Arizona republican., 1908-02-04
Bourke Cochran EuIOgizes Roosevelt as the
 Only Republican Crusader
He Declares That He Has Ordered Things That His Only Logical Successor Has Become Crusader William J. Bryan.

Washington. Feb. 3-Three of the giants of the house had their innings today. Legislation was relegated to the background while national politics occupied the stage. Before the pOliti- cal question cropped ~cut, the house passed the general widows pension bill granting a flat pension of SIP per month to widows of all honorably dis charged soldiers who have not here tofOre received the benefits of the pen
 sicn law, and an increase of sf per month for those who have benefited
 under the act of June 2, 1890. The law expressly valves the limitation of
 property holdings. It involves the ex- penditure of more than SIP ,000, 900 an- nually.
 The political debate was opened by
 MT Townsend of Michigan. who claimed for the republican party cred it for all the national legislation in
 the last fifty years. of vital interest to the public Mir. Sherwood democrat.
 of Ohio, declared his ideas of the presidents message, particularly ad-
 dressing himself to its labor feature.
 For what reason did the president express his views so fully" asked the speaker. Was it in the interest of
 the candidacy of the Secretary of war?
 Is it a spectacular sensational appeal
 to divert the attention of the public from the secretary's record2 The president. like the secretary. has a la bor record of his own that is in need of patching"
 Mir. Sherwood took up the report of the Goldfield labor commission and
 said the report itself showed that the sending of troops to Goldfield was ! clearly against the statute; that no state of instruction existed and that the troops were placed at the disposal of the mine owners at the behest of Senator Simon Guggenheim an1 other mine owners of Nevada, who wined and dined Governor Sparks
 BOurke Cochran also replied to Mir. Townsend. He denied the accuracy of ! MT TOwnsend's statement and said that since the beginning of the re- public there had not been a single pol icy prominently incorporated into the law that was not of democratic origin. | He said: The message of the pres ident raises a question which goes to the very existence and growth of civil government. Nr. Cochran grew vitri- ollie in his denunciation of bank pres | idents and corporation officials who ! had been guilty of illegal action. He
 first referred to the insurance inves- ! tiSatiOn. In speaking of the recent
 financial crisis he said it had been caused by the revelation of depravity
 in high places in the financial world.
 Was the president responsible for that?' he inquired. "The whole truu- blc grew out of the quarrel of the plundcrers of insurance companies over the distribution of spells These gentlemen when their rapacities had exhausted the supply and there was nothing left to steal. did not even sur render control of the corporations they had wronged. They do not flee from 1 justice. fearing the sword. but go to the court of justice and obtain its pro- lection to obtain further authority
 over the very trusts they have be-
 trayed."
 Regarding the recent failures in New York, Mir Cochran said not one had failed through error of judgment. Every one" he said. 'Fwas ruined by crime" He charged that the officers who are being pursued before grand juries and criminal courts had actu- ally set to work to raise funds to re- open their concerns and induce their depositors to sanction/ delay fin the payment of their money, and he said