The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-17
ENDORSES ACTION
OF THE PRESIDENT
Senator CarmaCk Says Dis
charge of Negro Troops
Was Proper Thing.
REFERS TO TWIN ENEMIES
WHICH is THE NAME HE APPLIES
TO SENATORS TlLLMAN AND
FORAKER IN HIS SCORING OF
THEM.
REFERS TO TWIN ENEMIES
publishers Press.1

Senator Carmack announced that he
heartily supports the president in his
action, discharging the negro soldiers.
The action of the legislature of his
his personal views. Carmack then
paid his respects to the president as
follows: Il think it proper to say that
any report that any senator may have
heard that the president personally
solicited my support in this matter.
that he urged me to forgive and forget
certain energetic personal remarks
and begged me to stand between him
and those twin enemies Of his admin
istration, the senators from South
Carolina and Ohio, is gross exagger-
alton. | will not say that it is infam-
Gus falsehood, because such language
belongs to the vocabulary of presi-
Dental controversy, rather than that
of senatorial debate. Nor is it true.
as senators may have heard, that |
have moved to undertake the presi-
dents defense because of my infatuat-
ed devotion to the man I have
great admiration for that strong.
brave, large minded man, the secre-
tary of war. Any admiration for the
president is more temperate and sub
dued. In the language of Hamlet. 1t
waits upon the Judgment Seriously,
l suppose there is no senator, always
with the exception of my friend from
South Carolina (Mr. Tillman), who is
less likely than myself to be suspect
ed of excessive Partially for our pres
ent chief executive. The president
once said he would see a certain mem
Der of the Tennessee delegation in
hades before he would do anything for
him. The remark is entirely gratuit-
Gus, in view of the fact that the per-
son supposed to have been referred
to never asked for anything at his
hands, but with supreme Indifference
to his good opinion criticised him
when he was wrong, with like indif-
ference to his opinion can support him
when he is right. l care so little for
the hasty ebullitions of that remarka-
BILE man that l can see what he him
self could never see in any man who
expresses an opinion contrary to his
own can see the good as well as
the bad in his public conduct, and
Judge both without passion or preju-
dice. In this case, it seems to me that
he has acted with remarkable freedom
from impulse, with unusually careful
deliberation, and with anxious effort
to do it for no more or no less than
complete justice to all concerned. In
deed, l am haunted by the suspicion
that the president was the more care
full to ascertain the facts and to keep
within the limits of the law, because
the offenders were colored, than he
would have been If they were white"
The Tennessee senator gave Sena-
tor Foraker quite a severe scoring.
Discussing the merits of the case,
and the right of the president TO act.
Mr. Carmack said that wherever the
chief executive does an act that is
within the scope of his exclusive
powers, he is necessarily the sole and
exclusive judge of the facts on which
his act is based. Nevertheless, for its
onw purposes, and with a view to pos
sible further legislation, the senate
has right to inquire into the facts of
the case Whatever might be our opin-
ion of these facts, they could not af-
feet the legality of the presidents
action.
Sherley of Kentucky asked the
house to relieve him from service on
the judiciary committee. to which he
was appointed by the speaker. Mr..
Sherley did not explain his reason for
the request.
ship subsidy bill by vote of s to 7.
the house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries by vote of s to Z
finally reached an agreement to make
a favorable report on a ship subsidy
bill prepared by Representative Lit
tauer of New York as a substitute for
the Grosvenor bill, which has been
under consideration for many weeks.
The members of the committee who
supported the measure were Repre-
sentatives Grosvenor. Miner, Little
field. Fordney. Wachter, Humphrey.
Watson and Littauer, all Republicans.
The negative votes were cast by Bird
sail, Wilson and Hinshaw, Republi-
cans, and Goulden, Maynard, Shirley
and Patterson. Democrats There are
to be seven subsidized mail lines pro-
vided for in the bill as reported,
with an annual subsidy estimated
at $3.50 900. Two of the lines are TO
be from the Atlantic coast 10 South
America and one from the Gulf of
Mexico to Colon. From the Pacific
coast there are TO be three lines TO
the orient and one line to the west
coast of South America. Only two
changes were made by the committee
IN the bill as originally drawn by Mr..
Littauer- Instead Of actually fixing
Fan Francisco and Puget sound as the
points of departure of the two lines
to Japan, China and the Philippines.
the committee amended Mr.. Littauer's
bill so that one of the lines is to start
from a point north of Cape Mendocino
and the other from q point south O,
Cape Mendocino.
Mrs. Alfred Sims is quite i'll at her