Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-01
TEXAN ARRA|CNS
I. ROOSEVELT,
BRONCO BUSTER
Member of Lower House From
Lone Star State In Brilliant
Talk Discusses Nations
Chief Executive.

| WASHINGTON, d. c., March 81
Roosevelt the Usurper," was the
theme of Jack" Beail. the Texas
congressman in the lower house, Mr..
Beall thought strongly on the subject
and expressed himself forcibly. His
brilliant thrusts of ridicule kept the
democratic side of the house In an
uproar.
THE president said Mr.. Beall,
''wields the big stick with one hand
and fountain pen with the other,
and he raises havoc with both.
He is broncho buster and trust
buster, the only difference being that
in busting a broncho he blindfolds the
animal and in busting a trust he
blinfolds himself
HE can draw the finest bead on a
wildcat, but can't get bead on the
constitution at all.
HE is a contradiction. He de-
| claims against race suicide, but in
sists on keeping a tariff on safety
pins and baby buggies.
HE cultivates the artistic; ne
whitewashes Paul Morton and is now
| frescoing the reactionaries with a tint
of blue.
sHe can see a war cloud before
breakfast. but gets color blind before
lunch time.
HE is generous. Given the power
by and with the advice and consent
of the senate to make treaties, he is
willing to relieve that body OF this
onerous duty and do 1t all himself
His Magic Tames HuncIe joe"
"He is a magician. He can trans
form our Uncle joe roaring lion
before us in the house, into a purring
kitten at the white house.
HE is the Sandow OF the country.
He can hold the senate in one hand
and the house in the other and keep
both in the air most Of the time
After convulsing the democratic
side of the house by declaring that
''he can even nominate a presidential
candidate" Mr. BeaH said:
"He Is the strangest combination OF
wisdom and folly, of honesty and OBJ
stinacy, of the patriot and the poll
tician, of courage and rashness, and
of the spectacular and the grotesaue
that this republic ever saw. Just the
niche he is to occupy in the temple
of his country's history God and the
future alone can tell"
Mr.. BeaIl credited the president
with having appointed three judges
of the supreme court of the United
States and a majority of the United
States circuit and district judges.
from him. he declared, ''and holding
their commissions from him, he
stands in a position to WELD a power
full influence upon them, though they
are the representatives of distinct
department of the government"
Says Roosevelt Longs for Power.
The president, he charged, was not
content with the exercise of the same
power exercised by Washington, JEFF
ferson, Jackson, Lincoln. Grant and
Mckinley, ''but in his overpowering
ambition reaches out with eager hand
and exercises power not dreamed OF
by them.
Where does he get this authori-
typ Mr.. Beall demanded.
How does he justify his actions?"
The president, be said, made two
defenses One was that there was an
inherent power belonging TO all soyer-
eighties apart from any power con-
ferred by the constitution; the other
was that through judicial interpTeta-
ton there must be vested in federal
government power to do things 1t
had not possessed before.
The president was denounced for
insisting on a Jail sentence for Rob
ert N Harper, druggist OF Wash
ington, who was convicted of vioIat-
ing the pure food and drugs act, while
the sentence was still pending.
AS regarded the case of Judge Will
fey. Mr.. Beall said the president had
insulted the legislative branch OF the
government by writing letter to the
judiciary committee while the case
was still under investigation, declar-
ing Judge Wiley innocent of the
charges against him.
THAT letter." he explained, was
simply the will of the big stick over
that committee and the membership
of the house"
He regretted that the comittee had
not asserted its independence by
sending the message back as an in
suit.
Lawmakers Are to Blame.
After all, said Mr.. Beall, the presi-
dent was not entirely TO blame be
cause the senate and house "sit with
| folded hands Having abdicated the
authority given to them, they sit su-
pinely at his feet"
In his opinion "a more disgusting
usurpation of power was never wit
messed by the people or any nation"
| Congress, he declared. mo longer
| is a legislative department. It Is sim
ply a machine to record the will Of
| the man at the other end of the ave
nue., and does not deserve any more
respect from him or the people than
| il now receives"