The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-31
SENATOR GORMAN GETS
 IN SOME HARD llCKS
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 leved and sent out of the country and another man brought to Washington and given the place. But that is not enough. The pension roll is Increased by execu- tive order to the extent from s5,00O,OOO to $15,000, 000.'
 He, German, had never made an ob jection to the liberal pensions, but con gress was becoming a mere recording body.
 We are told.'' he continued, that hav- ing approved the plans of the executive, we must adjourn and go home, because of the fear of damaging disclosures. There are matters which it is almost criminal not to give attention to. Yet we are not to be allowed to stay" He then referred to some of the pending legislation, and included in the list Mir. Foraker's bill for the amendment of the antitrust law re- garding transportation. He referred to Attorney General Knox's statement re- garding this bill, saying that it was not a departmental measure. Think of it." said MT. German. "Notce is given to con gress that nothing should be done in the way of legislation without consulting the administration"
 Gave Statement UnchaIIenged.
 Mir Foraker. said the attorney general had not given this statement unchalleng ed to do so by the democratic press. and that he, Foraker, had taken no excep- ton to this expression of his opinon though ordinarily he would consider it better that an executive official should wait until legislation should reach him In the regular order of business.
 Since the recent decision of the supreme court he was not so sure that the egis- laton intended by the bill was necessary.
 This remark, MT. Foraker retorted was the utterance of true soldier in the ranks Discussing the antitrust law, and Mr. Foraker's amendment. MT. German said the effect of the law was to require the publication of rates like those given by MT. Hill on his trans-continental oceanic lines with the result that compet- ing nations got the information.
 Amendment. therefore, was necessary and MT. Foraker's bill had been intended to meet that demand. But with this, as with other matters of legislation, said MT. German, the executive interferred and notwithstanding the need for legisla- ton the mysterious order is sent out that congress must adjourn without taking up the question. How long," he asked, ''are we to submit to such a systeml"
 The idea was. he said. that all should be left ins the hands of the executive, and that nothing should be done until Novem- Der next. In the meantime he contnued the law would be suspended and the mat ter controlled by executive or with the result that the trade conditions would be so disturbed that the farmers of the northwest would go in enormous bodies to the country across the line.
 The American people don't want one man in control. he continued but they should have the law itself changed, and then would have the law obeyed. He t.. &xl-, as would prevent one man control in the next four years. who so ever might fall to the White House. It was not right to say that the President was not honest. for honest men are not rare. Mir. Cor man said he did not hold MT Roosevelt or his cabinet officers responsible for the "thievery in the department Smith Was Not Cognizant. Mir German said he did not believe ex- Postmaster General Smith had been cog nizant of the bad condition of affairs in the jostoffice department, as Mir. Bona parte had charged. MT. Bonaparte was of the class of reformers who believed that almost all men in congress and oth- CT places were corrupt, and he (Gorman) knew MT. Smith too we'll to follow Mir. Bonaparte in the charge of corruption made against him.
 Still, he felt that sufficient. had been shown to demonstrate that an investiga- ton should be had. He closed by de- claring that the postoffice department was 'honeycombed with corruption and inefficiency."
 MT. Penrose. chairman of the commt- tee on postoffces. said that while he originally had favored an investigation, he had now reached the conclusion that nons was necessary.
 Mir. Penrose challenged the accuracy of Mir. Germans statement that extraordi- nary haste had been exercised by the