Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-04
PRESIDENT CHEERED,
Both Parties Praise Roosevelt In
 Congress Debate.
APPLAUD HIS LAST MESSAGE
Bourke Cochran Says Democrats and Republicans Will Have to Stand For Chief Magistrates Policies and Rec ognize Truths of Communication.

Chief Magistrates Policies and Rec osnize Truths of Communication. Washington, Feb. 4.-No one here can recall a duplicate of the scene which
 happened in the house of representa- tiyes, beginning with q partisan debate | and ending with general glOrifica- ton of President Roosevelt. In the biggest attendance the house has had
 this session, because of the dependent
 widows pension bill, the president was
 repeatedly cheered by both Republic
 ans and Democrats.
 Bourke Cochran declared that the
 third term question had put Roosevelt
 out of consideration by either national
 convention, but that both Democrats and Republicans would have to stal sl
 for his policies and recognize the truths
 in his recent message. Republicans and Democrats rose almost as one man
 to applaud this, and the Democrats seemed to go crazy when Cochran said
 that with Roosevelt out of the field Bryan would be recognized as the fore ordained champion of law and order.
 Tumultuous applause followed the statement by Hepburn Qa) that the things demanded by the president could not be shelved by anybody. Townsend (Mich.), one of the Repub- lican orators, raised more cheers for Roosevelt, and thereupon everybody took whack at the so called bank wreckers and railroad jobbers. A few Democrats who criticised the president for his stand on labor and for his fail- ure to imprison guilty rebaters won only scant applause.
 The political debate was opened by MT. Townsend (dich), who in a pre- pared speech claimed for the Republic an party credit for all national legis- lation in the last fifty years of vital interest to the public. In this he was vigorously disputed by Cochran (N. Y.), who then turned the debate into dis cussion of the presidents message of few days ago. He characterized President Roosevelt as the only "cru- sader'' in the Republican party.
 MT. Cochran said that since the be- ginning of the republic there had not been single policy prominently incor- porated into law that was not of Dem ocratic origin Wild Democratic ap- plause greeted Cochran when he re- marked that the policy of Jefferson, ad tn xx,ith b.I been applied by the Republicans ito the conquest of the Philippines and the purchase of men, zr ..
 He compared the Philippine acquisi- tion with the Louisian purchase, lone glorious possession of our country" and said the Republicans were so sick of the Philippine bargain they would be willing to blame Providence for 1t. More Democratic applause greeted Cockran's inquiry if the Monroe doc Urine was of Republican origin. It was not, and yet he said it frequently had been invoked by the Republicans
 Coming to more recent issues. Cock ran said: ''The message which the president sent here Friday raises a question that goes to the very exist ence and growth of civil government. The first part of the message contains complaints. After We pass that DOT ton we come to the part where we all applauded, and that was the paragraph that related to charges that business distress was brought on by the gov ernment and that the knife should be used freely fin cutting out rottenness."
 Cochran grew yitriolic in his denun- ciation of bank presidents and corpora ton officials who had been guilty of illegal acts. He first referred to the insurance investigation and in speak l ing of the recent financial crisis said 1 it had been caused by successful reve- lations of depravity in high places in the financial world.
 Was the president responsible for | thatT' he inquired. The whole thing. l he said, grew out of a quarrel of the 1 plunderers of insurance companies over | the distribution of the spoils So deep | ly had the public conscience become ! appalled, by the spectacle of unpunlsh- | ed crime that never once did it seem to | dawn on any one. publicists or jour l nalists or prosecuting officers or even I politicians. ''that instead of certain cor I poratiOn heads being suffered to do I some house cleaning in the corpora tions they had pilIaged they ought to be sent to do some cell cleaning in the 
 These gentlemen" he said. "when their rapacities had exhausted the I supply and there was nothing left to 4 steal did not even surrender control | of the corporations they wronged. They do not fee from justice. fearing it's sword. but they % into a court of jus tice ana obtain It's protection to obtain further authority over the very trusts they have betrayed