Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1908-04-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From unr Regular Correspondent.
The House last week was the
scene OF a severe, and at times
witty araignment of the pre.i-
dent, delivered by Rep. Beall, of
Texas, who declared that it were
better that no legislation be pass
ed, or that Legislation as crude
as the Railway Rate bill when it
went from the House to the Sen
ate be placed upon the statutes
than that the President should
usurp the legislative functions of
Congress and dictate the course
OF the majority in the national
legislature. He declared that Con
gless was no longer a legislative
department. OF the government
but had degenerated into a "ma
chine to record the viii of the
man at the other end
of the avenue" After reviewing
the legislation to which the Pres
ident had driven his party in Con
'gress, and showing the incapaci-
ty and unwillingness OF the Re.
publican leaders in Congress to
carry ont the will OF the people,
Mr.. Beall said that "a more dis
graceful exhibition of the abdica
tion of power by one of the great
departments OF the government
was never given to the people,
and a more disgusting usurpa-
tion OF power was never witness
ed by any nation" Concluding,
the eloquent Texan paraphrased
the book of Solomon, saying a.
mOng other things, OF the Presi-
dent, "He is both q broncho bust
er and a trust buster, the differ
ence being that when the breaks
a broncho he blindfolds the horre
and he starts to burst a trust he
blindtolds himself. He is tickle in
his affections. In the White House
code book OF 1904 Harraman's
name was donation, in 1908 it
is damnation."
Representative John Sharp Will
Jams announced his purpose, one
day last week to introduce a res
olution OF inquiry to investigate
the extent to which the President
and hauled Representative Dick
am, OF Michigan, over the Goals
because OF the character of the
report which the subcommittee
of which Mr.. Diekama is chair
man had made in the case oi
Judge Wiley Of the U. S. Court,
of Shanghai. 1t has been report
ed in a local paper that this re-
port severely censured Judge VIII
ley and later that the President
had arose in the house, however,
and declared that the President
had not hauled him over h e
Goals at all but had merely call
ell his attention to the fact that
| if Judge Wiley were scored it
would 80 injure his prestige in
China as practically to end h j s
usefulness there. The fact is, ev-
cry nnprejudiced observer be-
lieves that Judge Wihey deserves
the highest commendation, in
stead OF censure forhis course in
China, but Mr.. Williams took the
ground that entirely apart from
the merits of the case. the Presi-
dent shonld do nothing to coerce
the members of OF a committee
of Congress, a point which can
not be controverted.. Mr., Dicka-
mans explanation that t h e
newspaper story was false. how
ever, cleared the situation.
William j. Bryan is in Wash
ington and has madea great hit
with the irish by attending q
banquet given by the Ancient Or
der OF Hibernians at which he
spoke, boasting Of the fact that
his ancestors were Irish and Civ
ing high praise to the Catholic
Church for its benificent work in
this and other countries. TO the
politicians the most interesting
and significant feature OF Mr..
Bryau's visit to Washington was