Arizona republican., 1904-04-05
Liyerndsh's Characterize
 tiOn of Roosevelt
HIS "OPFN SHOP" LETTER
A House Debate in Which the South in Its Attitude Toward the Negro Is Compared With Course of the Rus- sian Peasantry Toward the Jew.

Washington, April 4-In the house today an attempt to secure consid era ton under a suspension of the rules of the bill appropriating s475.0OO for the Lewis and Clark Centennial exposition to be held at Portland, Ore, in 1905, failed after the house had divided sev- eral times and the roll had been called twice.
 The military academy appropriation bill was taken up and under the license of debate, Livernash, of California, discussed the labor question and at tackled President Roosevelt for having turned the active arm of the govern ment against the men who work That arm, he said, had arrayed itself on the side of special privileges and despot- ism and associated itself with the men who hire and against the men Who are hired.
 Referring to the Miller case Tn the government printing office. he said the president had embraced the opportun- ity in his letter to Secretary Cortelyou on the subject of the finding of the anthracite coal strike commission to express himself in language which clearly identified him with the "open shop in private employment. He said that the president Of this country who goes forth and seeks to place a barrier in the way of labor unions by encour- aging non-unionism under the guiss of the "oDen shop" is the deadliest foe of labor. Tn a personal way, Liver nash held the president in highest es- teem, but he regarded him today "as the man Of all Americans worse than Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan as to labor unions" He also attacked the membership of the house and said there was in that body a distinct intol- erance of laboring men and their acts. MT. Coldfogle, of New York, spoke on his resolution, introduced in January last. in reference to the United States exercising every effort to secure from the Russian government. uniform treat ment of Americans travelling m Russia. whether they be Jews or Christians. He 1 declared that Russin continues her re- strictive policy against the Jew and continues to abuse and dishonor the American passport whenever presented at her gates by Jewish citizens
 Mr. Robb, of Missouri, Delivered a speech against the republican party and said that the postofice department was reeking with currupIiop. while iu the general land office frauds and crimes had been committed involving millions of acres of land worth vast sums of money.
 Using as his text the remarks of MT. Hardwick, of Georgia, on the negro question in the south, delivered in January last Mir. Morrell, of Pennsyl- vania, said the ambitious or aspiring negro was treated as an outcast in
 this country to the same extent that
 the Jew was treated by the degraded 1 peasantry in Russia. Everywhere, he said, the negro was beginning to be ] treated as necessarily an inferior and was discriminated against in the diff ferent walks of life. 1t was not alone in the southern states that the negro
 was unfairly treated in the enforce
 ment of the law. In the north, he said, courts and juries often were his enc mics. Always ready to exaggerate his faults and Ignore his virtues" | The corner stone, upon which the democratic institutions of this country were founded, the hope of all A1neri- cans, whether native born, or natural ized, white or black, was best exempli- fled, he declared, in the door of l hope" policy as expressed by President Roosevelt.