The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-21
Both Houses Determined to Get Proof, But Senate Is More Denunciatory in It's
 Resentment.
INSURGENTS JUST TALK
Senatorial Fight in Connecticut m- tercsts Both Houscs---IIill Plug ging Away on Tarlrf
 Revision.
Special Correspondcncc.)

l olIlNG Wltn the most unanimous con- demnation that has been given a pres
 dent of the United States In recent | years Resentment against the lan- guage in his last annual message, or l that portion of 1t referring to the sec ret service originated In the house, but 1t mas been taken up with renew ed ylgor in the senate, and there is a complete understanding In that body
 between the republican and democrat
 ic leaders. Like the house they have appointed a committee to investigate
 the presidents remarks, but there the similarity in the action of the two houses ceases The house of repre-
 sentatives, at first strong and mighty in its indignation. is now timid. Its special committee has reported to the house a resolution requesting" tho president to furnish the house with any Information 1t has to sub stantiate the charges he made The
 only portion of the long resolution which breaks loose from convention Is that which declares that so far as the committee is able to discover there
 was no justification for the charges.
 The message, the resolution sets forth, plainly means that a majority of the members of congress fear being ln- vestigated by the secret service men. But no demand is made upon the president, and having requested" th president for Information the resolu tion quits There was no debate on the resolution, although Herbert Par sons and Bennett of New York insist ed that the resolution should distinct
 ly state that tho committee is judging the implications in the message and not the whole house on this qucs-
 tion of ethics only fourteen members voted to absolyo the house. lt was noticeable that when q vote on the l final adoption Of lt was called for
 Representative Nicaol9s l4ongworth. the presidents son-in-iaw. slipped in-
 to tho cloak roof to have q smoke.
 The senate appropriations committee of which Senator Hale of Maine Is net Ing chairman, is authorized to dig to the very bottom of the presidents rc- marks, the activities of the secret ser.
 vice. and get every shred of evidence which would tend to throw light on the
 subject which has now become tho
 most absorbing before congress. There
 is another difference between tho honse
 and senate action The house rcfraired
 from comment when Il adopted the
 resolution appointing the select com
 mlttec. Tho senate gave full nlng to
 its feelings True most of the talking
 was done by the democrats, but it was
 done with the hearty consent and ap
 proyal of tho republican leaders
 In fact 1t was n frame-up Senators Aldrich and Hale, the joint framers of
 the resolution. made no secret of the fact that they had consulted Senator Culberson. the minority leader. and
 they even Incorporated ln their resolu | tion language suggested by the demo I crat No one arose 10 defend tho
 course Of tho president, and who will ] do go when the committee reports to l tho senate remains to he seen Senator I Lodge had just finished prolonged 1 defense of tho president on the Browns.
 vilc affair when Senator Aldrich intro
 duced the resolution, and perhaps he ] did not feel equal to the task of fight j Ing off tho Inevitable lIc remained sl-
 lent throughout tho donunclation
 heaped upon tho head of hls friend and
 made mo effort to even modify inc Ian
 guage of the resolution Tho demo-
 crats had their Hing with Senator
 Bailey of Texas, leading off The
 message was characterized as the most
 insulting that had ever been sent 10
 any legislative body in tho history of
 the world, and lt is safe to say that
 both sides of the senate chamber bemG
 agreed on this point future remarks
 may be counted upon 10 discount the
 preliminary ones
 The house has other troubles just
 now besides ts fight with tho Presl-
 dent Representative A. r. Gardner
 tried out his strength against tho Can
 non rule and he went down to q prartl-
 cal though not moral defeat, thanks to
 the weak-kneed Insurgents who had
 not back bone enough to insurge when
 the opportunity to do SD was presented
 to them When it came to question
 of appointing q committee of eight for
 the purpose of revising the house rules
 Mr. Gardner lacked but l5 votes Had
 the men who participated in lho Hep- burn meeting but a few plshtg before
 rallied to the support of Gardner the
 revision Of the rules would now be well
 under way Instead many of them de- monstrated that they are wiling to
 talk but have no desire to vote Prom nent among these was "l'ncle Pete" Hepburn of Iowa. Mir. Hepburn had been looked upon as the leader of the insurgents Mir Gardser was making : wonderful strides i'm his fight 10 place the house OH record for new rules His adrOitly framed resolution calling for information as to the revision being made in tho British house of commons : had been laid on the table by the com mltcc on foreign affairs. Mr. Gard , ncr moved for the discharge of that committee, Ho won He then amend , ed the resolution SD that it merely call, . cd for the appointment of specIa committee to revise the rules Speaker , Cannon, with ,hc assistance of Asher : Blinds, tho parliamentary expert rul- , cd that MT Gardner had destroyed hi, { privilege of the floor by changing tho { character of the resolution Mr. Gard. ncr appealed from the ruling Of tho . chair and he lost lost by virtue of hIi supposed supporters who Hooked wild ly 10 the secusion of the cloak rooms and to the house office building, wher, they attended to some mall from home And even with these assertions the rep. rcsentative from Massachusetts came within an acc of winning, for he lacked but IS votes to carry his point aut override the speaker The democrat were behind him In body Not on