The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-02
HOT SHOT FOR
MR.. BONAPARTE
Declared to Be Unfit for
Office.
MR.. CLARK MAKES CHARGES
Says Attorney General is Ignorant
Of Law.
The Subject Of Pecaase in the south
ern states Arose I'm the House
of Representatives
Yesterday.
R CLARK MAKES CHARGES

Washington. April 1.-The subject of
peonage in the Southern States arose
in the House Of Representatives today,
when Mr.. Caulfe1d MOI. from the
~,mmittee on judiciary. called up the
resolution Of Mr.. Clark (Fla.). request
ing the Attorney-Generai TO inform
the House as TO the amount of money
paid 10 detectives In gathering evil
dence in psonage cases. and also maxi
ing Inquiry concerning the capacity In
which Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos
was employed and the amount of
money paid her.
The resolution, he declared, was in
tended as an unnecessary attack on
the Department OF Justice for doing
its duty.
TO think" he exclaimed, that hu-
man liberty can cost too much-that
the Department of Justice can be too
vigilant on behalf of human liberty.
The department. he said, had been ex-
ceedingly conservative In its actions.
Indeed. II had done its full duty, "and
righteous act" when, In response
to long list Of complaints Of peon-
age, the Investigations were made.
Had the department done otherwise
than it did. he said. ut would have
been derelict in duty.
Mr.. Caulfield denied that peonage
prosecutions injured the propriety of
a State. 1t is not the prosecutions. he
said, amid applause. but the acts of
the men which make the prosecutions
necessary"
The Department OF Justice. Mr. caui-
field said, was carrying out Republic
can policies when II dignifies and
emancipates labor" and he added,
that is one OF the policies we did not
steal from Democratic platform.
Ignorant of Law.
Replying to Mr.. Caulheld. Mr.. Clark,
the author of the resolution, denounced
Attorney General Bonaparte. He does
not know the law" he charged, land he
head OF the Department OF Justice"
He produced court records tending
To zasaN that IN the last I'VE years tho
name of Attorney General Bonaparte
does not appear as counsel In any case
In the Supreme Court Of the United
States"
Mr.. Clark said. further. that for ten
years previous to entering the cabinet,
Mr. Bonaparte had appeared only thir-
teen times out of 1900 cases in the
Maryland Court of Appeals; in three OF
these cases he was a party to the suit,
"and in one of them the matter at Is
sue was rs cents for repairs to spigot
in one of his houses he had rented to
a poor woman belonging to the laboring
class. -
This man." he exclaimed. "ls not At
to be Attorney General. because OF his
Ignorance of the law, and he. Is not
At to hold his office, because OF ms
admission that he Is furthering con-
spiracy to invoke the criminal law to
warn people against dangerous COM
munities.'
II say to this man Bonaparte; / say
to this man Russell. his assistant At
torney- General; say to the female
assistant and all the horde that follow
in the wake Of Bonaparte." he said.
come down with the immigration
commission and let the facts be
brought out and the truth be known.
we are ready for it." He would be
content. he said, with the fact that ms
former resolution for an investigation
had been adopted and the present res
oIution could lie on the table II 1t was
desired.
ON the vote being taken the resolu-
ton was tabled and the incident was
closed.