Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
SAYS ROOSEVELT
M|SREPRESENTS
CONGRESSMAN BAKER SCORES
THE PRESIDENT
Ayers the Recent Message of Condo
Ience to the Gar Does Not
Voice the Peoples Sem
tnents

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The house
today, after a sevenhour session.
passed the naval appropriation bill
carrying a total of $99,914,S S59. The pro-
vision for two battleships as reported
by the committee on naval affairs was
retained. Both the majority and min
ority were badly divided over the prop
osition. at least forty members of the
latter going over to the Republicans.
while about an equal number of Re-
publcans voted in opposition. Sew
eral important changes in the bill were
adopted. The proposed incDease of
1900 men and officers for the marine
corps was stricken out, as was also the
provision authorizing the construction
of collier somewhere else than at the
Mare Island navy yard in California.
In order to do the work better an item
of $4,000 was inserted for the proper
equipment of the More Island navy
yard.
Baker Springs Sensation
Several times during the debate the
assassination of Grand Duke Sergius
was referred to, the subject being
brought up by Representative Baker
of New York, who condemned the ac-
ton of President Roosevelt in sending
a message of coincidence to Russia eX-
pressing the sentiment that the gov
ernment and the American people view
the act with abhorrence.
The people, he declared, did view
with adherence the massacre in st.
Petersburg on January 22, but the
president, he said, had not seen fit 20
send message of coincidence on that
occasion.
Baker referred to the refusal of the
house to adjourn out of respect to the
Russians killed on the streets of st.
Petersburg on January 22.
With particular reference to this
subject, Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio was
bitter in his criticism of Mr.. Baker.
He said the house and the world knew
that the American congress did not
sympathize with riot and bloodshed,
whether it was necessary or not.
Mr. Gosvenor denied that the presi-
dent fell short of his duty and said
that, as regards the killing of Grand
Duke Sergius, it would have been lit
tie short of improperly had not the
president sent his message of condol-
ence.
Condemnatory Resolution
Representative Baker of New York
subsequently created a sensation by of
fering the following resolution, which
he read: THAT while this house
views with horror the deliberate de-
struction of human life at all times
declares that, reprehensible as was the
murder of Grand Duke Sergius, it was
no more wanton than the massacre
perpetrated by the Russian govern
ment on January 22 when thousands
of unarmed men, women and children
were butchered in cold blood; that II
regards the murder of those helpless,
unoffending men, women and children
as one of the most dastardly crimes
ever perpetrated; that in refusing to
express the horror of the people of this
country at that fearful crime, while
asserting that both the American
government and people view the kill
ing of Grand Duke Sergius with alb
horrence, the president has not voiced
and does not voice the real sentiments
of the people of the United States.
In an excited manner he asserted
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