The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-15
GROVER CLEVELAND is
EXCOR|ATED IN HOUSE
BY MISSOURI DEMOCRAT
Mr.. Cochran Says the Ex-Presi-
dent Was Guilty of Usurpa-
ton of Power.
HIS METHODS ARBITRARY
Man Whose Touch Means Paraly-
sis and Whose Support Means
DiShonor.

WASHINGTON. April 1.-THE House of
Representatives to-day passed the Philip
pine bill. following which there an ex-
tended debate over a resolution to permit
Col Thomas W. Symons, of the engineer
corps of the army. to serve on the advisory
board of consulting engineers in connec-
ton with the internal improvements in the
State of New York. After several fiery
speeches had been made in opposition to the
resolution, it was adopted by an overwhelm-
ing vote. The general deficiency bill was
taken up, and Mr.. Hamilton, of Michigan,
discussed capital and labor, while Mr.. Coch-
ran, of Missouri, criticised the ''usurpation
of the legislative power by the executive,
and said that former President Cleveland
had given the most notable instance of such
usurpation in forcing his financial policies
on the people. Mr.. Cleveland, he declared,
a man whose friendly touch meant
paralysis and whose support meant dis
honor. He declared Mr.. Cleveland had
been put into exile never again to be re-
instated in the confidence of the people.
Mr.. Hamilton said the questions that
trouble us were above political issues. but
cannot be separated from them. From the
offices of stock jobbery to the heights of
political economy. he said lit is every
where apparent that we are prosperous"
hum of industry, he said, there had been
and is an undertone of discomfort which
breaks out in strikes, violence and mutual
recrimination between labor and capital
to their injury and to the injury of the
whole population. Unprecedented prosper
ity, he asserted, had forced employers into
active competition for labor to keep their
plants running, and labor, keenly alive to
its opportunity, had been pushing for a
larger share of the profit il helps to make
The millennium had not arrived and there
against union boycott against boycott, in
junction against injunction, while outside
the lines of organized labor and capital was
the great body of American consumers,
vitality interested in all that affected them
and who. in the long run. paid the bills.
Mr.. Cochran criticised the practice of
small coterie of members and senators 60
ing to the White House and comforting
with the President at his bidding on mat
ters of legislation. He said ii had become
an uncondemned custom, and that when
the leaders do this the destruction of this
body a representative and deliberative
body is complete" Then Mr.. Cochran at
tackled ex-President Cleveland for forcing
his financial policies on the country. He
said these policies were at variance with
those of the majority of voters. and Mr..
| CleVeiands arbitrary way or doing things
was a menace to constitutional govern
ment. MIR. Cleveland he said was man
whose friendship means destruction, whose
means dishonor," and who had been ex-
| lied, never again to reinstate himself in
| the confidence of his countrymen." Now
| that the country was returning to patriot
| ism and sanity. he Cochran would com
| mend to those i'll charge of the bOoms of
| certain men seeking the Democratic nom
| ination to bear in mind that of the
| most circuitous routes possible or imag-
| Unable was a certificate of good character
| from Mr.. Cleveland, late Republican Pres
ident of the United States
In some remarks on the protective tariff
| Mr.. Baker. of New York, characterized
Joseph Chamberlain as "a traitor to the
| cause of free trade and said he had been
overwhelmingly repudiated by the people
| of England because of his tariff views. He
| then turned his attention to President
Roosevelt and said the country during the
coming campaign going to know who
/ paid for the twenty-five special trains in
which he travelled and 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 in the United States.
The deficiency bill was laid aside and the
| conference report on the Indian appropria-
| ton bill was agreed to-
The postoffice appropriation bill was sent
| to conference, Messrs. Overstreet, of In
| DIANA Gardner, of New Jersey, and Moon.
| of Tennessee. being appointed managers on
| the part of the House.