Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-04
FROM WASHINGTON
Washington. May 3.
.ccial Correspondence Of the cornrrn.

ocrats in the House of Representa-
tives. They placed the republi-
cans on the spit and toasted them
10 a rich brown. In the first place
the Hon. John Sharp Williams,
the able and vigilant floor leader
of the Minority in the House,
caught the republicans mapping in
the committee on the judiciary,
and when there was a majority of
democrats present, and obtained
favorable reports ON both his rcso-
lutions aimed at the vitalS of this
republican administration. One
of those resolutions requested the
Attorney General to inform the
House whether any Investigation
was ever had at the suggestion. of
the so-calted Anthracite Coal Trust.
and to send to the House all re-
ports. papers and documents bear
ing on the case. The other reso-
luton requested the Attorney
General TO inform the House
whether any criminal prosecutions
have been instituted by the Depart
ment of Justice against the indi-
viduals or corporations who were
adiudged recently by the Supreme
Court of the United States. in the
Northern Securities case, 10 be
guilty of having violated the laws
of the United States, and To send
to the House all papers and docu-
ments bearing upon any prosecu-
tions inaugurated or about TO be
inauguratcd in that behalf.
These resolutions were sleeping
peacefully in the pigeon holes of
the desk Of the republican chair
man of that committee, and there
the republicans intended they
should sleep and die of inanition
or be smothered to death. They
did not want them ever to see the
light of day, because they knew
their recalcitrant Attorney Gen
cral had not taken any action and
would not take any action in ether
case When il became known
that John Sharp Williams had dug
them out of the committee with a
favorable report, and that the
committee on rules could not stifie
them ON account of the fact that
they now come up aS privileged
matter, there was CONSERVATION ON
the republican side, and many
quick conferences and much wag-
ging of heads. IL was all too late.
The mischief was done and their
Attorney General will be shown
up aS tool of the trusts and rec
reant to his oath of Office, for
which he ought to be impeached.
Let the people of the country note
and rejoice at leadership on the
democratic side endowed with vigil
lance, brains and patriotism.
The next gun shot the repubh-
cans received was on last Saturday
when the Hon. w. Bourke Cock
ran, of New York, simply tore the
lnnards out of them and strewed
them along the floor of the House.
1t was great speech and aroused
the most intense enthusiasm on the
democratic side of the House and
the deepest gloom on the repubh-
can side. Mr.. Cochran reviewed
the whole gamut of republican
legislation on the tariff question,
the trust question, and on the rot
tenness in the departments and
the refusal of the republicans to
investigate them and give the peo-
pie the benefit of such investiga-
ton to the end that the light may
pour into the dark places and the
guilty may be punished. He ar
raigned them, he lashed them, he
scored them and blistered them i'm
language that fairly sizzled with
venom and invective and bristled
with facts that were irrefutable.
The republicans sank lower into
their seats than they been wont to
SIT for many q day. Several of
The old dowager statesmen on the
republican side, like Grosvenor,
tayne and Dalzell. essayed to in
terrupt him with questions and
statements, but on each Interrupt
ton they went TO their seats limp
ing. He had fattened out old man
Grosvenor and old man Payne,
and made them look like thirty
cents worth of dog meat. He
was a human buzz saw In rapid
motion ond anx. ro,N,,l,too, ..t.l