The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Albanian Makes the Opposi-
ton WriggIs By His Wit
and Sarcasm
nREAC CTIONARIES AND
WHITE HOUSE CUCKOOS"
Clayton Comments Upon Presidents
Message and Declares That He
Uses the Whip Upon Recall
citrant Members.

Washington. February 6.-PolitieaI
speech-making came to an end in the
House of Representatives today and
actual consideration of the Indian ap-
preparation bill was resumed. bitter
fight was waged the proposition to
abolish non-reservation school and the
subject was discussed throughout the aft
ernoon. The question was raised by the
offering of an amendment by Delegate
Smith of Arizona to restrict the appro-
pration for collecting and transporting
Indian children at school to the state in
which they live.
Previous to the debate ON the Indian
appropriation bill Mr.. Clayton of Alabama
spoke on the Presidents recent special
message and held up the republicans as
being divided into two factions, 'the re-
| dictionaries and the White House cuckoos.
The message, he charged, was an in
dictment against the republican party for
its derelicton and incompeteney The
message adopted in every particular the
principles advocated by the democratic
party. 1T is no wonder" he said, that
its reading provoked such democratic ap-
plause.'
The President he said, was admirable
as a man in some respects, and man
most worthy of admiration in some re-
| spects; but he declared he would indulge
in no panegyric. nor would he give him
credit for what the democrats had stood
| for for many years. Tho thesssge. hs
sad, WIS a reat fstEde docament from
a.
has dominated his party"
Mr.. Clayton ohided the republicans for
what he said was their weak applause of
| the Presidents message. which he char
acterized as an indictment against his
| own party and said "the President not
only indcts you but he furnished the
proof to convict you"
H.story's Verdict.
Mr. Clayton said he did not know where
history would place the President
| 1T may put him in the category of
the great Presidents he said 1T may
put him along with Washington, Jeffer-
son and Abraham Lincoln, or it may
write him down otherwise.
Some people, Mr.. Clayton continued,
SAY the President is changeable, eceen-
| trio and dangerous, while others laud him
as a great man of decision of purposes.
but | reserve the right to withhold my
| judgment until after his administration
has wound up when we can see the fruits
of his efforts
| Taking up the Presidents recommends
| tons, Mr.. Clayton insisted that a re-
publican House and Senate had been
warned, but the republican party paid
no heed to the warning of the democrats.
If, he declared, those warnings had been
needed, the uneonstitutionality of the en-
! ployers liability law would have been
saved.
Discussing the message, he added:
1T is complaint from beginning to
end of your faults and derelicton, of your
incompetency, of your lack of patriotism
and manhood to rise and meet the legis-
lative demands of the country"
Another Firebrand.
| When the democratic applause, which
| this utteranee evoked, had subsidized,
Mr.. Clayton threw another frebrand
when he charged that 1.-The President not
only indicts you, but he furnishes the
| proof to convict you.'
| General laughter greeted him, when,
! facing the republicans, he said;
| ''If on that side mothers son of you
enjoyed that message | failed to dis
| cover it,
The republican reception of the mes
! sage, he declared. had been more solemn
! than a funeral procession.
| The republicans did not like the mes-
sage, he charged. because there too
much big stick on the one hand to
| suit the reactionaries and not quite
enough to arouse the enthusiasm of the
| white House cuckoos.'
No Protest Heard.
The democrats had not, Mr. Clayton
; said. "heard any protest against the big
stick which was being welded over the
/ heads of the republicans, except the feeble
! utterance" of Mr.. Boutee of Illinois.
who had the courage to stand up and
champion the cause of "Gncle joe Can
non Applause greeted that remark, but
| Mr.. Clayton declared that the applause
| was only perfunctory. lie created storm
| Of applause when he said he had heard
! no one in the public declare for Vice
| President arbanks. to whom he re-
ferred as that walking advertisement
| for a refrigerator to say nothing of
/ Cocktails
! Mr. CLAYTON mentioned other avowed
| presidential candidates OF senator For
| aler. Mr.. Clayton spoke as that great
man. that champion of what he believes
| to be right whether you or | subscribe to
| ii or not; that man of nerve and con-
| science, who. he said, was at war with
/ the great me- -too-candidate of the White
! House referring to Secretary Taft. The
| republicans he declared, did not like
! President Roosevelt nor his policies. The
| President at time believed in the
| tariff revision but he is now pro-tempore
| stand patter"
| Republicans To Blame.
/ Mr.. Cr ION spoke of 1.-THE vast army of
| unemT ed" and charged the industrial
| cop to the republicans. I'VE might
| q face conditions as they are he
fand 1t would not do for the re-
leans to adhere to the announced
granme that the present would be a
,-nothing Congress-
He appealed to the republicans to do
l, their duty. He then secured permission
| to insert in the Congressional Record Mr..
| Bryans Thou Shalt Not Steal speech
and predicted that Mr. Bryan would be
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