Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-25
RepresentativeTowne
Scores ROOSevelt'S
Recent Acts
Cheers Greet Speaker as
the Able Statesman
Resumes Seat
Nations Chief Executive Held Up as
a Man Who Failed to Keep an
Agreement Which He Him
self Had Proposed
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON May 24.-when Mr.
Towne of New York arose to address
the house of representatives today un-
der general debate on the diplomatic
bill he was accorded an ovation by his
associates on the Democratic side, a
number of Republicans joining with
them in giving him friendly well
come.
When the speaker came to an ex-
PLANTATION of the press reports on the
speech he delivered at Kansas City
several weeks ago there was a prick
ing up of ears and a still closer atten-
tion paid him. He began deliberately:
These reports were to the effect that
was to return to Washington for the
purpose of exposing the president of
the United States"
He denied that he said he would Tex
pose" the president, but said:
President Unfit for Position
"There are many things that unfit
him for judicious, careful, just and
deliberate discharge of high executive
functions and under the impression of
which he has time and again gone be-
yond the legal boundaries of his place.
"It is not pleasant to examine" he
said, "and L shall not examine the
question of veracity between high
executive officer, especially the presi-
dent of the United States and other
honorable and reputable gentlemen. 1t
is enough to say that it is exceedingly
unfortunate that this particular ex-
ecutive has the misfortune to raise the
question of veracity with every public
character he has come in contact with
during his administration"
Statement Challenged
Does the gentleman mean to let that
statement go into the record?" asked
Mr.. Payne. docs the gentleman mean
to make such a broad statement as
that?" said Mr.. Payne.
NO" interrupted Mr.. ToWne, II will
say that a very great many returns are
not in.''
I'm the senate of the United States
combinations were made with some
Republicans and many Democrats, and
we are informed on the record, and
1t is seldom challenged by the other
side, and which l believe is the truth,
there was at one time arrived at an
arrangement by which forty-seven or
fifty votes, enough to pass the law,
were assured to the president upon the
basis of an amendment to the rate
provision of the so-called Hepburn law,
providing for restricted court re-
view and for a suspension of inter-
locutory injunction.
Democrats Thrown Out
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 arrangement, which
is now to be eminently satisfactory to
the senator from Rhode Island, whose
opposition to the president has been
one of the chief gories of the presi-
dent in the estimation of his chief ad-
mirers in the country, had triumphed.
"The Democrats we're thrown out.
This vauntedly non-partiSan rate legis-
lation became partisan Republican
bill as far as they could make 1t one,
and the president Of the United States,
shorn of his barbaric oriental power,
like another Caractacus, mangled and
lumbled, followed the chariot of the
Duks of Rhode Island.
What is one of the results? Hence
forth our fight is against the Repub-
lican party and its iniquity and Roose-
velt is out of the way.
HE has repudiated his Democratic
allies and he is now bound hand and
foot to the coterie at the other end
of the capitol that dominates the Re-
publican policies in that body, and he
can never again act independently of
his party, having abdicated formally
and submitted himself to the party
yoke"
The Democrats crowded about the
speaker as he concluded, shaking his
hand.