Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-05-16
Roosevelt
Was Angry
CONGRESSIONAL INDIFFERENCE
STIRS HIS IRE-W0ULD
LIKE TO BUT WON'T

Washington, April 2S.--"lf | could
have foreseen how things were going
to frame up would never have made
that election night pledge-and
would never have reiterated 1t three
months ago"
President Roosevelt fairly chopped
| his words when he savagely made
this announcement to-day to a Sem
/ ntor who stood by him in his fight
for four battleships.
There is no doubt but that the Pre-
sident was about as angry as he ever
has been in the course OF his admin
isiration. The attitude of Congress
toward the executive and his legisla-
tive programme has made the Presi-
Gent bitter indeed.
There has never been Presidents
message so discourteously received rs
WAS the one sent to Congress to-day.
In the House 1t was ignored entirely.
In the Senate as soon as message
from the President was announced
the Senators yawned and moved that
II be laid over for day. This was
done and the Senate adjourned with
out even polite inquiry as to what
| the message was about.
The President gave utterance to
the statement quoted above in talk
Ing with Senator who was one of
the administration leaders in the
four battleship fight.
This Senator commented upon the
extreme Indifference of the Senate
toward the Presidents wishes and
expressed the opinion that this indif-
ference, which has almost assumed
the attitude of a studied affront, is
due to the fact that the President
has eliminated himself from the race
FOR the presidential nomination and
that Congress no longer fearing the
shadow Of his influence, is trying to
get even for past times when he has
held II up to its duties.
Yes snapped the President,
and IL ! could have foreseen how
things were going to frame up I
would never have made that election
night pledge. STILL" he added, 1T
Is made and 1t stands, even II advan-
tage is taken of it,
The Senator in question then re-
ferred to the interview ascribed to
Representative Longworth of Ohio,
the Presidents son-in-law, in which
he said that he did not know what
the President would do II nominated
by reclamation, The Senator asked
the President IL he would eccept.
The President snapped his teeth ana
said:
My position on that question is
well known and ringing the changes
on 1t will not alter It,"
1t is practically certain that the
President will get none of his pct
legislative bills through.
The Civic Federation-Hepburn bill.
which Is White House child is as
dead as can be.
This bill was drafted after many
long conferences in the White House,
In which the President, Samuel
Gompers. Seth Low, Francis Lind
stetson, L. II. Gray and others par
ticlpated.
II Is one of the Presidents dearest
wishes that this bill be made a law:
1t centralizes power. hobbies courts
and invests the Executive with the
prerogatives Of the most far-reaching
character Its rejection is a serious
blow to his scheme for continuing
my policies
If there is any financial legislation
II will be at best a makeshift: an in
nocuous bill which probably will be
worse than no bill at all.
He has signed an employers lIabil-
ity bill, but before he signed It he an
nounced that he would veto It. Il is
known that he is not satisfied with
its provisions.
AS for tariff revision. the best pos
sible recognition he will get, from
the present indications, is the en-
powering of the ways and means
committee, a hide-bound stand-pat
organization, to sit through the sum- |
mer as tariff commission and study |