The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-12
Canada.
HOUSE DECIDES
TO INVESTIGATE
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the decision of the chair and was de-
feated-144 to 125-a strict party vote.
A resolution for an investigation OF the
connection Of members with the de-
partment offered by Representative
Mccall (Mass.), then was agreed to,
only Representative Lind lDem.,
Mimi and Gillespie (Dem, Tex.), op-
posing it.
Mr.. Williams (Miss.) offered a reso-
luton providing for the appointment
of a committee of five members of the
house to investigate the conduct and
administration of the postoff1ce de-
partment. Mr.. Payne demanded the
regular order and made motion TO
adjourn, which was carried.
Who Wrote "White2"
During the discussion Mr.. Smith
(Mich.), holding up a copy Of the re-
port, called attention to the fact that
one of the exhibits showed the words
white house" on it. He had, he said,
examined the original papers and the
words white house. We're not on
them.
81 would like to know" he asked
with considerable warmth, "who had
the audacity to write the name White
in that report
'"Fhe committee on postoffices and
swered Mr.. Cowherd (Dem., Mo-
smarting under the imputation.
Somebody did," said Mr.. Smith,
with equal warmth.
WELL it was done in the depart
| ment then," Mr.. Cowherd replied,
amid applause.
Mr.. Cowherd entered upon a vigor-
| GUS and emphatic answer to the
charges and epithets which members
had hurled at the department Mem
bers, he said, had stated the depart
| ment had lied and published malicious
| ISLANDERS against members of the house.
"They said the department did it for
a purpose" and then they say the
membership of the house will appoint
| a committee before which members
| can go and have the particular case
| investigated. But" he said, when
| you come to investigate the depart
ment it must be done by yourselves.
Are you going to say to the country
| that the department that lies about
| you tells the truth about its own ac-
tons? Do you intend to go before
| your constituency and the good people
of the United States and say that this
| great department which has published
this report, conceived in sin and born
| in iniquity,' is the purest and best
and the most capable to examine into
| it's own iniquities"
People Above Party.
He was, he said, a party man, but
| he put the honor of the house and the
honor and welfare of the people of the
United States-"aye," he said, IT put
| the honesty and honorable manage
ment of a great department of the
| government above the demands of any
jsDarty that ever liyed,o
| The, American people are not hys-
/ terica1, he said, and members need moi
be afraid of their censure because they
| go to the department and demand thei1
| just rights and the rights of their con-
| stituentS.
1.-THE American press is not all vel
| low Journal he continued. In the
] first flush and heat of this discussion
| he declared and before the facts reach
these great papers, editorials may be
| published that never ought to find a
place in the press of the country, but
when they have an opportunity to eX-
anime the facts they will exculpate
J every man who did only his duty, but
no man who did what was not his duty
ought to be exculpated.
'T say here and now" he continued
that the sunlight of publicity never
hurt an honest man or an honest ad-
ministration."
! He closed with the suggestion that
there is but one path you can tread
with justice to yourself and honor tC
the country, and that is a full exam
-ination of the entire postal affairs
both as to themselves and as to us"
Mr.. Smith Qowa) criticised the Sc
cret regulations of the department and
said they were calculated to aid a man
like Beavers who wanted to do I'M
lawful acts.
Mr.. Hepburn Qowa) said there was
nothing in the report he did not avoW
What he had done was within the linn
itation of the law. This, he said, was
custom which had grown UP and
made member of congress the means
of communica ton between constitu-
ents interested and the executive de-
partment.
"They have no other agent here" hi
said, "to represent them but ourselves.
"That Distinguished ImheciIe."
Mr.. Clayton (Ala.) was unsparing il
his criticisms of Postmaster Genera
Payne, to whom he referred as "that
distinguished imbecile, who happens tt
be postmaster general of the United
States" Mr.. Clayton spoke of Tul.
loch's charges and the way in which
Postmaster General Payne treated
them.
When members asked him abou
them, Mr.. Clayton said, the postmastel
general laughed. When further pressed