
Van Duser of Nevada defended the
Miners Union of the West. and de-
clared against what he said was the
usurpation of the military power.
These unions. he said, in reply to
Hogg of Colorado, neither directly nor
indirectly had aided or abetted in
murder or arson.
The deficiency bill was laid aside
and the conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill was agreed to.
At $40 O'Clock the House adjourned
until tomorrow
CoT-NT JOSFPH GIZYCKI