The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-27
Congressman BsaN Makes Fierce ATalgnment ofPftsident h
 Fiery Speech
VOCABULARY EXHAUSTED
 IN DESCRIPTIVE TERMS
Mir. Beal Calls the President All the Names He Can Think of and De clares He Is a Strange
 Combination.

Washington. March Exchanging that the President had hagrantly usurped the powers given to him by the constitution and had repeatedly attempted to influence the judiciary, Mr. Beall of Texas, in the House today severely arraigned the chief executive. He credited the President with ha L. ing appointed three United States su- preme judges and a majority of tie United States circuit and district judges.
 Drawing their sources of auth ority from him." he declared, "and holding their commissions from him, he stanes in a position to wleld a powerful in fiuence upon them. though they a @ the representatives of distinct depart ment of the government"
 The President he charged, was not content with the exercise of the same power exercised by Washington, Jeffer- son, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Me- Kinley, but in his overpowering anl- bition reaches out with eager hand and exercises powers not dreamed of by them.
 Where does he get this authorityP' MT. Beall demanded. How does he justify his aetions?"
 The President, he said adopted two defenses. One was that there was ea inherent power belonging to all soyereigntics. apart from any power conferred by the constitution. the other was through judicial interpretation there must be vested in a federal gov ernment a power to do things it hl1 not DO. .sessed before.
 President Denounced.
 The President was denounced for in- sisting on a jail sentence for Robert N. Harper a druggist of this city, cor yicted of violating the pure food and drug act, while the sentence was still pending. As regarding the case ot Judge Wilfey he said. the President lad insulted the legislative branch Of the government by writing letter to the judiciary committee, while the casa was still under consideration declaring Judge Wilfey innocent of the charges against him. That letter." he ex- claimed, was simply the will of the big stick over that committee and the membership of the House. He re- gretted the committee had not asserted it's independence by sending the mes- sage back an insult.
 After all, said MT. Beall. the Pres ident was not entirely to blame be- cause the Senate and House 'sit with folded hands. Having abdicated the auth ority given to them they sit supins- ly at his feet
 In his opinion more disgusting usurpation of power was never vii ressed by the people of any nation" Congress he declared, no longer was legislative department. Tt is sim ply a machine to record the will of the man at the other end of the avenue" And it did not desire any more respect from him or the people than it now received.
 Ambidextrous Executive.
 "He wields the big stick with one hand" MT. Beall continued. and fountain pen with the other. and hs raises Havre with both. He Is a broncho buster and a trust buster, tho only difference being that in busting Q broncho he blindfolds the animal and in busting q trust he blindfolds himself. He can draw the finest beal on wildcat but can't get a bead the constitution at all. He is a cor tradiction He declares against race suicide, but insists on keeping a tar if on safety pins and baby buggies. He cultivates the artistic; he white washes Paul Morton and now is freq coing the reactionists with tint of blue.
 "He can see a war cloud before breakfast, but gets color blind before lunch time.
 He is generous; given the power oy and with the advice and consent of tho Senate to make treaties, he is willing to relieve that body of this onerous duty and do it all himself.
 He is magician; he can transfort1 our Uncle Joe into roaring lion be- fore us in the House, Into a purring kitten in the White House.
 He Is the Sandow of the century; hs can hold the Senate in one hand and the House in the other and keep both in the air most of the time.
 He can even nominate presidential candidate" MT. Beall declared.
 He is the strangest combination of wisdom and folly; of honesty and ob- stinacy and of the patriot and the poll tician, of courage and rashness; and of the spectacular and the grotesqua that this republic ever saw, and just what niche he is to occupy in the temple of his country's history, God and the future alone can tell"