The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-05
HOUSE HOLD UP
PORTLAND BILL
Failure of an Attempt to Sus-
pend the Rules.
ATTACK UPON ROOSEVELT
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE
LABOR UNIONS
ATTACK UPON ROOSEVELT

Washington, April An the house
today an attempt to secure considera-
ton under suspension of the rules Of
the bin apprOpriating $475, 600 for the
Lewis and Clarke centennial exposition
u be held in Portland. Ore, in 1905,
failed after the house had divided sew
eral times and the roll had been called
twice.
The military academy appropriation
bill was taken mp, and after Mr.. Park
er in charge Of the bin. had explained
its features briefly, Mr.. Goldfogle OF
New York spoke in behalf of the Jews
Of the United States, for whom he
asked equal treatment and protection
while travelling in Russia.
Under the license of debate, Mr.. LiY-
ernash of California discussed the labor
question and attacked President Roose-
welt for having turned the executive
arm of the government against the men
who work. That arm, he said. had ar
rayed itself on the side of special priv
ileges and despotism and associated it
self with the men who hire and against
the men who are hired.
President Wars on Unions
Referring to the Miller case in the
government printing Office, he said that
the president had embraced the Oppor-
tunity, in a letter to Secretary Cortel
you on the subject of the findings 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
gees forth and seeks to place a barrier
in the way Of labor unions by encour-
aging non-unionism under the guise of
an open shop" is the deadliest COM
mon foe of labor. In a personal way,
Mr.. Livernash held the president in the
highest esteem, but regarded him to-
day "as the man OF all Americans
worse than Rockefeller, Carnegie and
Morgan as to labor unions" Mr.. Liver
nash also attacked the membership of
the house, and said there was in that
body a distinct intolerance of laboring
men and their acts
Plea For the Jews.
Mr.. Goldfogle 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 in Russia,
whether they be Jews or Christians.
He declared that Russia continues her
restrictive policy against the Jews 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 the postofice department was
reeking with corruption while in the
general land Office frauds and crimes
had been committed involving millions
Of acres Of land worth vast sums Of
money.
Negro Question.
Using as his text the remarks Of Mr..
Hardwick of Georgia on the negro
question in the south, delivered in jan
uary last, Mr.. MorrelI of Pennsylvania,
said that the ambitious or aspiring ne
gro was treated as an outcast in this
country to a certain extent as the Jew
was treated by the degraded peasantry
in Russia. Everywhere, he said. the
negro was beginning to be treated as
necessarily an inferior and was dis
eliminated against in the different
walks Of life. 1t was not alone in the
southern states that the negro was un<
fairly treated in the enforcement of the
law. In the north, he said, courts and
juries often were enemies. Always
ready to exaggerate his faults and ig-
more his virtues The cornerstone
upon which the Democratic institutions
of this country were founded, the hOpG
OF all Americans, whether native-born
or naturalized, white or black, was best
exemplified, he declared, in the door
Of hope" policy as expressed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
A bill was passed authorizing the re-
corder Of the general land Office to issue
certified copies of patents. records.
books and papers, such copies to be
valid on evidence.
At 5:25 the house adjourned.