The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-08
BITTER ATTACK ON MR. ROOSEVELT Arkansas Man Takes Expenses
 as a Text $3OO,000 FOR WHITE HOUSE
  Thinks the Annual Increases In Ex. psndltures Are Too Large and
 That a Halt Should
 Be Called.
$30O,000 FOR WHITE HOUSE

DC CalIeol
 Washington, June 1.-The House today listened to a bitter arraignment of the | President at the hands of MT. Brundige (Arkansas) member of the appropria- tions committee
 Taking the items for the refurnishing of the White House. the care of the grounds and the travelling expenses of the President as his text MT. Brundige com pared the expenses of the last Cleveland, the Mckinley and the Roosevelt adminis- trations.
 Increase In Expenditures.
 Under the Cleveland administration. he said. there was expended for the execu- tive department, including the salary of the President, s137.200. Under the Mckinley administration there was expended s14,- 500 while the bill under consideration car ries for the executive department, includ- ing the care of the White House green houses, etc. $253340. In addition to this MT. Brundige said that there were forty policemen detailed to the care of the White House and grounds, and this was an additional s40,ooO added, bringing the total to nearly SS00, GOO. which he denomi- mated as extravaganza run mad He said he did not know whether forty police men were too few or too many. but he thought a section of the army ought to be detailed for the protection of the per son of the President and care of grounds, and these policemen permitted to go into the sparsely settled sections of Washing ton, where thugs and marauders were proving upon defenseless women and children.
 Enough of the Muck Rake.
 He criticized the item appropriating $25,- GOO for the travelling expenses of the Pres ident and incident thereto said it was probably made for the purpose of provid- ing for a repetition of muck rake speech"
 AS for myself" he said "and l be- leve also for large proportion of the people of this government, we have heard enough of this muck rake nonsense and tomfoolery, and we are disgusted with 1t.
 "No wonder in view of the present ap- proprlations and present expenditures, no wonder the President should hold up to public ridicule magazines and newspapers of this country and public men and pri- vate citizens who dare, to criticize.
 q entertain the hope and belief that the time will never come in the history of politics of this government when many ! a man occupying a position of public trust and public office will rise so high and become so great that the humblest citi- zen and the humblest newspaper to the largest may not justly and properly criti- clze his official conduct and actions"
 He spoke of the Presidents stable and enlarged on the number of horses con tained therein and then finally spoke of the arrest of Mrs. Minor Morris and the appointment of assistant secretary to the President, MT Barnes as postmaster of Washington. as showing the high-hand- ed way the President conducts his office During the course of his speech MT. Brun- dge was frequently applauded by the democrats. The republican side of the chamber was almost deserted
 Referred to Recent Arrest.
 In referring to the policemen detailed for duty In and about the White House grounds. MT. Brunddge satirically said he recalled the fact that recently the police men made one very important, brave and gallant arrest"
 Continuing along these lines he said:
 By the aid of burly negro these gen tlemen succeeded in ejecting from the White House an noffensive, quiet peace l able American woman They carried her out 1t Is true, with force; they carried l her out in a manner that has ever been and ever will remain an insult to the American people, to the American man. | hood and to the American womanhood. 1 Applause on the democratic side)
 But, Mir. Chairman, that may have been necessary. In my candid judgment it was disgraceful in the extreme. An | innocent inoffensive woman, whose only | offense had been the desire to see the | great chief of the United States in the executive mansion of this government. l But, MT. Chairman. when these gallant 1 heroes and brave warriors had succeeded with much danger to their personal se- l curty in expeling this defenseless char ! acter from this magnificent mansion, it | seems to me that ordinary decency and ordinary propriety would have suggested | that there the matter would stop. Such was not the case. We find them writing | letters to other cities and other states in order to discover and unearth some evil dence of the fact that there was some l stain or some blot on the character of this woman whom they had so unceremon- iously and cowardly elected from the | White House of the government (Ap- l plause on the democratic side)
 Greater Crime of the Two.
 "Mr Chairman, this. in my judgment, | was the greater crime of the two. It Is repulsive to decency to honor and integ- | rty alike But MT. Chairman, this is not | all. If these forty gentlemen ought to be | retained there l have no objection, but we learn that this gallant gentleman, the brave and fearless employe who gave the l order that this lady should be thus eject | ed from the White House, finds his re- ward by being appointed by the chief ex- | ecutive of this government to one of the | highest offices In the gift of the Presi- l dent He is made postmaster of the great | city of Washington, and thus again we are confronted with the great truth that bravery has it's own reward" Uaughter)
 orosvenor Defends President.
 General Grosvenor of Ohio replied to MT. Brundidge. He said we were now l talking of the beef packing industries 1 of this country because there is an odor that comes up from them which is ''of- | fensve to the nostrils of some of the ! polite young gentlemen who have been ] detailed for the inspection of those in- stitutions. and at the same time we hear an assault upon the Presidents house hold"
 Mir. Grosvenor characterized the attack ] on the President as a relic of antiquity. | He said it could have no effect upon the American people He said if he would | attempt by an. illustrated lecture to inn press upon the people of the old world | if ha wera attenopting to impress up-