Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-04
CONGREssIONAL.

senator HUes, OF NaehiuEtC1, US ti.
day addressed the Senate on the proposed
A.a-ks Yukon Exposition 81 Seattle
The urgent deficiency bill wes Ffpoit-
ed sud viii be called up for cons'darl-
10 today.
In the House the report o. lhe COM
mission sem by the President TO ingesil-
gate the c0DdlieDs st Goldfeld, Neyada,
WIS received by the HCusa.
The House went into the committee Of
the whole for confederation Of the Iodiar
appropriation bill.
A political debate 1as started by Mr.
Townsend, Of Nlcbiqap, who claimed
FOR tie i,publicsn psr.y credit Tor 81 im-
porant lfeisla ion in the lesi Ely yeais.
Mr Burke Cochran replied 90 VI.
Towus ud. lie denied TIE accuracy cf
liL T09rsen0s statement, and said
that since The Beginning Of The republic
there. bad rot been q single policy prom
inently incorporated into lsw tina, wes
cot OF democratic origin.
Wild democratic sppsuse greeted Mr.
Cochran when be remarked that III
policy Of Jefferson, adopted 10 sVo'd
ser eih Fence, hsd been applied by
the republicans 80 the conquest of the
Philippines snd the purchase Of men,"
lie compared the Philippine acquisition
with the Louisiana Purchase, zone
glorious POSSESSION Of our country" md
said the republicans we're 50 sick Of the
Philippine bargain they you'll be gill-
ing 10 blame Progiderce ioT il.
Mr.. Cochsan said:
"Ths MESSAGE which the President
seot here Friday raises a QUESTION that
goes 10 tie very existence and grogth Of
civil government. The frat psri Of the
message cou;sius complsInls," he cor
tinued. cater we pass that portion We
come to the part where we all spplsuded
and that vas the paragraph hat related
10 charges that business distress wa-
BROUGHT en- By the government, and thai
40 knife should be used freely 10 cut
ting out ro.ienness."
Mr.. COCHRAN grew vitriolic in his &C.
nunciaiou OF bank presidents and cor
poration oficisls Who had been guilty
OF illogsl ecs. Re first relelrid 10 the
insurance inyts igstion, snd 10 speaking
Of the recent financial crisis said it b D
b en- caused by successful revelation Of
deprsyity in high places 10 Toe 6nancisl
world. "Wss the President responsible
Tor that" he inquired. Tie gnols
thing, be declared, greE out OF quarrel
If lht pluuiereB Of assurances mpaui g
over tbe distribution of IRE sp0l'. So
deeply hsi the public conscience become
appalled,, he said, by he spectacle of
unpublished crime that oeger once DID b.
seem 'odawD upon ooy3ae, puolicists O.
journalists, or prosecuting oiicers, O.
even politicians, "thatios,ead of certain
corpnration heads being syGsled 90 DO
some nous cleaning ~ Inc ca. parl.i0rs
they baJ pilsged. ,nsy ought 10 He sent
70 80 soma celi-cleaning IN The psnltsn-
tisry."
"Tbese gsntlensn," he said, "aben
their rspacilies had exhausiei the supply
aud there vas nothing left to steal, DID
no; even surrender control Of the corpo-
raiions they wrouged. They d. NOT, " ~
continued, "aee from justice fearing j IS
word, but they 60 into a court Of justice
and obtain its protection 20 obtain iurtter
over The very trusts they had
betrayed"
Regard Dg recent bank failures in New
York, Mr. Cochran said thar not one Of
them failed through error Of judgment
Everyone of ,hen'," he ssii ''w g
ruined through crime" Re charged Bat
the officers who were being pursu B
before grand jIries aud criminal courts
seualy had set themselves 20 work 10
raise funds 10 reopen the c0ucefugard
induce deposilors 10 sanction delay IN The
payment OF their money, ard, be said,
'tuev are treste6 - ssviors Of society
because they bsdn't blown up The build
ing ia addition 10 p.iieriug the books "
Nj. Cochran, declared that with he
jas, Presidents message as guide Biz.
Bryan would Re the oreordaiosd chan
p,on ct law aud orde'.
Speeches also we're made bY Colonel
Hepburn defending he administration,
and by General Sherwood attacking some
CT Mr. Roosevelts policies.
Paying toe peqaliy Of numbering a
msp in a quarrel over tn cents, George
Stewart, colored, was pul to dsstn in The
electric chair at Trenton, \. J.