The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-25
IOWNE ASSAILS
THE PRESIDENT.
Former Minnesotan Makes a
Campaign Argument in the
House. j..

Journal Special Service.
Washington, May 25.-eI@There is a
certain quickness and caprice of tenn
| per which first expresses itself without
limitation, and next, remembrance with
out accuracy is one phrase used by
Representative Towne in describing
President Roosevelt in campaign
speech which he made in the house yes
terday.
Mr.: Towne's speech was set affair
for use in the coming campaign. The
spects to the president. Referring to
the president, Mr.. Towne said:
''There are many things in the char
acter and endowments of that remarka-
I'ble man that I have admired. There
are many other things that, in my judg-
ment, I fell justified and authorized
as a representative of the people in
their great representative body to say
unfit him for a judicious, careful, Just
and deliberate discharge Of high execu-
tive functions and under the impress of
which he has time and again gone be-
yond the legitimate boundaries of his
place.
HThere has recently occurred direct
ly in that connection bit of history
that I am not anxious to rehearse, to
which I shall not refer in passing more
than to use it as an illustration of the
complaint that I~have already made in
respect to the neglect of the proper
boundaries of executive authority that
has almost been scandal before the
people of the United States. It is not
pleasant to examine and shall not ex-
anime the question Of veracity between
a high executive officer, and especially
the president Of the United States, and
other honorable and reputable gentle
men. It is enough to say that it is
ticular executive has had the misfor-
tune to raise the question Of veracity
with every public character he has
come in contact with during his ad-
ministration.
Does the gentleman mean to make
such broad statement as that and to
say that nearly every?''' asked Rep
resentative Payne.
emo, I will say with very great
many Mr. Towne said. "The returns
are not all in. What I want to say in
that connection is this, and it rises in
tinitely above any question Of veracity
OF which | do not make any present.
ment nor desire to be thought as MAX
ing any. There is certain quickness
and caprice of temper which first ex-
presses itself without limitation, and
next, remembrance without accuracy.
In the senate of the United States
combinations were made with some re-
publicans and many democrats as we
are Informed on the record, by which
forty-seven. or fifty votes, enough to
pass the law, were assured to the pres
ident upon the basis Of an amendment
to the rate provision Of the so-called
Hepburn law. Within twenty-four hours
after that agreement was reached,
without notice to his allies, even to his
ally in his own cabinet, the attorney
general, the settlement of that arrange
ment which is not known to be emf
nently satisfactory to the senator from
Rhode Island, whose opposition to the
president has been one Of the greatest
| glories of the president in the estima-
| ton of his chief admirers in the coun-
try, had triumphed. The democrats
were thrown out. This vauntedly non
partisan rate legislation became a par
tisan republican bill as far as they
could make it one, and the president of
the United States, shorn Of his bar
| barrie, original power, like another
Caractacus manacled and humbled, fol-
lowed the chariot Of the duke of Rhode
| Island.'